Wait...isn't X com MicroProse? Then....ergh.

And, are you sure your not thinking of Magic: Battlegrounds?

He's already been corrected on that one - MPS did develop another Magic game though.

http://www.rtassoc.com/images/games/...cgathering.jpg

Link To Source

It is the pc cover box...

Grate game and as i know it still plays online via Manalink

That's not M:TG Battlemage. The cover comes from Microprose's M:TG, a much earlier (and frankly, much better) title. That seems to be a problem in this thread: we're discussing two different games. :D

http://www.rtassoc.com/images/games/...cgathering.jpg

Doesn't this game called Magic The Gathering : Battlemage ????

Look for yourself at the picture.

Nope, that's the earlier one, which I have, and which is apparently much much better (the artwork's from the Spirit Link card). If you want some extra confusion we could start talking about MtG: Battlegrounds, which is a bit naff but looks pretty.

Astrals link is the game i'm talking about.

I remember playing the old ps1 magic:the gathering battlemage, and i done a search and it was on pc aswell.
Does this somehow now change the esa copyright protected if you guys have not been thinking the same game as i was?.

If you read the first page, the game Astral linked about was published by MPS so is ESA protected, but the inferior Battlemage should be ok if anyone has it to upload.

Here are the M:TG games:

1) Magic: The Gathering (no subtitle). Made by Microprose. RPG-like game where you travel around the world of Shandalar and the battles are proper Magic card games. Had two expansions- Spells of the Ancients and Duels of the Planeswalkers, plus the ManaLink addon to enable online play.

2) Magic: The Gathering- Battlemage. An RTS. Don't know much about the setting, but I believe it's based on the Weatherlight saga.

3) Magic: The Gathering- Battlegrounds. A weird kind of real-time version of the card game. You run around the arena gathering up mana stones, which can be used to cast spells based on cards- summon creatures to go beat up your opponent, use instants and sorceries to beef them up, attack directly, or defend yourself, etc. Looked good, but apparently it isn't. Quite recent, so definitely not abandoned, but should be easy to find on budget if you're interested.

We are discussing the second game, Battlemage in this topic.

Thank you. I'd confused Battlemage with Battlegrounds. Best of the three, in my opinion, was the first, though they never did work out some of the rule bugs in that initial release. Good AI on the computer player, though. Sid Meier did the work. I was visiting Microprose's headquarters about 18 months before the game's release, and they were really upbeat about it. Development took too long, though. The game was finally ready after popularity for M:TG had peeked, and it didn't even have the multiplayer element. (That showed up a year after initial release.) I just might rev it up, again.

Too bad M:TG has faded, otherwise somebody might redo the original title. It's one of those prime Microprose titles that leaves you wondering why nobody has issued a version 2.