Dungeons 2 Review ([SAP]CommanderA)
A pretty fun game if you are looking for something to replace Dungeon Keeper, and try and fill in that old nostalgia hole. Even ten years later it holds up graphically, it sounds good, and it plays decently well. I also didn't encounter any bugs.
Unfortunately I made my way through the game pretty quickly. There is a lot of incentive in the later levels to quickly get military forces up and running, rather than traps. Traps become useless rather fast, and so with a large military to protect your dungeon, you might as well just go out and smash some heads. I didn't really need any unit upgrades from the Chaos forge, and just one upgraded Orc for their battle cry and a couple upgraded Naga for their healing. After that what ever you pick, you are pretty much set. Very simple, very fun, but like I said, very short.
Unless you want to sit there and grind the 250,000 mana and a million+ gold achievements. If you do, then you will get a lot more hours played out of this game, but that was just way too much for me. A side note, I liked the narrator. He was pretty funny, but eventually he kind of got on my nerves. It all just ended up being too silly. You do kind of feel evil after some time, and then he talks making a reference to Warcraft or Twilight, and the atmosphere quickly dissolves.
I would recommend this game, but it is old. Too old, and short, to be $22.80 CAD. Get it on sale.