Fantasy Wars is a fantasy turn-based tactical computer game

Personal computer game

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 developed by Ino-Co and published by 1C Company

1C Company

1C Company is one of the largest independent Russian software developers and publishers. Its headquarters are in Moscow, Russia. It is best known outside of the former Soviet Union as a video game developer whose presence has come to dominate events like the KRI, and whose products have begun to...

. The game was released through GamersGate on October 2, 2007. Fantasy Wars features four playable races (humans, orcs, elves and dwarves). The single-player story includes three campaigns, taking place over a series of tactical hex map

Hex map

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s. The game uses a 3D

3D computer graphics

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 game engine

Game engine

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 and includes role-playing gameplay features such as experience point

Experience point

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s and skills.

Fantasy Wars is distributed electronically by GamersGate and GOG and is published in Europe by Nobilis France. The game is distributed in Scandinavia

Scandinavia

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 by Paradox Interactive

Paradox Interactive

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 and in North America by Atari

Atari

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.

In April 2008, Paradox Interactive announced a sequel to Fantasy Wars entitled Elven Legacy

Elven Legacy

Elven Legacy is a turn-based strategy video game developed by 1C:Ino-Co and published by Paradox Interactive. Released in April 2009 for Microsoft Windows the game is a sequel to Fantasy Wars. On October 11, 2011, Virtual Programming released Elven Legacy Collection, which includes the original...

. Elven Legacy is developed by 1C:Ino-Co and was released in April 2009.

External links

• Fantasy Wars (official website)
• Кодекс Войны (Ino-Co's website; in Russian)
• Fantasy Wars (1C website)