So many open-sourced and volunteers-made games have failed and collapsed. It's like he just woke up one day and decided, "hey, I think I am going to be a bad dude from now on.") Some Wesnoth campaigns have interesting and greatly varied branches and folks. His motivations were confusing and never fully explained. I am going to use WarCraft III campaigns as the direct comparisons because of the similarities (i.e., they are both strategy games, medieval-fantasy settings with elves and orcs and magic and whatever.) Wesnoth campaigns and stories are superior to those in WarCraft III, (except the Night Elf expansion campaign, which IMO is the strongest and most interesting campaign in WarCraft III.) Wesnoth campaigns and stories focus on characters (unlike WarCraft III which has poor characterizations and inconsistent character motivations like, WTF did Prince Arthas turn evil?!? Like Anakin Skywalker, Arthas' characterizations were inconsistent. The main campaigns are actually quite good. Most commercial games do not even give me that choice. I am especially impressed by its installation process, which asked me where I want to installed the my program files *and* save games, (they could be in different directories.) The game then asked me how I wanted to save/remove my save games and gave me plenty of options for saving and auto-saving games. Everything is excellent and comparable and even than most commercial games. They have been seriously upgrading and improving every single thing in the game. So I downloaded the Windows version again. I checked out the Android version and, I thought, wow, the Android version was way better than the Windows version. Last week I came across this game again in the Android Market. So I wrote it off as another amateur production. Campaigns and storytelling were disconnected. I downloaded and tried out Battle for Wesnoth back in 2006 or 2007. Most open source games I've tried sucked anyway. I am not a big supporter of "open source" game/apps or rather, I do not really care much about them or the whole "open source" movement or whatever. It is an open-source, turn-based strategy, fantasy-medieval game.
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