Tomorrow looks to be a fun day as the long expected Beta 4 for Elemental: Fallen Enchantress is due out. I know what you are thinking: isn't that the sequel to 2010's biggest gaming flop? Well, not exactly. To be exact, Fallen Enchantress is the ambitious stand alone expansion to Elemental:War of Magic. That is, it aspires to become the game we all hoped EWOM was going to be before the whole thing crashed and burned, and then some! And let me tell you something: based on Beta 3, there is good reason to be optimistic that it will succeed. Initially, I wasn't that optimistic - Betas 1 & 2 were merely marginal improvements on the EWOM formula at best. However, Beta 3 surprised me with its noticeable shift in quality. Instead of coming across as a grade 'C' Civ clone, Beta 3 made FE finally feel like its own game - and quite an interesting one at that.
Because Edmund Burke would have been a gamer....