Majesty 2 Demo Impressions

I had a chance to jump into the Majesty 2 Demo and, not surprisingly, liked what I have seen so far. This post is going to be my thoughts on the Demo – I will do a review of the full version once it is released.

If you are af an of the original Majesty then you will surely enjoy Majesty 2 – the feel is the same, the surly heroes are the same, but the graphics updates and gameplay tweaks make it a wonderfully exciting experience. You can now use the mouse wheel to zoom in on your budding kingdom, and the details are gorgeous. From spell effects of your bumbling clerics or mages, to the parts of buildings flying off when an Ogre decides to play baseball with your town.. everything just looks pretty.

Overall control has been improved as well, you can easily place flags via buttons located on top of the mini-map – this makes targeting that Ogre destroying your town much easier. Increasing the bounty on a flag is now done via the ‘multi’ menu on the right hand of the screen rather than in the flag information panel like the original Majesty. Buildings have more upgrade options for heroes (For example, you can produce amulets and the like at your merchant’s now instead of mainly potions), each guild has special upgrades for their members (Elven Sight for rangers increases their view radius).

The game is definitely worth the ‘new game’ price that its going for (40.00 on GamersGate/Direct2Drive) – it brings Majesty into the modern world in a smooth manner, and it will definitely suck up hours of your day. So what are you waiting for? Downoad the Demo now at FilePlanet!

Heres a short YouTube video showing why it is important to watch where you place your buildings:

Want to buy Majesty 2 online? I suggest GamersGate or Direct2Drive (digital download services) – for a limited time you can get Majesty Gold for free with a purchase of Majesty 2:

Purchase from GamersGate (39.95) Includes free copy of Majesty Gold Go to Product Page	Purchase from Direct2Drive (39.95) Includes free copy of Majesty Gold Go to Product Page

The Legal Mumbo Jumbo:
Majesty 2 is copyright 2008-2009 1c Company/Paradox Interactive. All rights Reserved.
GamersGate is a registered trademark of GamersGate AB.
Direct2Drive is a registered trademark of IGN Media.

Standard Disclaimer:

I am not affiliated with Paradox Interactive, 1c Company, Direct2Drive (IGN), or GamersGate. I get no monetary compensation for writing about this game or any of the games/items I blog about. I do it for the fun of it.

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Skype targetted for Malware .. and stupid people

So apparently some of the oh so ‘intelligent’ Malware community have decided to target Skype users with a.. laughable.. IM type attack (You know, the type of thing you see on Yahoo! IM now and then). Why do I say its laughable? Well, according to the place I learned about it (ZDNet – link at the bottom), the target user is contacted with an IM saying that their computer is infected, visit blah blah.com to get a free scan – that should be a pretty big tip off to anyone with a partial cranial insert right? Well, apparently it isn’t that hard to trick computer users – in some of their defense, they have no way of determining that Skype is for IM’s / Voice chat.. not for inspecting your system for bad stuff (Though some application of brainpower might help).

According to the ZDNet article, the IM directs users to a page which does a fake scan and pops up a dialog box with fake found results. Clicking anywhere in the box directs you to a checkout page of a shopping cart for a $19.95 ’security patch’… I almost feel sorry for those caught by this type of thing.. almost but not quite.

Heres a dose of common sense people: If an instant message says that you are infected.. ignore it and report (as spam or whatever) the sender immediately. Do NOT click on any links, go to any referenced sites, or download anything. If in doubt, use a real scanner solution (AVG Anti-Virus, Microsoft OneCare, etc) to scan your computer.

The best defense is a good sense of when not to click.

Source: http://blogs.zdnet.com/security/?p=670

Related Link(s): A list of known Rogue Anti-Spyware at SpywareWarrior.com

Note: All opinions on the intelligence of the average human in this article are mine and mine alone. I reserve the right to judge people for their stupidity, and assume that the same will be done for me.