First of all I have to say I tried Majesty 2 because I was curious of the description of the game: a fantasy kingdom simulation where you don't control your heroes directly but still have to achieve some objectives and kill the usual over-grow creature or daemon. From that moment on I bought every game was set in Ardania (the name of this magical world). Paradox created same really good games.

So what is so great about this game? First of all is quite innovative. You basically have to grow a city, constructing buildings, hiring heroes and enabling upgrades for your heroes. The money returns back on taxes and thing that your heroes buy. Your heroes are not directly paid by you, but they have to explore the world finding chests, killing enemies or solving quests that you gave them. Giving quest through flags is the only way you have to interact with them. There are four types: defend an area/escort something, kill that thing/destroy that den, explore that area or don't go there (this a special one that simply keeps heroes far from a dangerous area).

Said like that seems quite a simple game, but I have to say that the story is not original but really interesting, the maps have an increased level of difficulty (visible before entering the level) and I have to say even after having finished the game multiple times, the hardest missions are really hard if you are not quick enough to level your heroes and make them strong enough to achieve your final objective before you are overwhelmed by monsters coming from everywhere.

Yes, there are quite a few bugs, some heroes are particularly dumb and sometimes you have to personally save their life by healing them or killing their opponent with magic that you unlock during the campaign, but in general is really absorbing and I never found problems playing with it or really annoying bugs that spoil your fun while playing.

There are several expansions that add new missions, heroes, buildings and some stuff for the multiplayer mode. I'm not interested in multiplayer in general, so never tried and I can't comment it, but here this mode is present.

Even if now the graphic is a little outdated, I would still recommend it, in particular for a bargain price to random players who just want to have some fun, especially the first missions are quite easy even for not experts and every mission is re-playable.

If you've ever played the first Majesty then you'll understand the second one. In this RTS you don't directly control your units. Instead you put a flag somewhere on the map with a bounty, which can be adjusted to any price you want. Majesty 2 is much more challenging than the first, and is so much more fun. The campaign is very good, and with the expansions it just extends the challenging gameplay. This collection is a great way to pick up one of the more interesting RTS's you'll play.

Very unique RTS game. You can't control your heroes directly. Instead, you must offer rewards through notice to encourge your heroes to complete jobs for you. This game makes me feel like a real king. I like it. But the expansion is too difficult. Too many events happen during a very short period so that I am almost out of breath.

This game is sick. First game I have played in 5~ years that kept me up well into the next day.

One big key to the game. Once you can get a Hero Guild, start saving yourself some lvl 16~ rogues. Soon as you start a new map, put the Hero Guild and bring in a high level rogue or two. Not to mention your standard clerics guild. 6 clerics and 3 of your hero rogues will keep you alive very deep into most maps.

It is a great collection , I bought it just for less then 3€ and the value for price is simply great. You can built your kingdom in a fantasy context and hire several heros to accomplish missions. The difficult of the game is suddenly rising providing a challenging experience of game, it is hard to be bored playing this collection. Highly recommended!!!

Majesty 2 is an interesting twist on RTS. You place gold values on objectives for your units to attack, it's actually really fun. Build structures, hire heroes, and pay them to do your bidding!

I really enjoy this game! I have a hard time doing some of the "quests" but I think I just need to familiarize myself with more concepts of the game.

This is a game for people who enjoy sim city and medieval/fantasy settings. The concept of the game is great. You build the city and hire "heroes" but you don't control them! You have to make it worth their while otherwise they won't touch your quests/bounties. An interesting, and rather refreshing, take on games that have a lot of quests/enemies/etc. There's plenty to do, and plenty to learn; and you can play the game without being a micromanager or knowing every bit of it (though it helps!)

Overall, the game is a great buy and you'll probably put in plenty of hours. Quests/levels can get challenging, but still enjoyable and worth picking up!

I really liked the first 7 mission of this game. Up until the dragon mission, I was ready to give that game a 5 stars rating and stop taking professional critic seriously (the avg metacritic is like 60), since the game was so fun and unique. The average gamersgate rating is also high and to be honest I think you are guys are sadistic. Bullshit move like watching that dragon killing 2-3 buildings every 3 minutes with your heroes standing right into his fireblast getting 1 shooted, while endless horde of smaller dragons are rushing your base just make this game so BAD and FRUSTRATING. Then the others mission follow the same kind of challenges, I mean bullshit. I couldn't get pass the mission where you have to destroy 2 castle. The AI was just pumping paladins, while I started to build the second level of some of my building.... Apparently the expansion pack are even harder (!), I was too pissed off to try them, so I will not bother. 2 stars and only because I like the concept and the first few levels.

A very unique take on the rts/sim genre. Majesty 2 is a great sequel to the first Majesty, and it is very enjoyable. For those hoping for a bit of a casual game, however, may not like this game as it goes from challenging to out right impossible. Still, a fun game.

Yeah. Majesty 1 was mutch more better. Nicer graphics, better gameplay with a lot of sandbox and storytelling in it.

Majesty 2 tried to solve some "problems", that Majesty 1 had. Well, it wasn't realy problem, but players, not fammiliar with Majesty style of game didn't liked, that Heroes are behaving on they own "free will" and that they pursue danger or flee according to their "class".

To, Majesty 2 dumbed the heroes down. And made few other changes, that destroyed the greatness of choice (you can build temples on holy ground only, which are rare so majesty 1 choice: "which temple I will build and which patch I will go?" is little bit nonexistant).

Still, it is good game, holding the original concept. And the good thing is, Paradox is now utilizing the world of Majesty, Ardania, for other games. From Warlock: master of arcane (master of magic, but in civ5 format) and newly annouced Impire (Dungen keeper, or it looks like it).

This is making Majesty 2 pretty mutch must-have, because it have still great storytelling and one can learn history of Ardania to form basis for other games of Ardania-universum.

This game is the great one :) I'm enjoy looking those heroes working for the quest i create :) have wait for a long time for the discount . I recommend it to all of my friend who love RTS it great deal for 75% i grab it without thinking when i saw the discount

The game isn't too hard too learn and it fun to manage the town for those adventure and protect your town too it great i love this game, Thx gamersgate for great deal

Majesty 2 is a great game if you have a powerful PC (current example: Win7 64-bit / 12 GBs of ram or better / 1 GB video card or better) it looks great and is a lot of fun. It's an interesting strategy-game twist to NOT be able to control the people directly, but instead influence them while managing your buildings at a "surface-level" only. This isn't SimCity and it's not Age Of Empires, it's similar to Tropico, but more "fun". Don't miss this excellent title, but be prepared to scour youtube gameplay videos for walkthroughs on how to beat some of the super-tough levels.... and believe me, some of the levels in Majesty 2 are SUPER HARD. Great game, not to be missed. MY SCORE: 8.5 out of 10

This is a unique take on real time strategy games. The soldiers/hero's you recruit will act independently, and it's up to you to direct them by giving them incentives in gold to accomplish something (to protect a building, kill an enemy, etc) The hero's you recruit will level up and buy their own gear, potions, so this takes a lot of micromanagement away from this type of game. I'm not a huge RTS fan but I loved this game. The graphics and sound were very solid, and the game play itself is very challenging. You must pay attention to the quests, and the advice you get from your adviser or else you can turn foes into juggernauts. I learned this lesson the hard way by jumping the gun a few times and the next thing you know your entire base is wiped out. Really worth taking a look at, this one is addictive.

A really, really fun game with a few glaring issues. Mainly of which is it's incredibly wonky difficulty curve. It goes from challenging and enjoyable to punishingly brutal to furstratingly impossible. I ended up not beating the game despite greatly enjoying the core gameplay due to it being far too difficult and frustrating in the later missions.

Fantasy City Simulation which focus on Fighting Evils..

Very Enjoyable.

Welcome Sim Fans, RPG Fans, Casual Players, Hardcore Gamers.

Majesty 2 is not a blockbuster game. It was a quiet, nice, and cheap diversion. The improvement from the first game is immense, and the first game and it's expansion were brilliant. The patch that they've released addresses most all of the issues that people had with it. Is the game perfect? No, but it doesn't have to be at a mere $5. Well worth the buy.

First thing first. The genre of this game is indirect strategy, You will not be able to control your units directly. In a way it is similar to Evil Genius.

The game itself is pretty well made, but it has some issues. For example its difficulty can ramp up pretty fast and can catch new players unprepared. For some players the pace of the game can be an issue, because the game moves quite slowly.

To be honest when this game is sold with big discount it is a instant buy. It will be hard to find better price/value ratio than this. If you are interested in indirect strategy games you should not miss out on this game.

Actually, when I first saw it on a game magazine, I didn't like it. Then I saw it in GamersGate and it was pretty cheap and I wanted to play a different game. After that, I started. It really impressed me. Why is that? Because it is more different than other strategies. You have to try it.

Great game, I loved the original and was surprised to see they finally made a sequel! fairly unique take on the RTS genre as you do not directly control your units. the main game + expansions will give plenty of hours of gameplay.

This game was a ton of fun early on and has some good potential. What kept it from getting a five star rating is that it went from fun to stale much quicker than I would have liked. I bought this collection for $4.99 though and I would highly recommend checking it out for that price (as of this post it is still on sale at that price).

Pros:

- Very clean engine. Graphics are nice and the game does a good job of handling a whole bunch of characters (heroes, monsters, peasants, guards) moving around at the same time.

- They did a good job of installing some humor into the game. I would really enjoy listening to the briefings for each mission.

- Original hybrid. I really like the basic concept.

Cons:

- Even though you don't have control over your heroes you can put them into groups. This is a good idea, but the process of forming a group is rather annoying. Then once a group is formed, I have a lot of trouble getting that particular group to do the mission I want while having my other heroes ignore the mission.

- Strategy becomes very repetitive. Some hero types are clearly better than others.

- Monsters will randomly wander in from the map borders. This is annoying because it undermines both the importance of destroying spawning grounds and the strategy of which spawning grounds you destroy first.

Excellent value for money!

Innovative game play and steep learning curve might turn off your average gamers more familiar with modern RTS games but M2 is a gem non-the-less. The gameplay gets a little hectic at the middle and devolve into a milk run later on but that's small complaint for a game that's so different and full of charm.

First Majesty was so great, but sequel is better for me. Majesty Collection contains some additional stuff so you will recive a lot of fun. Great strategy game in fantasy world.

This is a wonderful, fantastic, entertaining strategy game with a twist i've never seen before. Instead of directly controlling your troops/heroes you put out rewards for doing something. The higher the reward, the more heroes that will attempt to claim it. The game is lovely animated and really shines! A must have!

Overall, Majesty 2 is a refreshing and unique strategy game. I enjoyed it and was challenged by the expert level missions. Beginners may not like the learning curve and I must confess that I edited a few of my save files to add more gold. With multiplayer there\'s a lot of re-playability, but I still wish there was a map editor.

Majesty 2 is an RTS with a difference, that difference being, as others have mentioned, that you only control units indirectly through the placement of bounties. Adventurers may become interested, or they may go off and do their own thing... either way, keeping your economy afloat in a monster infested realm is a real challenge, and, as noted, the difficulty curve rises fairly quickly, although the game is easy to learn the basics of.

However, it's by no means a serious game. Serious in its game mechanics, yes. But the world? Well, while I won't spoil any of the plot, note the incompetence of your minister, and the marked difference between how the intro is narrated, and how it plays out. 1C, it seems, definitely have a firm grip on high fantasy's chain with this one, and pull quite firmly throughout the game. The look is good, the game is pretty good, the music fits perfectly, and my only criticism would be the difficulty curve. Everything else does its job, and fits together quite well, showing the experience of 1C in, quite simply, making good games.

Absolutely incredible game! Totally enjoyable! You get to build up your kingdom and hire heroes to defend it from monsters and foes alike, however, there is no direct control of your heroes! Insstead, you have to put out bounties on the monsters or enemy buildings and bribe your kingdoms heroes into completing what you want! I have never played anything else like this one and it deserves to get recognized! MUST BUY!!!

Majesty 2 is a very unique game. Not in the mechanics itself, because unit building, tech researching and some other classic RTS concepts are present in the game. It's unique in the fact that you do not control your units directly, but indirectly. You set the "quests", setting it's value in gold and thus attracting more or less heroes to complete it, and then spend that same money on the market you just built. It's a very interesting approach on the so beaten RTS genre, with this refreshing concept. The game does not have a extensive tutorial, but it is not complex do get going, it's quite easy in fact, pretty intuitive. Some missiong are near impossible to accomplish, so you will certainly have some hard times going through some of them (even early ones). All in all, a great game for a great price, despite some bugs (even after patched).

Majesty 2 is an interesting take on what has become a pretty hackneyed gaming genre. While much of the RTS gameplay will be familiar to veterans - building bases, training units, performing research, and casting spells - new players might be surprised to find out that they have no direct control over their units. Instead, heroes are ordered around indirectly by placing bounties on certain targets, giving those heroes an incentive to go out adventuring for the king. The game also aims to keep players amused with its light humor and satirical nature.

Unfortunately, the experience can dry up rather quickly. Most of the missions are rather repetitive, generally boiling down to a "Hey, go destroy this!" type of objective. Most scenarios play out the same way as the last, regardless of the objective, so it is unlikely that most players will even finish out the campaign. For this reason, its hard to recommend this game for anyone looking for a lasting strategy experience.

One of Paradox's great strategy games. While it is no where near as complicated or detailed as Vicy2 or EU3 it is still a great game. Paradox is the best.