Seeing LOTR yesterday got me to investigate some of those fantasy RPG war games once again.
I've played Diablo II and currently have Baldur's Gate II. But I've been looking forward to the release of Myth III ever since I saw the trailers.
So yesterday evening I managed to fight through several overloaded FTP server links and get a clean download of the Myth III demo. (~94 MB)
I have to say it's pretty cool. It runs quite smoothly on my Rev. B TiBook under OS X (It can also run under OS 9 and there's a Windows ver. as well.) The controls are pretty intuitive, the graphics are excellent and all in all it looks like a lot of fun
For those who haven't tried the Myth series from Bungie, it's a game that allows you to control a host of warriors consisting of soldiers, wizards, dwarves, archers and what-have-you to accomplish a particular mission. (Usually consisting of beating the snot out of the enemy.) The player perspective is the usual for god-games and you can move the camera views around to your liking to get a better view of the battleground. Each unit has specific abilities such as healing, throwing magic, setting explosives and so forth so deciding how to deploy them is key to victory.
I can't wait for the final release....