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Magic Carpet 2 is a first-person shooter game developed by Bullfrog Productions and published by Electronic Arts, released in 1995 for Dos. This is a single-player and multiplayer game.

This game was generally well-received by critics from the gaming press; it was considered as a better game than Magic Carpet, it features the same basic concept but with more beautiful graphics.

Within Magic Carpet 2 you will be able to build a castle, collect mana and destroy creatures to steal their mana and defeating rival wizards.

The game takes place in the realm of Netherworld. The apprentice s master (the main character in Magic Carpet), who died after unleashing his deadly spell, was being spied upon by the Netherworld s ruler, Vissiluth, who is now planning to conquer the world of the living. It is once again up to another apprentice to stop him, by battling this demon.

The non-playable characters wizards that you will have to face within the game are now considered to be Vissiluth s lackeys.

Magic Carpet features night-time additional levels, and underground levels. You will have to complete various missions such as reaching checkpoints and destroying specific monsters.

This sequel also added 15 new spells. Most notable was that each spell had three levels and the player could upgrade them either by using them frequently or picking up experience scrolls. For example, instead of having separate fireball and rapid fireball spells, the latter was just an upgrade of the former.

Magic Carpet 2 added 20 new monsters. This significantly increased variety as they brought special abilities. For instance, some could stun the player (Spider and Manticore) or drain mana and steal spells (Zombie ).

The Leviathan could lurk below the surface of the sea to ambush the player, while the Moon Dwellers often stayed at high altitudes just out of reach of the player.

Every monster you kill leaves behind a certain amount of mana which you can possess and store in your castle. You need this mana to cast spells and if you store it in your castle other wizards cannot steal it (in some levels you need to defend your castle from attacks by monsters and rival wizards).

With enough mana you can upgrade your castle which allows you to cast more powerful spells. During the course of the game you will get all kinds of new spells and improve the ones you already have.

The third level fireball, known as the firestorm, is extremely powerful against single targets. The same applies as well to lightning bolts and lightening storm. Having spell levels allowed the game designers to tone down extremely powerful spells from the original, such as crater, volcano, earthquake, and meteor.

PC Developper : Bullfrog Productions | Editor : Electronic Arts Genre : Action Rank : 90% (by 1 magazine) Review (1) | Cheat (1) |

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