With the rise of card-collection battle games over the past 12 months, large in part due to the release of Blizzard’s Hearthstone, Magic 2015: Duels of the Planeswalkers seemed to be poised to have its best year since the series began a half decade ago.
Instead, Stainless Games has developed a game that has seemed to regress in terms of overall feel and enjoyability with the release of Magic 2015.
Right off the bat, players are introduced to a changed user interface that, although looks nice, is one of the more clunky and unresponsive interfaces a game has had in quite some time. It’s So many times I found myself trying to scroll to a selection, and the game taking way too long to act upon the inputted action.
Grab It Magazine ponders one of the most important questions in life - what would a Simpsons deck of Magic cards look like?
Great stuff! I'd buy so many of these if they came out, solely for enjoying the references.
Wizards of the Coast rep, Mark Nolan, offers P3Outrider some information about when the delayed Xbox One version of Magic: Duels of the Planeswalkers 2015 will be arriving.
This year sees the release of the 2015 version, where Magic might just be facing their biggest opportunity yet, with Blizzard opening up a new audience to the turn based gaming world with their successful launch of Hearthstone. This opportunity, however, seems to be lost on MTG DOTP 2015, as the Wizards of the Coast title leaves you wanting the option to draw a new hand on this years offering.
