Why such a high price?

[Edi]

I don't think €45 is a high price to pay for Dom II.

As for AoW, my thoughts: the original AoW was and still is one kick-*** TBS game. I played that a whole lot, and still love it. It was especially good on some of the excellent maps like Jason Hickman's Reign of Terror (Middle Earth), or Dix's Hunters of Blood I and II, and many others, and especially when you played with leaders off. Playing without leaders eliminated head-hunting strategies and the AI actually started getting aggressive and became a challenge. It was good, and some of those maps really had an epic feel to them.

AoW2 has no possibility of playing with leaders off and is nothing but headhunting (or otherwise just map-crawling) with repeating the same tactics ad nauseam. I didn't like it very much after playing about halfway through, and I'm not sure I'll buy Shadow Magic at all. Quite a few of the original AoW crowd have dropped out of sight for some reason or another, and many have shared my views completely or partially.

DomI on the other hand just rocks, and so will DomII. Can't wait...

Edi