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As the last release from the first batch of the huge deal with Electronic Arts, we’re giving you a chance to become a wizard that needs to save the world.

[url=http://www.gog.com/en/gamecard/magic_carpet]Magic Carpet is an extraordinary action shooter game from the acclaimed Bullfrog Productions. All magic wielders are battling between themselves for the most valuable resource (no, not oil) - mana. Casting huge meteor showers or invoking a terrifying thunder storm, one could summon a castle in the middle of an ocean or just create a volcano right on top of this little harmless village. If you’re not the type of guy that likes to let the hell loose you could always just throw fireballs here and there or just summon a massive skeleton army to plow your way through the plethora of hostile creatures. Apart from other wizards and genies fighting you over the oh so precious mana, you’ll encounter various fantasy monsters ready to devour you (like a hydra or a dragon) or convert mana into more monsters (like the crabs do ;)).

Apart from this awesome flying-carpet action you can slow down a take a look at the normal lives of the townsfolk to admire the normal day to day activities that the AI performs. And if we’re on the subject of AI, the one controlling the opposing wizards is exceptional even when looking from today’s perspective.
If you ever wanted to live the life of a carpet-zooming wizard now you can! Want to do much more than just sing-along “A Whole New World” with the prince and the princess? Then this is the game for you!
What a brilliant game!

Sure, you have to get used to the graphics nowadays but once you do (and believe me, you will) Magic Carpet is still the excellent game it was all these years ago.
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Treewyrm: I'm happy to see Magic Carpet here (it's amazing game, much like all Bullfrog games), but once again it's strange that situation repeats Dungeon Keeper (missing Deeper Dungeons expansion), Magic Carpet here seems missing expansion "Hidden Worlds". It's great EA jumped in and finally started doing something about their older games portfolio, but either it's EA or GOG or both of them that better catch up and add missing content to the games (yes yes, I'm looking at you too, Descent 1 + 2 pack, quite something is amiss there as well). Are other upcoming titles from EA catalog will also be released missing their expansion packs? Looks like so.
As mentioned before, due to legal/licensing issues we couldn't provide the bonus content on release, but we're working with EA on it and will do everything we can to bring the EA releases to our top notch standard in terms of goodies.

Cheers!
Beyond awesome!
Can i haz more games?

You know i like spending my moneyz here :3
Well. There goes several days. [instabuy]
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Treewyrm: I'm happy to see Magic Carpet here (it's amazing game, much like all Bullfrog games), but once again it's strange that situation repeats Dungeon Keeper (missing Deeper Dungeons expansion), Magic Carpet here seems missing expansion "Hidden Worlds". It's great EA jumped in and finally started doing something about their older games portfolio, but either it's EA or GOG or both of them that better catch up and add missing content to the games (yes yes, I'm looking at you too, Descent 1 + 2 pack, quite something is amiss there as well). Are other upcoming titles from EA catalog will also be released missing their expansion packs? Looks like so.
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Galimatias: As mentioned before, due to legal/licensing issues we couldn't provide the bonus content on release, but we're working with EA on it and will do everything we can to bring the EA releases to our top notch standard in terms of goodies.

Cheers!
Good luck guys! :)

Wishlisted, gotta get other games.
Oh Magic Carpet, I only played your demo way back but I loved it. Even if sometimes you made me want to throw up... Thanks GOG!
I really wanted to like this back when I originally played it, but it just ended up making me feel nauseous and disorientated D:
Drat, I was hoping for two releases like previous week :(.
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GTLC: Stunning. The second best series to come out of Bullfrog (After Dungeon Keeper!).
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Lorfean: Ahem. Syndicate.
+1

Good to see Magic Carpet here though.
Ok, I am sure that I read the name of the game in the "where is the the Tueday release" and I want to know how some of you managed to guess the ID of the release of the week.
I never played this before, but it looks intriguing.
In the 6th screenshot, are those all the spells? Or are there more? (don't get me wrong, seems to be plenty, but just curious).

Anyway, on my wishlist for now.

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Galimatias: As mentioned before, due to legal/licensing issues we couldn't provide the bonus content on release, but we're working with EA on it and will do everything we can to bring the EA releases to our top notch standard in terms of goodies.

Cheers!
Maybe you should make a news post concerning this. It has been mentioned in the forums many times by now, but not everyone reads those in their entirety (I for sure don't; this probably has been suggested before as well). Personally I think a lot of confusion would have been prevented if such a post had been there from the beginning..
On the other hand, since this is the last of the first wave of EA releases, it might not matter anymore, I suppose.

Keep up the good work! I lost an entire day to Alpha Centauri already :D
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LordCinnamon: In the 6th screenshot, are those all the spells? Or are there more? (don't get me wrong, seems to be plenty, but just curious).
*[url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magic_Carpet_(video_game)#Spells]nods[/url]*
Redeemed:: stefanol
Post edited July 12, 2011 by thewishingwell
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thewishingwell: X8RJ-XB6N-GDQ6-2CBB
dammit :*(