Dragon Wars is a great relatively unknown computer role-playing game developed for a variety of platforms between 1989 and 1991 ranging from DOS Apple II Tandy series computers PC-98 Amiga and more． Primarily developed by Interplay and published by Activision the game is a spiritual title within (and for quite some time WAS) ’The Bard’s Tale’ series． When the game was in development it was designed to be the next BT but due to growing tension between Interplay and Electronic Arts (publishers and right owners of the first three BT games) they withdrew some of the concepts and design plans from BT3 and saved them for a future title after they severed ties with EA which went under the tentative title of ’Bard’s Tale IV’ and shared a more open world in the vein of ’Wasteland’ another of Interplay’s creations． The boxart was done by the taleneted Peruvian-born artist Boris Vallejo who has done illustrations for several games such as ’Wings of Wor’ ’Golden Axe II’ etc． Up until roughly a month before the game was released the game stil went under the name BT4 but when EA still hand not relinqueshed the rights to the franchise the designers were forced to make modifications to the name and setting． Still using an enhanced version of the BT engine (with more options and flexibility) the game possessed a darker story and the addition of a new primary antagonist a dragon named Namtar and the game was renamed to ’Dragon Wars’． While the game scored very b．．．／b
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