Northgard vs Warcraft 2
Northgard
Northgard is a rather unique city-builder/strategy game that allows you to lead a group of Northmen to unknown new shores in hopes of making a life there. Like most city-building games, you'll need to help them set up a home, assign your Vikings to perform various roles, ensure there is enough food to feed the entire village, and amass a small army to help defend your territories from other hostile clans. The strategic aspects of the game may not be obvious at first but you'll quickly realize that new territories that you discover (you don't exactly need to conquer it for this to work) will present new strategic opportunities for your clan to expand or grow, be it new sources for food or a nice place to set up a new trading post. There are many victory conditions as well, so it's not always "kill or be killed" in this game.Northgard offers players a single player experience by playing with AIs with various personalities or with their friends online. However, many players have reported that the game does have a somewhat flawed AI-player relationship. Even if you're best buddies with an AI's clan through healthy trading relationships, their clan members will still attack your people, which frankly feels a lot like a betrayal. It'd be nice to have a tutorial as well.
That said though, Northgard is an impressive game especially if you enjoy a bit of city-builder/strategy game like Valhalla Hills.
Warcraft 2
Warcraft 2 continues the battle for Azeroth, this time with new technologies and creatures to take you into the realms of Air, Land and Sea. Battle as the fearsome Orcs or the steadfast Humans in this sequel to the much loved original.In this game you have many more units under your control, from flying dragons to mighty battleships you need to control your resources and develop these mighty weapons of war to take the battle to your enemy. Once more you can play both sides in the ever expanding story, and with the addition of the Dark Portal with even more missions there is a lot for you to do.
With the option to have 8 players all in the same game, the new super graphics and a lot of content for you to enjoy there is no reason not to jump into this amazing game today.