JoWood, Phenomic Games and Deep Silver announced that Spellforce 2: Shadow Wars has reached Gold status and will be released in the UK on April 20th 2006. In Spellforce 2: Shadow Wars, player takes over both roles: he is Commander of his troops and also a front fighting hero, solving quests and overcoming obstacles as in classical RPGs, but also leads armies as in an RTS. The game will feature huge and detailed environments, three factions (Alliance of Light, Hordes of Chaos, Brotherhood of Darkness), each with 12 very different units consisting of infantry, cavalry and flyers, over 100 Avatar skills, and more. A playable demo is locally mirrored here.