Heroes of Annihilated Empires

Well, it didnt work. This game has some nice ideas, most time terribly executed. You have plenty of units with plenty of abilities, lot of different potions, lot of everything. But thats just it - lot of everything. You run over map full of enemies of all sizes, shapes and colors, just raining death upon them. If you use your ranger, otherwise they rain death upon your poor fragile troops. Lucky thing is your ranger can kill thousands of enemies without even get tired. Dialogs are long (because hero all the time repeats same things) and almost stupid. What is happening doesnt make much sense. Finding broken giant fighter aircrafts and broken giant tanks scattered randomly over hills doesnt help much. Maps are full of creatures that, almost exclusively, want to kill you and will charge you and die under rain of arrows. That is what you do most of game. Rest, you slash them with sword. Sometimes, there is some hidden sidequest and treasures. Beware - you may play any map from campaign you already played - but you lose progress you made, starting without levels, equip and so. That means - you hero is toasted. BTW, while its caled "Heroes" you actually play one hero. And sometimes his future girlfriend. But she tends to lost stuff you give here and because she is not so often in game, her level is low and will not help much. As I mentioned at start, there is some good ideas. For example if you kill goblin leader, goblins will scatter and run for while. You may also want to take down leaders of any other tribe, because they gives their tribe bonuses. That is fine. Less fine is you may encounter tribes, where is every second member chiefant. You will encounter all that ideas in first 10 missions. Then its all about slaying (literally) thousands of enemies with single hero. Buy it, if you are looking for something really weird

This is old school art design at it's finest. You can't zoom in but you can appreciate the sheer amount of work that went into the enormous structure, verdant landscapes and teeming armies. It's a pretty generic plot all told for the most part (no spoilers) but what keeps it fresh is the scope. You're commanding scads of units against legions of enemies, tons getting cut down with arrow fire in short order in a more cinematic way than a lot of RTS games that drag on the fights with lengthy health bars. You have your central hero who is taller than the other units and can buy and collect items to improve themselves. Building structures and training units is speedy, reminding me of Spellforce. Everything streamlined to get you to the battlefield and play with the strategies of kiting enemies into tower range, flanking clusters of foes, peppering them from afar and rushing in to attack them with melee units...etc. It's a bit of a tower defense game given the speed of base management and death of units but I honestly prefer this to tinier squat hitting each other forever until one falls over. It's a curious hybrid that clearly had a lot of work put into it.

Its a nice fantasy game, the story is interesting and very good playable, and with full of action, but for experienced player, not for beginner, its almost such good as Warcraft III.

A very nice RTS with very nice graphics, awesome story though unfinished as the game was planned to be a trilogy. Vast armies, fantasy setting with sci-fi hints, RPG elements. A very nice cross-breed which is worth some attention.

This game is this types of game with its own distinctive style. It's a great game, the graphics, the mecanics it's quite unique. Is a realtime strategy game but it mixes strategy with role-playing. Its style is more close to the Spellforce than C&C or Starcraft. So if you are searching for another C&C-Starcraft game style, probably isn't the best choice, but maybe you'll like it. Pros: - Unique visual style and graphics. - Mix of strategy and role. At the begining you can choose the style. Allowing further in the game change mix the styles. - Your hero can be equipped with items, spells and use potions. - Massive battles. Not in the way of Total War series, but there is no population limit and you build units fast. - Neutral units. Individual and mercenaries groups. Mercenaries can be paid to help you. Cons: - The campaing campaign comes to an abrupt end. - Difficulty curve in the campaign is bad. The first mission on the campaing is probably one of the most difficult. - Balance in the gameplay styles fail. It's more hard to play RPG style, that RTS style. - Some performance issues. In general for me it a great game. At the end, after finishing the campaign you have the feeling like the studio had run out of time or money. It's a pity there was no sequel of this nice game.