Seven Kingdoms 2 HD

Seven Kingdoms II offers a complex strategical experience to the player. It's been one of the first to present rpg elements in a Rts. This elements are not so deep, but our soldiers will grow in every skill present. The economical sistem is not banal and diplomacy is very well developed. Who prefers to get involved into figthing can choose Frythans. There are many human kingdoms with their own specific way to fight. It's possible to play a random campaign that grant surprise from one hand, but with low personality. A game to play and replay.

Differences from Seven Kingdoms 1 is: Multinational cities which make reproduction impossible do not exist. Inns are now for only hiring spies and soldiers. Frythans have their own kingdoms called Kwyzans. No longer are workers and scientists individuals,but faceless numbers with universal, unchanging skills. War machines are no longer affordable in large numbers and can't withstand melee. A real manned army is the only way to fight and defend with war machines being for long range support. However, all of the pretty optimizations come to naught as the AI is a rabid werewolf who simultaneously leads massive armies and maximizes micromanagement to the point of rendering resistance useless. Campaign levels heavily reflect this as your initial arrival is ALWAYS met by a swarm of frythans mathematically impossible to fight and outrun. How am I supposed to win this?

First of all: NOT consider the Steam version, that one is full of bugs... although thanks to that I met this wonderful platform. The game is entertaining but as the first one is pretty hard, and now are a lot of options for strategy so if there is not nostalgic is hard to like it. Also the other point is that even the game play is better and had more option and units the maps are pretty poor...a lot actually consider that the first one had water. But for the low price a try of a classic I think it's worth it

I played Seven Kingdoms v. 1 when it first came out. I thought, at that time, that it was over-complicated with the spying and the micro management of leadership, generalship etc. Eventually I moved on to other things (I prefer tbs in the first place). But it was one of my happier forays into rts games nevertheless at that time. So against this background I thought I'd give 7 Kingdoms 2 HD a shot. Having forgotten most of what the game mechanics are like, I had some difficulty following parts of the tutorial. It's not always clear exactly what they want you to do from the description of the tasks, and it's not always explained HOW to do that. Had to abandon tutorial games and back-track severally to get a feel for what was supposed to happen that I hadn't done, hence locking up tutorial games. Oh well. Try again. But: it crashes a fair bit on my Windows 7 box. And that is not a good thing. Another 2-3 crashes, and I will give up on this before even finishing the full set of tutorials, I am afraid.

I didn't play the first Seven Kingdoms and I'm playing this one for the first time. And I really like it. A unique and interesting RTS unlike any other(except it's predecessor of course). The variety of races, randomly generated maps, and each unit having a name and a number of stats, that increase during its lifetime, will help your imagination to compensate for the lack of story elements and cheap aesthetic. If you like to make up your own stories, this is a decent playground for you. However the technical issues, like input lag and and inconsistent speed of some animations on my system, are really ruining the experience :/ Not what I would expect from GOG. Alongside other old titles being customised and set up to run well on modern systems, giving the user lots of options and tools and handles to make the game work properly, this release seems a little sloppy and lazy. I understand that the HD remake is supposed to remedy all that itself, and that it is the developer's responsibility, but they could at least maybe done something on the original version. Or perhaps it is so poorly implemented initially, that nothing could help it. The game remains playable though and certainly worth picking up (especially discounted), even just to familiarise yourself with the series, that I, as a beginner game developer myself, would call inspiring.