Posted on: November 17, 2018
SlavaKosmina
Verified ownerGames: 319 Reviews: 50
Fool me twice - Shame on me
They say: "Fool me once - shame on you, fool me twice - shame on me". In the case of Spellforce 2 it is exactly right. Once, long enough ago, I played the original Spellforce. It was fun for a while, but I never finished the game. It was too long, too tedious and, ultimately, it was boring. Spellforce 2 Anniversary Edition is another such game. It brings nothing new to the original game. Nothing new that I can see anyway (except for better looks and wide-screen support); -- Voice acting is still *abysmal* (and it IS a problem because there is A LOT OF IT and it completely kills whatever mood, atmosphere or immersion that such a game could potentially have). -- A game like this MUST have Turn-Based combat because the AI has suffers from NO delays but you do: Imagine 20 enemy units mixed up with your units and you need to 'focus-fire' the most dangerous enemies (such as mages before they nuke your army), but the only feasible way to do it is to TAB through ALL enemies until you find the one you need to kill FAST, and by the time you find that enemy it is often too late; -- Camera is INSANELY annoying: It is always reset to inconvenient isometric view after EACH NPC dialogue (and there are a lot of those dialogues) and you must always fiddle with it to get it back to the usable state; -- There are NO shortcuts to speak of and you must ALWAYS perform half a dozen clicks on the interface to execute simple actions, and with many units under your controls and many enemies it becomes... hmmm... I don't even know what to call what it becomes; -- There are NO controls settings except ONE (the Camera control key) and you CANNOT set it to something convenient. The only options are middle mouse button and Insert key. Guess what? The middle mouse button setting does not work, and while you control movement with WSAD every time you want to fix camera you have to hit Insert on the other end of your keyboard. There's more to say, but friggin' GOG does not like detailed reviews...
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