Posted on: August 28, 2016
thundergod9
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Ambitious and creative and *bad*
I remember playing this game as a kid. I remember cheating at it a lot as a kid, because I was 5 and couldn't play halfway intelligently. The game has good visuals and atmosphere and is pretty ambitious -- trying to make 4 distinct factions and potentially dangerous wildlife with a variety of spells and upgrade less than a year after Warcraft 2 came out is *very* ambitious. It's also kind of terrible without nostalgia goggles. The programming is *extremely* janky and bad -- units can be dropped off of a boat and not be able to get back on it for some reason, units will decide that "attack" means "walk directly up to the enemy unit and stare at them," enemy AI will chase a single unit through a gauntlet of attacking enemies or a damaging fence even if it kills them, there's weird and random delays in unit response to orders, sometimes the enemy can just sense that you have units within their territory (even if they're invisible) and will chase them down, units only attacking enemies they're order to or who have attacked them directly, etc, etc. Then you get bad interface design. Casting spells and upgrading units are both *extremely* clunky and tedious, and magic gives the AI much more of an advantage in combat than you because they can do it much more easily than you can, even the total lack of anything like an "attack move" makes battle finicky and miserable. Add to that a lot of the mission design is *terrible.* A mission where you have to steal boxes from an enemy base where the enemies automatically detect where your units are at all times so you can't sneak in (unless the AI breaks), a mission where you can't build a base but have to slowly free an army of totally worthless units that can literally be wiped out in a couple of seconds if the AI remembers it has spells, the list goes on. It's a shame the game just doesn't have the basic programming and design chops to keep up with its ambitious scope and cool little world.
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