So standing on its own without any prior knowledge of the previous games this game would probably be enjoyable, though compared to others of its type its probably sub-par at best. I'm not sure if the team that designed the original game had ANY hand whatsoever in this. Its TOTALLY different, and many of the changes that have been made are very poor. And the game is definitely buggy and unpolished. The ships stutter across the water and have horrid turn rates, builders will get stuck on the walls they build(units CAN mount walls which is cool...but its a useless feature), building placement, especially for towers, is lachrymose and janky at best. pathfinding is horrid...siege engines dont fit through gates in walls...I could go on. This games only redeeming feature, which I got a kick out of, is the unit dialogue. They really raised the anty and made things campy with this one. For example, the Western "factions" "ancient era" builders dialogue. -Me builder. Me build. -WORST place to build....BUUT i build. -MMM...WOOD smell GOOOOD -I BRNG round spinny thing with sharp edge! -Sorry...just drill hole in hand...ouch. -I like tooools. Between this and several of the other units corny and constant dialogue I got enough of a laugh to push through at least a couple hours before the rough, campy, janky nature was just too much to handle. If you like campy, simple games, maybe you'll get as much a kick form this one as I did.
This game pulled me into the Forgotten Realms, and introduced me to Drizzt Do'Urden, my childhood idol. The characters are astounding, and deep...there is no shallow character...even the Antagonist has a backstory. Every character has their own demons to face at some point in the game, and many of them adapt and change as the story rolls on. For people who think this is too expensive, you need to go get a job...because it's 10 bucks. For people who said it was too hard, well, I hat eto sound shallow but, you suck, because you were apparently expecting the game to cater to you, and didn't expect you needed to think about how to wage a battle before doing it. EX: Instead of charging into a room full of Umberhulks, and getting your ass kicked, you should try lobbing a Cloudkill through the door and closing it...because Umberhulks can't open doors. If you don't like to read, there's your biggest flaw. Any real RPG is going to make you read, because it will be built around writing, not action packed physics and cool graphics. And people who couldn't get it to work? You need to turn off your fancy Aero Desktop theme and run it in compatability mode...and it works like a dream. I have no paticene for people who try something for two minutes and give up, then callously write a review stating that it sucks, and try to go off on a rant about how "the mechanics suck".. "and it's too hard". I played, enjoyed, and finished this game when I was 9. One of the best games I've ever played.
If any of you doubt the just how good this game is, you have only to search through every page of comments looking for a rating below 5...I got to page 22 before I became certain that no such thing existed. Nothing else can be said that has not been said already. An Epic of epic proportions. A visual gem. A story to top the best A marvelous plot. Fluid gameplay. A masterpiece.
