fun combat & pleasing graphics
This game has nice city building, exploration, trade network and what not, but really is good for combat. I like the auto-battle aspect and you still have a lot of control by setting up formations and orders before sending your army out to fight the baddies.
When you are in game, zoom in to the cities to see really delightful Asian construction style, especially the nice castle towers. It seems they put some good effort into the graphics. You can also enjoy zooming down close to see the soldiers during combat, or even a peaceful view of peasants working in the fields.
There are a lot of soldier and ship types to try out so make sure you experiment with them. I like the late era ships that look like floating shoes.... very badass shoes that can deliver a good whooping. There are even siege engines and artillery.
I recommend highly to get the DLCs and try their premade campaigns. They are fairly built-up so you don't have to start from a basic town. Some factions like the powerful Song are fully built-up and some are barely starting like the Genghis Khan Mongol faction. There are even the original Turks, bandits, Buddhists and the popular Romance of the 3 Kingdoms factions made famous in the KOEI games.
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