was scared of playing this game because i loved the original... i am enjoying it a lot
anime looks, cartoony history, but complex enough missions
It is a light game for modern standards, somewhat fun to play, but annoying controls for basic gameplay, I am changing alot between mouse aim and arrow movement, plus elevation changes. You are a dragon trying to reclaim some territory, as far as I know has almost free pacing, you can do the mission goals at most you own pacing, strafe enemies and destory lairs,grab a snack now and then, and defend settlemets, but up until midgame they are resilient. I dont know if it can endure the three dragons gameplay back to back, but surely you could play one each year, and be satisfied. Gameplay overall: Fun Story: no big deal Cutscenes: simple Dificulty: fair Controls: mildly anoying Its more fun than the sum of his parts, the only really bad thing is that you are the good guy and attacking cities and farms is only by mistake. would be great if it had NG+, but eating and terrorizing minions can satiate the havock thirst
Disclaimer, this was one of the first games I bought with my own money around 2000, a retail version boxed inside a dvd case wich I still have lurking around, complete with his Golden awards or something label. and this game with the Age of Empires saga deformed my mouse and slightly. In this game you get your Token main quest, go Slay the Baddie, you got your Token tank, and your Token female character, and a Token foreigner, in this case a practicioner of the Dark Arts, is nothing new and was not in the release day. The great thing about this game was it was a Roguelike in Isometric with "almost" 3d characters, voiced and almost complete random runs, and a fun fact about experience, at some point the chaff is not worth killing anymore. In practice you have a random run but you almost allways tend to average your characters. This version is like the original, with a maybe noticeable but not really important grafical improvements, and bugfixes, original was stable to hardly notice bugs in singleplayer, maybe a weapon effect not activating or some faulty loot-chance calculation. Online play was not something I could experiment in the day, but they said that was a blast, PVP, Campers and lots of common occurrences nowadays that were "mostly new" at the time. and i am not trying really in this age. This game is like watching the Schindler List, or another good old movie, has his charm, you see the good points, you notice the lackings in this case very slow movement, you see the problems and the gems, and they are not easily shown in a let's play video, the joy of watching blue loot, and gold trinkets is more alluring at play when in watch, deciding if a +15% to hit is better than +1 to damage, 1+ to strenght is better than +20 in health, all of those things you can enjoy for a while... untill it gets old. You get your standard 4 levels by world metic, you start to read how the mechanics work, and then you simply start doing the same thing again and again.
You are going to fight! When someone thinks about a Rome themed strategy game people ofthen thinks in Rome: Total War... great fights with lots of tactical considerations, small groups of soldiers fighting for the best position to resist or push.... Nice, But in this game you can forget about that, this game is about numbers, you need a good army lead by a competent general to hope to overcome a common enemy... Add to the warfare layout the political, religious, and personal ones plus the economic, and you are trying to figure the game... One thing, you are not seing a single battle, you are only allowed to watch the battle resume
