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Summary: The Gamer from Kansas says it all.
Review: I could not agree more with the gamer from Kansas. The game stinks. Also it relates in no part to the former history of either Arm of Core as it is supposed to. Witchcraft and wizardry has no apeal to me. However, if you really want a cool game you should get Total Annihilation, way better graphics and a lot more fun. Don't waste your money!
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Summary: How Awful Can it Get?
Review: I got this game and rued it ever since. after seeing the graphics I first thought it was made before total annihilatoin (original), but later found out it was newer. The tech tree is dumb, and its hard to tell what the units are, i mean it's quite bad when you can't tell a difference between a horse and a rat.
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Summary: Personally, I think it's quite cool... :-P
Review: I see alot of people on here griping and nitpicking about what this game has and doesn't have. Is it something groundbreaking? Nah... Is it something that hasn't been done before? Nah... Is it still a pretty darn nifty game? you betcha! It's a RTS, period, and all RTS games seem to suffer universally from similar ailments. These being certain tactics, units, et al that are very powerful, yada yada... just play it! I happen to think the graphics are pretty darn nice myself, and the elevation changes are quite good as well. FOUR sides to choose from gives a nice variety of units and such. Not alot to be said, some things could have been done better, but it's a cool game. I think, however, that the "super units" could be all together bypassed if Cavedog and other Designers (Blizzard for instance) would adopt the Tech Level variable, a la Command & Conquer, for multiplay games. Sometime I wana just batten down and have an all-out slug fest with the basic 'grunt' units in the game. All the upper-level stuff is cool, but it really does detract from the fun of the game(s) because there's no strategy involved in dropping a Nuke/Magic Death Spell/Whatever, on your opponent. Anyhow, I ramble, hehehe, did I mention this is a good game and you should buy it?
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Summary: A Different View Makes This Game Rock!
Review: I think that this game is awesome because it is soo different from games like TA. I love the fact that they used the medieval theme. If someone has a probelem with the game speed then maybe they should get a faster computer, defrag the hard drive, delete some of their other games, or get a faster computer. I have no problems with the game speed on my 533 megahertz pentium computer. Over all this game gets 5-stars from me partially because of its originality and also because of Cavedog's guts to try something new with the RTS genre. Way to go guys!
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Summary: For Shame Cavedog!
Review: I tryed the demo of this game I didn't really like it to much. Sure there may been a few more sides, however, it can get boring after awhile. But I like the idea of seeing TA in the middle ages!
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Summary: The Internet more than makes up
Review: Many people are coming off with a bad impression of TA:K. Yes, the game did seem unfinished at its initial release, but the online TA:K community more than makes up for it. You can get the units to make up for what the game initially lacked, and the player-made units are a lot of fun. There are even entire races that can be incorporated into the game.Of course, if you're looking to buy TA:K, you should probably get Iron Plague while you're at it, and be sure to pick up as many Net add-ons as you can, since those are what really give the game the boost it needed. In addition, the Multiplayer is fun, since you can go on the Internet and buddy up with another person. It's highly addictive to play with others, so if you get it, be sure to log on to the Boneyards.
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Summary: So-So Game
Review: Maybe it's just me, but I would have liked this game more if it had more choices and would have allowed one to focus more on the creation of their cities. It's too war based, and I know a lot of people like that, but I like to be able to create somewhat of a notable empire, and it's hard to do that when you're being attacked every second. The graphics are very high quality for this kind of game, but I wish they would have offered more battlefields. There aren't too many and most of them are kind of bland compared to the few that are really good. It also would have been nice if there were more civilizations to choose from, and although there are some very creative creatures, it would have been better if there had been more. There are too few choices in general, and the actual strategy seems too simplified. I was very excited about this game, but unfortunately, I got bored of it much too quickly. Just to give you an idea of the kind of stuff I like... Hero's of Might and Magic and Civilization II... both of which I could play for days. This game did not measure up to these at all, beyond it's graphics, and I bored of it within a couple hours. It had/has a lot of potential, but unfortunately ended up to be a let down. Maybe if they made some ad-ons for it, it would be better, but then the strategy is still kinda too one dimensional.
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Summary: Not what I expected
Review: The game is extremely slow and boring. It takes forever to build up a formidable force. I thought it would be more like the original TA(which wasn't exelent). The good part is its 5 different forces as opposed to StarCraft's (which is a much better real time strategy) 3.
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Summary: The best strategy game ever!
Review: There is no reason why you shouldn't buy this game for only 4 bucks, even $10 is not to expensive. The buildings and creatures you can create are extra ordinary. By that I mean, awsome! You can build dragons, trolls, mage towers, warships, you name it! It runs on XP too. You can play the adventure where each level has a different map and battle senario. Or, just play a game against the computer where you chose the map, population limit, and which of the four empires you want to fight with. It's still fun after monthes of gaming. Pros: Imaginetive creatures. Great maps. A large viriety of buildings and creatures. And basically everything. Cons: Takes alot of RAM. Internet play is hard to set up. Bottom line: I give it 9.5 out of 10, go get it!
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Summary: Too generous?
Review: This game is so bad I hesitate with my second star. I would categorize this game as a great concept ruined by a bad game. While the movies are great and the wide variety and impressive uniqueness of the different players is truly an accomplishement the actual gameplay is crap. For one thing the sides aren't evenly matched. Play Veruna with even a small body of water and its a gauranteed massacre of the other side. Play Zhon, on the other hand, and expect to spend 5 hours on a single game before deciding to give up. Amazingly, the expansion pack fails to correct this problem at all! The game is pathetically slow and worse, the somewhat baffling placement of mana makes it impossible to fortify yourself in a base. Furthermore (and there's more) the unlimited supply of bafflingly placed mana is in-exhaustible, so the computer builds anthropomorphic bases with defensive fortifications every two feet. Try and set foot in one of them and your army of 30 is dead in 3 seconds! 30 is also the biggest force you can ever truly hope to assemble, by the way, because to control more than that is impossible, flatly impossible! While you can group units, ordering a group is ill-advised because while you may order them to move to a certain location on the way if they're ambushed by the enemy they'll just keep walking and not even fight back until they're all dead. Tell them to attack the enemy and they kill the unit you clicked on and then just stand to be slaughtered by the rest. Even setting them to agressive mode does little to combat the problem. I prefer turn-based strategy anyway, but this is truly a new low. This game sucks, it sucks hard. Won't someone ever make us a decent strategy game thats not sci-fi?
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