40 people found this review helpful
Recommended
0.0 hrs last two weeks / 6.0 hrs on record
Posted: 9 Sep, 2014 @ 1:56pm
Updated: 9 Sep, 2014 @ 4:15pm

I got this game free from the Humble Store and this are my first impressions after completing an 5 hours Skirmish match.

-There is no campaign, you have only the skirmish mode which you can play offline or in multiplayer.

-You get really fast into the game since there are not much ressources and the buildings are pretty much self-explanatory.

-Normal units get pretty fast useless when high-lvl heroes appear on the battlefield, since they casually oneshot entire unitgroups with one attack when they are highlvl.

-Defending and attacking castles/citys feels cool and not too hard.

-The AI is really acting "nice". The AI doesn`t send 781 drones into every corner of the map and is building expansions until you give up because the game would take 2 weeks to finish. They try to handle the threats on their own continents, isles and barely explore other continents with ships.

- The diplomacy system sometimes doesnt make any sense, they declare you war for no reason or want incredibly stupid high tributes from you to stay in peace.

- The graphic looks beautiful and is definetly to enjoy.


All those impressions were made on normal mode difficulty 3/5.

A few weeks ago I bought Fallen Enchantress...Even if I like the graphics from Fallen Enchantress more, the game couldn`t catch me. I can enjoy Warlock way more, thats why I am going to buy the dlc pack when its on sale.


Peace, Hexor.
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3 Comments
dadnaya 7 Oct, 2014 @ 9:53am 
"-You get really fast into the game since there are not much ressources and the buildings are pretty much self-explanatory. "
Yep, after 20 minutes of playing I got what i have to do.
StevieB 3 Oct, 2014 @ 9:07pm 
Re: The Diplomacy system: "[The AI] declare you war for no reason or want incredibly stupid high tributes from you". The former happens because (I'm assuming, as it's the case for Civ) it's kinda required for a Domination victory, and the latter happens (mostly) when there's no real incentive for the AI to make peace with you (for instance, because they're winning), so that incentive becomes "all of your stuff"
SAROMON 18 Sep, 2014 @ 1:46am 
After starting the second game, I found normal mode quite easy for me. Fast expansion is the key. Good game, tho. I had to delete it for now, beacause it is time eater!