Posted February 27, 2009
Seven Kingdoms is one of my most liked strategy games. It's a real Good Old Game.
In this game, your villages are very important. You can train units (like construction workers or spies) from a village. The player must have many unit types on the map, but also must have many peasants in the villages, because they supply food for your people. You must be very kind to your people, because if people in the player's kingdom aren't loyal to their king, they may betrayal him and join an another kingdom. As you can see, your people are your most important „resource” in Seven Kingdoms.
In the original game (without Ancient Adversaries) there were really seven kingdoms, but in this version there are ten of them.
At the beginning of the game, you only have one village, a fort, and your king. First, you may train soldiers with your king, but if you don't want to fight, there are other goals, like acquiring an amount of population.
There are some greater beings in the game. These are special units: each of them has a great power, the Greek phoenix, for example, can look into the enemy's forts or other buildings. If you want to summon them, you must fight with the Frythans - they are enemies without villages but with lairs. It can be quite hard to defeat the defending frythans, but if you slay them, you acquire gold, Scroll of power (it enables the Seat of Power building, where you can summon the greater being) and gain reputation (with higher reputation, independent villagers join your kingdom).
In Seven Kingdoms, there is also a great diplomacy panel, where you can do a lot of things, like offer to purchase food, to send aid, to request a technology, etc.
There is also research in the game, if you finish a research, you can build a weapon, like ballista.
Seven Kingdoms is not a casual RTS game - you don't have to collect resources to build a building. You have only one resource which you must use: money. If you want to train a unit, or you want to maintain it or siege weapons, you have to own a lot of money. Of course, your leaders and some other kinds of units need their salary, so they use money, too.
The game has only a few drawbacks. The graphics are old, but still passable. There could be more weapons in the game, as there are too few now; however, that's not a big problem, at least there are some.
In conclusion, Seven Kingdoms: Ancient Adversaries is something which gamers who like strategy games are very advised to buy, because this is awesome. With a good built-in tutorial, all gamers can understand the basics, so everyone can play it, and I think this is a great deal - such a fantastic game for only $5.99 is that.
In this game, your villages are very important. You can train units (like construction workers or spies) from a village. The player must have many unit types on the map, but also must have many peasants in the villages, because they supply food for your people. You must be very kind to your people, because if people in the player's kingdom aren't loyal to their king, they may betrayal him and join an another kingdom. As you can see, your people are your most important „resource” in Seven Kingdoms.
In the original game (without Ancient Adversaries) there were really seven kingdoms, but in this version there are ten of them.
At the beginning of the game, you only have one village, a fort, and your king. First, you may train soldiers with your king, but if you don't want to fight, there are other goals, like acquiring an amount of population.
There are some greater beings in the game. These are special units: each of them has a great power, the Greek phoenix, for example, can look into the enemy's forts or other buildings. If you want to summon them, you must fight with the Frythans - they are enemies without villages but with lairs. It can be quite hard to defeat the defending frythans, but if you slay them, you acquire gold, Scroll of power (it enables the Seat of Power building, where you can summon the greater being) and gain reputation (with higher reputation, independent villagers join your kingdom).
In Seven Kingdoms, there is also a great diplomacy panel, where you can do a lot of things, like offer to purchase food, to send aid, to request a technology, etc.
There is also research in the game, if you finish a research, you can build a weapon, like ballista.
Seven Kingdoms is not a casual RTS game - you don't have to collect resources to build a building. You have only one resource which you must use: money. If you want to train a unit, or you want to maintain it or siege weapons, you have to own a lot of money. Of course, your leaders and some other kinds of units need their salary, so they use money, too.
The game has only a few drawbacks. The graphics are old, but still passable. There could be more weapons in the game, as there are too few now; however, that's not a big problem, at least there are some.
In conclusion, Seven Kingdoms: Ancient Adversaries is something which gamers who like strategy games are very advised to buy, because this is awesome. With a good built-in tutorial, all gamers can understand the basics, so everyone can play it, and I think this is a great deal - such a fantastic game for only $5.99 is that.