Posted November 25, 2009
I have just purchased this game as a duo with Settlers 2. I have tried it for a few hours now, and I simply cannot get past its glaring weaknesses and inherent flaws.
First off, there are no rally points to any buildings. Meaning that you have to run around each building you possess to find your troops. Second off, there are no clear indicators on the map where your mines and buildings are, which can make it fustrating to always have to run around to figure out where your people are. Then, the fact that you have to research your barraks is laughable. Did these people acutally play a real-time-strategy game before doing this awful thing?
The camera is atrocious. There is no zoom out, so you're stuck with looking down at your troops like you have a stiff neck. You can make it circle, but it comes back as soon as you release the button. The controls are correct, but nothing more.
Combat is, in a word, disgusting. The computer can simply create any number of troops out of thin air, without any need for time or ressources. Meaning that it is not a fun challenge to fight the computer. It is a endurance match, where you have no satisfaction for your troubles save for another frustrating, repetivive area after this one. Any allies you happen to come across are imbeciles, unable to come and aid if you are inches away from their "target area". Every three minutes or so, the weather changes, making it even more difficult to pinpoint what your people are doing, and where they are. The ressources in each map are scattered around so thinly that you need to run across half the damn map just to find them. You waste so much time actually building up the city, only to finish its quest and having to start a new one immediately.
There is no fun to have here. It's a pooly-made, badly put together game that tries to be a real-time-strategy game, but fails miserably. it is frustating to believe that this game is acutally good, only to see its glaring flaws further down the road. I want my money back.
First off, there are no rally points to any buildings. Meaning that you have to run around each building you possess to find your troops. Second off, there are no clear indicators on the map where your mines and buildings are, which can make it fustrating to always have to run around to figure out where your people are. Then, the fact that you have to research your barraks is laughable. Did these people acutally play a real-time-strategy game before doing this awful thing?
The camera is atrocious. There is no zoom out, so you're stuck with looking down at your troops like you have a stiff neck. You can make it circle, but it comes back as soon as you release the button. The controls are correct, but nothing more.
Combat is, in a word, disgusting. The computer can simply create any number of troops out of thin air, without any need for time or ressources. Meaning that it is not a fun challenge to fight the computer. It is a endurance match, where you have no satisfaction for your troubles save for another frustrating, repetivive area after this one. Any allies you happen to come across are imbeciles, unable to come and aid if you are inches away from their "target area". Every three minutes or so, the weather changes, making it even more difficult to pinpoint what your people are doing, and where they are. The ressources in each map are scattered around so thinly that you need to run across half the damn map just to find them. You waste so much time actually building up the city, only to finish its quest and having to start a new one immediately.
There is no fun to have here. It's a pooly-made, badly put together game that tries to be a real-time-strategy game, but fails miserably. it is frustating to believe that this game is acutally good, only to see its glaring flaws further down the road. I want my money back.