Age of Darkness: Final Stand

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Age of Darkness is frankly and underspoken great game. I feel like it does an excellent job with its systems, faction differences, atmosphere and campaign. That said, it's not a perfect game, but it is certainly worth checking. The price it asks for is quite decent, just a playthrough of the campaign will give you around 15-20 hours of content. In terms of performance, the game overheats my device like crazy. It also loads very very slow, 2+ minutes for a first boot of the day and 1+ minute for loading into a map, on a pretty good rig. Mid-mission however, it performs quite well, does some animation quirks may make you think otherwise. The game features a proper save-load system for both the campaign and Survival. Do note certain Survival difficulties put a cap on the maximum save count. Additionally, Campaign Saves do not display normally, you must load into a campaign level for them to show up. Yes, it's annoying, missions can take 60+ minutes to beat. Didn't suffer from stuttering nor freezing, though the overheating is likely to cause them in longer play sessions. To detail the animation issue: The game has a lot of Forced Animations, that means you can't give a new command to the unit until it is done. It applies for every attack, many casting abilities, as well as reload animations for siege weapons. The game also has issues with pathfinding for groups of units. You can have your melee soldiers getting stuck on one another, or stuck behind heroes. It's visible from the game's Prologue sadly. However, you unlock better units that don't have as many issues as you go on. I also suffered from a resolution bug on my 2560x1600 device. Game displayed with a lower resolution in Fullscreen Mode. Switching to Borderless fixed the issue. Onto the gameplay itself, Age of Darkness has a 11* mission Campaign, with solid narrative, great atmosphere and very good level design. It also features 3 cinematics, though these bugged out on my replay of the game, you can check them on youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b9F7WWLrzGM&pp=ygUaYWdlIG9mIGRhcmtuZXNzIGNpbmVtYXRpY3M%3D (Warning for spoilers, of course) I was frankly shocked at how enjoyable the levels were, and how the atmosphere sells the gritty world and the coming apocalypse. The heroes are well-done, the progression is pretty okay for only 10 missions (of which around 3 are No-Builds) and the game does give you 1 misssion (60+ minutes) with the full roster of each faction, which is neat. The final mission was awesome. That said, the Campaign does suffer from a lack of clear telegraphing. Sometimes the mission jumps to a new stage without the player being prepared. It encourages turteling before advancing. The game's resource systems also don't work quite as well in the campaign, you have a limited gain rate and a constant need for expansion. Training units is expensive and thus all of the low-tier units are immediately deprecated as you unlock new ones. The game's lack of telegraphic is also apparent in its roster showcases, it sometimes drops new units and leaves you to figure them out. Which can be quite annoying when you have to spend resources to "test" that unit. Soundtrack and atmosphere are top-notch. The game looks gorgeous and most of its elements are easy to tell apart. While I enjoyed the story, it does end on a cliff-hanger, which is in part meant to set-up the Survival Mode, but the game does lay enough to intrigue me into wanting an expansion, the mythical 4th faction and more heroes. Sadly, it stopped receiving updated. Survival mode is awesome. You have multiple difficulties, custom difficulties, mutators and random maps to keep variety. Waves come from massive Dark Crystals you can find across the map, you can trigger waves early for bonus rewards. There are caches of resources/troops and mini-bosses scattered about. You get boons after every death night. One other downside is enemies can spawn from any spot that is not lighted during the nights. This can make defense more tedious as a single small spot can screw your base over and the maps can be massive. The game has 3 factions, each with 2 heroes, unique buffs and a few special units. I'd say they did a great job in making them stand-out and feel different, even if the core is largely the same. Overall, I'd give the game an 8.5/10. It feels like a 9 at times, and I really love it, but it does have some jank and I can see why folks may not enjoy it as much as I did.

The game can be very fun but there's alot of game feel to it that just feels annoying like the pathing for example as well as the default keybinds, it's like it's trying to be a non rts. rts, because it fails on alot of basic controls, but over all mecanics wise it works pretty niceliy, i just wish they'd invest more in the game feeling nice to play. most of the time i'd be like damn im having fun then the collision of my units just make me annoyied. the story is not really much special either, it's clearly inspired by other fantasy storys like warcraft 3 mainliy. on it's that is fine but, the problem is it. it leans to hard in to telling almost the exact same story, and half way thoughe the voice actors changes so you'll oftent get taken out of it.

一点都不好玩

Did you enjoy TAB? This is the closest thing to it.

Como jugador de juegos estratégicos, no un super profesional (pero jugué desde Myth 1 y 2), pero a alguien que le gusta pasar el rato con este tipo de juegos, la historia esta bien, te engancha y de a poco se van mostrando factores interesantes de la trama. Que tus héroes no puedan revivir al morir es un poco inesperado (acostumbrado al famoso WC3) sin embargo eso le da más emoción con tus unidades, aprendes a cuidarlos más y a planear mejor tus estrategias. Por el momento me anda gustando, la gráfica, la dinámica. Una vez terminé la campaña probaría el multijugador.

The game has a good idea, but one of the missions is so absurd that it turns the experience into something boring, repetitive, and almost impossible. It’s difficulty done wrong, a real shame.