BANNERMEN

tr

Seeing as how this review takes place post death of the online game, I'm really only reviewing the hard version of the campaign. One sentence to sum up everything I'm about to go into: This felt like a fusion of AOE and Starcraft. I recommend it in the end because, although it wasn't perfect, I still had fun playing the campaign. Don't expect old-Blizzard levels of story writing/voice acting, it is not that. Mechanically I find it good, not the best you can play with, but good. Considering however that there were only a handful of people, like 15ish, that made the game (voice acting included), I thought they did a very good job. Pro's: -Easy to understand and get the hang of (They don't try to rewrite the RTS formula). - Mechanics, Resources, Units / Tiers of Units, and Building were all easy to understand. -Hero unit felt impactful but not overpowered depending on where you were in the story. -Decent variety of units that didn't feel bland, used almost every units for a different scenario. (good strategy/player decisions) -Map atmosphere was amazing in my opinion, it didn't just feel like a box you were playing in but a living world. -Game soundtrack was excellent, probably one of the most memorable things about this game honestly. -Campaign length and variety of missions I thought was ok, loved the length, some of the missions could have been setup better. ie: less MOBA sections, more "God Power" objectives/mechanics. Con's -Story writing was decent at best, some plot holes, monologuing villains, and stupid decisions both the hero and villain. -Voice acting definitely pulled me away at times, recording equipment was good but the actors themselves made it seem at times they were just reading of a script and not acting. -Any allies you had in game were absolutely useless and needed to be baby sat or lose the mission. -The hero felt absolutely useless until you knew how to spec him, then he became much more useful. -Minor glitches, only had to replay a mission once. -Most glitches were clipping or out of bounds stuff that didn't affect gameplay too much (1-2 times whole 8 hours). -Only glitch that got me aggravated was on a particular hard mission, the last caravan bumped into an enemy and even though I defeated the wave, it wouldn't move and therefor I was soft locked. -Production on every mission was starting at the beginning, and it took a long time to start up, could've had a base semi setup so the action could begin a little faster. -Last gripe is with the "Power-up" the hero gets. Badass name, kinda stupid how he gets it, good writing for build up, absolute waste of execution. -Doesn't even change normal attack damage, just gives him a lore reason to be able to hit the villain. Final notes, it has its problems but it was still a fun to play just for the strategy aspect. If you're a person who needs to maximize their hour/$ spent and doesn't play non-perfect games stay away. If you're who enjoys RTS and wants something new but familiar I would recommend it.