Divinity: Dragon Commander

The character interactions are the selling point, with varied characters providing life to your hub. The rts is weaker here though. Proper use of your dragon can heavily slant any situation and lower modes can be done almost entirely with your dragon, needing minor support to capture points. Too exploitable to satisfy that side, but fun enough.

Dragon Commander is the fourth game made by Larian Studios. It’s a strange mix of turn based strategy, real time strategy, first person hero shooter, and a bit of management. As expected, when you try to expand too much instead of focusing on something the result is tragedy. In this game you play as the dragon commander, with orders to defeat your three siblings that may as well not exist since they don’t even have a proper image of any weight in the story. After that you have a bit of extra content that is also very mediocre. The game consists of moving pieces in a world map while building management factories for resources and cards, and sometimes going down the real time strategy. In this mode you directly control some of the ugliest units imaginable in slow and boring battles that take way too long for a game whose point is the turn based system. During that you can enter the battlefield as the dragon to awkwardly spread chaos and cast mediocre spells in a nauseating flying mode while being blinded by so excessive light effects. This mixture of genres absolutely does not work well. Outside the war game you have to deal with politics of the main races. A very neat concept again badly used here. Not only the laws you have to enact have zero consequences during the game, they are the most basic disputes imaginable. Is weed legal? Is gays legal? Is euthanasia legal? Modern world problems that don't fit within the fantasy scenario using modern world language that do not abide by the setting shown. Besides that, you also have to deal with your four generals that will help you win and skip the boring real time combat. Each general is a caricature of some element, some more tolerable than others but for some reason heavily inserted with annoying real life politics. This game proves that Larian can only create one dimensional caricatural characters, with very few actual interesting or empathic elements. The two female generals were especially made to be as one dimensional as possible, with an unbelievable annoying behavior that would never fit in a situation of desperate war like the game presented. Each has a modicum of development by the end of their personal quest, but making sure they tell you they didn’t change much. Spread in all this mess, is the expected Larian comedy. Endless quips and low hanging jokes that don’t stop and not even once get a smirk from the player. Despite being the leader of a broken world, burdened with countless deaths and the despair of war, the game forces you to provide many uncalled comedic responses instead of allowing the character to show any seriousness in your urgent quest to save the world from the horrors of eternal conflict. This game also provides you with the obligation of marriage to one of the main races' princesses, with a personal quest from the girl selected. The interactions with your spouse are very bare bones and the quests are not much relevant except for some favour points and maybe a new dress. Worse of all, after finishing the final fight, each character gets a new congratulatory dialog, except your wife that is nowhere to be seen, letting you without a proper conclusion. A terrible decision for such a dialog heavy game. The only redeeming quality of the game is its voice acting. Dragon Commander features fantastic audio, brought to life by talented voice actors who truly embody their characters, yet their potential is squandered in this disappointing experience. To finish quickly I recommend focusing on mercenary cards and flying machines to clean the map. Dragon Commander is without a doubt a bad product that does not worth your time.

This is one of my favorite games a good blend of many game types and good humorous characters. However the blend is not perfect it suffers from spore syndrome the game mechanics are rather shallow and simplistic. Overall i recommend this game but i think $40 is a bit too much i would wait for a sale.

This game has a lot of replay value. It has great strategy elements. It has awesome action gameplay as a dragon. You choices makes a difference in a roleplay like manner. The world is amazing. Great steampunk elements mixed with sci-fi.

Ein schönes Spiel. Nichts überragendes, aber doch ganz unterhaltsam.

Небольшое, яркое приключение, полное юмора и положительных эмоций. Бои могут показаться по началу тяжелыми, но стоит привыкнуть к темпу и все налаживается. Так что дерзайте, не пожалеете.