TFC2: The Fertile Crescent 2 - Collapse of The Bronze Age

A wonderful throwback to PC real time strategy gaming in the late 80's - mid 90's. And even better.. an improved experience! Here's what I really liked: +A single player campaign (four acts, eventually) - my personal favorite way to play. +Among the best onboarding I've seen in the genre. +Fantastic graphics (with cool little personality flourishes throughout), excellent music and sound effects, and full control of the zoom (plus WASD support). +Real-time pause. This is great for anyone who doesn’t thrive under constant micro management. In my opinion this should become standard for all single-player RTS games going forward. +Quality-of-life touches everywhere. +A nice little story so far, featuring a small party of heroes. Make sure to play beyond the prologue in order to get a taste of how building and upgrading your small civ works. If you appreciate a great RTS — even if you’re out of practice, OR new to the genre — give this one a shot (it should hopefully have it's hooks in you by the end of the two hour trial period). Looking forward to closing out the remaining summer evenings with it!

I haven't played many RTS games, but this is incredible! I've started with the campaign and it is so fun and addictive. The script and story is really enjoyable, as is the gameplay. I also love the ability to tactically pause - this gives you time to figure out your strategy, which is a nice touch. I would recommend this game to everyone, it is a real gem and it's evident a lot of love and attention to detail has gone into it. The fact it's early access makes me even more excited to see what's to come.

Would I recommend this game? Yes. I'd give it a solid 9/10. The Fertile Crescent 2 (TFC2) is actually an amazing RTS, and an improvement The Fertile Crescent 1 (TFC1) in nearly every way. In my review of The Fertile Crescent 1 I said it might be the best game for a newcomer to the genre. I take it back, this is where you should start; you can go back and play TFC1 later if you ever want to focus on the core gameplay. It's been compared to Age of Empires 1 (AOE) but I think the hero units and tightened mission design actually make this a far more approachable title. I'll talk about some of my thoughts below. The Campaign: you do slowly learn the basic of base building while you play, but this is NOT a glorified tutorial. The story is actually excellent, with distinct and likeable characters, really nice level design, and a mostly excellent plot. While there are some common tropes, and not all of them earn the intensity, for the most part it is great fun escaping the burning Hittite empire with the Sea People hot on your trail. It can be funny and lighthearted, but you never forget the pressure our protagonists are under. There are some truly haunting moments sprinkled throughout. The world building and characterization work very well. I just finished the first 2 acts on normal difficulty and will wait with great anticipation for the next 2 acts. I wish I had been able to spend more time in Assyria, I can't wait to see how my party gets from the Tigris to the Nile. The Art Style: The first game looked far more lo-fi and cartoonish, which was fine since it's a pixel game. The Fertile Crescent 2 (TFC2) has a much more mature art style, reminiscent of 90's fantasy art. Basically, the atmosphere and design is far better throughout the campaign than the last game. As of now, the map for mission 10 seems unnecessarily large, like they haven't decided id they want to cut it down or add more points of interest. Units: there isn't much change in the unit appearance from TFC1 to TFC2 however hero units are added. They aren't extremely powerful but are very useful in a fight, acting sort of as juggernauts. They aren't so powerful that you can't win most missions without them on normal difficulty, but it is much easier with them. I hope that in this title or a future title more angles are given to soldiers, like front/rear/diagonal facing, it would make the game look much, much nicer, and I think could work with the pixelated style. Yet there are times while I'm playing it that I'm perfectly happy with how everything looks. The factions: While I haven't played a skirmish with each faction yet, the Hittite faction plays somewhere between the Egyptians and Babylonians from TFC1, focusing on resource collection esp. food, however lacking spearmen. I really like their tech that lets me get food along with metal, however it may be a little too powerful in certain situations. I will update this with my final opinion, for now I think the new tech is enjoyable. This has all the best things from TFC1 but it has fulfilled far more of the potential promised by that title. This game hasn't even hit 1.0 and I'm excited for TFC3. They could go anywhere with this title, it deserves great success, and I hope they continue to develop this game and similar. Fantastic work devs.

Genialna gra strategiczna. Rozwinięcie koncepcji z części pierwszej. Przyjemna i klimatyczna strategiczna gra w czasie rzeczywistym. Wciągająca budowa i dynamiczna walka. Będzie ogrywane dalej na dniach. Czuć inspirację oryginalnym AoE I. Mam nadzieje że będzie nadal rozwijane, czy to pod względem kampanii, jak i nowych nacji, jednostek, map, osiągnięć i koncepcji!

Food is a resource and a mechanic that creates over stress in a way that can't be managed in the stock campaign mode. units can't be selected as a type, villagers as militia ensures defeat as they abandon production to fight, and production of food is opaque. patches to fix problems create more problems. Fun could be here, but it would require skipping the campaign and exploiting civ traits. Its a game you love.. until you don't. and you'll grow tired of restaring missions to figure the resource locations out and figure out the balance you need to have between villagers and soldiers. Fun is replaced by frustration WAY too fast and too often. I confess I cam to this game thinking it might be as polished as many other EA releases, its not.

진짜 초반 부분만 하고 남김 잘 모르겠음.. TFC1도 itch.io에서 데모로 나온 거 해보고, 이후 스팀에 출시 했을 때 구매 했던 사람임.. TFC1을 너무 오래전에 해서 기억이 가물가물한 것인지 모르겠지만, 1이랑 차이점을 크게 못 느끼겠다. 아주 조금 자잘한 픽셀 그래픽들과 UI가 개선 된 느낌? 큰 구조는 1이랑 유사하고, 외에는 거의 판박이처럼 느껴진다. 그럼 1의 시스템이 참신했냐? 라고 물어본다면.. 일꾼을 알아서 뽑아주는 에이지 오브 엠파이어 같은 느낌 이상 이하도 아니였기에 더더욱 2는 그 이상의 차별성을 부여했어야 하지 않았나 싶음 지금으로서는 그닥 매력적이지 않다.

A fun to play isometric old school RTS with a lot of new features and Quality of Life funcions. Its singleplayer camapign might not be long or voiceacted but its well scripted and offers very little handholding. The story is good, characters interesting, with a plot twist or two. The most interesting thing about this game is that when you play in Skirimsih vs AI or in mulitiplayer vs other players you don't chose a faction in the match setup. But during the match as you unlock the first few tehnologies. This combined with the food hording mechanic which gives you higher birth rate for new villagers(workers) and more tech points the more food you have stockpiled makes for some facinating gameplay. The historical aspect and the Sea people attacking the civilizations of the Bronze age is also a cool factor and I recomend the game at this price level and with the content it has. No performance issues, no connectivity issues, and it has save and load funcionality in the singleplayer.

Que dire? Le jeu est bon, mais principalement parce que le 1er l'était déjà. A part une campagne mieux scénarisée et l'apparition de "héros" qui portent l'histoire de la campagne, rien n'a changé depuis le 1, les unités, bâtiments, sprites, mécaniques, ressources, HUD, tout est identique. A tel point que je cherche encore l'intérêt d'acheter ce jeu lorsque l'on possède déjà le 1er... J'adore cette licence mais je mets un avis négatif car pour l'instant rien ne justifiais une seconde itération, seulement un dlc ou un ajout de campagne au 1er opus. Si vous découvrez TFC avec cet opus foncez. Si vous avez déjà le 1er je vous conseil d'attendre de voir les futurs ajouts.