Nanor
Well-Known Member
I've had this game for a few weeks now, and I've played this nearly everyday. The singleplayer campaign is reasonably rich. You follow two campaigns, The Alexander campaign, where Alexander finds himself trapsing around the Mediterranean in search of his brother Tiberius who claims to be the king, and to boot, he's allying with those wretched Persians. Then there's the Cleopatra campaign in which Cleo has found herself away from a vital town when those nasty Romans appear and begin to take it off. She get's on her feet and marches back, fighting Romans on the way, all in all to save Egypt and have a delightful fling with Julius Caeser.
I'm still on the Alexander campaign, and I've found it to be one of the best Singleplayer campaigns I've played in a while. It's not your average missions where each level your placed in a slightly different map tasked with getting money and breaking into some fortress. There's maps where you lead an army of cripples against the Persians, and an excellent map in which you must defend against the Persian siege. I can't forget ofcourse Hero Mode in campaigns. Seriously vital! There's nothing better than defending the walls when a siege tower comes up and you can't destroy it and the men are pouring out, than jumping into hero mode and blasting them away with your bow and destroying the assault!
Oh, and there's nothing better the sea missions. A mission I remember is that you have to destroy an entire navy bound to Greece, with just one ship. It's not impossible. You can either hire a few sailors to grapple the ship and watch as your men charge in and take over the ship, or you can hire a drummer who will instruct your rowers to charge into the side of a ship, totally destroying it whilst sending the people on the ship flying and it doesn't just send the rowers flying. Anything you put on the ship appears, so if you put archers on it, you'll actually see them letting arrows fly into the skulls of the enemies.
However, the pros listed, we're onto the cons..
The AI can be a bit.. how can I describe this.. 'Duhhhhhhhhh'? If you happen to be in hero mode and shoot them with an arrow they just stand there. Also, if your siege weapons happen to be destroying a building, your troops just march in and get crushed by the falling debris. Not forgetting the time I went to slash the siege tower from up in the wall and got trapped in mid-air.
Multiplayer is also a bit.. bleh. Ofcourse it does still give the joy of destroying your enemy, and it does brighten it up a bit with Hero Command, but it's just the same old get resources, build buildings and pour out troops. I feel it could be made much richer if they added a new type, like armada battles or even king of the hill.
In whole, it's one hell of a game, with new twists at every turn. However here with the cliché.. "Room for improvement".
I'm still on the Alexander campaign, and I've found it to be one of the best Singleplayer campaigns I've played in a while. It's not your average missions where each level your placed in a slightly different map tasked with getting money and breaking into some fortress. There's maps where you lead an army of cripples against the Persians, and an excellent map in which you must defend against the Persian siege. I can't forget ofcourse Hero Mode in campaigns. Seriously vital! There's nothing better than defending the walls when a siege tower comes up and you can't destroy it and the men are pouring out, than jumping into hero mode and blasting them away with your bow and destroying the assault!
Oh, and there's nothing better the sea missions. A mission I remember is that you have to destroy an entire navy bound to Greece, with just one ship. It's not impossible. You can either hire a few sailors to grapple the ship and watch as your men charge in and take over the ship, or you can hire a drummer who will instruct your rowers to charge into the side of a ship, totally destroying it whilst sending the people on the ship flying and it doesn't just send the rowers flying. Anything you put on the ship appears, so if you put archers on it, you'll actually see them letting arrows fly into the skulls of the enemies.
However, the pros listed, we're onto the cons..
The AI can be a bit.. how can I describe this.. 'Duhhhhhhhhh'? If you happen to be in hero mode and shoot them with an arrow they just stand there. Also, if your siege weapons happen to be destroying a building, your troops just march in and get crushed by the falling debris. Not forgetting the time I went to slash the siege tower from up in the wall and got trapped in mid-air.
Multiplayer is also a bit.. bleh. Ofcourse it does still give the joy of destroying your enemy, and it does brighten it up a bit with Hero Command, but it's just the same old get resources, build buildings and pour out troops. I feel it could be made much richer if they added a new type, like armada battles or even king of the hill.
In whole, it's one hell of a game, with new twists at every turn. However here with the cliché.. "Room for improvement".