Saturday, January 31, 2009

Taping A Leather Couch

Kingdom Under Fire

With "Kingdom Under Fire" is an absolute highlight for ailing real-time strategists on consoles. The game offers an intriguing mix of strategy, action and role-playing. Those like me who has switched from the PC store to the console will miss first real-time strategy title. Around tactics there are on consoles. "Kingdom Under Fire" is not simply a port of PC standards on the console, but offers many fresh gameplay elements.

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The game contains four campaigns, which are told from the perspective of a hero. This is always a hero among infantry squad. They are joined by other forces such as cavalry, archers, but also exotic ones like kites. The troops are always controlled as an association. On an expandable map is then added to the squad such as archers the command to attack the enemy infantry squad. The battle-field camera remains of diagonal selected to the squad, similar to "Full Spectrum Warrior". If we take, however, with the hero squad, the game switches to an action sequence and it is with the hero actively participate in the fray, which is of course always go back to the overview map in order to give new instructions to the other troops. This sounds very stressful and it is. Especially in the later campaigns, where you control less than 6 troops on the battlefield, you get a good sweat. They want the archers to be withdrawn so that they are not involved in dogfighting, the cavalry will be kept in motion so that it plows through the enemy, and ZuSa tzlich also want special skills such as healing or Meteor be used. To use special abilities, but you need points to win this by one with the hero in melee opponent is ironing. Therefore, all game elements in the battle are linked and we must find the right mediocrity in order to emerge victorious. This is the general course of battles, in doing so have several other conditions must be observed, for example, the position of the sun, so that the archers are not blinded or established cases of pioneers, Lae in the rain sst light is not a forest and so on.

story over and troop management

Between battles, the story driven by the dialog between the characters and you have the possibility to equip its troops and heroes. You can equip both the hero and the troops with up to three items. These are usually weapon, armor and shield. The money you earn for themselves in the battles. Furthermore, the ability of commanders to be improved. This is also important to be able to use certain branches of service. The cavalry does as a leader with the skills Frontal, horse riding and close combat. Here, the special abilities such as healing will be equipped. It is this role-playing portion is of vital importance in recent campaigns. Then you should save it before the distribution and test it in the ensuing battle, the strategy makes sense. Because if you upgrade your back and forth as you wish, you can see soon no longer random. Both the choice of the types of troops and the equipment is then very important in order to draw victorious from the battlefield. Conjures up the opponent as ever with lightning, you should not go with knights in armor in the battle or those with at least one armor That furnish additional protection against lightning. As you see, are here also interlinked all the elements together.

final consideration

The game offers endless possibilities that make up the charm of the game. If you victoriously through strategic actions and smart upgrade results from a battle that is very satisfying. The technology is moving at a high level. To take part in the battles of hundreds of units that are very detailed, while the gameplay is always extra liquid on the screen. A point of criticism I have, however, the difficulty . Call The classification of the four campaigns is easy, normal and hard. It should, however hot difficult, very difficult and impossible. Especially in the last two campaigns is no exact knowledge of the battlefield, are to be studied by futile attempts to upgrade their own units and skillful to get through. This makes the game literally degenerates into work. Cosy tactics is not. Just because, the size of the game with his four campaigns has been very great, I would have liked a few more missions easier. Finally I can every game to the real strategy fan the only heart . Lay The game offers almost infinite number of strategic opportunities and great graphics. But again, the difficulty is very high. Only those who are able to bite through a mission and also quiet times like to play more frequently accessed, should all other otherwise destroy one or the other gamepad.

platform: X-Box
Genre: Action-RTS-RPG
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Rating:

Graphics: 9 / 10

+ very many units, fantastic animation, good vision
- barren landscapes

Sound: 8 / 10 + great

Heavy
metal soundtrack - though tried, but average German speaker

Gameplay: 10/10
+ high strategic requirements, lots of action, role-playing elements
- too heavy

Story: 9 / 10 + The story is aimed

After the hero, but is a great danger that all share with each other, story is more than just a plea for epic battles
- Unfortunately, only dialogue with the heads symbolized hardly cutscenes between missions

Total: 9 / 10

----------------------- Here is my test video. Unfortunately, have a few bugs slipped. The tree of life is cast by the Dark Elves and does not cure me but my enemies. By magic, only the Curationzauber. In the end I say destroy the ballista the mammoth. This is unfortunately the Spieleton. Have fun.

Sunday, January 11, 2009

What Does A Scorpio Man Want

Transformers (PS2)

I have written this review while before, now I have put the article be reworked and also created a video. So I'm here again, a new publication, however, in addition to my publication the reader test writers club Gamestar.de appears.

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Transformers is an action grenade in the first category. The game offers fast while shooting for fun in between, is very demanding. Many tactical variations in weapon selection, challenging boss fights and huge levels make Transformers PS2 an absolute highlight.

At the beginning of each level, you can choose one of three transformers. These differ in speed, attack power, defense and life energy. Then you're already sold on the top level and you get the first major Plus the game to face. It is not that is sold in a small confined area, but can explore freely in a vast jungle area in the Amazon, the one they wanted. You climb a mountain you can see the whole level and all with a wealth of detail that one would not expect the PS 2. Everywhere are shown in detail trees or old temple ruins, there rushes a wonderfully animated waterfall and you look at the sun will be dazzled by beautiful lighting effects. are suddenly pop up trees or the like to see it very often. The environments are diversified. There are jungle landscapes, snowy mountains, and much more.

The tasks in this level are always the same, find the scattered Minicons in the level and defeat at the end of a level boss. In the Minicons are small robots that can be combined with your own chosen Transformer. Four pieces can be equipped simultaneously and can be activated with the shoulder buttons. When selecting one, however, is set to two defensive and two offensive systems. This is also a strategic component wear, because you have to decide whether you're carrying along the heavy rocket launcher or sniper rifle the heavy armor or the flight upgrade. alone can combine with the Minicons spend hours. Experimenting with the Minicons is however also necessary because the opponents are not cannon fodder in the levels in his body. Heavy tank changes, special attacks, flying skills and defiziele attack patterns make creating an excessively even on Easy difficulty. With a color matched to the level and the opponents weapon combination, the enemy masses can always break down but professionally.

addition to Minicons you can still pick up so-called Datacon, which can accommodated Unlockable extras like concept art, photos of Transformer toys, screen shots and my personal Highlight, original commercials in which the transformer of the first generation of children to explain why such should not run away or quiet times guys play with girls. As a skilled player you are through in less than 10 hours the first time, then you can always pick up even more back to the levels and not previously found Minicons and Datacon. Criticisms are for me the thin story line that can not motivate further play and the vibrations of large masses of enemies. Overall, however, a simple action fireworks, which offers challenging gameplay and clever opponent. Those who have a PS2 and a weakness has for Transformers, which was to consider a purchase quiet times. A better Transformersspiel it so far.

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