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.
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 They want the archers to be withdrawn so that they are not involved in dogfighting, the cavalry will be kept in motion so that it plows through the enemy, and ZuSa tzlich also want special skills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.
