The other clans always attack at your weakest point and are very capable of enticing your forces into craftily conceived ambushes.
Even the pathfinding is faultless. Use ot sound is also excellent. The echoes of clashing steel and squelchy thuds as sliced limbs drop to the floor enhance the already bloody atmosphere no end. Right at the start of the game you are asked to either save a village from If massacre or join in the heartless debauchery yourself. This decision sets the tone for the rest of the game.
And although Battle Realms is played in a relatively linear level-by-level fashion, you also get multiple-choice routes through the world map. Some routes will take you towards tile magic-using Lotus Clan whereas others pitch you against more simple foes like the Wolf Clan.
Basically no one game is ever the same. When it comes down to it, you have to say Battle Realms is a ground-breaking PC strategy i game. It contains original, well-thought-out ideas with beautiful use of graphics and sound. Is it a classic though?
Well, no. Battle Realms is good, honest entertainment and a of the RTS genre. We have to admit, with the constant flood of real-time strategy games on to the market it's becoming increasingly difficult to make one that stands out from the crowd. Developer Liquid Entertainment has nonetheless taken up the challenge and is working on a game where the gameplay may well be very familiar to fans of the genre, but the setting is very different.
Forget military and fantasy units and characters, Battle Realms is taking the genre off the beaten track with the introduction of oriental settings and characters. This has been done before with varying degrees of success. Three Kingdoms had an oriental offshoot that never really took off, Throne Of Darkness has a distinctly oriental flavour but veered more towards Diablo than Age Of Empires, and Shogun had an oriental theme and was hugely successful but it relied more on strategy than resource management.
Battle Realms then, appears to be working with tried and tested elements of resource management and real-time action, but Liquid is hoping its fairly unique presentation will appeal to fans of the genre who are tired of playing with the same units and buildings in umpteen RTS releases month after month.
Fortunately for us, we don't have to guess at how things are developing with this title. We've played it. The beta we played was reasonably stable, so we managed to progress a fair distance into the game. The first thing we noticed was the attention to graphic detail. Battle Realms is nothing short of stunning in visual terms. Crisp and colourful with wonderful animations, this title will surely be turning heads everywhere upon its release. Story sequences are also beautifully presented using the ingame engine, and many key events trigger short cut-scenes that develop die story and teach the player how to play the game.
A short tutorial is all that's needed to get up and running with your new village, and once you've sent your peasants off to get rice and water, you can start producing fighting units to go hunt down the enemy. In terms of gameplay, it has to be said that first impressions suggest Battle Realms does not veer wildly from the norm. Build a settlement with all the buildings and resources you need, then amass an army, which is hopefully bigger than your opponent's, and get involved in conflicts of suitably big proportions.
However, the units you will be commanding, and their abilities, are far from what you will perhaps be used to in other games of this type. Dragon, Serpent, Lotus and Wolf Clans make up the opposing factions in the game, and they each have their own versions of archers, spearmen, warriors and geisha with abilities distinct to their clan. In Battle Realms, horses are not just units that are magically 'glued' to your units and follow them everywhere they go.
Your peasants need to round them up and take them to your stables, where they can be used by your units to increase travel speed, scout enemy areas, and provide a distinct advantage in battle when used by attacking units. Liquid says there will be no huge battles, but rather smaller conflicts where players will find themselves thinking more about use of terrain, rather than just wading into battle with as many units as possible.
On the evidence of what we've seen so far, it's certainly true that there are no battles involving huge armies, but that doesn't make the battles any less hectic or exciting.
Real line of sight and the ability to use trees, hills, forests and even height of terrain to your advantage suggest battles will be more a test of your strategic prowess than your ability to build lots of things as quickly as possible and run off looking for trouble, although, there is a fair amount of that, too. Battle Realms is shaping up to be a real contender in the RTS genre.
It's certainly the best-looking of the bunch so far. Whether it will live up to its potential in terms of gameplay is a matter for discussion in our full review next month.
While Battle Realms appears to offer many innovations, it can still be played in the same way as all the other RTS games out there if you choose: build as big an army as you can and rush your opponent in the hope he hasn't had the time to 'outbuild' you.
We spent much of our time in the beta making spearmen and archers in great numbers, sending peasants out to round up horses, and sending our considerable mobile army into battle Later levels offer healers in the form of the geisha, and chemists can inflict area effect magical damage, so the potential for different strategies is there It's nothing we haven't seen before Read next month's review, which will be based on the later part of the game for a proper observation of how the game plays and whether or not its claims of true originality are actually realised.
Now why didn't you all buy this game? Shame on you. One of the finest RTS games of the year and most of you just turned your noses up at it. Was it the fact that it was groundbreaking - an attempt to take isometric 2D RTS to a new, deeper level - that scared you off? Did you hide in the comer, bawling with fear like a two-year-old who's just seen a dead rat at the sheer depth of it?
Or maybe it was the stunning attention to detail, with its superbly animated units, which actually looked like they were fighting rather than just clouting each other randomly around the head.
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