11/12/2018 (2 of 2 found this helpful)

Really Tiring Strategy

My days of RTS games peaked in the days of Starcraft and Age of Empires II, when I dabbled (ever-so-briefly) in my college days. I really never got that involved in the genre and haven't touched it much since then. That being said, when a local multiplayer version miraculously turned up, our MeltedJoystick crew had to play it (okay, it was mainly one of us - but the rest of us decided to go along for the ride). Having been out of the game so long, however, it turned into a fun experiment to a major drag over the course of the several weeks we toughed it out. Now I have no motivation to try any other modern RTS.

Presentation: The game looks sadly generic - a lot of variety, sure, but nothing that stands out. The units are very similar across the board, the music and effects are mediocre...

Rating of
2/5 

10/08/2018 (2 of 2 found this helpful)

Zero Fun

I don’t enjoy the RTS genre. My first experience with it was way back in the halcyon days of the PlayStation 1, when I played that console’s port of “Warcraft II.” I didn’t like it, and soon sent it packing to my Friendly Local Game Shop (in hindsight, I had a LOT of similar experiences on the PS1). It wasn’t until several years later when I was a tender underclassman in college that a buddy of mine insisted that “Age of Empires” was the best game ever. Having just discovered the joys of ancient history and Classical mythology, I eagerly bought a copy… then quickly grew bored with it, as the gameplay loop just didn’t grab me, and I spent a few hours recreating the Battle of Ilium in a custom map before putting it away forever. Somehow, this same friend convinced me to ...

Rating of
2/5