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The Best Games You've Never Played

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 2 / 2
Date: February 06, 2004
Author: Amazon User

WBC2 is one of the best games to be ignored by the game-buying public. As such, it's also become one of the best values for your RTS dollar. The graphics and sound are decent, and will hold up for another few years, at least.

Game highlights:

* 12 distinctly different playable factions. If you have a particular style of play, there's probably a perfect faction for you. If you like to switch play styles, this provides more variation than any other RTS (except perhaps Seven Kingdoms 2).

* A randomly generated campaign. No, there's no story. And if you absolutely require one to get into a game, give WBC2 a miss. The random campaign generator (also reminiscient of 7K2) gives a much greater replayability than a fixed linear story-based campaign. And you can make your next move based on the bonuses you'll receive from victory in a particular scenario, which is very cool.

* RPG-esque elements as you build your hero up from a level 1 weakling to a level 50 one-man-army. This is fun. It's can be imbalancing, too, as, toward the end, a well-designed hero can literally wipe out an entire faction on his own.

Game lowlights:

* It's probably not very well-balanced. This isn't Starcraft. Certain factions are going to get their butts kicked by certain other factions, depending on how they're played. This isn't as bad as it may sound, though, because the truth is it's hard to know whether the factions are balanced or not. There are too many possible combos and techniques and much rests on the player.

* It's not as stable as it should be. It's reportedly quite stable, but in my experience (on multiple machines) crashes to the desktop are pretty standard fare. Some scenarios seem to generate conditions that cause frequent crashes--and a crash counts as a loss for your hero.

* The problems with instability compound the fact that you can have only one save game for your hero. The one save game makes sense from a technical standpoint: If your hero levels up, he can't go back and replay an old saved game where he was a lower level. But it combines with the instability to make a particularly annoying low point.

In fact, really, the only thing that keeps this from being a five-starrer in my book is the stability issues. If you keep coming across a crash-point in a scenario, and this counts against you, it can take the fun out of what otherwise is a wildly imaginative and truly different entry in the glutted RTS genre.

GUIDE TO PARENTS

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 7 / 21
Date: October 01, 2002
Author: Amazon User

This is a review from an adult who cares about kids. This is a very fun game for mature teens and adults. I would not recommend for younger children without strict parental guidance. Here's why: This is a fantasy role-playing game. Reminiscent of Tolkien and Dungeons and Dragons. It can be great adventure for those wanting to see good defeat evil. But game also allows player to play evil characters such as Daeman, Undead, Dark Dwarf, Dark Elf, Orcs, etc. Which might be harmful to young inpressionable pre-teen or immature young teen. Game also has a few minor characters with somewhat sexually suggestive character traits and graphic images.

For the mature teen and older this game is harmless and could be very exciting. I'm thirtysomething and enjoy playing.

Just thought some of you parents out there might want to know the other aspects of the game.

Warlords Battlecry owns everybodies mom

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 4 / 9
Date: February 01, 2003
Author: Amazon User

all i have to say is, oh my god. this game is probably the best game i've EVER played. you start out choosing a race for your little hero dude and after earning experience through battles your hero gains levels and can change class. but its also a strategy war game, an awsome combonation. and thats not the best part. unlike warcraft or any other game of this type, there are 12 races to choose from. 8 of which i havent even taken the time to take a look at. i'm going to put your cat in my chili if you dont buy this game.

0.0

Simply the best RTS ever

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 4
Date: June 22, 2002
Author: Amazon User

Forget about the reviews you see here for this game. A couple of them are spot on, but some are just lame jokes. I bought this game based on strong reviews in CGW, PC Gamer, and Computer Games. I wasn't dissapointed. The mix of RTS & RPG is slickly pulled off, adding incredible depth to a genre (RTS) that needs it badly. The level of customization and gameplay variants is stunning. The campaign game is a touch of brilliance. If you enjoy a deep game with many strategic options, played out in good old 2d, this is your game.

Awsome game

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 5 / 21
Date: February 25, 2002
Author: Amazon User

Warlords Battlecry 1 was my all time favorite but WBC 2 will be even better, i think all computer gamers should give this game a chance at least try out the demo, it is an exellent game but not that many people know of it, i will defnitly buy it.

Gaming bliss

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: November 06, 2004
Author: Amazon User

The Warlords Battlecry series is a great batch of RTS games that constantly get overlooked by gamers who take the more commercial successes like Warcraft. Their limited commercial success is unfortunate considering the high quality of the games.

The Warlords biggest success is in its incredible variety of options. There are tons of hero classes and plenty of offerings for your race. These options allow for tons of replayability and all of the various combinations are fun to try.

Another fun aspect of the game is its risk-like campaign. Your hero begins on a province and you slowly build up your lands, gaining bonuses with each territory you take. The campaign is fun but it feels lacking without any sort of story. A story mode would have been nice in addition to the campaign and skirmish modes but I guess it would be hard to make a story mode with so many races at hand.

Skirmishes are fun as you get the chance to use the same hero you built throughout the campaign to play in regular battles. As the hero gets stronger, his options on the battlefield expand. The offerings in spells is amazing as are the various artifacts. The hero can combine certain artifacts to make sets and gain additional bonuses. Spells range all across the spectrum with polymorphing spells and lightning bolts to heal and summonings.

Overall, the game is an outstanding work in the RTS genre. Unfortunately, it grows a bit repetitive after a while and lacks any real story which limits me to only giving it 4 out of 5 stars overall.

best 2-d RTS

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 3
Date: May 23, 2002
Author: Amazon User

An absolutely perfect two-dimensional real-time strategy game in the fantasy genre, but for one little thing: it crashes to the desktop about every five minutes, regardless of your system. And they can't seem to find a patch for it.

No storyline

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 1 / 3
Date: November 16, 2003
Author: Amazon User

I just picked up this game, got it with Warlords 4 for free. After installing it, I realized why it came free - the game sucks! It seems to be an improved version of WBC1, but they left one thing out - a story. In WBC2, The goal of the game is to take over the world. That's it. You're shown a map, and asked which territory you want to take over. No real purpose to it, except mindless slaughter. I'm sure glad I didn't waste 40 bucks on money on this game. If you live for multiplayer, this might be a good choice, but for those of us that would rather play a single player game, don't waste your money.

a very good game

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 3 / 22
Date: June 11, 2002
Author: Amazon User

i have never played this game before sorry.....

The best game!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 4
Date: September 01, 2002
Author: Amazon User

I think this is the best game ever. As soon as you start you feel as if your in it. Much better than warcraft 3.

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