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Three Kingdoms:Fate of the Dragon

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: August 11, 2006
Author: Amazon User

This game was a good strategy game. It was challenging to try to not lose your kingdom while you also had to provide food and wine for all of your army. I think that this is a good game for ages 9-15, because it doesn't have a lot of blood and it is a challenge to the young mind.

Sameness

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 1 / 2
Date: December 15, 2005
Author: Amazon User

This game is your typical get resources, raise army, squash enemy type of RTS. What makes it differant is the non-European setting, and a few new wrinkles like having to keep your army supplied in the field and somewhat intelligent peasants. The game however is a little repetative. Most of the levels feel the same as do most battles. I finished the game, but I only found it to be so so in a crowded field of really good games. If you have played everything else, the $10 price tag makes it worth a pick up. If you like the game, they did make a sequel entitled--Dragon Throne Battle of Red Cliffs.

In the right direction, but ...

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 3 / 3
Date: September 04, 2003
Author: Amazon User

This game adds the supply dimension into the RTS equation. All military units consume food every month, and all units fielded in the battlefield will gradually wear off, and have to rest in camps. This makes the game so much more strategical (as opposed to tactical), as players have to balance a big army and financial feasibility.

However, the game is so TEDIOUS !! The game does not start with a fast scout unit with good line of sight, and the fog of war is not designed well. So a player has to spend a lot of time scouting. Before a battle, a player has to build a supply wagon, and assign villagers to stock it up with food. And it takes FOREVER !!

So, with so much meaningless micro-management required, there is little time to think about strategy. And without strategy, this game is definitely inferior to some of the better titles on the market.

Don't buy Fate of the Dragon!

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 1 / 4
Date: October 19, 2002
Author: Amazon User

Fate of the Dragon is a definite waste of money. For RTS fans of Starcraft, and Age of Empires, it as an even bigger waste of money. Fate of the Dragon seems like an exact copy of the major RTS games out there, with a couple of new features added on. There are resources to collect, armies to build, and once you play the game once or twice, you've played it forever. The repetitveness of the game is mind-boggling. With only three different troop types, maps that look all exactly the same, and the same stupid music over and over again, how can the game be fun after a couple of days? The graphics need work, and the battles are worse. Because you're so limited in the troops you have, all you do is put your troops into battle- unlike Starcraft where there are dozens of unit types and Age of Empires where you have to use your brain for what units to use for a certain situation. Whatever you do, don't buy Fated of the Dragon. You'll be wasting your time, and your money.

A excellent RTS game!!!!!!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 5 / 5
Date: March 05, 2002
Author: Amazon User

I think this is one of the best strategy games I have come by It has awsome Graphics and Gameplay. You can be three different heroes in the struggle for China. It is set during the three kingdoms period (That really happened)and you mission is to unite China under your rule. there are tons of different features packed into this game like upgrades, siege engines etc. When I played the game a got stuck on a seige of a city they just don't give you anough soilders but after a while you get to mastering sieges. the game seems compicated at first with lots of recources to handle and feeding the soilders outside the walls of the city, but you can place temperary camps for your men suppling them them if there hungry. If they have no food there value in combat goes down. but the more you play the beter it gets. the battles are exceptional as it usually ends up the person with the most troops wins. I think the Lui Bei and Cao Cao campaigns are fun. I think this games might be better than AOE II the expansion and I give it four stars next to starcraft. I recomend this game for any RTS lovers.

This game is ok

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 1 / 6
Date: December 05, 2001
Author: Amazon User

Compared to all the other stradegy games I jown this is the worst of them all, but that doesnt mean its bad. I fit was the only game i owned, i would play it. It doesnt even require that much stradegy. There is one impossible part, and i mean impossible, when you play as cao cao, you get to around to something like the 5th mission, and you start off having to take over a castle, but they just dont give you enough men to to such a thing, (...) my brother beat the game as Liu bei. he liked the game, but not as much as the other names we have for PC stradegy.

WOW is all i gota say

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 30
Date: November 20, 2001
Author: Amazon User

I just said WOW because i luv O and A. Personally this game is so retarded that i just broke it in half. But Opie and Anthony are the bomb so u should listen to them on 102.7 WNEW. This game can suck my sausage i doont even play games lol.

Another great one from Eidos

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 23 / 23
Date: July 23, 2001
Author: Amazon User

I played Age of the Empires II prior to my purchase of Fate of the Dragon and as much as I liked AOE, FOD was far more interesting. In fact, it is more realistic, fun and practical as opposed to AOE, which was already pretty good.

A little comparsion for those who have played AOE and not FOD:

On farming:

AOE - You create villagers and place them to farm.

FOD - Upon assigning the labourers to farm and their functions, they will automatically function. What's more, beside wheat, you can breed pigs!

On food:

AOE - Creating a farm automatically means you have food.

FOD - Just by growing wheat and breeding pigs are not enough - you have to build a workshop and assign men to make food and wine!!!

On warriors:

AOE - You just pay tribute and negotiate.

FOD - You have to assign warriors and scholars to positions before actions can be taken - titles such as prime minister, premier, commander-in-chief, great general and much more are assigned. You have to hire the talents through Inns and pay for their services making things bit harder to get a great team working for you.

On gold:

AOE - You just get villagers to dig.

FOD - You have to apply tax to your people and as such, loyal and happiness are associated with it. What's more, you can conquer outer towns and impose taxes to ensure more money!

On fighting:

AOE - You build barracks, archeries, stables and workshops.

FOD - Very much similar but barracks fall between swordsmen and pikemen while archeries are the same. The main differences are the fact that upon building a stable, you have to assign the army men on the horses in order to become 'knights' - once they lost the horse, they automatically become swordsmen, pikemen, etc, etc Also, the workshop in FOD provides more interesting options to invading other cities.

On fighting 2:

AOE - Army does not need to eat.

FOD - If you army leaves the city, their energy levels go down and affect their fighting ability. You would need to build outside camps and constantly fill the camps up with food and wine by assigning labourers with horses to transport the goods.

On fighting 3:

AOE - You build villagers and army personnel separately.

FOD - You train your labourers into sergents and vice versa balancing your population accordingly.

On technologies:

AOE - You develop technologies to improve your equipments.

FOD - Pretty similar but you do all that in the National Academy and there are hundreds of developments.

On disasters:

AOE - There are no disasters.

FOD - Lots and lots of them! (famine, flooding, locusts, etc) In fact, so many, it can make the whole game much harder and frustrating!!! To combat disadters, one would need to build temples and offer sacrifices to the Gods or improve technologies.

On loyalty:

AOE - Nothing there.

FOD - You have to constantly reward yoru generals and scholars to prevent them from defecting.

On citizens:

AOE - No one cares about their happiness.

FOD - You have to ensure you have to popular support.

On graphics:

When I first heard of FOD, I could not understand why it would need a 3D graphics card. But having played the game, I can understand why... the graphics are excellent (compare to AOE) and it is much smoother. Eidos did a very good job to bring out the first english version of Romance of the 3 Kingdoms on PC (I may be wrong there).

Final note:

The game is very good and I have told you so much from six hours of playtime. There may be lots of benefits that I have not seen. The scearnio games are excellent and follows the historical development of Three Kingdoms, which remains to be one of the most famous story in Chinese history.

Good job Microsoft but Great job Eidos!

Play R3K

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 3 / 5
Date: July 18, 2001
Author: Amazon User

If you wish to play a historical simulation based on the Three Kingdoms Period get Koei's Romance of the Three Kingdoms. Its the original and still the best. Fate of the Dragon plays like Age of Empires with a more in depth Chinese campaign. All around an ok RTS, but not innovative and certainly not as in depth as R3K.

I hate this game

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 2 / 6
Date: July 05, 2001
Author: Amazon User

I don't know why so many other people love this game. Personally, I have also played many other RTS like them. I always love the "Three Kingdom" period in China -- which is what 'Fate of Dragon' about. Thus, I bought 'Fate of Dragon' the moment I saw it in a store. However, I am very much disappointed. The game comes no where close to StarCraft, Age of King, Red Alert 2 or Emperor: Battle for Dune. It is the WOREST computer game I have ever own (on the other hand, I have only 10 pc games). The game surely offer many tons of upgrade, but you pretty mcuh upgrade all of them anyway. Since there are so many upgades, I can't keep track of them (must be 50+ of upgrade). Please don't buy it. It is a horrible game in my opinion. Nevertheless, the game graphic likes pretty good.

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