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There are other stances, like defend, guard and hold position, but units immediately forget these the moment you move them, causing them to revert back to extremely aggressive. Units will also break off any move instruction to immediately attack anything within a very long range, so once your army starts running after something, it is extremely difficult to pull them back into formation.
Disengaging from a battle when you are losing, an absolute must for high level RTS tournament gaming, is nigh on impossible. Units seem not to be able to come to grips with the path-finding, and when ordered to attack something they are unable to reach due to the aforementioned problems, they have a tendency to stand where they are, doing nothing, even if they are being attacked.
Right-clicking your own units in battle also seems to cause similar confusion. Hotkeys exist, but only for the construction of buildings and for some individual Lord spells.
There are no hotkeys for selecting buildings, for ordering the building of units, or for finding your Lord quickly in the heat of battle. However, the game does offer a few fairly modern RTS features like the ability to queue units and technologies, and the option to toggle the magic units between auto-cast and manual.
It is really disappointing that a game can have such great graphics, and some obviously intelligent interface designs, and yet be lacking in some of the most basic elements that have been developed in RTS gaming over the last decade.
What it all adds up to is a veritable horrorshow on the battlefield, because of an inability to pull off any kind of strategy other than bombarding your opponent with everything you have in one great gush of units. Even though much of the game is streamlined to remove busy work, from the one easily gathered resource to the auto-casting magic units, you end up doing twice as much as you would expect due to poor design decisions and missing functionality.
The single player part of the game starts off well enough. The storyline ties in nicely with the Everquest world, and the character acting for the most part is very good, bar the occasional cringe-worthy colloquial accents, and some of the individual units voices are wonderful. The cut-scenes are all created with the game units, and work reasonably, although the lack of facial animation and somewhat awkward gesticulations of the characters takes away from the storyline immersion.
The early missions are great, but as the missions progress, and you find yourself building up larger and larger armies, the problems start to creep in. Obviously the bigger the army you need in the game, the more the previously mentioned interface issues spoil the fun, and they are exacerbated by the missions being design on single maps that force you to walk through one trigger after another, by generally giving you only one narrow path to follow.
As you get further into the missions the frustration builds. Write a comment Share your gamer memories, help others to run the game or comment anything you'd like.
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The single-player missions also suffer from an incredible lack of strategic depth. Instead, they lead the player around by the nose, herding armies into obvious linear paths and offering "challenges" based on trigger points, scripting, and strategic puzzles.
Anyone who's ever played an RTS can beat the game's campaign in less than a weekend. Part of that is because the game itself is so incredibly unbalanced. Put simply, there are a handful of "must-have" units that -- if you have enough of them and they're raised to a sufficient experience level -- can make you virtually unstoppable.
An army with a half-dozen or so healers, a group of Defilers, one or two other types of units, and a sufficiently experienced lord can essentially wipe the board with any opposition. Every other unit is just a waste of pixels. The game's one real cool though hardly original concept is how units "level up" in experience. Basically, this means that units will get stronger and stronger based on the amount of combat they've survived.
Should a unit reach level six, it can be knighted and get new powers. Unfortunately, this gameplay mechanic fails in practice. When your lord reaches a sufficiently high level, he or she essentially becomes a buzzsaw, ripping through hordes of lesser units without effort, reducing the need to have many knights or high-level units around.
In a way, though, that's a good thing, because if winning the game required a lot of high-level units, players would be screwed by the awful movement and combat AI.
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