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Good, but not Superb strategy game

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 3 / 3
Date: July 17, 2002
Author: Amazon User

Legion is just another good game of strategy.
Your goal is to expand your empire (whether you play with the Romans or not) at the expense of your neighbors.
The game is really easy to play if you're acquainted to strategy games (such as Civilization) and not that hard if you're not.
Like all strategy games you have to manage your resources wisely (wheat, iron, lumber) and deal carefully with the other tribes.
The biggest con I've found so far is the impossibility of selecting difficulty levels (this has been solved in the 1.06 patch). There are other minor flaws as well, such as management of cities only (no province management?!? what about all those roads that lead to Rome? who's gonna build and look after them?).
In few words the strategy looks like: "build a powerful army and garrison it inside a city with a medium/large fort and a quartermaster built in it and nobody's gonna take it away from you (unless the AI arrives with 4 huge armies)"
The overall is a fun addictive game who could get you stuck to the PC for hours...

Sad...very sad.

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 3 / 3
Date: August 15, 2002
Author: Amazon User

I WAS looking forward to this game, but after thirty minutes of play I felt like I was playing something that should run on a low powered Commodore 64. There is virtually no diplomacy, the game mechanics are rustic, anachronistic and extremely boring, there is no internal decision making to add any flavor to the game and ultimately it is like managing a warehouse with three materials and making sure the shelves are stocked. The battles are even worse. They are a big mess and it makes no difference where you position your troops they always end up in the same spot...all lumped in a big ugly, indecipherable mess in the middle of the screen. I loved both Europa Universalis games and was extremely disapointed with this sad game. However I am still loking forward to Paradox's Crusader Kings, I still have hope.

Very Disappointing

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 5 / 10
Date: October 26, 2002
Author: Amazon User

Coming from the company that has produced the very successful Europa Universalis games (which are great) - Legion is a flop, a big flop. As an experienced war gamer my expectations continually rise due to continual improvements in war gaming. This is the most disappointing game I've ever bought and that probably covers 50+ different games. I tried playing this 5-6 times for several hours and no the game is not too complex. It is way too simple and wooden. Like the 'town' in an Italian spaghetti western.

This game fails as a strategy game since there is so little depth to it. It looks like a cheesy imitation of Civilization I (without the tech tree, wonders, new units, leaders, etc.) which came out over 10 years ago. Yet Civ I is better than this for strategy (guns v. butter decisions).

Legion fails in the tactical sense. Don't even begin to compare this to Age of Kings for battle play. All you do is a one time launch of the battle. After it starts you have no control. AoK runs circles around this in controlling and viewing battles plus AoK is better at the strategic level. And yes, AoK did come out over 2 years ago.

That Legion is turn-based (i/o RTS) makes the flow much more stiff but at least I knew that up front.

The graphics are like something out of a time capsule - an not in a good sense. Ancient Art of War does come to mind.

Top it all off with almost useless documentation and, you get the point.

Strategy - F
Tactics - F

Graphics - D
Instructions - F

Am still looking forward to Paradox's Hearts of Iron (which looks great) and Crusader Kings. Still, how can something as bad as Legion come from the same company that produced EU? Reminds me of a line from the Sheriff (Jackie Gleason) at the end of 'Smokey and the Bandit' when he looked at his bumbling son and said 'when I get home I'm gonna puch your momma in the mouth'. Maybe that's how Paradox will look at Legion some day.

HORRIDLY BAD

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 5 / 11
Date: September 11, 2002
Author: Amazon User

Stay away. Stay FAR AWAY.

This game might (MIGHT) have been acceptable in the late 80s, but I doubt it. The graphics are ugly and primitive. The interface looks like a VGA dos strategy game like Settlers 1, and is unclear and hard to use. The game is plagued by numerous video bugs.

But all that would be ignorable if the gameplay were even OK. Unfortunately, the gameplay [is bad]. It's basically Ancient Art of War for the Apple II with (slightly) updated graphics. The cover illustration is the best thing about this ..., unimaginative, rushed title.

Do yourself a favor and spend your hard earned money on something good, ...

warning, can be addictive!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 2
Date: August 21, 2002
Author: Amazon User

wonderful, artistic movements of hundreds if not thousands of battle action warriors! realistic strategy, planning in diplomacy, supply, planning ahead in combat! the only deficiency was the user manual. too brief in detail. it takes more losing games to get to understand how to win which may have been designed that way? i sat in front of my computer for several days playing untikl i became proficient and then i started watching the fighting scenes closer! amazingly artistic and bloody, too!

Doesn't cut it

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 3 / 6
Date: August 22, 2002
Author: Amazon User

I was so looking forward to this game. I mean Really. Which is why I am really bummed it is not that good. As a Roman empire fan I was dying to use my legions to trounce those nasty celts. And it just seemed to lack any roman flavor. The combat baffled me as the units had no common sense, you can't use traditional Roman tactics, and I almost went mad trying to get my troops to realize they were in a great hill position just sit and wait! The Legion units scattered to the four winds in combat- so much for that great trained bunch of men hammering through the barbarians. And I was also mystified by the rqndom limits placed on units in specific areas- which why of all things are called "squads"? They went to great lengths to get every celtic tribe name correct, but allow only 8 "squads" in one place.

Maybe its in the game someplace but after playing for a few hours I was just sick over what was missing. No forming the XX Legion and marching on the enemy. It really felt like a game from maybe 4 years ago.

So as a Roman history enthuiast I just have to say I am very disapointed and wished they had put out a demo. WIth that I would have known in 10 minutes not to waste my money.

How Sad

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 3 / 8
Date: July 16, 2002
Author: Amazon User

This game had soooooo much potential... it is always sad to see a game that should have been so good, turn out so poorly.

They really skimped on this game, and my advice is to save your money...

Buy this Game!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 5
Date: June 12, 2002
Author: Amazon User

Reviewer "dantalian" said it all: The game is playable, replayable, graphically well done, and, most importantly, FUN! Out of the box the thing ran without a burp. The manual is actually useful (unlike so many other new games) and provides a tantalyzing tutorial that will make you want to dive into this game full time.

Buy this game. It's all about power...you know you love it!

You'd have more fun driving nails into your foot

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 2 / 5
Date: June 23, 2002
Author: Amazon User

Alright, this game has graphics that look like they were inherited from Civilization 2. There's nothing to complain about in reference to the strategy portion of the game, since it's pretty standard, but the real time portion will make you lose the will to live. You deploy your soldiers and then helplessly watch as they run around the map and fight the enemy. Yes, I'm not kidding, you actually can't control the army in battle, it's reduced to you sitting there watching little soldier A throw things at little soldier B until one of them dies or runs away. The idea that you can't make real time changes during a battle is rather absurd, and as a result of the game design there's no strategy, you might as well wander off and do something interesting while the battles are running. This game hurts brain.

Don't Bother

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 3 / 11
Date: November 21, 2002
Author: Amazon User

Poorly made. Much better strategy games out on the market. A let down after playing Europa II and Medieval Total War

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