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Lots of Strategy, fun.

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 9 / 9
Date: May 08, 2003
Author: Amazon User

First off, this game will not win game of the year awards or anything like that.

But it is a good game. Management of your economy, army, and diplomacy is simple and doesn't take very long to learn. The best thing about the game is that there is lots of strategy... Keeping it challenging and interesting.

One of my favorite things about the game is how battles are played out. You give your troops their orders BEFORE the battle, and then you have no control once it starts. It adds to the strategy as it is not a clickfest-- you can think about what your unit formations/orders should be, the position, and the terrain you want them to fight in.
It is also very realistic-- in Roman times, once a battle had begun, orders could not be efficiently relayed to the troops.

The economy interface is simple. There are 3 resources; food, lumber, and iron. You will need them to raise armies and build buildings. Some buildings provide the resources directly. Others improve your worker's productivity. And others add town defenses or military improvements. If you leave workers idle, the population will rise faster.

There are many types of soldiers you can buy. Different tribes can build different soldiers (Rome builds legions, and Celts can build fanatics), and there are building requirements to get certain units. Every unit has its own specialties. Some fight well in rough terrain, whereas others (such as legions), fight well in the open. Some fall easily to cavalry-- but hopilites will tear them up. In the back of the manual it lists the abilities of the units, and all this adds to the battle strategy.

The game is turn based. Each turn is a season, and each turn you can move your armies a certain number of spaces. In the spring, buildings you ordered are built and units produced.

The diplomacy is fine. You can declare war, offer tribute, offer an alliance, and check a tribe's standing with others. They can make you an offer, such as: "We will agree to the alliance if you give us 100 food and 200 lumber." Or they might beg for peace, and offer tribute if you will accept.

The graphics are NOT cutting edge. Rather, they are acceptable-- and this makes it so that the game will run on low-end computers. It runs perfectly on my G3 400 MHz iMac... And I am sure it would also work on even older computers.
There is no multiplayer either-- but as the game is turn based, multiplayer probably wouldn't work very well anyway.

This won't be the best game you buy, but I would recommend it.

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!

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!

Roman Fun

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 9
Date: June 18, 2002
Author: Amazon User

Legion Stuff...........

Feature List, Enhancements, and Questions?

Enhancement for future could include an ability to Paint models.

Enhancement Editor scenario/campaign/unit or just like you said do free downloads from the web for support. Nice value adds.

I like the New graphics engine sprites skinny.... looks better than fat..... Nice amount of blood and gore and some body parts. Remember this was a very violent time. Future chance of some fire smoke fog or dust?

I like to pan the field after the battle and look at the carnage and destruction. You start to feel for the sprite.

What will be the resolution?
800/600 16bit.... Graphics look good....

Nice 3d/2d/isometric style with no need to rotate.
I like the idea of commanding and then watching.
Legion may use some imited ability in the battle to do things.

Nice scope and feel to Legion.

I can see by playing this game the vision and passion that whent into the product.Great job.

Nice scale. Just let machines with power be able to scale.

Style,style,style Legion has style.

Legion has a simplicity and elegance to it with complex underlines. Perfect. Perfect. Perfect.

Just a little more gore and blood and destruction on
the field of battle.

Being able to play any side will be great....20 plus wow....

Let some of the files be tweak able files for the di hard net kids.

Increase the volume and number of battle sounds and scale to power if able to.

First time in history I liked the music.

Immersion,immersion,immersion Legion has immersion.

I love the 4 scenario structure and the large to massive maps. Great idea to have random battle locations.

Difficulty levels 1-5?

I like the idea of creating a single player game with great AI. This is hard to do and shows your teams talent.

Multi play could work in a legion battle game only.

No multiplayer good. Do this later.

Nice manual and web support.

Quality,quality,quality Legion has quality

Just a little more varied sound and music?

I love the opening cut scene.

Possible open source in the future? Look what happened with Doom and Quake.

Nice marketing and hype.

Legion is a very good game so go out and buy it.

Think Legion II , Legion Books, Legion Calendars,
Legion Posters, Legion Toys, Legion Board game, Legion Movie. Think Big Dreams. Think Legion.

No one has done a Roman game the correct way and Legion is a gem.

Enough, now back to Legion.

I love this game.

Curtlegion.

Legion Rocks!

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

I have not bought the game yet, but I've played it....And its great! It gives a real sense of Roman leadership. Taking your army, and kickin the crud out of the enemy makes you feel all warm and cuddly inside. For the size of the sprites, you would be amazed by how much they bleed. The blood and gore gives it a nice touch, definently not for the faint hearted. So this game is most definently a "T" game. But the battles are so REAL.Like, if your Auxilary Archers are to close to an enemy, they drop their bows and whip out a sword,which trust me don't force them to do. You give your troops a plan, and they carry it out. But you can't command them on the feild. There are so many Units, as well. Theres cavalry, Praetorians, gladiators, spearmen, legions and much more! My friend says you can play as different sides but I have not tried that yet. Overall, Legion is a beautiful and wonderful, game and should be experienced by all teen strategy fans.

-Pat

Finally.....a strategy game that's fun to play

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 24 / 27
Date: June 09, 2002
Author: Amazon User

I'll admit right from the start that I'm partial to virtually all things Roman and was looking forward to this game coming out for quite a while. I was getting tired of traditional 'Real Time Simulations' as I find micro-managing to be a bit boring. That being said, Legion is a great deal of fun to play.

Legion has some great merits to it:
1) a short, easy to understand rule book and tutorial. There's nothing as frustrating as getting a new computer game only to have to wade through hundreds of pages of details before you can play it with any hope of success.
2) system requirements are so low that virtually any PC will be able to play it. It's nice not to have to upgrade your entire system just to play a new game.
3) There's a nice mix of game styles here. Enough 'RTS' to feel that you can actually incluence the course of your empire without making you feel like your a mid level paper pusher obsessing over insignificant details. At the same time there's enough tactical play to keep the game interesting overall.
4) Replayability of this game is high. In each campaign there are up to 20 competing nations and you have the ability to play every one.
5) The battlefield graphics. Some 'professional' reviewers are remarking that the graphics in Legion leave something to be desired. I, however, like them. The attention to detail on the battlefields is amazing and a great deal of fun to watch. Yes, the game may not have the latest in 3D technology but it really isn't needed here.

In short, Legion is a fun, solid game in a market that has lacked a good ancient world strategy game.

Uncomplicated Fun

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 7 / 8
Date: August 07, 2002
Author: Amazon User

One of my sentimental favorite strategy games is Lords of the Realm 2. Raise crops, build castles and armories, requistion armies, pay taxes, and annihilate the the baron in the next county. Like LOTR2, Legion is uncomplicated--and fun. UNLIKE Civ3, which is just way too much work and hassle (and too comlicated and time-consuming, but that's a different review), I have yet to tire of Legion. I enjoy Roman civilization, and have found Legion to be an accurate, interesting turn-based strategy game. You build armies, fight other tribes and nations and balance your economy. The troop types are very accurate (archers, Velite javelinmen, Celtic warhosts, German mercenaries, legions, praetorians, gladiators, etc.) and the opponents historically realistic. Legion doesn't have lots of layers (like Civ3 or AOK), but the layers it does have are a lot of fun. (Reading recommendation: check out Colleen McCullough's fiction series called "Masters of Rome." The first book is called 'The First Man in Rome.')

A Great Beginning Strategy Game

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 6 / 6
Date: August 07, 2002
Author: Amazon User

This is the first strategy game I have played and I only bought it because I have been reading Colleen McCullough's historical novels about the Roman Republic. I got slaughtered in my first campaign (I should have read the short instruction manual first). After going back and reading the manual, I found the game just challenging enough to keep me and my victorious armies interested. It was also fascinating to compare the battle skills of the variuos Gallic tribes with those described in the historic novels. I highly recommend this game for a beginner, but it is easy to see that this game is far too simple for an experienced gamer.

Improved with latest patch (1.06b)

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 4 / 4
Date: June 18, 2002
Author: Amazon User

I was somewhat disappointed with the original version of Legion because I quickly mastered it and was no longer challenged by it. However, with the latest patch (1.06b), the authors have added additional challenge since it is now more important to manage resources wisely, and the combat has become a bit more balanced as well. There are two new campaigns, which helps add variety to the game. I found the game easy to learn right out of the box, and enjoyable. It still is not a highly challenging strategy game, and the tactical battles are still mostly beyond the player's ability to control, but it is fun, although still somewhat limited.

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...

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