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Great RTS with great gameplay

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 13 / 14
Date: October 16, 2002
Author: Amazon User

This game is much better than Warcraft 3. While Warcraft 3 uses a 3d graphical system and looks decent (but sometimes terrible), Battlecry 2 uses 2d graphics that look great and never cause slowdown. Units even create footprints while walking across sand. The hero-building options are really nice. You don't have to choose everything about your hero at first, he or she just develops as you play, and you choose a class, specialization, and abilities/spells. There are a lot of different fantasy races to play, such as humans, undead, two kinds of dwarves, three kinds of elves, daemons, fey, minotaurs, and orcs. The gameplay is smooth and easy to control, and the building interface never gets in the way. It even tells you what you can build or research, and how to make those options available. The resource gathering is very simple as well, with more customization than games like Total Annihilation Kingdoms but less micromanagement than Starcraft or Warcraft 3. All in all, this is a great game that is lots of fun to play, that has a lot of options (and a lot of replay value).

The end-all, be-all of RTS (with a dash of RPG)

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 11 / 11
Date: August 16, 2002
Author: Amazon User

I'm going to put this simply -- because I want to get back to playing Warlords Battlecry 2: THIS GAME ROCKS.

If you like real time strategy games, this one is virtually flawless. It has better-than-average pathfinding, SIMPLIFIED resource gathering (yet still with some tactical gamesmanship involved), extremely varied and challenging races, outstanding pre-scripted AI choices you can assign to each unit (e.g. guardian, aggressive, stand ground, fallback after losing down to 25% of hit points, and scout to name merely a FEW) and adds a role-playing element by having your armies led by a hero who has special abilities, unique skills/classes, and who gains levels and abilities as the game goes on. You can even choose different "modes" for your hero, like Ironman (2x experience, but if he dies, your game is over!), Bronzeman, Tinman and regular. Want to know what those are about? Buy the game and find out. If you like RTS, you won't be disappointed, especially at this new lower price.

Highs: better-than-average pathfinding, streamlined resource-gathering, genuinely varied races (and the chance to eventually lead each race regardless of what race you choose initially), RPG-like heroes, ability to carry high-level units (that you can name yourself) from one battle to the next, many different objectives as you play through a campaign (not just always "kill everybody"), catchy -- but not intrusive -- music, good voice acting in the "audio responses" of your units (barbarians are hilarious), difficulty level adjustable at any time, many "modes" of play to choose from such as Ironman, etc.

Lows: No backstory (doesn't really need one), "just another" RTS -- though one that refines all the aspects of that genre to perfection (still if you don't like RTS, you won't like this one either).

Starcraft...only much better

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 6 / 6
Date: April 08, 2002
Author: Amazon User

Warlords Battlecry 2 is one of the best RTS (real time strategy) games I have played. It takes the simple, yet inventive building system from Starcraft, but adds more to it. You also do not have a constant peasant train. All you do is convert the buildings to your side and viola...you get resources by the second automatically. It also allows you to control a hero...who levels up in an RPG style. This game is definitely worth the buy if you like RTS games.

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.

THE BEST RTS/RPG EVER

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

Red Orb has really done it this time. They took a classic rpg/strategy game and made it 100 times better. Here is the breakdown: 1. There are so many facets to this game... the way they combine RTS/RPG/STRATEGY.... it truly is revolutional. Choose a territory by viewing the bonuses for successfully capturing it... then do the resource gathering thing, which is the best I've ever seen... you're not wasting time with "drones" or "gatherers"... just put peasants to work in a mine and they increase its production... no worries! If the mine is attacked, they die, yes... but just buy more peasants! They don't count as part of your army, so they don't take up space! I love that part!
2. SPELLS!!! There are TONS of them and the Lightning shooting from wizards hands was very well done...
3. Your hero can fight and die! And convert buildings and mines! And increse the morale of surrounding troops (within his or her (or it's) radius.
4. The GUI!!! (Graphical User Interface for you Noobs) OUTSTANDING! SO EASY!
5. The graphics. Eye - Popping? Is that good enough? No. Immaculate. Yes that describes it better. A lot of work must've been done in the detail of the graphics for this game...
There it is in a nutshell.
6. The combat. VERY well done. Use of tactical formations, placing your archers in just the right spot... or in a tower... bum rushing your opponent with knights, or REALLY sticking it to them by sending a red dragon (or two.... OR TEN) or REALLY REALLY sticking it to them by sending your DESTROYER (ie. Syrian Titan) by the time your opponent kills this thing... you've destroyed tons of his buildings/troops or both... (it's usually game over at this point)

I could go on more, but this game is better when being played and not talked about SO GO BUY IT. YOU NEED IT.

The ultimate RTS game

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 4 / 5
Date: June 26, 2002
Author: Amazon User

This game is simply the pinnacle of RTS development. I, for one, am glad that the campaign mode dispensed with the usual contrived "plot" and stuck to good old manifest destiny-style ruthless expansion on a Risk-like board. 12 unique races to play, and each one offers months of enjoyment, each a different strategy, units, and tech tree. Its not really about graphics, its about GAMEplay. Isn't that what GAMES should be about? Forget 3D, this game has it all: strategy, action, a hyper-nerdy D and D style world to lose yourself in, etc.

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.

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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.....

very well developed

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 3 / 3
Date: July 06, 2003
Author: Amazon User

This is a very well developed real time strategy game, and I have yet to see the flashier games produce such a well rounded product.

With each side having various advantages & abilities that make them different, the strategies you could try out shift with each race. Among the most interesting are undead with their ability to upgrade into more powerful forms, which heals them of damage. This allows you to upgrade a group of undead from skeletons to wights in the middle of a battle, making them more powerful and fully healed.

Each unit can also be assigned a behavior, such as running around the map looking for a fight, guarding another unit, or using magical attacks. The units use their spells and weapons with a decent amount of intelligence, so you rarely find yourself annoyed at your army for making dumb mistakes.

In addition to this, each side also gains a hero, a character who picks a class and levels up in it. The classes start with Warrior, Rogue, Wizard, Priest, but then branch off into interesting subclasses that range from the common illusionist and demon summoner to the merchant, who gets upgrades for cheap. There are a ton of spells to try out as well.

Every race also gets a titan, a super unit that is either the ultimate warrior or defender. This creature, if allowed onto the field, can usually finish up a drawn out battle in minutes.

Also, the overall AI is really well done. For example, as the human side I summoned my titan (a giant with a flaming sword) to defend my base, but decided I could use the giant knight to kill off some pesky dwarves nearby. Once I was far enough away that my return would be too late, the daemon Titan flew in with her army to savage my base. By the time I returned, death was inevitable. I had to bow out to a smarter computer opponent, and so I'd say this is the best AI I've seen in an RTS.

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.

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