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Another Fine Addition

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: December 29, 2000
Author: Amazon User

I used to be an avid gamer but responsibilities of life have prevented me from those hours with the controller. However, whenever a new R3K comes out, I am back in front of the TV until I am done. I love the improvements, they are fabulous. I wish that the duel was much more a part of the game. It was great in the last one but now nobody ever wants to duel, which is a shame. I also miss the rewarding of generals. The catapults were fun, now gone. It is also much harder to recruit generals from other areas and from captured generals. They never want to join you. It used to be fun to win a big war to get your hands on Lu Bu. Now these guys are all imprisoned and executed, no chance to add to your stable of talent. I like the storyline interludes and the emperor allowing the rankings, this is great stuff. Would be nice of you could appoint civil officers to some sort of ranking, perhaps a council of somekind where "plot" stuff could be suggested and executed. You would be able to call the council every so often for this sort of diplomatic advice. And perhaps then that interesting subversion that is in the plot area would actually work once and a while. I would like to be able to buy the horses and all that stuff as well. Still these are the best games ever created! Can't wait for the next one.

Romance of the Three Kingdoms VI

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 3
Date: May 02, 2002
Author: Amazon User

It is the best historical Strategy games i have every played. For anyone who likes this game and likes RPGs you should try:
Destiney of an emperor for the NES.

the new ideas are good but they dropped some good features

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: May 18, 2000
Author: Amazon User

It seems that in this one Koei was more interested in trying new feaures for there games then making sure staples of the formers games made there way to this game. Some parts of the game I found to be fun. The fact the fact that you have to give your troops commands for 3 days at a time makes you actually need to anticpate you enemies moves, its too bad that the AI is very easy to predict. The only real problem I have with the 3 day commands is that the computer is doesn't seem to follow this, seemingly changing its mind on the second day into the commands and taking a more advantagous route. I enjoy the fact that you character age, get better as they approach their prime, and grow weaker as the have passed it, the inablity to train troops, which was the reason you or your enemies couldn't just "raise an army" on a whim, atleast not a very good one, in the older games. All in all it's a good game, but in my opinion Koei has already made a better version

Unbelievable gameplay

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: April 07, 2003
Author: Amazon User

Being a huge fan of the real time strategy games, I found this game to be especially unique. If you want a good grasp of Chinese history without taking the time to read the long novel, this is the game for you. Not only can you impress your peers with knowledge, but also have hours upon hours of stimulating gameplay. With the capacity to create characters from scratch, this game has endless bounds. Having all games associated with the Three Kingdoms, even the PS2 version, I found this one to be the most enjoyable. It's so packed with information it will keep you awake at nights thinking if one of your providences is governed by the right man. I love this game, but if you do not have patience-forget it.

A long awaited game letdown

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 3 / 10
Date: April 24, 2000
Author: Amazon User

I wonder what koei was thinking, I currently owned all romance games and was very anxious to see thsi one come out. As i was playing it all m y hopes of how good the game should be were flushed down the toilet. The instruction mannual what is what caused a late release sucks, it doesnt help you out or say what to do much. There is no training soilders, nor rewarding officers. I dont like how you cant have extended wars, and you are so limited in the game in what you can do month to month. You cant learn new skills and the game is limited in war tatics such as weather, wind, bolt and alot other things that made the game fun. As for ranking system, sience the instruction mannual suchks still havent figured out how to get rank. And one finail note, If you make a charater you better make him 35 yeras old because the stats you give him we wont obtain tell he gets that old. That is REALLY cheezy and major letdown. When i obtained special weapons it doesnt tell you, you have to figure that out on your own if you got them from beating a general. And i hate the fact you lose men in winter if you are at war. I beat the whole game first night owned not needing anything but regular foot soilders, making all those special types non desirable to get, I never even had a duel. Compared to part four what is the best koei game ever made, i think worste then even part two. And the way the war scene is out, where you give your commands, in three ay intervals can become very confusing and is dumb because you may want a unit to do something different on day two and three. For only having thirty day wars if you win the battlefeild war on day 25 you only have 5 days to conquer castle what wont happen. Then you have to retreat and the enemy gets a whole month to send reinforements. Again this game is a big let down. I will never buy a koei game again. What funis a game where you just sit on your turn and do nothing, just waiting for gold. You cant build weapons, and the stupidest thing of all is if you want to get a vacent city, you need to attack the city and you will lose soilders in attacking a emepty city. Later you dont even need to keep a officer on your state to claim it as yours. As for stupid you can attack a land city with a navel unit, where thers no water andyou will win after losing a few soilders.

Better than IV!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 2
Date: August 11, 2001
Author: Amazon User

Good game and holds many aspects that makes it, in my opinion, better than IV. I like the new styled duels much better. I also like the event sequences.

The only draw back is that battles can last only 1 month and attacking cities is kind of a bore due to lack of strategies the gamer can employ.

All in all, a must own, especially if new to the Romance of the Three Kingdoms saga.

Koie's Next Big Hit!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 5 / 8
Date: March 21, 2000
Author: Amazon User

Once again, Koei manages to enthrall long awating fans with the sixth verison of the Romance series. Still mantaing all the game characteristics that made the first five games in the series memorable, Romance of the Three Knigdoms Six brings new and more indepth gameplay to gamers. Numerous land units, water units, extensive senarios, and intense cinima graphics are just a few of the perks that await you in the war torn China. The exciting military/strategy gameplay make for hours of replayable, war-torn fun!

Addictive tactics game

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 3 / 3
Date: February 27, 2001
Author: Amazon User

With it's complex system of commands and basic visuals this is a game which many people may be deterred from giving it a chance. Once played however your opinion of it is likely to change. Played as it is to the backdrop of chinese history your goal is to unite all of China. The system is surprisingly well thought out with a lot of depth and variety. It is also fun to create your own heroes and see how they fare against those of history. Once I began playing this I couldn't stop. It really is addictive fun but it is not a game for people with short attention spans who just crave flashy graphics and action. It is very tactical both in terms of politics and battles. Give it a try but remember to guard your supplies in battle.

"New" Romance of the Three Kingdoms Game

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 4 / 4
Date: October 21, 2000
Author: Amazon User

The game is good, as they all are. If your a koei fan, or a true war sim fan you will like the game very much. Unfortunately though for the R3K fans, the feel doesn't seem to be there. When you used to get truly into the game, and live it. You know play the game for 2 days straight, finally beat it and come back to play as a different ruler or in a different scenerio the next day. It just doesn't seem to happen anymore.

I like where Koei is going, unfortunately this is like the first versions of any Windows system, it just doesn't work right. They most likely should have waited a while refined the way the game operates and tried then. Unforntunately everything is trial and error.

I would recommend trying Romance of the Three Kingdoms IV or wait till they release the next. Mabye they will be back on track, or have fully developed the great ideas that where sorely lacking in presentation in R3K VI.

Don't get me wrong, it's still a great game and series, the newest installment is just lacking the feel of the rest.

Searching for flavor

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 6 / 8
Date: January 16, 2001
Author: Amazon User

I love Koei games. Liberty or Death, Nobunaga's Ambition, PTO, Uncharted Waters, Genghis Khan, you name it, if it has their name, it's gotta be good. But this installment of Rot3K lacks that really compelling flavor that makes these games so addictive.

The war portion, which is the lion's share of this game, is fine. In fact, it's better than ever. But that also betrays the game's biggest fault: besides the war, there's not a lot to do. You can make general improvements to 3 categories of your city (farming, commerce, safety) but that's about the extent of interaction with your city. The rest of your options are mostly recruiting generals (hint: get as many as you can early on, as they are difficult to obtain later) amassing troops (no training though) and giving ranks to your generals. There are some limited diplomacy measures that hardly ever work, and get very tiresome (like much of this game,) and that doesn't help.

So you are left to merely amass more troops than your neighbor, and enough generals to lead them. Other than that, it gets pretty... well... boring. The cut scenes are nice, the history is very rich and deep, and some minor troop enhancements make the battles a little more weighty. But we've arrived again at the problem of battle being the only redeeming quality of the game.

Yes, you can have very short conversations with your generals (that are mostly pointless), you can install traps around your castles (at least it gives you something to do), and receive visitors that bear gifts and gold. But there's still something missing. Just like Kessen on PS2, this game lacks a real focus on the city-building portion, which leaves you with a great war simulator, but the vast stretches in between might very well leave you snoozing. (Kessen solved this problem by simply eliminating that pesky "city management" phase, and relying more heavily on an automatically advancing storyline.)

I simply cannot give any Koei game less than 4 stars, and regardless of any negative reviews, I still would have bought this. But I can't say I was entirely satisfied, especially when one's expectations have grown over the years, only to be met with more "same old, same old."

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