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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.

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.

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.

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.

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."

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.

"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.

More depth to an already deep simulation

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 11 / 12
Date: June 11, 2000
Author: Amazon User

RTK VI is a further enhancement to the successful franchise. Now your officer's abilities change as they age and as they acquire experience. The maximum number of troops and officer can command is based on his rank (and a ruler's rank determines what rank he can bestow on his officers). There are now many more officers to interact with and the story behind the game is given greater depth. The addition of short scenarios allows players to meet objectives without having to complete a campaign game. The main weakness is Koei's lack of documentation. Your officer's loyalty increases as your prestige increases (by completing tasks asked by the emperor)-- but the manual doesn't tell you this. You find out at a council that it takes 6 months and 20000 gold to build a palace-- but not in the manual. Talk with your officers to set up a council. The graphics are only incrementally improved. Overall, this is a solid addition for those who loved Koei's previous offerings, but it requires some learning and patience.

YOU CALL THIS A KOEI GAME ?

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 12 / 19
Date: May 27, 2000
Author: Amazon User

ok I finally bought this game. I was waiting and waiting for this game to come out for a long time. hmm.. but let me tell you ,this game.. is a total disappointment. what can I say.. I knew it! as soon as I saw they put the demo of some other game in the same disk. who care about how their future game will look like? first of all, I didn't spend my ... dollar just to see some stupid demo! anyway lets review something here before I go nuts. Romance 6 is mainly focus on humanity and wars. the political part of this game is limited. most of the command that you used to be able to operate in older version has been taken off. everything in this game are now playable for any 8 year old kid. what are they getting lazy? or they want to attract younger people or what! the map.. it is very annoying cause you can't really see the whole map unless you make the main command screen disappear. there is no graphic to talk about since this game was never about graphics from the 1st one. music is relaxing but thats about it. I think KOEI people rushed this game too early to the market. this game supposed to be a good strategic game. It is not the game that you wanna spend 40 something dollars. In fact, KOEI should be giving away this game for fee! as a sample. If you never bought any of "Romeance of the three kingdom" series, I suggest you to buy romance 4. do not buy romance 6. you won't like it I guarantee.

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

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