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Fun, but repetitive

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 1 / 2
Date: July 08, 2004
Author: Amazon User

This game is pretty fun, but there is little variety. I haven't finished the game, but so far, every level is just building up enough forces and wiping out the enemy. This is like Command and Conquer, only the natural resources are unlimited (rice keeps growing, water keeps flowing) and the number of units you can have is limited. In each level, you can only have a certain number of men, around 20 or 30 so far. So it's difficult to have enough men defending the village and still have a large enough attack force. That may increase the challenge, but it is frustrating. It is more involved, too. You have to activate abilities for them to do anything, so you have to watch the fight and use the abilities at the appropriate time. In C&C, it was more getting together a large force and just leaving them to it, or going by stealth and capturing buildings in the enemy base. A problem is that units sometimes don't react very quickly. Some abilities cause this, but they also do it without being afflicted by anything. Also, it allows you to choose to save peasants from tyranny or force them to submit to your will at the beginning. But that seemed to be the only time, which disappointed me. Battle realms is fun, but only some of the time. It doesn't require much attention and can get old quickly. It's cheap, so give it a try.

Fun for a week or two

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 1 / 6
Date: February 19, 2003
Author: Amazon User

I have owned this game since it came out. That's around 3 years. This game is not worth the money. I, like many, was very excited about the game when I first got it. I will admit the game is unique, but gets very boring very quickly.

Grapics/Sound - The graphics are not far from perfect. Awesome graphics. Some very realistic and well-recorded sounds accompany the fighting/actions. The voices, however, sound like hobos [paid a small amount] to do stereotypical anime and immigrant imitations. he background music is pretty well, too.

Gameplay - As I said, the gameplay is uniqe, yet bad. Rather than constructing a building that pumps out a type of unit one at a time and whenever you want, you train a peasant from your "Peasant Hut" in the building. There's close-combat training, ranged, and magical/chemical. There are also a few places allowing you to teach the units abilites or give them items, limited to one. That's basically the bare-bone facts that all clans share. There is the good-hearted averaged out "Dragon Clan", the evil counter-parting "Serpent Clan, the stone-age brutes "Wolf Clan", and its slave masters, the dark "Lotus Clan". They all have a large and very differing vary of units, abilities, and way of living itself. Only two resources exist, rice and water. You must also water the rice fields to grow back harvested plants. The construction is painfully slow, yet the combat faster than the blink of an eye. As well as horrible AI and campaign.

Conclusion - When people get the game and play it for five minutes and review it. But the truth is, you'll wear it out in 2 weels still trying to beat the third mission of the campaign. And the fact that no one is ever on-line since the producers never advertise their games, you're limited to playing the brain-damaged AI...

Much-Needed stop to the year of clones

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 8
Date: December 26, 2001
Author: Amazon User

well,as the title suggests,2001 was a year of clones and rubbish games.Max Payne got too much attention.civ3 was NOT addictive at all.In every rts u just rush the enemy and they die.So ubisoft put a stop to it by creating Battle Realms.You are given a bunch of peasents and train them,upgrade them,turn them into skilled warriors and try to destroy the enemy.Empire Earth and Europa Universalis 2 are also very good games,and in the 'shooter/strategy' section,Half-Life RULES.That bunch will almost certainly rule my computer.Red Alert 2 SUCKS next to these games.Excellent game

sometimes AI = computer cheats

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 0 / 2
Date: December 16, 2001
Author: Amazon User

This is a generally good innovative game. But if you play a game just for fun and not for frustration, because after all, it's just a game, then you might think that the computer cheats when you play this game. The AI is different than that of some other games like Microsoft Age of Empires because a wounded unit is more sluggish than when it's healthy. This, in a sense, is a refreshing novelty. However, the frustrations in not being able to control the units make me feel like the computer is programmed to cheat. At normal difficultly level: computer enemy populations grow faster; some of the units refuse to follow direct instructions (ie it would not run away from a fight to save itself or to engage some other unit even when it's perfectly healthy); the musketeer only does what you want it to do after it completely and slowly loads its musket and fires (after which time, it has already been whacked on the head enough times to be useless), the geisha (healer) refuses to stand ground and keeps moving into harm's way; some units immediately run around in circles first before following your instructions. All of this on top of the fact that a computer already has an advantage over the gamer when it comes to controlling all the individual pieces in a real-time game means frustration... and this is just at normal difficulty level with no cheat codes. Yes, this game introduces some interesting innovations, but 5 stars? No.

Looks Good--- Plays Bad

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 0 / 8
Date: February 05, 2002
Author: Amazon User

When I first played Battle Realms I was amazed at the stunning visuals and great soundtrack. That was all that was great about the product. Battles, which take forever to prepare for, are pointless because you have no control over the units once you right-click attack. The unit alchemy system, seemingly innovative, is just an Age of Empires clone with units instead of buildings. If you like great visuals and standard RTS fare in disguise this game is for you. If you like good games, don't buy this.

Don't listen to the hype.

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 0 / 2
Date: March 19, 2002
Author: Amazon User

This game had so much potential! I picked this title up ready for a wonderful twist on the old RTS formula. To say I was disappointed would be a gross understatement. The four clans graphically are very different, but the strategy is all the same. You rush to build the biggest force and rush the poor sap that hasn't got as large an army. That's it. Yeah there are things like fire arrows, but all the clans have something of the sort so it dosn't really matter which clan you play as. The single player campain is not bad for a RTS, but still needs work. To sum this game up, it's nothing more that Warcaft with another coat of paint. It would be a great bargin bin game, but I would not purchase it at its current price if I had it to do all over again.

Lots of fun the first hour or so, much less after that

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 0 / 1
Date: May 06, 2002
Author: Amazon User

I used to think these games were all about charisma...just make some interesting-looking units with silly voices, and you have a winning formula. Turns out I was wrong.

The graphics, sound, and charisma of this game are all top-notch. They also made a strong effort to make a game with some real differences from the traditional starcraft formula. Unfortunately, every change was for the worse. I don't like the continuous peasant-creation system, the multiple training sites that make it possible to make the ultimate all-purpose unit, or the "yin/yang" concept that requires you to fight to get upgrades. It also doesn't really allow you to give group orders like you could in starcraft, (e.g. stimpack a whole group of marines at once), a major problem.

Bottom line, it looks great, but just isn't fun anymore after the first few games. I'll wait for Warcraft III.

Good, fun and addictive

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 2
Date: September 02, 2002
Author: Amazon User

Very fun fast paced strategy game. This is one of the best games I have ever played, cheaper than most games Battle Realms is a true winner.

Battle Realm?4 stars?fun?

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 0 / 4
Date: April 28, 2003
Author: Amazon User

This game is easy and hard.It's easy because the first 6 stages are easy but when fighting against two clans the word hard coomes in.If you are great with stragedy games you should buy this item.

Not your father's RTS

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: March 08, 2002
Author: Amazon User

Very different and very fun. Don't play this game with a mind jaded by years of Age of Empires and Starcraft. It's a fun, interesting game that's not for the micromanager. It looks beautiful and plays fast and chaotic. Gets better with every Battle Pack.

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