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Instant fun

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 13 / 15
Date: September 19, 2001
Author: Amazon User

I am amongst the few lucky who are part of the beta. I was expected a lot from this game and it seems that I was expected right!! With its user-friendly interface, its ressources management system, you enter into the game without any headache to learn how to do things. The unique training system of Battle Realms put a versatileness never reached before. All in this game is made to put the gamer in the center of action with ease and INSTANT FUN.
A fun enhanced by the high quality of graphism, the smoothness of the animation full of imagination and by the living world of Battle Realms which adds this precious "touch" that makes great games.

Innovative RTS, a rarity nowadays...

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 8 / 9
Date: September 25, 2001
Author: Amazon User

Currently beta testing the game, and it's already great. It takes the base qualities of an RTS game and adds a completely new training and upgrading system that work together perfectly. Definately worth buying.

"The world is alive"

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 10 / 12
Date: October 10, 2001
Author: Amazon User

Hello, I am yet another very lucky beta tester. As soon as you enter the game you feel as if the world is alive. Horses run in fear as your units approach them, birds float around, and frogs hop along around streams, ponds, and rivers. The fluidity of everything is overwhelming. Your soldiers do many different attacks that link together so they never stop. The unit acknowledgements are very amusing at the least. Everything is just so different between each clan. The new system of training units into higher 'tiers' is no less than unique. The 'particle effects' are the coolest thing about some of the units. By far the best feature about this game is the 'battle-gear.' Battle Gear is special equipment that units use and have a dramatic affect on their effectiveness against other units and buildings. The second this game is in stores i'll be at home playing it.

Outstanding and Innovative

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 10 / 14
Date: October 10, 2001
Author: Amazon User

I was one of the lucky people to be selected for the Battle Realms beta, and I must say that this is the most innovative and beautiful RTS I've ever played. Everything you've seen in traditional RTS games - economic management, attacking and defending, even upgrading your units is totally redone and very well executed. If you're an RTS fan, look for Battle Realms [...], I guarantee you'll love it.

Strategy is essential

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 13 / 13
Date: November 13, 2001
Author: Amazon User

First, the game is great. Incredible graphics, superb sound, easy to use interface. The real thing that sets this game apart is the need for real strategy. The landscape makes a big difference in a battle. Archers see farther when on a bluff. Units can't be seen very well when in the forest (although disturbing the birds can give you away). The limit for units is small and the more units you have the slower they are generated (all units start as peseants spawned from their huts) So, unlike other RTS games where even a unskilled player can throw alot of units at an opponent, this game requires you to plan your units and upgrades for maximum effect. The game makes me leave the computer in frustration on occasion, but it keeps calling me back. The sure sign of a great game.

Reminicent of the first time I played Warcraft...great!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 15 / 15
Date: November 17, 2001
Author: Amazon User

What a fantastic game -- I am a die-hard fan of the real-time strategy genre, and never thought I'd ever match the goosbumps I got the first time I played Warcraft years ago. Starcraft came close (I still play that game with my brother-in-law online...timeless), Kohan and C&C Red Alert 2 were fun while they lasted, but Battle Realms really does take the cake. Who'd have thought that Ubi Soft, notorious for releasing horribly untested games, would make something as great as BR? True, the game does have a slight tendency to bomb occasionally, but a patch should fix that shortly. BR's 4 clans are extremely well-balanced and unique with special "battle gear" that improves combat acumen. Populations are limited to 30 -- including your peasant class -- and there are built-in discouragements to the rush tactic. I know you don't know me, but trust me: it you've ever liked an RTS game, you owe it to yourself to check out Battle Realms.

Fantastic Game

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 5 / 5
Date: November 30, 2001
Author: Amazon User

Excellent game, great graphics, great sound affects. I also bought empire earth and have yet to play it because I cannot stop playing this game. In addition its very challenging to stay alive. Its not the type where you build a huge army and just rush in. You need to develop a stradegey or you will get killed.

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.

High Quality RTS

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 2
Date: December 21, 2001
Author: Amazon User

At first the game seemed a bit "iffy", but then i installed it :). The graphics are very well done and the game play is excellent. You tell your units to attack and they run after the enemy and start attacking and keep on attacking till the enemy is gone or all dead. If enemies come near your troops attack automatically. The storyline is good and the ability to choose your route along the way is great. I recommend this game to all RTS gamers.

Great graphics, but beyond that....NOT THAT MUCH REALLY !!!

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 6 / 12
Date: December 22, 2001
Author: Amazon User

The game has got excellent graphics and superb animation of the characters. Yet, the gameplay gets too boring after a while.
There are hardly any real strategies in that game. You simply build an army and then they hack teh enemy to pieces or get done themselves by the enemy.
Also the game has almost no defense buidings like gun turrets, towers or walls which make it impossible to build a good base or to defend teh buildings. It also takes a lot of tactical aspects out of the game.
Battle realms has a lot of cool features, but it lacks everything that makes a true entertaining RTS game. AOK for example is still fun playing after more than a 100 hours. The same applies to Starcraft. These new 3d RTS games try to impress the player with graphics, but have nothing more to offer.

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