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Avoid the Game Like the Plague

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 25 / 30
Date: November 11, 1999
Author: Amazon User

Nice ideas, terribly executed. Game crashes often, graphics are poor, strategic game is annoying. A total waste of money; even Eidos is giving refunds.

Great game without much of a plot

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 10 / 12
Date: December 03, 1999
Author: Amazon User

I bought this game thinking that I had found the perfect game to mirror Braveheart the movie. After getting the software configurations figured out and downloading a patch I began to realized that this game is in no way perfected. It is such a great concept but as it stands now, its just and average game with a lack of any sort of direction. Maybe next time!

Pitiable

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 9 / 12
Date: February 09, 2000
Author: Amazon User

If war is atually anything like what the game shows, it really is hell, even if you don't get hit once. For a game that seems to be aimed specifically at strategic combat, Braveheart seems to have surprisingly little strategy: everything frequently turns into random skirmishes, and one who has most troops will win. Your troops can barely see past their noses, and this makes ranged weaponry all but useless.

For the management part: one phrase - no standing orders. You will have to click, and reclick, and reclick each command each and every turn if you want something done continuously. And almost everything demands attention: your countless armies, towns, villages, settlements, spies, harvests, you have to tell each one of them what to do every turn of the game.

Braveheart is a good game turn bad, so bad it hurts to see it.

BraveHeart

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 7 / 10
Date: May 08, 2000
Author: Amazon User

This game was great. It had great graphics, and the multiplayer feature is awesome. The game is a little confusing, but the more you play the easier it is.

Fear William Wallace

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 5 / 6
Date: June 29, 2000
Author: Amazon User

Braveheart is a good game and has its ups and downs. When you start the game, you must select your clan, and then the game starts. You must raise an army, grow your own food, make weapons, and trade with allied clans. After you have a large army invade! Overall Braveheart is an o.k. game, but it takes some time to master the game. When you master the game, I bet, you could bet it.

Love it or hate it.

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 2 / 3
Date: December 29, 2003
Author: Amazon User

It has been a while since any reviews have been made about this game, and I suppose, from the 2000-present sweep of new and exciting games that have revolutionized PC gaming, that's fair. But in reading most of the reviews on here, I have to say that most of them were unfair in complete observation. Braveheart was, and is, one of my favorite video games, for the simple difference it made (in its own time) compared to the more popular video games mentioned above, like Age of Empires or Warcraft. The programmers took a big step in stamping their product with a Braveheart trademark (the game was originally called Tartan Battle, and had nothing to do with the movie theme), and were under, from what I understand, a tight schedule to complete it. The programming itself is still very good, with crashes or not, and from running on a Windows 98 OS with a little over 65 megabytes of memory I still could enjoy it with very little crashes - not to say the same with XP, 95, or Mac users.

Ultimately, it introduces a somewhat complex style of playing that still differs from modern video games, whether they're historical, fantastic, or modern, and surpasses regular modes of playing, whether it's RPG, turn-based strategy, or wartime combat. It requires you to use your brain, which is what I have always liked about it, and if you don't watch out and go about every little thing carefully, your entire system and game plan could fall. Perhaps this is why most reviewers haven't liked it, because they were looking for something a bit more simple, like Age of Empires, that just requires you to manage everything with a few mouse clicks. Braveheart isn't all that appealing, I'm sure, to those who can't multitask well.

There are a few other notable features that make the game more enjoyable: the scenery, for instance. It's apparent that the programmers, in their day, made it an effort to capture the Scottish scenery and architecture (like that of London, if you ever get that far). Personally, I don't care whether I'm playing William Wallace or not, but if you want to slip into the role-play side of it, then you can go ahead. But if you work with the less popular characters of Leslie and Argyle, you can train them to be stronger and more levelheaded. Everything is balanced in a very admirable system of economical decision, whether it be financial, military, or geographical.

All in all, this game is a splitter, you either love it or hate it. Being a fan of games that are more usually the underdog in the review world and sales market, this could may be a review of biased opinion. In a last breath, its advantages outweigh the disadvantages. At least give it a try. The prices I'm seeing are unbelievably cheap from when I first bought it.

Boring and dry

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 4 / 15
Date: July 29, 2000
Author: Amazon User

I saw the movie Braveheart and it was an awsome movie quite long however, but it was still good. A weeks days afterward I was in BestBuy and I saw it on the shelf I picked it up and and looked at the back side. I saw screenshots of the game and it looked like this game was worth the money and it was 50$ since it was 50$ I thought it would be good. So I took it to the check out counter and bought it when I got home immediatly rushed to the computer. It took a while to install but when it was finished I started playing it i choose a clan and i started it was horrible i didnt even know what I was doing it showed a map that was it. I clicked every thing i go troops and food and shelter and i was ready for battle I went to where it said fight or whatever and all it did was show a cutscene from the movie and it said something like you have been victorious and then it took me back to the map again there was no strategy and the game takes barely any skill. Take my advice dont buy infact i wouldnt even pick it up. overall its not worth it.

Listen to this review, screw the others

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: September 27, 2003
Author: Amazon User

Look, all these other reviews talk about how bad the game is, and that scared me after i had ordered it, but i got it, AND ITS GREAT! whether youre a diehard braveheart fan(me), or just saw the movie and thought it was good, this games for you. its a tad bit confusing at the start, but once you get into the game, its fun and interesting.

Save your money

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 0 / 1
Date: December 26, 2002
Author: Amazon User

This movie is my favorite of all times, and that fooled me into buying the game. Do not get this game, it is absolutely horrible! It was a great idea that went completely awry. I remember spending 50 something on this, and taking it back the next day. If you're looking for a good RTS, I'd sugest Age of Empires II, or any of the comand and conquer series...or Starcraft, or any of the Warcraft games. If you are looking for a good turn based game..check out imperialism II and Lords of the Realm II.

Why the hatred

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: May 30, 2007
Author: Amazon User

The first question i asked myself when i opened this page and read the reviews was, why were the bad reviews outweighing the positive reviews? I read some of them and it made me wonder, Why so much hatred toward the game? I bought the game cause it was quite low from the last time i had seen it advertised. Know before i saw anything else read this. There are much better strategy games out there, but none quite like Braveheart.

I received the game and started it up. The graphics a bit outdated and yes the menu screen look very archaic, but hey this game was made in the 90's. I then chose a clan, Wallace. I loaded the game and the first screen was a map. The game tutorial does a horrible job at explaining the game unless you read the manual. The tutorial was garbage overall. I then got deeper into the game(after a an hour or so of reading the manual and going over the tutorial) and i found it was quite interesting. Very in depth and very complex.

After i had played the game for a while i remembered all the negative things the people said about the game. I don't understand. Unless they didn't bother with the manual or they just didn't care. Braveheart is not just a hack through hundreds of people and see their bloody mutilated bodies on the ground. It's see their 3D bodies get hacked up with the bonus of in-depth economics and political situations.

Stay away from the game if you just want a quick, fast paced, hack-em-up game. It's far more complex and it takes more than 3 brain cells to complete.

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