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not up to TA or the hype

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 8 / 11
Date: November 25, 1999
Author: Amazon User

Amazon's review is accurate. The gameplay rewards the hedghog. Strong points from TA remain (unit ordering, squad numbering, ...)but if that is all there is, then TA is a better buy/choice.

Cavedog should be ashamed...

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 4 / 5
Date: December 15, 1999
Author: Amazon User

While TA: Kingdoms is a good overall concept, it's the little concepts of the game that destroy it. Location mana stones can be built on are very limited, and guarding each one spreads your forces too thin. If you have a concentrated force guarding a mana stone, so what? A powerful wizard spell can wipe the force out in seconds. The dragons, "the most terrifying and powerful of creatures" fall all too quickly under half-decent defensive structures. If you're looking for a good RTS game, get the original Total Annihilation, as it still stands up in the genre. This one was sugar-coated, and over-hyped...it doesn't do any justice to the TA franchise.

Ok..... This is isn't what I expected

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 4 / 7
Date: February 26, 2000
Author: Amazon User

What I expected was another Total Annihilation, but obviously I was at err, I don't know who made this game but if it was the original design team of TA then they were smoking somethin that made pretty colors dance across the screen. Ok, bottom line, TA kingdoms is by far the worst possible stradegy game ever! It is SO slow on my P2 450mhz computer( after I got about 50 units or so) it was ridiculas! I mean it was like watching your units walk through glue because the game slows down so bad, it took my little army of 30 units 15 minutes to reach the enemy base! Also 3D acceleration for this game is non-existent! In the original TA the computer cheated, but it wasn't to an extream sence, here they made it ten-fold! Whenever you aren't looking over the enemy's base, they make units in 3 seconds or less, they can make thousands of units with only one lodestone in place! its ridiculously IMPOSSIBLE in skirmish(when you are just getting your defences finished they will have those plus a 30+ army coming to attack your base) and just plain weird in campaign mode. Do not buy this game, buy the original TA, its WAY better, trust me. Avoid Kingdoms like it is a urine cup used to serve apple juice!

How Awful Can it Get?

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 4 / 4
Date: August 29, 2001
Author: Amazon User

I got this game and rued it ever since. after seeing the graphics I first thought it was made before total annihilatoin (original), but later found out it was newer. The tech tree is dumb, and its hard to tell what the units are, i mean it's quite bad when you can't tell a difference between a horse and a rat.

Slow moving and tedious

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 3 / 3
Date: October 27, 2001
Author: Amazon User

After Total Annihilation, this was a HUGE disappointment. In particular, the way all units trudge slowly along, even when under fire makes it look like even they cannot be bothered. I certainly can't.
Slow to load, slow to run, slow to play, loaded with portentous music and yet totally unabsorbing. A typical games consists of spending a very long time making huge numbers of utterly undistinguished units then watching them amble slowly into battle. Rarely do enough make it to achieve anything. Then it's time to start all over again.
On balance, I would rather watch my screen saver. Which is odd, since the original TA is still my all time favourite (and most frequently played) game. Bring on TA2!!

For Shame Cavedog!

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 1 / 5
Date: February 22, 2001
Author: Amazon User

I tryed the demo of this game I didn't really like it to much. Sure there may been a few more sides, however, it can get boring after awhile. But I like the idea of seeing TA in the middle ages!

The Gamer from Kansas says it all.

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 1 / 2
Date: September 23, 2001
Author: Amazon User

I could not agree more with the gamer from Kansas. The game stinks. Also it relates in no part to the former history of either Arm of Core as it is supposed to. Witchcraft and wizardry has no apeal to me. However, if you really want a cool game you should get Total Annihilation, way better graphics and a lot more fun. Don't waste your money!

Tries to access non-existing websites all the time

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 2 / 17
Date: February 13, 2003
Author: Amazon User

I haven't been able to use it. It tries to access non-existing websites and crashes. I have spend just about 30 minutes on it, and do not think I am going to waste any more of my time on it.

Too generous?

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 6 / 8
Date: September 06, 2000
Author: Amazon User

This game is so bad I hesitate with my second star. I would categorize this game as a great concept ruined by a bad game. While the movies are great and the wide variety and impressive uniqueness of the different players is truly an accomplishement the actual gameplay is crap. For one thing the sides aren't evenly matched. Play Veruna with even a small body of water and its a gauranteed massacre of the other side. Play Zhon, on the other hand, and expect to spend 5 hours on a single game before deciding to give up. Amazingly, the expansion pack fails to correct this problem at all! The game is pathetically slow and worse, the somewhat baffling placement of mana makes it impossible to fortify yourself in a base. Furthermore (and there's more) the unlimited supply of bafflingly placed mana is in-exhaustible, so the computer builds anthropomorphic bases with defensive fortifications every two feet. Try and set foot in one of them and your army of 30 is dead in 3 seconds! 30 is also the biggest force you can ever truly hope to assemble, by the way, because to control more than that is impossible, flatly impossible! While you can group units, ordering a group is ill-advised because while you may order them to move to a certain location on the way if they're ambushed by the enemy they'll just keep walking and not even fight back until they're all dead. Tell them to attack the enemy and they kill the unit you clicked on and then just stand to be slaughtered by the rest. Even setting them to agressive mode does little to combat the problem. I prefer turn-based strategy anyway, but this is truly a new low. This game sucks, it sucks hard. Won't someone ever make us a decent strategy game thats not sci-fi?

Not what I expected

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 2 / 6
Date: April 19, 2000
Author: Amazon User

The game is extremely slow and boring. It takes forever to build up a formidable force. I thought it would be more like the original TA(which wasn't exelent). The good part is its 5 different forces as opposed to StarCraft's (which is a much better real time strategy) 3.

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