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pretty good, with a great on line World of Qin you can play on

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: November 19, 2007
Author: Amazon User

Seems this one is getting mixed reviews. Well it is in fact one of my favorites. Long too. There are some really good walkthroughs on the net, in case you should get stuck. I liked the atmoshpere of the game, the music was nice enough that I actually created my own CD for rides to work. All in all an excellent buy at the moment. If you are looking for a game to spend some time on while waiting for the next thing, then try this one.

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Prince of Qin

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 1
Date: March 16, 2003
Author: Amazon User

Works fine on XP. Great game, but not if you don't like to talk to non-characters. Lots of extra missions and lots of story line. Don't buy unless you like to take your time. Not as good Neverwinter Nights or Dungeon Siege, but for the price a good value. I have put a little over 20hrs on the game. Also you will find that there is no real structure in the game so you kind of wander around a bit. Personally, I like that it seems more realistic and makes it where it doesn't seem like I am playing the same game everyone else is. Story line pretty cheesy and reminds me of a few outdated games, but cheese is good with a glass of wine.

Not worth the time or price

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 1 / 7
Date: September 12, 2002
Author: Amazon User

I picked this game up for 2 reasons:
- the Chinese historical theme
- the game's box description claiming to be an ARPG (action role playing game) and reading some reviews reporting it was a combination of Diablo/Balder's Gate
When I first started the game, I watched the opening cinema, accessible only from the start menu and knew that at once that this game was subpar. Usually, the opening sequence of a game is supposed to make you excited or make you want to play the game. Instead, the opening scene told me that the game was going to be a bore and not anywhere close to Diablo. After about 5 minutes into the game, I uninstalled it from my 80GB hard drive. The graphics are reminiscent of old 8 bit Nintendo games, remember Ninja Gaiden? The sounds and especially the spoken dialogs were ultra cheesey. I think the only things that reminded me of Diablo were the mouse controls. I didn't venture much further to pick up any other Diablo'ish factors. It's too bad, I'm a big history buff, especially of ancient Asian timelines, but this game is too boring to swallow. Take a look at a review from a "professional" critic ... before you decide to buy this game.

Buyer Beware

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 1 / 3
Date: October 29, 2002
Author: Amazon User

I thought the setting sounded like it would make an interesting change from the standard European fantasy world so I downloaded the demo and tried it out. It ran fine on my system, which meets and exceeds the recommended system profile on the retail box, so I bought the full version of the game. Turns out that while the demo runs fine on my system, the full version won't run at all. Strategy First's tech support has largely consisted of telling me to make sure I have all the latest drivers, I do, and to uninstall and reinstall the game, which I have. The game still doesn't work so they've kicked me up to their 2nd tier tech support who haven't bothered to contact me in over a week. Don't buy this game unless you're prepared to return it in the eventuality that it doesn't work on your system.

How is it Like.... hmmm

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 1 / 3
Date: October 01, 2003
Author: Amazon User

Well the best way I can describe it It similair to Arcanuim.. it seems to have it's Dynamic Points here and there just a at best Several... there are the usual linear scopes and the missions that you can get which are more locally., It's really not my cup of tea I inda prefer turn based Games Like M.A.X. (a Classic for 95/98) and the Heroes of Might and Magic Series (not the RPG)...

Why not ?

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 1 / 3
Date: November 21, 2004
Author: Amazon User

I was really surprised to find that lots people don't enjoy this game very much. I think that is because they're Americans, who don't understand well about Orient. If they do, then they'll have a better opinion about this game. The only weak point of this game is it's graphic and the story seemed to end rather quickly. I always wish it was a much longer one. Anyway, in general it's complete fun and interesting !!!!! I love it !!!!!

could be so much more

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 1 / 2
Date: September 07, 2002
Author: Amazon User

This action RPG has alot of interesting elements to it, plenty of original ideas, and unfortunately many bugs. I'll start off by saying that I really like this game. On the positive side it has a Diablo/Dungeon Seige feel to it, the items and equipment are numerous, and the story is great. But on the negative end at times it can be cofusing as to what to do next, you have to save ALOT or else you will lose your stuff, and contrary to the promise of free on-line play(printed boldly on the box) no such thing exists. I'm sure they will release a patch to fix the bugs, I'm also sure the will make good on their promise of an online game, and hopefully someone will publish a stratagy guide. When these things have been taken care of, they will have a five star game on their hands. If you had the misfortuine to play Throne of Darkness, and are still yearning for an Asian themed "rpg/hack-n-slash" check this one out.

Need a Strategy guide

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: March 03, 2003
Author: Amazon User

This game I got for free from a friend. It works okay. Sometimes it crashes when its loading between maps. But other than that its alrite. but the game has too much needed knowledge. They don't tell you where you can find things. No survival skills needed. Also i hvae no clue where to find my way and missions. The maps in the game doesn't give you Ideas of where to go. and you get lost easily. Its an okay game but its really not worth its full original cost. Who knows of a Strategy Guide?

Too Bad - Potential is Definitely There

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 2 / 3
Date: September 01, 2002
Author: Amazon User

If you are a fan of Chinese themed games, you may think at first that you want to try this game out. DON'T. Basically, you are the first son of Qin Shih Huang Di, the first Emperor of China. While you are responsible for the troops in one of the northern outposts, your father died, leaving the throne yours to claim. One of your younger brothers is plotting with one of the most powerful ministers to kill you, and ordered the troops to arrest and kill you. Once a king-to-be, you are now a renegade - wanted dead for being the crown prince.

Sounds good? Here is the problem. The graphic is extremely lacking, since the game seems to be using 256 color palette rather than 16 or 32 bit colors. Also, the game tries to replicate Diablo II but it failed to replicate the one thing that makes people play Diablo II - playability.

Overall, I give it 1 star since I cannot even bear playing the game. I love Chinese based games, but this game is just too much.

Boring, in a nutshell

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 4 / 6
Date: November 25, 2003
Author: Amazon User

It is rare that I get a computer game, and don't bother to complete it, even if I do it just to say I did.

Prince of Qin is one I gave up on.

The game lacks direction at times. I got to a certain point, and I had zero idea where to go, even with reloading an older saved game and trying again, to make sure I didn't miss some key dialogue.

Given that I felt the game would tell you to "accomplish A, obtain B," but never tell you where B might be found, or even an inkling as to where A could be begun at, I quit.

This game was too much money to be this disappointing.

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