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flawed but still fun
4
Rating: 4,
Useful: 0 / 0
Date: February 02, 2005
Author: Amazon User
This game is really fun from the get go. theres lots of action and you get to control up to hundreds of people at a time, which keeps you engaged. sometimes there are quirks and the dialogue isnt that interesting, but the missions are fun and the overall gameplay is good. another good feature is the barracks where you can upgrade your troops, buy better equipment, and learn new skills. i agree with the other reviewers that you'd always want to rent a game first to see if its for you, but this one will keep you busy.
it's ok if u like good and bad games
3
Rating: 3,
Useful: 0 / 0
Date: February 19, 2005
Author: Amazon User
I heard a lot about this game on halo 2.they said it was fun but it was a little hard to control and it is only for people who like fantasy/real time games.And when i get this game i hope it is fun see you online
It is under $20! Buy it!
4
Rating: 4,
Useful: 0 / 1
Date: March 04, 2005
Author: Amazon User
I would totally recommend this game for any RTS fan. Of course there are little issues with this game but c'mon, who hasn't given their troop an order just to have them accidentally run into a flaming forest and die? If you liked Starcraft and Warcraft, well this game is for you. Excellent Graphics, customization of your troops, and a pretty good story line. Yes sometimes the dialogue can be cheesy but you know what, IT IS A VIDEO GAME! You want Shakespeare or something? Plus the game is from Korea, give'em a break. The controls are not that difficult to master if you do the tutorials and the first few missions are basically for training anyway. At under $20 this is one of the best games out there.....Just upgrade your archers to Long-bowmen as soon as you can and you'll have no problems.
controls are horrible
2
Rating: 2,
Useful: 0 / 1
Date: November 26, 2006
Author: Amazon User
i gave this game about 4 hours to become fun, and ultimately I wish I had those 4 hours back. you'll be excited when you get cavalry, but that excitement will disappear quickly when you realize you have to manually run them back and forth through the enemy while your hero is getting sliced up, and that you have to do this with a very clunky camera system. i think for real-time strategic war games you're better off on a pc. pick up starcraft or any of a thousand other RTS title out there that blow KUF away.
A 20 Dollar Wasteb
3
Rating: 3,
Useful: 1 / 6
Date: January 19, 2005
Author: Amazon User
First of all the game was pretty good but when its the it having the same moves, army, characters, and rip off from other games like Lord of the Rings: Return of the King. I would suggest you buy WARCRAFT instead. I think the game should be more of a 11 dollar game. The game defintely has its moments but not enough for purchase.
Macho Junk
3
Rating: 3,
Useful: 1 / 4
Date: June 24, 2006
Author: Amazon User
Okay, I expected this to be about the crusades, no, its about the "Demon Crusade". Although the poor lines, and hilarious cheesyness can make you laugh so hard, but only for the first few levels, then its not fun, its boring.
Best Game Ever!
5
Rating: 5,
Useful: 2 / 12
Date: March 27, 2005
Author: Amazon User
Graphics are great. I can play for a million hours! The characters are really interesting and the players look so cool.
I can't believe it
5
Rating: 5,
Useful: 1 / 2
Date: February 28, 2005
Author: Amazon User
It's unbelievable, bad ratings given to such a awesome game. A new RTS, a new RPG, a new King of game. They say the controls are hard, my fist to that, the controls were fairly simple and those who cannot use them, need to learn to use their hands better. They say the game has potential, I say it lived up to it and you'll agree once you've gotten to the hard missions. I really do mean this when I say you will not believe the story in the hard missions. (SPOILER) For in the hard missions you fight a nearly endless hoard of flesh demons called Encablossa (at this point I say the story becomes like Final Fantasy). Encablossa is a HUGE sky demon that sucks souls through its body and spits them back as demons.
False advertising and misleading labeling
2
Rating: 2,
Useful: 2 / 7
Date: August 26, 2005
Author: Amazon User
Well first off, check the box, it states that there is a custom soundtrack ability, which is totally absent as far as I can tell after playing for one day straight. Then there is the horrible grating rock music. I've played a lot of dynasty warrior and KUF: The Crusaders makes the same horrible mistake. I mean a gaming experience must have good atmosphere, and that is produced from the integration of music and gameplay.
I expected to hear the soldiers shout louder as they came closer
to the enemy, barely peep. It just didn't have enough "atmosphere".
Did Metal Gear Solid have crappy rock most of the time? No. Did Lord of the Ring games have crappy rock? No. Did Diablo have crappy rock? No. Everquest? No. Get what I'm sayin?
Get a good symphony orchestra, put some braveheart-ish themes, or music like from "god of war (ps2)" then I wouldn't say a word against this game. Then there has been no downloadable content when the box clearly stated that there was. Even after all this time, they still haven't made a patch that let's you have custom soundtracks or fix spelling errors in the subtitles. When you buy this game, be careful, because it promises a lot but does not deliver enough, at least to my expectations.
Battlefield controls Ruin the Game.
2
Rating: 2,
Useful: 1 / 1
Date: February 06, 2005
Author: Amazon User
This is a GREAT game. When I first started playing I was like wow. The Graphics are amazing. The dialogue between characters was lame.. very SNESish but I was willing to let that slip by.
And the battles and action was... unique.
My problem with the game is twofold.
First.. controling your armies is VERY difficult.
I had to replay a bunch of battles because my troops would not do what I desired, or I couldn't order them all fast enough.
The view of the battlefield is shown right above and behind your current selected troop. that is nice and all, however this causes you to lose your depth with your curser. it's hard to see where you are clicking your troops to move towards. you can't tell if you are moving them 5 feet or 5 miles.
Your curser also remains on the battlefeild at all times at the last location you left it. That doesn't seem so bad but when you rotate between armies it can be annoying because the curser might be facing the wrong direction and you need to rotate it completely around in order to command your troops to go the direction you desire, and then do it again 2 sec later should you want a different troop to go the other direction.
Not so bad you say? It is when every second counts and you need to get every unit to do their own thing at the exact same time.
It makes me wish there was a pause so that you can order your units to do their assigned task and then unpause and just edit as needed real time.
It gets even worse when you have calvery. ride through the enemy, turn around and ride back through. the bad thing about that is they turn like a semi.. very wide, they are very intensive to control... so while you control them you ignore others. and the difficul curser controls tend to make you accadently force your calvery into hand to hand which it's not designed.
Yes there is a minimap that can help with commanding your units around, but even that can be difficult to use espesially in the mist of a battle. I didn't play the game for very long, however I think mastering the mini-map might be the key to getting through the game.
Another problem I had with the game is the fact that it was linear. It told me what to do step by step. send your troops here, now do this, now head this direction, now set thease traps.
it was very blah. Maybe it's because I was playing it on easy... but I don't think so. It doesn't feel very much like a strategy game when all the strategy is done by the computer for you.
if you can get by the clunky controling then this game is Great. the graphics were supurb and the experience and leveling up they have is very unique and promising.
even the hand to hand fighting is decent that you do. the only flaw is that is that when the leader goes down you win and they lose.. so fight your way ton the leader and kill them and you win nice and easy. ::shrugs::
I liked the game. I will probally try to continue my game and find a better way of controling my armies.
If you like strategies, you might like this. I'd reccomend renting first however
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