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Castles, warriors, monsters galore!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 6 / 21
Date: July 25, 2004
Author: Amazon User

First of all Ive been reading about this game for a month and its Rated Mature not e! It has violonce and some blood. It is cool, you have your castle and youre the leader. You pick to be human, orcish, dark elf, vampire or a lich. You have different weapons and you fight the invading or defending army. You ride horses and dragons and you can have up to more than 100 people on xbox live!

Brilliant game! Must buy!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 20 / 23
Date: August 03, 2004
Author: Amazon User

From the moment I saw this game I knew it would rule.Kingdom Under Fire: The Crusaders is based 50% on real time strategy (RTS) and 50% pure action and destruction! When the action starts the game mainly plays like "Dynasty Warriors"(which is a good thing) except your fighting in a sci-fi version of the middle ages. It's your army against there's. Each army consists of over a thousand units! and over a hundred units on screen at once! You pick which general you want to play as at the begining(the main character) from the human side or from the dark legion. Before going into battle you can aquire more troops for your army (archers,knights,orcs,spearmen,ect), train them, upgrade armor, get more supplies, and even go to the local pub to have a drink and spy on your troops! When all is set and ready, it's off to the Battlefield! Heres where the strategy part kicks in. you order your troops to move wherever you think would be most efficient, you can set up archers on tops of hills, get your horsemen with lances to break the enemy lines, and even send out fire-breathing dragons to weaken your adversaries! The possibilities are limitless! All this combined with jaw dropping graphics and head-to-head online play, it's Perfect!

AMAZING

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 10 / 29
Date: August 04, 2004
Author: Amazon User

i am one of the very few who actually played the first kingdom under fire,(KUF:War Of Heroes) and it was breath taking. It was like warcraft on crack cocaine running through the hood, while being shot at by ninjas, and being chased by dinasuars from jerassic park while evading nucular bombs, and crazy komakazies. In other words, it kicked ass. one of the most fun RPG/RTS games i have ever played, phantagram does a fantastic job of combining both, and making an outstanding game, the maps were lush, the heroes, were legendary, and the story was epic. I am sure that phantagram did an amazing job on this one, and i cant wait to get it.

This is a great game!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 9 / 14
Date: August 28, 2004
Author: Amazon User

I'm a huge rts and action fan, so i knew when I saw kingdom under fire: the crusaders, I knew it would be sweet, you are a hero who leads a big army of orcs, orcs on wolves, dark elves, undead, wyverens and more if your the dark legion. You control knights, soldiers, catapults, storm riders and more when you're the humans. This game is really fun and just a great game. I'm really excited about this game and you should be to.

This is going ot be a sleeper Hit

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 4 / 5
Date: October 08, 2004
Author: Amazon User

I played the demo for this game and it is great!! The way you can lead armys and the graphics in the game are the best. If you liek a midevil type of RTS game then this is the one to get. Also it is on xbox live so you can face a friend or somebody across the world. Tey only reason i gave it a 4/5 is because the voice acting could have been better but dont let that stop you from buying this great game.

Worst voice acting ever!

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 5 / 7
Date: October 10, 2004
Author: Amazon User

The game itself is not bad the graphics are slightly above average and the game play is kinda fun, very simular to kessen 2. Now on to the voice over's they could very well be the worst ever! It seem's that the voice actors are just reading text from start to finish with no effort to act out what is going on in the game what so ever! When you play the game you will see what I mean but remember the game itself is not bad it's just the voice acting although you may want to rent before you buy. If it wasn't for the dreadfull voice acting I would have given it 4 star's.

Not what I expected...

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 12 / 29
Date: October 16, 2004
Author: Amazon User

Because it is a Real Time Strategy game you can command up to two to four units at once, ie.. Archers, Main troops, spearmen, cavalry etc. However this at times can bring some hardship to the gamer as your main character takes damage as you switch to archers and send them off where they need to go ultimately suffering because there are NO powerups on the battlefield. In one level it was cool because you become invincable while you control the other troop but its ONLY for that one level!? Another aspect that makes it quite corny is the voice acting, everyone notices it. At times they say something different than is in the subtitles and the subtitles arent spelled right etc. I can deal with cheesy voice acting but why Gerald ALWAYS looks like hes chewing gum is downright WEIRD!

The game itself is pretty nifty in the fact that you can control many troops into battle and use them to help your quest. but in the end suffers from sloppy gameplay. It is worth a rent but will turn most gamers off with its quirks.

Great Game...Get It!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 10 / 10
Date: October 17, 2004
Author: Amazon User

I bought Kingdom Under Fire/Crusaders on October 13, 2004. Overall, I found this game very fun, and very INTENSE. Below is a list of what I didn't enjoy, and what I did enjoy regarding the game.

Negatives:

1. The game needs a bird's eye view without the map. There are four views all together, two on a map (long/close-up), two in melee(mid/close-up). The game would be better if they had a third viewpoint where you could pull back the camera one step further without opening the map to see other units and manipulate them around the screen. This view could look something like a Warcraft/Command and Conquer View. The map does this to some extent, but it can become tedious manipulating the troops on the map on close-up mode. Another option would be the ability to split screens by units, so you could see what more than one of the military units is doing @ once.

2. The voices are pretty cheesy. In the future, phantagram should invest a little bit more in getting better voice actors who don't
sound embarassed to read their lines*
*This could also be viewed positively though

3. The game is lacking a bit in terms of varied gameplay. In the future, it would be ideal if we could customize our own characters, as opposed to choosing one of four templates. Additionally, it would be nice if there could be co-op modes - like in lord of the rings - return of the king or head to head modes outside of xbox live.

Positives:

1.Graphics - This game has amazing graphics that take full advantage of the XBox Platform.

2.The cheesy voices - People who take wars between fictional medieval soldiers and orcs and dark elves too seriously need to get a life. This video game has somewhat of a kill bill/B-movie quality to it, in that there are excessive amounts of blood and gore, bad language, and dark elf females fighting in thongs. The terrible voiceovers are a finishing touch to this sort of craziness.*
*This could also be viewed as a negative

3.Challenging gameplay - This is not the sort of video game which you can start and play the whole way through without ever losing. What I enjoy about it is that as your units/characters get better, you also get better as a video gamer. For example, a newbie couldn't just take your saved game from let's say the 20th mission, and just play as him. He'd die immediately b/c the missions get progressively harder with time, and in order to proceed to further missions, one needs to become a better video gamer.

4. Intense and complex battle sequences/combat. Fighting Melee Combat - Dynasty Warriors/LOTR style, while commanding your units - Command and Conquer/Warcraft style, while taking into account unconventional things such as terrain, sun, weather conditions, etc. all require extreme concentration. To the observer though, your battles will have the same sort of chaos/intensity as the battle scenes in Braveheart, especially as you shift from view to view. It's extremely satisfying to fight hand-to-hand combat with your character against an enemy and to see people dropping to the ground because of your archers, while your cavalry comes from behind and flanks them. That's only an example of three of the many units that you can fight with. This game reinvents the real-time strategy genre, taking elements from Dynasty Warriors, LOTR video game series, Myth, Warcraft, and Command and Conquer, by molding them all into one video game and taking the genre to the next level. This game's very ambitious and it works.

Although the game does have it's flaws, I do not feel that they are overly significant or that they detract too much from the game itself. One can accustom oneself to fighting using the map within a relatively short time, and even though you cannot customize your characters or go coop there are still 4 characters with over 60 missions.

On a scale of 100, I would give the game a 96. Even though it misses a few minute things, it gets the major and main things right. This game has the potential to bring real-time strategy (usually associated with PCs up to this point) to the video game console in the same way that Goldeneye brought first person shooters to the video game console.

I feel that this game will beocme a sleeper hit, and that they will make a really awesome sequel which corrects all of the minor flaws in this version if they take into account people's suggestions.

4.5 Star Review

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 7 / 7
Date: October 19, 2004
Author: Amazon User

Simply put, Kindom Under Fire is a great game. At first, I was slightly turned off by the heroes combat gameplay (not as flashy as Dynasty Warrior), but as the game progressed and things started opening up to me the game got better and better. Graphics are amazing, sound is top notch (Korean voices are better imho), gameplay is easy to learn (hard to master). The thing I really enjoy about this game is that not only do you have to control and manage your heroes, but also your units actually do make a difference in battle. Heroes are extremely powerful, but they alone will not win battles. I guess the best way to describe the game is think Warcraft 3, but you get to play as your hero/leader using Dynasty Warrior combat. Only issues so far are that:

- when you switch to other group, it leaves your hero extremely vulnerable (I think he just stands there and takes hits).
- setting up archers and spearmen is a little annoying
- heroes engaged in battle can't cast magic, so you have to either cast it before or have another group cast the magic

Haven't played on Xbox Live yet, but according to the website there will be updates soon to enhance Live play (* 2v2 options is one example *). There simply is no reason why not to buy this game. It will definately keep me busy until DOA Ultimate and/or Halo 2 come out.

Disappointing

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 7 / 11
Date: October 21, 2004
Author: Amazon User

I was really looking forward to this game and seemed it would have something different that what set it apart and make it a great game. Well it didn't, it has the best graphics for it genre and a few more added features but when it comes down to it the game just fell short for me.

Cons
-Voice acting and plot gets really annoying
-Levels are extremely difficult if you try to use your own strategy then what the game intended (So much for making your own strategy)
-Most of defeating a squad is killing its leader (kind of disappointing when you were hoping for a large scale combat)
-If you fail at the end of a mission you have to start it all over again. (This gets repetitive)

Pros
-The Heroes have some really nice moves (Great eye candy)
-Setting up ambushes was a nice feature (Send one man to lure an entire army right into a trap)
-The Calvary charge was pretty cool (Storm a whole bunch of infantry men)

Overall the game wasn't horrible but it isn't anything to get excided over.

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