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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!

A very fun and engaging FANTASY wargame !

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 12 / 12
Date: October 29, 2004
Author: Amazon User

A very fun fantasy-military game. Anyone drooling over the floor while watching the massive action sequences in Lord of The Rings need to check this game.

This game has two very distinct part: RTS (army battle) and action sequence. In this game you play as the general of an army and order you different troops (infantry, archer, pikemen, calvalry, etc.) around and whenever your general enter battle with a specific enemy troop the game switch to a more action-oriented gameplay. The action sequence are very fun and impressive !

Graphics: 5/5 Very detailled and very impressive action sequence can occur during battle.

Sounds: 3/5 The translation and the voices are not very good but they don't ruin the game. And not everyone might like electric guitar in a fantasy wargame.

Control: 5/5 Requires some time to get used to but they mapped out the controls very well in order to be able to do so much with an xbox controller. The action sequence are easy and fun.

Gameplay: 5/5 The story is interesting while not totally original. The units are very well designed and a lot of fun to see in action. Nothing is as fun as charging infantry with your cavalry or fighting an ogre with your general. The duration of the game is very good as there are 4 generals to play with and each campign is quite lengthy. XBOX live will give this game a very strong appeal as it is the only fantasy wargame on XBOX live so far and is nicely executed. I would have liked a camera that would allow to see your troop from above because sometime it is not so easy to see what is in front of you.

Overall: 5/5 A very fun and engaging wargame with some awesome action sequence. I recommend this game !

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.

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.

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.

Awsome!!!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 7 / 11
Date: November 04, 2004
Author: Amazon User

This game rocks! I'm not good at writing reviews so I'll just say this: Kingdom Under Fire is one of the best games I have ever played for the XBox! Go out and buy it or order it now and you'll see what I mean when you start playing it.

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!

AMAZING and ORIGINAL game.

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 5 / 5
Date: January 01, 2005
Author: Amazon User

Ive played just about every RTS game out there. Including Rome Total War and Battle For Middle Earth. And this is theeeee best one yet. It puts you in the middle as a hero and about 1000 other troops.

The battles remind me of the movie Lord of The Rings, b/c the battles are so up close and epic. Knights charing through hordes of orcs, giant elephants, archers, sappers, its amazing.

Though this does have mixed reviews. You must give it a try.

People are stupid.

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 5 / 16
Date: March 21, 2005
Author: Amazon User

Ok the only things I have heard people say when they give it a bad review is that it has bad voice acting music, the graphics look bad when really up cose and the controles are hard. First of dont be a @#$% baby just spend alittle while and learn how to play and get to the later levels thats where the real fun begins, and about the voice acting, well thats one of the most retarded complaints I have ever heard just pute on the korean voice acting and read the subtitles, so there no problem witht that either. Douse grand theft auto look good up close, no it dousnt becouse like this game it is at a large scale so stop complaining about this game and go check your @#$$%ng eye site. and the music if you dont like it, just turn it off! this gaem has axcellent gameplay, is unique fun and in some ways seems alittle bit more realistic then other rts in my opinion. Of cours it isnt for everyone, mostly just the larg amount of babyish gamers outt there that cant teach themselves to press acouple buttons in an unusual way but others also will possibly not enjoy this. But I tell you it is an excellent fun game that at least diserves 3 hours of your time to give it a chance, becouse if you do you most likely wont be dissapointed!

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.

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