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However, it is not a boring world or story. The Spellforce universe is our typical western high fantasy world of elves and humans and magic, basically the Middle Earth template. While this can be satisfying in the immediacy of your victory it doesn’t give you the satisfaction of knowing that you outsmarted your opponent. Battles will come down to your ability to grow your army as fast as possible to an overwhelming size and basically just overrunning the enemy. While the familiar rock, paper, scissors style of unit advantage and disadvantage is at play here, the later RTS refinements of higher ground being an advantage and the use of formations to gain that sliver of advantage is not evident in this game’s design.
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I found it to be a little frustrating, but luckily never enough to have me contemplate quitting the game in frustration.Īn RTS worth its salt is only as good as the units you can build and the battles you engage in. Moving and rotating the proposed schematic around to get the green light is a chore and requires careful manipulation of the thumb sticks.
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This is where the control scheme is a bit too finicky when compared to PC controls. Like other RTS a green/red indicator will let you know if a building can be placed there and to make it easier the parts of the terrain that cannot support a building will be highlighted in red. As with any other RTS, there are obviously areas that you cannot build on (water, mountains etc). For newcomers to the genre, I would advise that you spend extra time paying attention to these tips, this will make sure that the game is much more rewarding later on.īuilding your base is a little hit and miss. The game’s onscreen text is a little small and dense making absorbing intricacies of the scheme as well as the resource-gathering mechanics on top of trying to understand what each building does more difficult than it should be. I say this as trying to ignore years of muscle memory keyed to keyboard and mouse, and yes not a little bit of PC smugness about superior control schemes, is very difficult. The introduction to the base-building elements is a little intimidating even for veterans of the genre. Thankfully the designers didn’t decide that in order to attach some urgency to gameplay that when the menu is active that the game slows down instead of pauses. Using the shoulder buttons brings up radial menus that allow you to use party member special attacks.
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Watching from an isometric point of view you select your party and send them to points on the map by clicking where you want them to go. The game starts off like any other CRPG set in a high fantasy world. The game’s first tutorial gets you into the heart of the action as you take control of a high-level party sent out to crush some heretics. The mix of RTS and RPG works well and adds a little more of the RPG spice to the genre than the excellent implementations by Blizzard in Warcraft 3 and Starcraft 2. Spellforce 3: Reforced released on PC some 5 years ago and was well received. Spellforce is probably the second-best attempt, after HALO Wars, of implementing RTS on console and is well worth your time. Despite some notable and fun RTS games like the HALO Wars series, strategy fans on consoles have had to make do with tactics games and the odd turn-based grand strategy games such as Romance of the Three Kingdoms and various ports of the Civ and Tropico franchises. It is fair to say that this didn’t spark a craze of porting or developing RTS’ for consoles. I can remember in the 1990s seeing Westwood try and port Command & Conquer to the PSOne along with what looked like a cludgy mouse-style controller. RTSs on consoles don’t have a storied history, but they do have a relatively long one.