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| pkcRAISTLIN |
| quote: | Originally posted by ONION
But in terms of strategy- Nothing beats playing Q3 in a duel against a top player |
fixed :p |
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| pkcRAISTLIN |
lord of the rings: battle for middle earth 2
firstly, its a massive improvement on the original. lots of gameplay fixes to make everything work that much better. units do what you tell them to do in an intelligent fashion, and do it quickly rather than getting into formation which could take ages and miss the moment. you can build wherever you like now, and you can build your own custom walls! i love building castles i must admit ;)
there are now 6 races, and all seem to be nicely different but designed in such a way as to being able to jump from one to the next without too much hassle.
formations now work 100% better and dont take any time to set up, and theyve removed the option of joining troop types together which was a bit redundant in the original. you can now tell troops to move to a location and specify the formation of your entire army, much like shogun or (i assume) rome total war. saves the hassle of getting those archers stuck in front!
theres an option to create your own character heroes, so needless to say i was smashing things with my very own raistlin last night :) the game keeps track of your hero and their achievements which is a nice addition. capturing gollem in each map and returning the ring to your castle allows an extra hero. nothing exciting but something a little new and different which i always applaud.
the negatives are mainly personal preference issues that i wouldve thought youd include. maybe in a further patch... if you group 2 or more different unit types into a command group you cant switch between the 2 in any way without individually selecting each unit on the battlefield. in warcraft they had a wonderful tab system to cycle thru each unit type, and even in dawn of war the icon for each unit would come up in the command bar. this can be frustrating if youre trying to purchase upgrades in the midst of battle. theres no fast-forward option in replay mode, so you have to sit thru a replay in real time. fvcking stupid. again, there isnt any real way of knowing how much of an improvement the upgrades give you, so when youre trying to choose when you have limited $$ its a bit hard to know what to do. all this stuff like this is really simple to include so i get pretty pissed when its not.
theres a risk styled campaign mode which i havent touched yet but looks intriguiing. ive actually only played skirmish and multiplayer skirmish coz the single player doesnt interest me, but the multiplayer is excellent. much more manageable than the original, though still an ask when you have a load of troops. but thats the nature of the beast i guess. the rock-paper-scissor system is more much effectively and sensibly implemented than star wars: empire at war and i certainly think LOTR is the better of the two (at this early stage).
graphics (especially) and sound are excellent, though expect slow downs on non-ninja machines. im off to buy another 512 ram this week to hopefully alleviate some of that.
its not a warcraft killer (since war 3 frozen throne is perfect) however it might just be the best RTS ive played since.
4 rings out of 5.
edit: just realised the game isnt released yet and not even ign or gamespot have reviews up. oops :D |
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| tathi |
| quote: | Originally posted by ONION
But in terms of strategy- Nothing beats playing UT in a duel against a top player |
Onion is 100% correct. UT is alot more reliant on strategy than dueling in Q3A or any other FPS in both their respective top tiers.
maybe we should educate them our clan video onion? ;) |
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| Philby |
| quote: | Originally posted by pkcRAISTLIN
lord of the rings: battle for middle earth 2
edit: just realised the game isnt released yet and not even ign or gamespot have reviews up. oops :D |
tsk tsk tsk ;)
i wanna try this one, read previews looks interesting, i haven't played the other one so don't know what its like but the fortress building and create-a-hero look pretty cool so i want to give it a go, but i think our computer is several steps below non-ninja so it might be a while... |
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| pkcRAISTLIN |
| quote: | Originally posted by tathi
Onion is 100% correct. UT is alot more reliant on strategy than dueling in Q3A in both their respective top tiers.
maybe we should educate them our clan video onion? ;) |
:rolleyes:
care to explain to me how? its an unrealistic FPS, just like quake is. why does it take any more or less strategy? the only diff i see is Q3 took more skill coz UT is a much slower game. |
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