A surpremly average, ripoff RTS.
User Rating: 4.1 | KKND 2: Krossfire PC
\Warning: I used a LEGAL CD rip of this game for this review meaning I didn’t have movies or music so they are not reviewed. KKND (Krush Kill N Destroy) Krossfire is a crap RTS it looks boring it sounds boring and it is boring The graphics are average. Units are boring and uninspired. You just have basic infantry like machine gunners and grenadiers, light stuff like motorbikes and heavy armour like APCs. There are two other forces, Robots and a weird alien force. Still they are boring and undefiled. The locales are just plain water grass and mountain landscapes. Nothing jumps out and slaps your eyes about. Sound is just as nondescript. Basic sounding gunfire, generic explosions, and weak screams make it a bore to listen to. Some of the unit acknowledgements are cool but as you’d guess they get repetitive. The series 9 (robots) speech is some of the worst in RTS history, with what sounds like a normal human voice trying to sound like a robot which just ends up being very corny, lame and very annoying. The gameplay in this could have been tolerable, but for the fact that the game is totally unbalanced. Base defenses are way too strong. You might send 15 MG infantry, some grenadiers, 4 APCs and a few light units to attack a single Robot guard tower and they will all die. Bases defenses dish out way too much damage and take way too much punishment. It makes games boring wars of attrition., just letting your oppent impale himself on your base defense, and sending wave after wave of units to take out theirs. There is also way too much countering. Every unit totally owns one type of enemy and gets instantly killed by another, which makes battles boring since its very easy to counter and to guess what the enemy will use. The unit AI isn’t bad with decent pathfinding but they can be dumb reacting to base attacks with units ignoring enemies attacking buildings, sometimes just sitting there. The basic gameplay is still just collect build and conquer like almost all other RTS games. You make a refinery you make a vehicle deport etc you create a mobile oil drill move to an oil patch deploy it to make a derrick like structure and use a harvester like vehicle to ferry old back and forth for dollars. Another thing that makes it boring is the fact that the sides are exactly the same graphics look totally different but they all have equivalent units of each other and nothing unique. Yawn. All up this is a boring frustrating game.
