Good to finish, then never play again...

User Rating: 8.6 | Wars and Warriors: Joan of Arc PC
The good: Massive battles, character leveling up system, terrain and scenery, wide map, accurate radar.
The bad: Too short, repititive, not that interesting to waste your bucks on.
The ugly: Almost no storyline.

First impressions: Good hack-n-slash with some graphics to look at, but "What am I doing here?" will be your first question.

Sounds: Satisfactory; ambient sounds are fine, swords clashing sounds are somewhat the same every time, dialogues and voice work is a trifle poor, but I think the background music's not that disappointing.

Graphics: As simple as they're good; the terrain's great, character models are somewhat robot-looking, buildings and castles are amazing to watch, grass and trees are quite good.

Gameplay: Great if you like to wade through groups of different soldiers (archers, swordsmen, their commanders etc) and let your sword do its job. At a lot of points, the game was a bit too difficult; it needed "tactics" and some use of your head, but other than that, you almost always have the advantage in battles, meaning it's neither hard nor easy. The battles against the English armies guarding their castles or attacking yours was something I always enjoyed; when I have only Joan, and I have to cut through all the tens of them. I also especially liked the leveling up system, that is, after you've killed a number of enemies, you get enough experience points to level up. You get some points to add to your attributes (strength, dexterity, defense or leadership) and a less number to improve your attacks and buy combos and such stuff. For example, you start with AAA (3 slahses in a row) attack at power 1, then when you have gained a level, you can increase its power by 1, or buy the AAAA attack (that's 4 continuous slashes.) But beyond the Characters - Joan herself, De Metz, La Heire, D'Alencon etc - and the character leveling up system - that of 30 levels which allows perfect specialisation of your Heroes - I think the game story was almost the same every level - forgot to say you finish a map, then play the next one and finish it etc like Chaos Legion - where you simply charge into a group of English troops and nail them, or just siege their city and slay its keepers; that was pretty boring at some times, but it was always fun - to me at least - to explore the wide map and do the side quests.

Overall view: I personally liked this game, that's because I am a Chaos Legion fan, and I have pure fun brandishing my sword and slicing my enemy's guts, and you should expect the same with you if you're my "type" of games. Still, I bet you'd only play it once, I know I did. But if you weren't a fan of such hack-n-slash games, don't look for a storyline in this game; it's just the same young French maiden who walks here and there and fights these and those, nothing at all interesting. Thus, think a million times before buying this game; do you seek to just have your unique set of characters who can make burger out of the invading English, or you seek something, say ...deeper?

Final advice: Unless you're Bill Gates or Oprah, don't spend more than 10$ on it ...