a fun hack 'em up game that suffers from repetitiveness
User Rating: 7.5 | Wars and Warriors: Joan of Arc PC
This game was not that bad for a first time designer. Yes it had some annoying flaws and yes it was very repetitive but all in all beating the crap out of a bunch of baddies is kinda fun. First problem I noticed while playing this game is that if you die and you havn't saved your game you have to restart the entire mission. There are 8 missions in the game and all of them excluding the first one take more than an hour and a half to complete. Not a terrible prob but be sure to save at major checkpoints while on a mission (killing a boss capturing a castle etc). another problem is the AI. there are parts in the game where you have to climb small staircases then kill some dudes to complete a task. If you are leading troops at those points they clog the stairways and it is almost impossible to get out. Also while following you your troops can easily get snagged by objects in their direct path (buildings, trees, siege machines etc..)Last big problem with the gameplay is the RTS (real-time-strategy). You need to switch rom 3d person to RTS to command sieges and to order units to attack enemies. Firstly the angle of the RTS screen is too low so if your units are spaced out its impossible to box them all at once. Also when moving the RTS screen it dosn't move the same way as in 3d person if you move your mouse to the right the screen goes left down.. weird glitch that still dosn't make any sense to me. Aside from the gameplay and the repetitiveness of the game (lay sieges, kill baddies, kill bosses, buy stuff, lay sieges, kill baddies...etc) I liked the graphics and the object of going around and swashbuckling your way into enemy lines is very enjoyable (although I doubt Joan of Arc ever did it).
