The storyline once again penned by the excellent Jamie Thompson will unfold as you progress and promises to have more twists than a bucket of curty-fnes. These factions will be led by one of 50 Al generals, each with their own tactical styles, ranging from impetuous to cautious.
Instead of simply defending and attacking, the Al generals will harness a multitude of strategies, such as sending out scouts to identify your base's weaknesses as well as attempting to capture key strategic areas of the map that they feel will benefit their efforts.
In fact, Black Cactus feels so confident about its new Al that it believes many players won't be able to spot the difference between an Al general and a human one. Hmmm, we'll believe it when we see it of course, but it'll be interesting to put this claim to the test in the optimised online games, where up to eight human and Al players will be able to take each other on.
And with an intuitive map editor included with the package, there'll be maps aplenty. Possibly most exciting of all though, is the Valhalla mode, which does away with base building and allows you to concentrate purely on combat. In a similar vein to Medieval: Total War, each side will be given a certain amount of credits to spend on units. The selection wiH include several new amy types such as Tree and Gold Elemental. After you've made your selection, you'll have to position them on a map before hostilities commence.
However, there's a twist to the relentless carnage. We will, as ever, keep you more posted than a redirected letter. My name is Warrior Kings: Battles, but my friends call me Warri.
So here goes This unplanned delay is due to some nasty bugs I picked up while on Safari in Africa. Ooooh, it was lovely though. The lions, the giraffes, the man-eating aardvarks. Well, maybe not the aardvarks, but definitely the lions. Lovely it was.
And hooorah once more. Which is great news for all of you waiting to get your hands on me oooooh, behave. At least that's what Black Cactus has told me. My Valhalla mode will allow you to pick and customise an army, and place them on one of my beautiful, rolling maps and play against an equally valiant human or Al controlled force.
Much like the custom battles in Medieval: Total War in fact. So please do bear with me. Our site gets updated on daily basis with addicting games so there is no excuse for getting board any more, so keep coming back this gaming community needs you. Follow your free Addicting game site on many of the biggest social networks like facebook and twitter Just copy and paste the code that is available next to the game to your Blog, MySpace or Facebook page, and beyond so you can play on your own website or webpage!
Behind the Enemy. Teddy Ball. Double Trouble. If you think Warrior Kings may not be for you after all, then go to the In Perspective box.
Otherwise, proceed to Paragraph After constructing a prosperous farming community filled with trading posts, taverns, storehouses and some barracks, you set about liberating your people from their oppressors, casting aside the usurpers and scattering their flayed bodies around the land like skin confetti. Your perspicacious archers fall back to safer ground when threatened by more powerful units, chasing after retreating foes to cut them down as they flee.
As the final village falls, an enemy baron begs for his life, an example of the game's branching storyline and tech tree, whereby your actions and choices define what units you can build in future missions, and the direction the plot adopts. You must choose carefully. If you wish to make an alignment choice now by reading up on the three sides on offer, then go to the Choosing Sides panel. If you're worried the game might still be lacking something important, go to the Missed Opportunity box.
Otherwise proceed to Paragraph Your journey of discovery is at an end. You have uncovered a stunning RTS, one with a near unparalleled diversity of units and tactics, varied mission goals including heroic prison breaks, sieges and last-stand defences, as well as an intricate economic system and a sublime multiplayer game. But the road is yet long and perilous, full of unexpected and challenging obstacles. Your pathetic machine wheezes in defeat, spitting out the disc in feeble resignation.
You must confront your bank manager for a loan. His gnarled finger is poised to dial. Will you jump up and deliver an arching slap to the top of his head go to Paragraph 4B or throw yourself down and beg go to Paragraph 3B? Your love of simplistic patronising strategy games is your undoing.
Try as you may, you cannot deal with WK's need for militaristic cunning and detailed strategy, a foreign concept to the isometric mundanity you hold so dear. As you slouch to the floor, you curse your lack of RTS ambition.
Your adventure is over You realise too late your catastrophic error. Cackling like a crazed hyena, your bank manager kicks you off and mocks you hideously as two suited men drag you round the back to tenderise your skull.
Your adventure is over before it even begins. Your blow connects with a satisfying thud, and a clump of hair arcs through the air, revealing a flaky pate. Now go to Paragraph We see a lot of potential in this one. In fact we have done for about the last 18 months, during which time, Black Cactus' RTS Warrior Kings has been passed from one publisher to another like an unwanted child with a special, but potentially unrecognised gift. For a while, WK disappeared from the scene, ditched by Vivendi and left floating on the brink of the gaming gutter, before Microids came along and picked it up, wiped the grime from its folds and tried desperately to revive it.
A couple of months ago we were led to believe the game would be reviewable, only for the code to be snatched from beneath our noses like a mucus strand by a probing tongue. However, things appear to be well on track for a February release, so I toddled off to Black Cactus to have an exclusive playtest of the latest code. And this is what I saw Warrior Kings is Black Cactus' first project, and as first attempts go, they've set themselves a gargantuan task, seeking to meld epic battles and siege warfare with an extensive research tree and a deep-running economic vein.
Nick Ricks, who has previously worked on Dungeon Keeper , talked me through the game, and wasn't in the least surprised when I instantly drew comparisons to Shogun. On closer inspection, the gameplay also bears many similarities to Battle Realms , with resource management playing an integral role in the strategic aspects of the game.
It's only when they reach the city that they actually enter your stocks. So you need to carefully guard your wagons and position your rural structures intelligently, because it takes peasants time to transfer resources from the farms to the villages. Farms needed to be placed with care, by first identifying the most fertile areas of the landscape to allow for maximum production.
Different areas of the land proved to be more plentiful than others, a factor which will hugely influence the positioning of any city, as well as the speed with which resources can be gathered. It wasn't long before carts were transporting resources from the rural areas to the urban settings. It was time to start building up an army.
Unlike most RTSs where you have a choice between two or maybe three different tech trees, Warrior Kings offers you a highly flexible route to customise your unit choices to your style of play. From those you can develop in three different ways. If your style of play is aggressive, then your best bet is to pick the Pagan race, because they have a lot of upgrades very early on in the game. Added on 26 Mar Please register or login to post a comment Register Login. Confirm Something went wrong, please try again.
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