#KESSEN III REVEIW TV#

Just don't touch it if you can't abide strategy. If you're an armchair general who likes thinking yourself mental and watching hundreds of tiny men batter each other to bits - or you always wanted to control the final battle from Lord of the Rings and felt swindled by The Third Age - Kessen III is the obvious choice. Since their inception in the mid-80s, Koei’s many historical strategy games had always been more of an insider proposition. The plot's enthralling and the customisation potential is huge. You just need to be a certain type of person to appreciate it - some would say a meticulous thinker, others an anal stat-obsessed nutjob - and the action has a habit of repeating itself.īut that's only after a very enjoyable six hours or so. There are two different philosophies when designing sequels to successful g.

#KESSEN III REVEIW TV#

You can even unleash Dynasty Warriors-style 'musou' magic attacks, which all look fantastic.īut even if we do appreciate the scale and overall 'feel' of the game, that doesn't stop it from being a little limited and largely impenetrable to anyone but Koei fans. Metacritic TV Episode Reviews, Dynasty Warriors 5, Kessen III, Dungeon Lords and more, On tonights episode of X-Play, we review Dynasty Warriors 5. You can also go solo with one of your commanders, taking part in a Samurai Warriors-style minigame wherein your goal is to waste as many opponents as possible. It's very easy-going and brilliantly simple.

You move across each level in realtime, commanding your team via an intuitive top-down map of the area, and attack by issuing special attacks and hitting the square button. You can plan, customise and fiddle with almost every aspect of your army and tactics, which should appeal to RPG fans (it's almost as detailed and flexible as something like Final Fantasy X), but if you can't be bothered, simply hit 'auto assign' and proceed to battle.

It's like a halfway house between the bloated pomposity of Romance of the Three Kingdoms and Dynasty Warriors' relentless combat. Well, providing you can stomach cold, hard strategy - there's just as much pointing and clicking as there is hacking and slashing.īut it's all remarkably simple. Better yet, even if you don't give a fiddler's pluck about style or atmosphere, you'll still enjoy the game's hearty blend of thinking and fighting.

Kessen iii reveiw