The time period, strength of each faction, and even things like if the player character can die of old age or not can be set individually. After choosing one of over seven hundred characters, the scenario itself can be modified heavily.
The meat of the game is selecting an avatar and working to rule all of civilized China. It would take ages to fully detail every single system at play here, so I’m not even going to try. There’s a lot going on, and even with a twelve hour tutorial, players may still be overwhelmed. To give a brief description of what this game is, exactly, and how it plays would be… nearly impossible. The Xbox platform has never exactly been a hotbed for Japanese niche strategy titles, but Tecmo Koei decided to bundle it all together so that Microsoft’s boxes could finally experience feudal China in all its number-crunching glory. It’s been out for about a year on the PS4 and PC, and it recently received the boringly-named Fame And Strategy expansion pack. The books are also possibly the most read non-religious text in history, so playing a game to possibly learn something and better connect with my friends, colleagues, and the city around me made taking on Romance Of The Three Kingdoms XIII quite intriguing.
Luoyang is one of China’s four ancient capitals, and it plays an integral part in the story that the original historical novels were based on. So why the sudden interest in a seemingly impenetrable series? I’m coming at this review with a slightly more personal slant to it, as life currently has me teaching English at a primary school in Luoyang, Henan Province, China. However, if the setting and the outlandish characters characters were removed, ROTK is probably the most un- DW game in existence. Like many, my initial thought about the long-running Romance Of The Three Kingdoms series was that it was some sort of Dynasty Warriors title, since it’s made by the same guys and they tend to make games that play a lot like Dynasty Warriors. So, it’s not every day that someone like me runs into a franchise with at least thirteen entries and a thirty-year history that they have absolutely zero experience with.
I’ve been playing for around 25 years, and i pride myself on having varied taste. I’m a person who takes videogames fairly seriously. WTF Buying two 700 year-old, 750 page novels to better grasp what the hell all of this is about. LOW Turning my fingers into pretzels trying to input certain commands. HIGH Commanding 100,000 troops to lay waste to the evil Cao Cao. Bloody, Chaotic Periods Of Human History Make Killer Videogames
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