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Category: Video Games
List Price: $39.99
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Rating:  35 reviews
Sales Rank: 6575
Platform: Xbox
Genre: Online Computer and Video Games
ESRB: Mature
Media: Video Game
Autographed: No
Memorabilia: No
Number Of Items: 1
Batteries Included: No
Age: 17 - 20 years
Operating System: Xbox
Shipping Weight (lbs): 2
Dimensions (in): 7 x 5 x 1
MPN: DK300003
UPC: 805529892804
EAN: 0805529892804
ASIN: B0002CHJ2S
Release Date: October 13, 2004
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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| Features:
| • | Experience chaotic medieval battle on epic scale! | | • | Up to 1,000 units on the battlefield at any one time, each one beautifully rendered with 3,000 to 4,000 polygons. | | • | On your command, hundreds of units attack the enemies, sacrificing their lives for victory. You will be a hero- the first to strike and the last one standing. | | • | Over thirty types of units to choose from, from ordinary infantry to hideously transformed monsters and extraordinary aerial creatures. Players can create an almost unlimited combination of troops for maximum tactical strategy. | | • | Realistic physics show units using tools and equipment, such as fire from an entrenched mortar and stone-throwers. The harder you train yourunits, the more efficiently they carry out your commands. |
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Product Description
However, history has a tendency to repeat itself. Without warning, a village near the border of the Sacred Land - where Ancient Heart rested - was invaded by the merciless Orcs. In response to this foul act, Hironeiden declared war against the evil Vellond and began their invasion of Hexter. Ecclesia immediately entered the war as well, in the name of protecting this Holy Ground. Human Characters: Gerald A captain in the Hironeiden Eastern Defense Force, he joined the Hironeide
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| Customer Reviews: Read 30 more reviews...
 A very fun and engaging FANTASY wargame ! October 29, 2004
Sanfis (Canada)
13 out of 13 found this review helpful
A very fun fantasy-military game. Anyone drooling over the floor while watching the massive action sequences in Lord of The Rings need to check this game.
This game has two very distinct part: RTS (army battle) and action sequence. In this game you play as the general of an army and order you different troops (infantry, archer, pikemen, calvalry, etc.) around and whenever your general enter battle with a specific enemy troop the game switch to a more action-oriented gameplay. The action sequence are very fun and impressive !
Graphics: 5/5 Very detailled and very impressive action sequence can occur during battle.
Sounds: 3/5 The translation and the voices are not very good but they don't ruin the game. And not everyone might like electric guitar in a fantasy wargame.
Control: 5/5 Requires some time to get used to but they mapped out the controls very well in order to be able to do so much with an xbox controller. The action sequence are easy and fun.
Gameplay: 5/5 The story is interesting while not totally original. The units are very well designed and a lot of fun to see in action. Nothing is as fun as charging infantry with your cavalry or fighting an ogre with your general. The duration of the game is very good as there are 4 generals to play with and each campign is quite lengthy. XBOX live will give this game a very strong appeal as it is the only fantasy wargame on XBOX live so far and is nicely executed. I would have liked a camera that would allow to see your troop from above because sometime it is not so easy to see what is in front of you.
Overall: 5/5 A very fun and engaging wargame with some awesome action sequence. I recommend this game !
Great Game...Get It! October 17, 2004
Joe J. (Milwaukee, WI)
11 out of 11 found this review helpful
I bought Kingdom Under Fire/Crusaders on October 13, 2004. Overall, I found this game very fun, and very INTENSE. Below is a list of what I didn't enjoy, and what I did enjoy regarding the game.
Negatives:
1. The game needs a bird's eye view without the map. There are four views all together, two on a map (long/close-up), two in melee(mid/close-up). The game would be better if they had a third viewpoint where you could pull back the camera one step further without opening the map to see other units and manipulate them around the screen. This view could look something like a Warcraft/Command and Conquer View. The map does this to some extent, but it can become tedious manipulating the troops on the map on close-up mode. Another option would be the ability to split screens by units, so you could see what more than one of the military units is doing @ once.
2. The voices are pretty cheesy. In the future, phantagram should invest a little bit more in getting better voice actors who don't
sound embarassed to read their lines*
*This could also be viewed positively though
3. The game is lacking a bit in terms of varied gameplay. In the future, it would be ideal if we could customize our own characters, as opposed to choosing one of four templates. Additionally, it would be nice if there could be co-op modes - like in lord of the rings - return of the king or head to head modes outside of xbox live.
Positives:
1.Graphics - This game has amazing graphics that take full advantage of the XBox Platform.
2.The cheesy voices - People who take wars between fictional medieval soldiers and orcs and dark elves too seriously need to get a life. This video game has somewhat of a kill bill/B-movie quality to it, in that there are excessive amounts of blood and gore, bad language, and dark elf females fighting in thongs. The terrible voiceovers are a finishing touch to this sort of craziness.*
*This could also be viewed as a negative
3.Challenging gameplay - This is not the sort of video game which you can start and play the whole way through without ever losing. What I enjoy about it is that as your units/characters get better, you also get better as a video gamer. For example, a newbie couldn't just take your saved game from let's say the 20th mission, and just play as him. He'd die immediately b/c the missions get progressively harder with time, and in order to proceed to further missions, one needs to become a better video gamer.
4. Intense and complex battle sequences/combat. Fighting Melee Combat - Dynasty Warriors/LOTR style, while commanding your units - Command and Conquer/Warcraft style, while taking into account unconventional things such as terrain, sun, weather conditions, etc. all require extreme concentration. To the observer though, your battles will have the same sort of chaos/intensity as the battle scenes in Braveheart, especially as you shift from view to view. It's extremely satisfying to fight hand-to-hand combat with your character against an enemy and to see people dropping to the ground because of your archers, while your cavalry comes from behind and flanks them. That's only an example of three of the many units that you can fight with. This game reinvents the real-time strategy genre, taking elements from Dynasty Warriors, LOTR video game series, Myth, Warcraft, and Command and Conquer, by molding them all into one video game and taking the genre to the next level. This game's very ambitious and it works.
Although the game does have it's flaws, I do not feel that they are overly significant or that they detract too much from the game itself. One can accustom oneself to fighting using the map within a relatively short time, and even though you cannot customize your characters or go coop there are still 4 characters with over 60 missions.
On a scale of 100, I would give the game a 96. Even though it misses a few minute things, it gets the major and main things right. This game has the potential to bring real-time strategy (usually associated with PCs up to this point) to the video game console in the same way that Goldeneye brought first person shooters to the video game console.
I feel that this game will beocme a sleeper hit, and that they will make a really awesome sequel which corrects all of the minor flaws in this version if they take into account people's suggestions.
Brilliant game! Must buy! August 3, 2004
The Man With No Name (Virginia, USA)
21 out of 24 found this review helpful
From the moment I saw this game I knew it would rule.Kingdom Under Fire: The Crusaders is based 50% on real time strategy (RTS) and 50% pure action and destruction! When the action starts the game mainly plays like "Dynasty Warriors"(which is a good thing) except your fighting in a sci-fi version of the middle ages. It's your army against there's. Each army consists of over a thousand units! and over a hundred units on screen at once! You pick which general you want to play as at the begining(the main character) from the human side or from the dark legion. Before going into battle you can aquire more troops for your army (archers,knights,orcs,spearmen,ect), train them, upgrade armor, get more supplies, and even go to the local pub to have a drink and spy on your troops! When all is set and ready, it's off to the Battlefield! Heres where the strategy part kicks in. you order your troops to move wherever you think would be most efficient, you can set up archers on tops of hills, get your horsemen with lances to break the enemy lines, and even send out fire-breathing dragons to weaken your adversaries! The possibilities are limitless! All this combined with jaw dropping graphics and head-to-head online play, it's Perfect!
AMAZING and ORIGINAL game. January 1, 2005
Christopher Alan Senn (USA)
5 out of 5 found this review helpful
Ive played just about every RTS game out there. Including Rome Total War and Battle For Middle Earth. And this is theeeee best one yet. It puts you in the middle as a hero and about 1000 other troops.
The battles remind me of the movie Lord of The Rings, b/c the battles are so up close and epic. Knights charing through hordes of orcs, giant elephants, archers, sappers, its amazing.
Though this does have mixed reviews. You must give it a try.
I would have to disagree.. February 19, 2005
Gamer (Ohio)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I just bought this game, and I love it! The graphics are good, the sounds a little off but you get use to it after a while. Yes, in the beggining the gameplay is a little hard to understand. But i recently viseted gamespot.com and they said the average person takes about two hours to learn the game. It took me a lot shorter, but once you get the hang of it, its great. But yeah, I love this game and rate it a 5!
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