However, this is no boring world or story. The Spellforce universe is our typical western high fantasy world of elves and humans and magic, basically the Middle Earth template.
While this may be satisfying immediately after your victory, it does not give you the satisfaction of knowing that you have outdone your opponent. The battle will come down to your ability to grow your army to a colossal size as quickly as possible and basically overcome the enemy. While the familiar rock, paper, scissor style of unit gains and losses is in play here, the RTS refinement of the later high ground is one the use of structures to gain that sliver of advantages and disadvantages is unclear in this game’s design. I found it a little frustrating, but luckily not enough to make me consider leaving the game in despair.Īn RTS worth its salt is only as good as the units you can build and the battles you engage in. Moving and moving the proposed schematic around to get the green light is a chore and requires careful manipulation of the thumb sticks.
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This is where the control scheme is a bit too finicky compared to PC controls. Like other RTSs a green/red indicator will tell you if a building can be placed there and to make it easier the areas of the terrain that cannot support the building will be highlighted in red. As with any other RTS, there are obviously areas you can’t build on (water, mountains, etc.). For newcomers to the genre, I would recommend that you spend the extra time meditating on these tips, which will ensure that the game is more rewarding later on.īuilding your base is a bit hit and miss. The game’s onscreen text is a bit short and dense which makes absorbing the intricacies of the plan as well as trying to understand the resource-gathering mechanics of what each building is supposed to do is much more difficult. I say this as trying to ignore the years of keyboard and mouse keyed muscle memory, and yes the PC’s not in the slightest raving about better control schemes, it’s just too hard. The introduction of base-building elements is a bit intimidating, even for genre veterans.
Thankfully, the designers decided not to do so in order to attach some urgency to the gameplay that when the menu is active the game slows down rather than pauses. Using the shoulder button brings up a radial menu that allows you to use party member special attacks. Viewed from an isometric perspective, you select your party and send them to the points on the map where you want them to go. The game starts like any other CRPG which is set in a high fantasy world. The game’s first tutorial takes you to the heart of the action as you take control of a high-level party sent to crush some heretics. The mix of RTS and RPG works well and adds a bit more of RPG spice to the genre than the excellent implementation by Blizzard in Warcraft 3 and Starcraft 2. Spellforce 3: Reforced It was released on PC about 5 years ago and was well received. , After Halo Wars, Spellforce is probably the second best effort to implement RTS on console and it is well worth your time. Despite some notable and fun RTS games like the Halo Wars series, strategy fans on consoles have had to make do with strategy games and weird turn-based grand strategy games like Romance of the Three Kingdoms and various ports of the Civ and Tropico franchises. It’s fair to say that this didn’t spark the craze for porting or developing RTS for consoles. I remember Westwood trying to port the Command & Konqueror to the PSOne in the 1990s as well for what looked like a kludgy mouse-style controller. RTS on consoles don’t have a long history, but they do have a relatively long history.
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