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Kingdom Under Fire
Platform : Windows 95, Windows 98
Condition: New
Pre-Owned/Used: Very Good Condition copies available
Players choose one of seven heroes in Kingdom Under Fire, then begin an adventure in a land torn by "The War of the Xok Knights" or "The War of the Heroes". You can choose the Light side, and play Curian the orphan warrior, Keithr the famous knight or the legendary magician Moonlight. Or you can play as a hero of the Dark side. Rick Blood leads this group by virtue of his skill at arms. Likuku the ogre, Amaruak the lich, and Richter Rosenheim, an ancient vampire, chafe under Blood's rule and plot against him, each other and the Light side.
The story will be familiar to fantasy fans: the continent of Bersiah is gripped by epic struggles between the peoples of Light and the vile creatures of Darkness. There are 20 missions for each race, plus seven story missions for each hero. As the missions unfold, players learn truths about the last war and relationships between heroes. The game combines the best elements found in role-playing games like Diablo and Baldur's Gate, and real-time strategy games like WarCraft and Warlords. Each mission contains role-playing game-type action and dialogue events. After victorious battles, your character's experience will allow you to increase abilities and powers.
Visually, there are six sets of background schemes, those of dungeons have modulation effects, and there are 120,000 frames of character animation. The game contains 70 unites, three types of resources and hundreds of items. Up to eight players will be able to play simultaneously in ladder- and league-mode multi-player games over the Internet.
Essentially, Kingdom Under Fire repeats the winning gameplay from the likes of Diablo 2 and StarCraft but adds some real interest by merging the two together so that the key characters in the RTS part of the game can be developed further during the RPG sections.
The graphics in the RTS part of the game are, it has to be said, very good. Creatures ranging from the standard Warriors and Archers to Giant flying dragons, along with huge numbers of them being on the screen at any given time, make for some intense battles. The sound is a little less inspiring, for example; "Not enough food. Build more farm". Now where is the "s" on the end of farm? I know this may not seem a big gripe but when you've heard it for the 50th time you could easily find yourself shouting at your PC about its grammar.
Despite these small gripes, Kingdom under Fire , does suffer from a bigger problem and something that is starting to become less and less uncommon in games today. Like other titles such as Project IGI from Eidos, the lack of save options in Kingdom under Fire can at times be very frustrating.
Kingdom Under Fire is a good game, worthy of some attention, how much attention however, is not apparent. --Andi Flower
