Kingdom Under Fire: A War of Heroes takes place in the land of Berish, a fantasy realm with a shady past. Rick Miner, a hero who perished in battle against the Black Dragon Nibles (we can only assume it's not pronounced 'nibbles'), has been resurrected. But his resurrection is twisted and he's returned as Rick Blood, possessing all the powers of Nibles and worse.
While the game is reminiscent of WarCraft, enough innovation and gameplay make it formidable and excellent in its own right. As befitting what is primarily a strategy game, the main character, Curian, must sally forth on various missions, all inevitably involving large-scale warfare. Like the Heroes Chronicles series, buildings are created to supply various troops, resources culled to feed and clothe them and heroes lead armies into battle.
Combat is conducted in real-time, which creates a sense of immediacy that separates it from turn-based role-playing strategies. When orcs come in waves to attack human villages, each raid heightens the tension. When an entire army of knights comes galloping onto the screen, there's a palpable sense of relief. This ambiance alone makes Kingdom Under Fire a real treat.
Sep 05, 2020 Free Download Kingdom Under Fire: Heroes PC Game – Return to the battlegrounds of Bersia in Kingdom Under Fire: Heroes, the sequel to the Xbox cult hit Kingdom Under Fire: The Crusaders, updated into HD for modern PCs. Command new units across seven new campaigns, each featuring a new playable character. Medieval mayhem returns! Sep 20, 2005 Kingdom Under Fire: Heroes takes place five years before the events of Kingdom Under Fire: The Crusaders. Massive battles unfold on living, breathing battlefields where explosions, chaos, and mayhem erupt from all sides in cutting-edge 3-D. If you haven't played Kingdom Under Fire or want to try this strategy video game, download it now for free! Published in 2001 by Gathering, Kingdom Under Fire (aka ממלכה תחת אש) is still a popular fantasy title amongst retrogamers, with a whopping 4.8/5 rating. Kingdom Under Fire: The Crusaders brings the 2004 cult action-strategy hybrid hit to PC. Take up arms and lead massive fantasy armies from the front lines. Experience an epic scale medieval warfare!! Conquer your foes with sword and sorcery, steel and strategy! Enhanced for modern PCs.
Flaws in the game are minor. For example, with a synchronous strategy game of this type, you're often forced to scroll quickly from one part of the overland map to another, which can make for some dizzying situations that a better interface could have eliminated, such as a means of flipping quickly between structures. This is not a new concept, as games like Daggerfall that easily handle distance travelling illustrate. Some players may dislike the save option, available only at the end of each scenario.
Graphics constitute one of the great strengths of the game. Each character is meticulously detailed as they walk, work or engage in combat. Whenever a character type is selected, a 3D animation of his or her head appears. While the animation is not coordinated with the audio, it does provide a more intimate contact with troop types that would otherwise be lost from a bird's-eye view. Between scenarios, animated CGI-movies tell the story.
Kingdom Under Fire: The Crusaders brings the 2004 cult action-strategy hybrid hit to PC. Take up arms and lead massive fantasy armies from the front lines. Experience an epic scale medieval warfare!! Conquer your foes with sword and sorcery, steel and strategy! Enhanced for modern PCs.
There is no lack of audio in Kingdom Under Fire: A War of Heroes. Clicking repeatedly on a character isn't as humorous as WarCraft but there's enough variety in the responses to make them entertaining. The voices representing the various troop types are unique enough to distinguish who is who by sound alone, an important factor when frantically sending orders.
Overall, Kingdom Under Fire provides just the right mix of graphics, sound and strategy to make for an entertaining evening of orc-bashing.
Graphics: An animated map displays troop movement as the story unfolds. Meticulous detail, good animation and excellent perspectives make the graphics memorable.
Sound: Complementing the detailed and important voice work is a narrator who reads every word of the scrolling text between scenarios in a magnificently knowledgeable voice, sprinkled with a good dose of humorous asides.
Enjoyment: Kingdom Under Fire has addicting gameplay, an intuitive interface and balanced scenarios. The game is by no means easy but it's just challenging enough to keep you coming back for more. At times, the game's titles make for unintentionally humorous encounters. The main villain is a guy named Rick and adding Blood as his last name doesn't make him any more imposing. The first villain Curian faces is the horrible Red Ogre Chief, Likuku (pronounced, leh-KOO-koo). 'Nuff said?
Replay Value: Multiplayer mode via LAN or Internet adds to the replay value but lack of a save function within scenarios can be annoying.
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Read Full ReviewThe bold claim made by developers Phantagram for their new game Kingdom Under Fire is that it offers a unique blend of action, RTS and RPG, all wrapped up in one bumper-filled fantasy package. The problem with such claims made for the 'Throne of the Ultimate Game' by being a jack-of-all-trades, is that it inevitably leads to a product that dilutes certain aspects because of adding others that wouldn't normally be present. One word: Birthright. And so it is with Kingdom Under Fire. That's not to say it's a bad game, but each of the elements - RTS and Action/RPG - are only shadows of the best of breed in their genre.
Kingdom Under Fire does have a story, in fact one each for the human and devil sides in the game's two campaigns. The human side sees you lead a hero character called Curian as he gathers allies to fight the forces of evil led by Rick Blood. As the game progresses, your hero gains experience, collects items and gains abilities, making him all the more powerful as each scenario unfolds. This is one of the game's more endearing features, though it may have been better still if the hero could be more freely developed through a wide variety of skills and attributes, as is the case in Warlords Battlecry. Part of the appeal of the 'RPG' character development in a game of this ilk is freedom of choice in that development, and that's rather lacking here, sadly.
Rather than mixing the hero development seamlessly into the RTS aspect a la Battlecry, Kingdom Under Fire instead offers two disjoint styles of play. Each mission will be either RTS or Action/RPG, with no middle ground. The RTS gameplay is very much in the style and flavour of Warcraft 2, with quite a similar blend of resource gathering, unit types, spells and interface options. That means the interface is rather dated; there is no way to queue orders, for example, but the more basic features such as build queues and muster points are present. It also means there isn't a great deal of variety in units, structures and upgrades.
The Action/RPG missions play out like a poor man's Diablo, though you can control up to three heroes in a single mission. The graphics are weaker, the monster variety not so great, and the interface and character traits are comparatively less functional. There are, for example, only ten item slots for each hero, at least half of which will generally be taken up by health, mana and other potions.
One of the snags caused by the storyline being interspersed within the missions is that the player loses control of their hero when a story element unfolds. This is done without warning, and can be very confusing when it happens.
But the most frustrating aspect of Kingdom Under Fire is the lack of an in-mission save. Couple this with the designers' inspirational placement of the tough 'boss' enemies at the end of each mission, and you can quickly foresee the potential for your keyboard to go flying out the window after a few frustrating deaths. And worse, the game includes traps, so you can be killed in a twinkle by a rock falling from thin air.
OK, so Diablo had a restricted save system, but at least if you played shrewdly, you didn't end up replaying the same mission over and over to learn the way to win. There is a way around this madness, and that's to lower the game difficulty to easy (which is what the designers recommend), but then the game is just that: too easy. I'd rather be able to save every ten minutes and have a challenge, please.
If you're done with the campaigns, you can play in skirmish mode on any of the myriad of multiplayer maps. The AI is quite capable of putting up a decent fight, but ultimately it's all down to who can crank out the units the fastest, with few options for subtleties or finesse. The online matchup service, via the dedicated Wargate servers, proved fruitless, as when I connected (after the game had been released in the UK) the chat rooms were empty, with not a single opponent to be found. You can play up to 8 players over a LAN though, if you prefer local battles.
It's hard to find individually innovative ideas in the game. Each of the heroes in the game has different powers, and their characters fit well into the campaign storylines. There are some useful options in the RTS gameplay, like being able to place archers in towers. But these things are done with more variety and gusto in Battlecry. Add in limitations such as the low number of units that can be selected at any one time, and one wonders how much Kingdom Under Fire's long development time has hurt its appeal.
Ultimately, the problem with Kingdom Under Fireis that while the combination of RTS and Action/RPG styles may be relatively innovative, the features offered within each are not. In fact they're decidedly weak compared to Warlords Battlecry and Diablo. The storyline is good, but the missing features and the incredulous decision to omit an in-mission save game option combine to leave a feeling of frustration rather than satisfaction. Multiplayer options are also limited given the absence of life on the Wargate servers. The game concept is good, but the implementation unfortunately falls rather flat.
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GOLD KNIGHT2020-03-083 points
Very, very, very and very... Underrated gem! In my opinion, this game is best RTS+RPG for all time! If you reader this, downloader now and enjoy!
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