![]() ![]() It was also worth noting that each battle doesn’t just level your hero. It’s worth noting that both Gameforge and Blueside confirmed that there would be further classes and units planned to expand the roster on both ends after launch. ![]() For the unit side, the available units are not split among the factions at this time, but there are still around 80 different units to amass, mix, and match in your armies as you progress through the game. For these two sides there were five classes laid out to choose from for your hero. The other two are Humans and the Dark Legion. So how does Kingdom Under Fire 2 handle these aspects? Well, for the RPG side there are 3 main factions, but one is an unplayable enemy. With all that said, factions are a huge part of real-time strategy and classes are a huge part of RPGs. So, all along as you achieve max level with your character, you’re learning to become a master of a whole entire army as well as the skills that your hero has to influence the battle.” How Is Kingdom Under Fire 2 Split Up Among Heroes & Their Units? Meanwhile, the game takes the steps to show you how to command them. “During the journey to reach the max level, you start with a small group, and then unlock troops. “Our game is more about the experience of becoming a general or commander, rather than just you slashing your enemies the whole game,” Kim further explained. “It’s cool to be able to heal your troops or blast a group of troops with an ice blast, but it absolutely needed to be something where it wouldn’t be that complex as you learn it.”Īnd to that end, Kim says the acquirement of your troops and units is a part of the growth of your hero. “They had to pace it out carefully before we were ready to show Kingdom Under Fire 2,” Nemeth explained. You switch between taking control of your character and occasionally moving out from them to direct your units in movement and combat, working to strategically position your units for a tactical advantage while your main character works to sway the battle with their powerful abilities.Īccording to Gameforge Executive Producer Botond Nemeth, that curve of learning and education was everything. Even when we finally got to the part of the demonstration of Kingdom Under Fire 2 where those huge battles are happening. As the game progresses and your character grows stronger and amasses more power, you then unlock and gather stronger and more unique troops to command, to the point where you’ll choose build a set of which units you field in a battle.Īll along the way, the game guides you up its slope into eventual large-scale battles. It’s not an overwhelming amount of units mind you, but just enough to that when you start to engage in some small-scale battles beyond your player character, you ease into commanding your main character and units in tandem. Then, as the scope of the quest expands, you start to amass a few troops under your command. You start in the RPG elements, hacking and slashing at enemies, leveling up your main character, gaining skills, and acquiring treasure and resources like you would in any RPG. It seems to ease the player in at every step of the way. Kingdom Under Fire 2 doesn’t just throw you into the fray with an RPG character and tactical decisions to make. So how does it work? Putting all of these elements together is neat, but does it help you figure it out proficiently? From what we saw of the game, yes. “Further games explored the action RPG and hack n’slash experience, and Kingdom Under Fire 2 is the first of the series to combine those elements under the addition of a true MMO experience.” How Does Kingdom Under Fire 2 Teach Players to Play? That might sound difficult to handle at first, but when we had a chance to see the game firsthand in a chat with Blueside and Gameforge (who are publishing the game on PC in Europe and North America), it was surprisingly easy to grasp and an intriguing game at that.Īccording to Blueside Creative Director Jubo Kim, it’s almost a natural evolution, “The original Kingdom Under Fire was a pure real-time strategy,” Kim explained. It’s a hybrid of real-time strategy and action MMORPG. In Kingdom Under Fire 2, Blueside has chosen to bring everything that came before together and improve upon it in a cohesive and unique experience. Will the game be unwieldy? Will it handle one part well and another part not-so-much? Kingdom Under Fire is a franchise that has explored a myriad of genres in its releases with the likes of strategy, MMORPG, and action under its belt. When we hear about a game that attempts to blend genres, it can sometimes illicit uncertainty. ![]()
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