Review of Total War Battles: KINGDOM
Over the years, endless and pointless arguments about which is better – a PC or a console – both sides have used dozens of arguments. In the protection program for keyboard lovers, the Total War series has always stood apart – you, they say, do not, and never will. It’s true: Total War is so complicated, multifaceted and, sorry, “baking” thing that it was unthinkable to present it on consoles, too much would have to be simplified. “Available Total War” is the same wild combination as, for example, “Maybach-Oka”. But then the world turned upside down. The series did not even appear on consoles, but – to hell with half measures! – on Android and iOS. No starting price.
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How to play?
Affordable Total War did happen: in the first fifteen minutes KINGDOM will explain to you all the game aspects that are no more complicated than the enrichment strategy in some Farm Frenzy. You have resources – food, ore, timber, steel and gold. The first four are replenished easily and naturally. It is enough to build up empty cells with mills, smithies and other utility garages, and then remember to harvest.
But with gold it is more difficult: ingots are given out for special services to the Motherland, and even then in some humiliating crumbs. And the trouble is not even that, but that a lot of gold is needed. All the important upgrades, all the best units, all the most useful buildings cannot be obtained without solid heaps of yellow metal. Of course, it is gold that can be bought in the in-game store for real money. And after an hour or two you will have to do it. Or you won’t have to, but then get ready for daily pressure: don’t you want to buy this?
The strategic mode, although visually and resembles an older brother, has practically nothing to do with it. There are no visible enemies on the map and, as a result, there are no turn transitions. You are alone, but fog is spreading around your region: according to legend, these lands are owned by the invaders who once captured the regions from your ancestors. The loot can be returned in two ways: either by paying a colossal tribute, or by fulfilling certain conditions. There is no usual campaign with all this diplomacy and trade. It is as if you were thrown into the once inhabited, but now long-abandoned world.