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Mixed or average reviews- based on 11 Ratings

  • Summary: Reminiscent of "Age of Empires II", this historical real-time strategy is based on the Three Kingdoms period of 2nd century China, just after the Han Dynasty fell into ruin, a turbulent time during which dozens of warlords sought the throne and eventually settled into three conflicting kingdoms.
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 7 out of 14
  2. Negative: 1 out of 14
  1. The game is good graphically but can become a little dull if your don’t send out regular attacks on your opponents.
  2. Combines a top-notch economic/civic model, attractive graphics, and solid real-time combat to give gamers a slice of Chinese history. And that, like all things Asian, is tres cool.
  3. Ultimately, unless the historical Chinese context interests you, you'll find that Fate of the Dragon is just another real-time strategy game with a few original features, but with nothing really outstanding to recommend it.
  4. There is a significant difference between the two games—"Age of Empires" is a lot of fun. "Fate of the Dragon" is not.

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Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 4 out of 7
  2. Negative: 2 out of 7
  1. BrendanN.
    10
    FOD is the best game ever. I would recommend this game to those who likes chinese history. Much better than AOE. The drama is perfect. I hope a new version of this game would come out cuz i love it. Expand
  2. MarkA.
    8
    Similar to AOE II, some better points, some worse. overall a pretty good game.
  3. TonyM.
    7
    Great! However the graphics could improve. I think it should have different side like Liu Bei (Shu), Cao Cao (Wei) etc and they shold have specail abilities and unit just like AOE that will make a lot of different! Expand
  4. CarlB.
    4
    I played it. The graphics are poor compared to AOE 2 and the plot is even worse. Don't buy it!

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