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Mixed or average reviews - based on 23 Critics What's this?

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Generally favorable reviews- based on 40 Ratings

  • Summary: Creating the Heroes of Annihilated Empires, far from making a game, we build a bridge to the world of imagination living deep inside in each of us. A world that has become an arena for six great races that are ready to engage in the conflict, never seen by these lands before. While leading heroes and mighty armies to victory, bringing your people to peace and prosperity you will encounter hundreds of obstacles on your way. Mixing role-playing game with real-time strategy, we deliver you a new experience and unique gameplay, where you can feel yourself the Hero of a legendary epic tale. This time it's not about units, it's about armies with thousands of soldiers that entrust their fate in your hands. It's about responsibility taken by great leaders and future of entire races. Survival or extinction? It's all up to you to decide. [GSC Game World] Expand
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 5 out of 23
  2. Negative: 1 out of 23
  1. A fine hybrid title that tells a captivating tale, complemented by a stellar cinematic presentation and gameplay that is challenging and rewarding, not to mention compulsively addictive in an old school dungeon-crawler kind of way.
  2. A massive improvement on "Cossacks" and its kin, and it's a real pleasure to play. [Nov 2006, p.86]
  3. Heroes of Annihilated Empires does the standard fantasy RTS elements just fine, but unfortunately doesn’t stand out in any particular way.
  4. 40
    Almost engaging. Despite dripping with cliché, the world is a fun one to visit. It would be much easier to stomach the numerous design flaws had they delivered on their promise in the storyline.

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Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 10 out of 15
  2. Negative: 2 out of 15
  1. ScipA.
    10
    Really great, takes a while to get your hero back from building a base but other then that really fantastic! I played the demo, and just had to have it. Expand
  2. [Anonymous]
    8
    Verry nice game, easy to get used to. A shame there is a lot of bugs and memory managment is really bad quality.
  3. attila
    6
    The single player is not a complete game.
    You'll go weeks without seeing anyone online. Most the people (90%) i have played use some le
    veling up hack...They gain a level every 2 seconds without killing a thing.

    Over all the game has a lot of potential, but it seems like the development team gave up on it before the game was finished. Seems like a rush job...
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  4. gypsydavey
    3
    Awful interface, slow loading, nonsensical fighting, boring, maybe 3 is too many.

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