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Knights and Merchants: The Shattered Kingdom

aka: Cavaleiros e Mercadores, Cavalieri e Mercanti, Chevaliers et Camelots, Rytíři a Kupci, Vojna i Mir
Moby ID: 3089

Windows version

Painfully slow

The Good
Graphics wise the game isn't too hard on the eyes. Units can be formed into formations. Honestly I can’t think of too much to say about what I liked about this game, truly mediocre.

The Bad
Basically the pace of the game nailed this game in the coffin. I remember playing the demo of this game when it came out and thinking that it wasn't too bad, maybe worth a play. After later revisiting the game, the pace is simply too slow to keep the attention.

The tedious process of road building exacerbates this point. Each building in the game is required to have an adjoining road to it, and each stone slab must be built. Also the process of feeding troops is tedious and also time consuming, each soldier requires a unit to bring food to them, so if you're planning to manage your troops away from camp for an extended period of time forget about it.

The Bottom Line
If the slow pace doesn't faze you, and a real time strategy game set in a medieval world interested you, this game just might be worth the play.

by IP Freely (3) on July 4, 2004

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