Kohan II: Kings of War (Windows)

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Description

As in many stories, good triumphs over evil and gets over-confident... forgetting all about the evil. It is at that point that evil rebounds to try and seize control once again. That is exactly what happens in Kohan II. Strange creatures are moving across the land, civil war has broken the Kohan people apart, and wars are happening more and more frequently.

Offering you five factions and six races to play, this sequel in the Kohan series offers you a variety of things to do. The game offers five different environments to play in and 32 missions for single-player gaming.

Unlike many RTS games, KoW does not require you to have many worker drones to gather your resources. Simply build mines and that is it. Use your resources to build armies rather than workers.

Another feature in the game that makes it different from other RTS games on the market is that you cannot build individual units (with the exception of siege units). Instead, you build groups of units, led by either a hero or a captain. The groups can have up to 9 units in them if you have the ability to build the support units needed to reach 9.

A final unique feature is that as long as you can retreat your group back within your Zone of Control before all units in it are dead, the units will regenerate HP and resurrect fallen units. You will only have to recruit a replacement group if you let your group die off completely.

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Alternate Titles

• "可汗2：战争之王" -- Chinese Title (Simplified)
• "Кохан 2: Короли Войны" -- Russian title

Part of the Following Groups

• Kohan Series
• Middleware: Gamebryo/Lightspeed/NetImmerse

User Reviews

One of the better games of the genre, though perhaps oversimplified in certain aspects	Cavalary (10389)
A welcome change of pace for strategy fans	harmonia (260)

Critic Reviews

IGN	Sep 21, 2004	8.6 out of 10	86
GameSpot	Sep 21, 2004	8.5 out of 10	85
Level	Nov, 2004	8.3 out of 10	83
Gamesmania.de	Oct 13, 2004	82 out of 100	82
ActionTrip	Sep 30, 2004	80 out of 100	80
Withingames	Nov 26, 2004	4 out of 5	80
GameSpot (Belgium/Netherlands)	Sep 23, 2004	80 out of 100	80
Armchair Empire, The	Dec 13, 2004	8 out of 10	80
GameStar (Germany)	Oct, 2004	65 out of 100	65
Joystick (French)	Nov, 2004	5 out of 10	50

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Awards

• Computer Games Magazine
  • March 2005 - #8 Game of 2004
• GameSpy
  • 2004 – Most Underrated Game of the Year (PC)

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