BW2 Review [Discipol's Review]

Discipol

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Well just finished the game like 2 seconds ago and these are my impressions about the game. Because this forum is 100% spoiler I won't bother to warn you IT IS A SPOILER. I write on behalf of the Romanian BW Fanclub...

THE GOODS:
1. The visual effects are out of this world! Even at the lowest settings you can set it (only that work on my PC) it rocks!
2. The audio effects are perfect, I really felt I was in a world of The Gods!
3. War concepts are reasonable, not to complicated, not easy really. Good idea that soldiers eat more food and to compensate this they are immortal :suspect
4. Epic miracles are very nice. Was able to buy only Siren since I was 100% Good  :angel and It was the only thing I could afford.
5. Interesting Quests, nice idea with the Bronze scrolls.
6. Throw or Squeeze Miracles idea good!!! Fire exploding on impact very good.
7. Make smelters next to mines, lumbermills to forests and mills next to fields (this is more efficient). Also don;t build them next to houses (it will make people sad because of pollution)
8. Siren is naked :p
9. Battles do not eat memory even at close-up!!! VERY GOOD!!!!!!
10. Smarter villagers but Creature is dumber. The Creature role is fading... It is better this way because he is to hard to control or to easy

THE BADS:
1. Stupid road concept. On a hill, there where 2 roads I wanted to connect they where like 1 cm away from each other! They couldn't connect....
2. Sometimes the music would turn off / Sometimes I cannot hear the Siren's sounds...at all (very rare);
3. Stupid archers on walls do not attack Creature until he is like 50% in the yr attack range...
4. The "Link" system between armies is weak! Why can't we add more people to a army? They heal snail slow and it seams like they don't know any tactics like Ambush or Divide and Conquer... Low IA IQ.
5. The Creature cannot pass through most crammed spaces. Take a road. Make 2 Villas on each side. Creature can't pass through; can't he move by sucking his belly and squeezing through? Or he can jump no?. Reminds me of Mr. Bean.
6. I couldn't change the thickness or height of walls. Gatehouses cannot be built if a turret is in the way? STUPID!!! Can't the turret of the gatehouse replace it?
7. HAND GESTURES DON'T WORK! Useless...even if they do; just open a panel with miracles.
8. To few Silver scrolls...............................that is 35% of the fun; 35% reasons to PLAY all BW games;
9. When "We've captured a town", we actually killed it! You cannot get the influence in there and cannot put people to populate until captured. No way to get influence there the towns are to far away.
10. Godly actions that impress people are 0. This was very important. Stupid they cancelled it out.
11. Artifacts are gone. Was a good idea...
12 Don't Gods usually spawn MYTHICAL CREATURES? IN not talking about The Famous Cow Creature but Minotaur!!! What it is too similar to
AOM? It is a good thing it is not similar to Caesar 3! NOT...
13. To few normal Miracles!!! Only Evil Epic Miracles!
14. No multilayer? Not even Skirmish?
15. NO GODS? I suspect the Aztec god as being an old friend...you know who!!! :devil

Hints:
1. How to use Shield Miracle: Charge it, pres and hold Action. A white circle will appear. Drag it to increase the circle. Let go. OR Charge it and throw it. It is like a Miracle Air Burst really and stalls armies before I charge a Fire Miracle :blush
2. You will always have TOO MUCH WOOD except in the first Aztec realm (before the final confrontation).
3. Learn all miracles but Meteor. Teach the Creature all Miracles.
4. Make your Creature expert soldier and builder. You don't need too much resources because you'll need to make more storehouses = occupy to much space.
5. Buy the books! Me thinks that will make the villagers smarter + the university will be better...
6. Don't waste tribute and ore on fortified walls!!!
7. Even if you are Evil don't build catapults!!!
8. Don't buy a toy for your Creature! Teaching him is enough.
9. Sacrifice 30 minutes or you're time and manually teach you're pet all he knows and doesn't :suspect
10. When he is fighting in your influence heal him; only he is healed; blast the opponent AND ONLY HIM, do it when he is away from the creature (throw the fireball on his back);
11. Archers PWN on Creatures;

More to come...(Wrote this in a hurry, sorry for spelling mistakes) :suspect
 
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