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[Borodin]

This is both an oldie, and a newbie, so it probably belongs, here:

Burlingame, CA - April 23, 2008 - KOEI, recognized worldwide as the premier brand of strategy and action games, announced today that the Historical Simulation game, Romance of the Three Kingdoms®XI (RTK XI) is coming to Windows-based PCs for gamers throughout North America on July 29, 2008.

You can read it all, here. As this title is being released for PC in the US, I'm sure European distribution won't be far behind.

Damn good to hear this. The last Rot3K was #5. I can still remember when I finished a review of Balor of the Evil Eye, and was told by a Koei rep in Los Angeles that the company had abruptly informed him that it was closing down the US branch and stopping the manufacture of PC products.

[I LOVE NEDDA H]

Originally Posted by Borodin

This is both an oldie, and a newbie, so it probably belongs, here:

Burlingame, CA - April 23, 2008 - KOEI, recognized worldwide as the premier brand of strategy and action games, announced today that the Historical Simulation game, Romance of the Three Kingdoms®XI (RTK XI) is coming to Windows-based PCs for gamers throughout North America on July 29, 2008.

You can read it all, here. As this title is being released for PC in the US, I'm sure European distribution won't be far behind.

Damn good to hear this. The last Rot3K was #5. I can still remember when I finished a review of Balor of the Evil Eye, and was told by a Koei rep in Los Angeles that the company had abruptly informed him that it was closing down the US branch and stopping the manufacture of PC products.

how could they make a real time strategy game of that super awesome romance of the 3 kingdom game... the only real good game was the first 1 anyway and if it wouldnt have been to easy and the difficulty hard wouldnt just bring the prices up and your money down and they would have automatic some things after you conquered over half of china, this would probably be one of the best game of history... how can you post it here thats so sad what they did.. hey the developers were japanese but this game made love chinese history.. i mean i liked it before but now im like addicted to it it so much more of that game what they did to the product is like a moron sleeping with your only love HoW COULD THAT HApPEN may koeir burn in hell for that!!!!

man how could were that little picture with the people mourning for the death of their leader or if you conquer whole china and commander whos life you spared cry so many death will they never been avengend and i thing there were woman at the end or something damn i loved that game... or all that awesome characters with there strength and weaknesses how could they destroy something so great they definetly deserve to burn in hell

[Borodin]

how could they make a real time strategy game of that super awesome romance of the 3 kingdom game...

It's easy, just as in the Europa Universalis and SimCity games. You click to stop the time, and click to restart it.

the only real good game was the first 1 anyway

It was the toughest, as far as the AI goes, I'd agree. But a couple of the others on PC were very good.[/quote]

how can you post it here thats so sad what they did...

What did they do? You mean, stop making PC titles? Retart making PC titles? Contact extraterrestials to destroy the earth? I'm not sure what you are referring to, here.

[_r.u.s.s.]

Originally Posted by Borodin

You click to stop the time, and click to restart it.

that has to be pretty boring, to make the same things over and over

[Borodin]

Originally Posted by _r.u.s.s.

that has to be pretty boring, to make the same things over and over

Feh, so "restart" has two meanings in English. That's what I love about this language. It's ambiguous enough to confuse anybody except me.

[Borodin]

Bought it a week ago, and I've been enjoying it a great deal. The AI definitely isn't what it was in, say, Rot3K I and II, but it's pretty decent, and the sheer variety of things you can do is great. Really good game.

[Borodin]

It stated that the game is quite time-consuming. Even the tutorial would take several hours... Is that true?

It's both a tutorial, and an introductory scenario, rolled into one. So you can set it aside, save, and pick it up again.

As for being time-consuming: well, it is a turn-based strategy game. If you don't want something time-consuming, there are plenty of casual games out there. This really isn't the kind of genre to look to for quick sessions.

RTK is an overblown whale...

The AI isn't great, but it isn't anywhere near as bad as he makes out. It's actually a lot better than the AI is many of the most popular games we all enjoy. If you play on the harder level, there are several scenarios that are very challenging, especially if you play ironman: no reloading from previous saves when a general gets stolen from under you, or another escapes from prison, or a city mutinies. And if that's not difficult enough, you can always take the weakest side in a large scenario with many opponents. Even the very best players up on the KOEI site admit to having lost repeatedly with a few of these. Anyone who claims they've easily defeated all the scenarios, on all sides, is fit to be a politician, in my opinion.

Incidentally, the AI was improved in the add-on, but KOEI, in its infinite wisdom, hasn't issued a translation of the Chinese/Japanese add-on (known as PUK) in English for the PC.

As for the game itself, I like it. There's a fair amount of personality to the many characters you can employ, and a great creation system that lets you not only role up new supporting characters but give them individual personalities, goals, family members, enemies, etc. The strategic sub-games of intellectual arguments and horseback battles are a hoot, and the way you handle an empire as it grows, while your enemies grow more determined to destroy you, really adds quite a challenge. Check out the demo yourself, though it only gives the slightest flavor of the full game.

[angry axe]

hmm this is like dynasty warriors empires, kessen 1 and dynasty warriors tactics, put together with a few extra features