age of wonders: planetfall deluxe edition review

Glad I got it for free on the PlayStation store. I wonder if they actually took time to play it themselves, because the issues are obvious. So sad as this could have set some of the developers on the road to success. Give me a few days with this Dev's and I can guarantee I could iron out all of the niggles that leave this game an over complicated and unfulfilling mess. Sadly it is not implemented successfully. All the elements are there to make this one of the best strategy games ever. I feel that the game could benefit from building your own teleporters so that you can actually get back to your base to defend it against surprise attacks that take over your best city, and leave you feeling that you are wasting your time playing. It seems like the development team are half vegetarians (herbal health supplements, donkey sanctuary & celery stalk supply centre as city names !?!) and half psychopaths that hate penguins. This makes what should be the best part of the game pointless to play as you are guaranteed to suffer a complete wipe out. When it's the enemies turn it ends almost everytime with an entire squad of your best soldier's being wiped out by a land jellyfish or grasshopper destroying a whole squadren of your toughest units.

You can either skip the battle and win almost every time or you can fight them yourself only to your whole army miss almost every turn and when you are lucky enough to hit the enemy, even the best units and hero's only take a small nibble off the enemies health bar Even the special weapons like laser strike only take a tiny amount of health of your enemies. When it comes to the battles I feel it is extremely irritating. Whilst the diplomacy option is a good idea, I feel it has been poorly implemented and frustrating. All the icons at the top are barely explained. When I first loaded it up I was a little confused with all the different elements. When I first loaded it up I was a little confused I was very optimistic about this game as it combines a lot of my favorite elements in one. I was very optimistic about this game as it combines a lot of my favorite elements in one.

Age of wonders: planetfall deluxe edition review