Audio/Visual: The voice-acting on the game, along with the music is a bit cheesy. Most of the characters, except for maybe the villains, sound like some jocks off the local high school football team and the music is some corny heavy metal that sounds left over from some 1986 hair band. For a game the represents war and fantasy worlds, you would think there would be something more dramatic and epic. At least you can upload the soundtrack to the Lord of The Rings. Visually the game is on point. When you're in the midst of battle, there could be 50 to 70 different characters on the scene at one time fighting each other. It's an exhilarating experience not to mention the landscapes and the battlefields that you travel across.
Controls: This is where it gets tricky. While in battle mechanics are pretty simple, basically you attack, block and call for help, the strategy part can get a bit complicated. Before the battle begins, you must direct which way your unit will approach the enemy without compromising your other units. Even if you know how to do it in your head, it takes a moment on how to figure it out using the controller. One moment you think your sending your troops west, but the end up veering northwest. They can't seem to go in a straight line, it takes some work.
Hotness: You can level up your character and your troops with skills and equipment to fight better in the battles. Plus you can battle online, can't beat that.
Wackness: The strategy part of the game could be better, so could the storyline and the voice acting. Porting a PC game to a console is always a difficult task.
Test Drive Rating: 3.5
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Quibian Salazar-Moreno. Kingdom Under Fire: The Crusaders (Microsoft). Copyright 2004 Vibe.com.
