Thursday, October 14, 2010

Game: Battle of Wesnoth


Wesnoth is one of those games, you either like or hate. It is a very simple, straight forward to begin with  and still only recommandable to brainiacs. 

The game is turnbased tactics at its finest. The goal is to reach a specific spot on the battlefield or crush the enemy, depending on your mission. It sounds easy and straight forward, but it is not. You have a hero, who is able to recruit new minions on a castle. After this, you command your soldiers in battle on a hexagon field. During the fight, they will gain expierence and get stronger, as well as becoming a higher class.  
And this is it, pretty much. There are of course different races as elves, humans, dwarfs, orcs, undead and so on. Every race has a different set of characters with their own specialities. There is also a day/night shift and the soldiers strength in/decreases, depending on where they stand. 
After you won a mission, the campaign goes on and in the next session, you can recruit your soldiers from the last mission. This is a very important feature, because in the later game it is unavoidable that your units have a high level. 
There is also a multiplayer modi, including online games. Needless to say, that you get the full game with eveything there is to it. You select your race, set parties and fight 'til death.
Sadly, this game leaks a build modus, where you could create your own base. Also, every other way to make a change of the gameplay is missing, so it gets monoton pretty fast. And if you are one of the lucky few who actually can stand this game for a longer period, you'll be mad because of the difficulty. Even in the easier campaigns the game gets horribly hard.
In the end, I can only repeat myself. Try the game and see it for yourself, it's free and you don't need to register or anything like that.


You can download it here!

52 comments:

  1. good info. too bad you can't create your own levels, however maybe the developers will add that functionality later.

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  2. Not my type of game play, sadly.

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  3. You should try evony, it's similar but better.

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  4. lol
    this looks weird! the people are bigger than the mountain!

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  5. This looks interesting, I like tactical turn based games

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  6. Thanks these kind of games pique my interest

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  7. Meh Im not a man for turnbased stuff.

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  8. Played it at one point, but stopped for some reason. Thanks for reminding me.!

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  9. Eh, not a fan. Tried it. Got tired of it REAL quick

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  10. Looks a lot like original starcraft. I like what I see, i think i'm gonna try it out!

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  11. I will check it out, for I am smrat

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  12. Dont think I ever played that game

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  13. I think i'm going to give it a try.

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  14. this looks like an interesting game

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  15. Good review, and that map remember me the map of Golden Sun (GBA) lol

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  16. Ive actually played it before. Personally i see it as a 7.5/10 type game. Your right though, some hate it some love it.

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  17. this looks like a game Ill probably like

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  18. That looks so much like Warcraft 2 :O

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  19. I'm not a big fan of turn based games.

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  20. Very oldschool style, I don't liek it so much.

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  21. I have too many games to play already but I will put this one in my backlog.

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  22. this looks to be exactly the kind of game i love

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  23. sucks you can't build your own base but still it looks promising

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