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Swords and Soldiers Review (PS3)

Posted by Lucie Ornstova (Lu-Corn), 312 days ago
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Swords  & Soldiers a fight-strategy game on the Playstation Network. A hilarious remake of the brutal Vikings conquest against other great civilizations:  the Aztec and the Chinese.  Enter into the skin of the warriors and  become the best chief ever with the orders of the terrifying troops, destroy your enemies without  feeling any remorse, using magic and betrayal.

The Swords & Soldiers characters are without fail, they aren’t realistic but are the best caricatures of the different peoples.  The Viking Women are small with extremely big boobs, long blond plaits and wearing typical clothes. The Viking warriors are small too, with red hair and moustache. Their biggest occupation after the fight is food and beer. In the game Vikings are limited, rude  and strongest. The Aztec look nice and svelte with gold-brown skin. They are perhaps not so strong but vicious. In close combat they are really bad, but if they use their poisons bomb,  few people can survive.  The Aztec women and soldiers looks like small Indians with a feather in their dark hair. They are cute but behind their angelic faces are hidden dangerous soldiers.

The same thing for the Chinese, the smallest people but the most furious. At the beginning they are slow but once their upgrades are done they are deadly. With their short statures, yellow skin and straw hats they don’t seem it, but they are really human bombs. The scenery is detailed with structures and it’s all caricatured. The colors are more living, everything is more round, exaggerated and looks happy. Even the snow storm looks totally cool, with big flakes, the same for the poisons bombs, a green gas around the enemies. It is funny to watch but the damage is far less fun for your opponent. And to complete these super graphics you have still better animations. The characters throw themselves into the fighting like crazy and start the massacre. Another funny point before you start to play, you are on the  world map and it looks like the game called “Ludo”, the little pawn which you move on the card and a other cool animation is the difference between day and night. It reminds one of Asterix and Obelix“ who are fighting day and night.

You can replay any level which you have already finished. In the menu you have at first two choices: play as single player or multiplayer. For the single player more possibilities open to you, campaign, skirmish  or challenges. To play the challenges you must play the campaign and during the game you unlock them (survival, Barber Run and Boulder). In this case you don’t have the choice between the different people, you just play the ones given. 

The same for the skirmish mode and in this mode you change and choose lots of stuff like the size of maps, difficulty, the opponent, the quantity of mana, gold, characters … and when you are sated to play alone switch on the multiplayer mode and confront your friends. In this mode, you choose your people,  the color of yours clothes, the different  maps and the difficulty. It is for the usually best if you are Viking , in the other cases it is worse because there isn’t a good game balance here. If you want win with the Aztec or the Chinese you must hope to play against a friend who is really bad in strategy or is slow in building up forces. I think this is the only really negative point of the game and that only in the case if you don’t select the Vikings. Of course you can always choose not to play them and have more pride in your successes. But it will be extremely difficult.

 Our Rating for Swords and Soldiers Review (PS3)
8.0
Replay
you will play until you finish all campaigns in the hardest difficulty and find the best strategy to destroy all your enemies faster.
8.0
Graphics
Funny caricatured characters which make you smile during all the game . Nice environments and animations as well.
8.0
Sound
nothing to say except really successful sounds and music. Very well done.
8.0
Gameplay
Easy to control and understand, so you can use all your concentration to determine the best strategy to kill everybody.
6.0
Multiplayer/Online Content
As in every multiplayer mode, you love the side to play with your friends but here a big one negative point not the same strong between the people. Vikings in particular seem overpowered.
7.5
Overall
An original fight-strategy game, where you can replay the Vikings conquest though the whole world in a nicely presented game visually and audibly. Just some minor game balance issues in multiplayer.

Rating: 5.0, votes: 1
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