![]() ![]() PLUNGE INTO PULSE-QUICKENING COMBAT Your enemies may grunt unintelligibly, but that doesn’t mean they’re stupid.But victory will require more than brute force it will demand clever strategies, fast tactics, and an ability to deliver punishments strong enough to make a grown monster cry. ![]() Command five Champions, each infused with elemental powers of Fire, Water, Nature, Lightning, or Metal. Immerse yourself in a vast and magical world filled with fearsome monsters, lethal bosses, and unpredictable environments that challenge you to adjust your combat tactics on the fly. This epic real-time strategy extravaganza invites you to unleash the powers of five Champions to defeat the enemy, reclaim the kingdom, and make it back home in time for dinner. I don’t think it’s necessarily for everyone, but there’s a free demo available if you’d like to try it out and see if it’s something you’d enjoy.Welcome to Anteria, a magical kingdom that’d be rather delightful if it wasn’t enslaved by a bloodthirsty horde of enemy factions that have more evil tricks than you can imagine. The game is a unique blend of genres that I haven’t seen attempted anywhere else, and it gets more right than it does wrong. Overall, I enjoyed my time with Champions of Anteria. The visuals are beautiful, and it’s easy to see why someone high up at Ubisoft might have wanted to save the work their artists did. It wasn’t a big deal since I could just re-issue the command, but I felt like I had to baby my heroes along one tiny step at a time just to make sure no one wandered off. Even if I had been able to use this queue, I’m not sure I would have trusted it, since my attack commands were frequently ignored with no explanation given. While there is an action queue for each hero that should theoretically allow you to prepare multiple actions, I could never figure out how to get it to work. To get the most out of these, you need to use these abilities whenever they’re not on cooldown, and this usually involves moving into position to set up a line that intersects multiple enemies, or getting a ranged character in close to make use of a damaging area of effect ability. The heroes you control all begin with two abilities and will unlock more the longer you play. While you’re limited to three Heroes out of the five that become available, there’s a chart that lets you get an idea of what you’ll be facing before an RTS mission begins so that you aren’t caught flatfooted.Īnother issue I had was the necessity of micromanagement. If you don’t have an advantage or a disadvantage against a certain type, or attack with the same element, each deals normal damage to the other.Įach hero has their own elemental affinity, though most can attack with two element types in case they run into an unfavorable matchup. For example, Water takes extra damage from Lightning and deals extra damage to Fire enemies, while taking less damage from Fire attacks and dealing less to Lightning. The element earlier in the ring deals 35% more damage to the next type, and takes 35% less damage from enemies of that type. There are five elements arranged in a circle: Water, Fire, Metal, Nature, and Lightning. You can also gain these resources by defeating monsters in the RTS sections, but the resources gained are dependent on what monsters you face, so it’s best to have a diverse town for consistency’s sake.ĬoA‘s RTS section features a fairly robust elemental damage system, and players will do well to memorize which elements deal extra damage to the different types of enemies. There are bonuses to the amount collected if you place a building in an appropriate section of the map, putting a woodcutter near the forest, for example. Every day you receive resources based on what buildings you’ve constructed in your village, and these can be exchanged to create more buildings and expand your town, or to upgrade your heroes’ equipment. It’s sort of like ActRaiser, where you had to clear out the monster lairs in the sidescrolling sections before you could start expanding your town. These different sections are interdependent, but they never meet. On top of this, there’s also a world map that you need to conquer, expanding your influence territory by territory until you become the undisputed ruler of this land. Once you progress a bit in the city building section, you can unlock equipment and consumables that will help your heroes in the RTS sections. There are sections that allow you to rebuild a city using the resources you’ve collected, and other sections that play out more like a level in Warcraft 3, where you move your heroes from point to point on a map, hunting down bandits and beasts. Champions of Anteria (CoA) blends together several genres into a single experience, simplifying most of them to make things easier for the player. ![]()
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