games website "Warlock: Mystic Master" Detailed review: Small and exquisite? There is much to write about!

P Society will always surprise us, in this strategic masterpiece of the time P society launched a game called "Warlock: Mystic Master". This fantasy genre production of TBS (Turn-based strategy, the standard abbreviation for turn-based strategy game, not what SLG) into your computer.

The game was co-produced by P Club and Ino-Co, and Ino-Co is a longtime friend of P Club.

Before we begin our review, the traditional translation of Warlock is a sorcerer, because a damnable online game makes the fantasy genre even less rigorous. Never mind, not against the masses.

Screen effect:

The phrase "strategy games don't need graphics" is outdated, and the players who can pay these days aren't old enough to play, and you can't expect them to put up with bad graphics, eat sundaes and say "end of turn." And P club game in the picture performance has been weak, do not know how this game.

First of all, the game requires the following configuration:

The main configuration of my machine is AMD960T, 4G memory DR3 (but it is a 32-bit system), Sotai card destroyer GTX460 1G, motherboard 870, and the rest is not said.

In this configuration, the effect is running with the game frame number floating back and forth between 40 and 50, if the Angle of view is put to the maximum or sudden movement will cause the frame number to plummet. P club game is not optimized is not covered. But it's generally stable. It seems that this game is relatively memory - a common problem in strategy games - and I believe that 64-bit systems will perform well.

Game screenshot

In terms of visual performance, in order to highlight the wonderful feeling of fantasy, P society colors are used very rich, I hope you will not look blind. In addition, this game is very dark, everyone remember to turn up the brightness before playing the game.

And the overall picture effect... In general, when you look closely at the small buildings and people on the map, you will find that the details are painted very carefully. But dog teeth are inevitable.

In addition, it must be said that this game suffers from UI and screen performance and "Civilization 5" is too similar, many players who do not understand the strategy game are Shouting "This is not" Civilization 5 "in the forum edition area!"

A comparison between Civ 5 and Warlock

Hands-on experience:

In fact, there is a big difference between playing and civilization.

First of all, the voice of the game's narrator is George Ledoux, the voice of the King Power series. He's a big British voice, and the exact British pronunciation hasn't changed for 12 years.

This game brings together 4X elements, but he strengthens exploration and combat, weakens development. "Warlock" does not have farmers or workers set, as long as you city size, money, population, food these four items are enough you can build, choose a grid within their town limits, spend a few turns this building will appear on the map.

Unlike Civilization, money and turns in this game are spent at the same time, and you can't cheat by using money. But the advantage is that the cost of building soldiers and building buildings is not the same round, so you don't have to fear that the enemy will attack you while farming.

Develop the interface, note that the lower left and lower right, soldiers and buildings are not CoolDown.

As I said, the game's development elements are greatly reduced, and the technology is tied to the building, and the technology is what you build. In addition to normal construction, you only need to study magic, magic has a total of three systems, gain, damage.

You can study one of five spells at a time on the Magic tray. In addition, the game is not only a winning mode of conquest, but also studying extreme magic and building special buildings. Similar to the technology of civilization, culture wins, which means you don't have to fight your enemies to the bone, and being an otaku will win.

Speaking of exploration and combat, Warlock does put some effort into these areas. It's not just about exploring the map for resources, there are lots of useful buildings to explore and get wonderful things to write (a bit like Kingship); The battle has a certain RPG nature, in addition to the normal town arms, the map will appear a variety of giant creatures and dragons and beasts, so that the opening exploration is full of "surprises".

And getting rid of these BOSS level creatures is also a good reward, they always have good resource points and treasures under their ass.

There's also this miniature copy, but inside it's a bunch of little bosses.

RPG elements, everyone loves.

Disadvantages:

The first thing to say is that P society is really the royal power to do more, some days ago to take the world view of the royal power to do a second-rate tower defense game, and now use the building of the royal power as a model to do TBS. You can't use a good series like that.

There is also poor sound processing, when the buildings and troops are completed, the general game will have a prompt sound, this can not be should not be, and not only no prompt sound, there is no prompt screen. Strategy games require careful thinking, but you can't ask that of new players, who often need to be reminded of one thing or the other. How can you not attract new players?

Every time a gun is fired, the sails are at a weird Angle...

And then there's the terrible mission system that makes you build cities, makes you build farms, makes you build docks... If you build it ahead of time, it doesn't count, and if your town happens to be on a cycle (which is when novice players often find themselves unable to do anything), this quest is doomed. Chicken ribs.

And finally, imbalance... In fact, the game itself is unbalanced and fun to play, but it is too easy to win by non-combat means. Many players are happy to play, and suddenly the news of winning came from the other side of the map, which makes people quite depressed. Also, terrain has an effect on movement, but it doesn't seem to have any effect on range.

Also, I didn't find the map editor... This makes the game a lot less playable.

The small details of the options made by the pointer, this kind of thing is grasped well, there will be a large number of players to follow you.

Concluding remarks:

Overall, this game is perfect for killing time before the big game comes out but there is no game to play. (He came out at the same time...) I personally feel that there are a lot of areas that this game is not used, maybe it has to do with the size of the game and the number of developers...

Because of the development of technology, hardware advancements, real-time and visual games are becoming more mainstream. TBS,SLG and other turn-based games seem to be coming to an end, but strategic players will not give up so easily, so I hope you game manufacturers do not give up.

In the end, I was defeated... Beg for mercy. The dead are his own sons.

Text and text: games website Literature Group -- Lady Lu Literary Guidance: Half Demon Lich