While this isn’t exactly unheard of for RPGs, the fact that the static dialogue and quest chat are often completely at odds with one another creates for a strange, disconnected questing experience. Every time the player interacts with an NPC, they are subjected to the NPC’s static dialogue, before moving into the quest-based chat through dialogue prompts. The player advances through the story by doing a bunch of small, pointless errands that plod along through phoned-in cutscenes and boring text chat that is quite possibly the most frustrating form of MMO questing to date. However, outside of these strategy combat instances, Kingdom Under Fire 2 completely falls apart. Which can save you from having to put up with a slow, clunky party matching system. There is also good news for solo players in that many of the story-based multiplayer instances can easily be handled by a single skilled player. Helps that switching between both modes is nearly seamless, so you can toggleīetween the hero-controlled active combat and the more traditional RTS The constant running between NPCs to exchange approximately one to three lines of dialogue per interaction with occasional breaks to murder a few monsters out in the open world is punctuated periodically by the RTS “dungeons.” These 1-4 player missions are often castle siege or defence scenarios where the player can switch between an aerial RTS mode and hero-based active combat depending on their playstyle and situation.īenefits to both playstyles which makes the gameplay at least fun.
The combination of game genres and formats leaves KUF 2 as a boring, grindy mess of fetch quests and extermination missions that feels interminable. The hybrid nature of Kingdom Under Fire 2 is as fascinating as it is limited. Add on a by-the-numbers RPG plot and bizarre visual animations, and the player is left with a flawed but functional product. It isn’t a bad game, as it mostly functions as needed, but there’s very little about the gameplay, characters, or world to really recommend it. However, despite the 12 years between Circle of Doom and KUF 2, there really isn’t much to recommend the new game.
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The MMORPG-RTS hybrid style of Kingdom Under Fire 2is an interesting direction for the series after 2007’s Kingdom Under Fire: Circle of Doom. The Kingdom Under Fire series has mostly been comprised of real-time and active strategy wargames, however, the latest installment puts a twist on the basic formula by functioning as an MMO with various RPG elements alongside the traditional strategy gameplay.
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