Yet another Dungeon Keeper rip-off, except unlike the first game, this one is very blatant. As expected of rip-offs, it's like playing a 'remaster' made by a totally different dev team. And, even if you disregard the fact that it's just not a good clone, by itself it's just a bad game.
Once again, most of the game is spent underground. You have your workers, which you use to build things, dig out walls, and so on. Here's where the game starts to stink. You have an unit limit shared across both worker, and military units, which means you won't be able to have many workers. This would be fine, if the devs adjusted their work efficiency accordingly, which they certainly do not. Your workers take forever to not only do things like dig out walls, but also to traverse your dungeon, which makes a large amount of the time spent in the game painful, as building stuff and expanding is what you'll be doing the most.
Anyway, there is a new gimmick, where you occasionally travel to the surface to complete missions. At which point, the controls change to something you'd expect in an RTS, as opposed to having extremely limited control over your units, while you're underground. This back-and-forth between having full/limited control over your units is as jarring as it sounds. They were really intent on keeping Dungeon Keeper controls, even though it's not really what the series is praised for. This is what happens when you're obtuse, and have no idea why the thing you're copying is successful.
Here are some other cons I don't feel like elaborating:
- Extremely irritating narrator! He simply WON'T SHUT UP,, especially if you take too long to do an objective that is by no means urgent, which could be something as simple as setting up a room. Once again, they tried copying DK's sarcastic and dry narrator, but failed miserably
- Bland, simplistic combat, even when on the surface
- Clunky controls
- Also, for whatever reason the game crashed A LOT for me, but that might be because I was alt-tabbing like crazy out of boredom. Or not, who knows. Still worth considering
As for pros, the game is admittedly pretty, and the graphics have aged pretty well. Too bad looks aren't everything.
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