 Three Kingdoms:Fate of the Dragon, 2006-08-11
This game was a good strategy game. It was challenging to try to not lose your kingdom while you also had to provide food and wine for all of your army. I think that this is a good game for ages 9-15, because it doesn't have a lot of blood and it is a challenge to the young mind.
Sameness, 2005-12-15
This game is your typical get resources, raise army, squash enemy type of RTS. What makes it differant is the non-European setting, and a few new wrinkles like having to keep your army supplied in the field and somewhat intelligent peasants. The game however is a little repetative. Most of the levels feel the same as do most battles. I finished the game, but I only found it to be so so in a crowded field of really good games. If you have played everything else, the $10 price tag makes it worth a pick up. If you like the game, they did make a sequel entitled--Dragon Throne Battle of Red Cliffs.
3 of 3 customers found the following review helpful:
 In the right direction, but ..., 2003-09-04
This game adds the supply dimension into the RTS equation. All military units consume food every month, and all units fielded in the battlefield will gradually wear off, and have to rest in camps. This makes the game so much more strategical (as opposed to tactical), as players have to balance a big army and financial feasibility.However, the game is so TEDIOUS !! The game does not start with a fast scout unit with good line of sight, and the fog of war is not designed well. So a player has to spend a lot of time scouting. Before a battle, a player has to build a supply wagon, and assign villagers to stock it up with food. And it takes FOREVER !! So, with so much meaningless micro-management required, there is little time to think about strategy. And without strategy, this game is definitely inferior to some of the better titles on the market.
1 of 4 customers found the following review helpful:
 Don't buy Fate of the Dragon!, 2002-10-19
Fate of the Dragon is a definite waste of money. For RTS fans of Starcraft, and Age of Empires, it as an even bigger waste of money. Fate of the Dragon seems like an exact copy of the major RTS games out there, with a couple of new features added on. There are resources to collect, armies to build, and once you play the game once or twice, you've played it forever. The repetitveness of the game is mind-boggling. With only three different troop types, maps that look all exactly the same, and the same stupid music over and over again, how can the game be fun after a couple of days? The graphics need work, and the battles are worse. Because you're so limited in the troops you have, all you do is put your troops into battle- unlike Starcraft where there are dozens of unit types and Age of Empires where you have to use your brain for what units to use for a certain situation. Whatever you do, don't buy Fated of the Dragon. You'll be wasting your time, and your money.
5 of 5 customers found the following review helpful:
 A excellent RTS game!!!!!!, 2002-03-05
I think this is one of the best strategy games I have come by It has awsome Graphics and Gameplay. You can be three different heroes in the struggle for China. It is set during the three kingdoms period (That really happened)and you mission is to unite China under your rule. there are tons of different features packed into this game like upgrades, siege engines etc. When I played the game a got stuck on a seige of a city they just don't give you anough soilders but after a while you get to mastering sieges. the game seems compicated at first with lots of recources to handle and feeding the soilders outside the walls of the city, but you can place temperary camps for your men suppling them them if there hungry. If they have no food there value in combat goes down. but the more you play the beter it gets. the battles are exceptional as it usually ends up the person with the most troops wins. I think the Lui Bei and Cao Cao campaigns are fun. I think this games might be better than AOE II the expansion and I give it four stars next to starcraft. I recomend this game for any RTS lovers.
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