10 of 11 customers found the following review helpful:
 Well done and entertaining, 2003-09-29
This game is better than most game magazines make it out to be. It is a very accessible strategy game. Battles are relatively involved, although one could argue that strategic depth is not really this game's strength. But that is probably what makes this game so entertaining and accessible for people who normally do not like stragety games.I like the game's graphics. Not the greatest I've ever seen, but once again, they make the game very accessible. All the different types of troops are relatively easy to spot and tell appart. When some of the troops build things, such as bridges or towers, one can watch them do their work. Not truely great and innovative, but it certainly gets the job done. So I have to say that I have been (and still am) very entertained by this game. At the same time, it isn't the best game ever made. Some of the controls are a bit weird, and sometimes, your troops will run into battle before you'd want them to. Overall, a very good game. Well done, Pyro!
7 of 8 customers found the following review helpful:
 Better then you'd think, 2003-08-24
With a lot of games in competition on the shelf, this game should stand out as one of the best. Hardly trying to conquer every genre along the way, it instead concentrates on the period when wars were fought with arrows and swords. This game can also be used as a teaching tool on how warfare was in the past, as well as how to plan battles based on superior numbers and superior strategy. If you like the whole concept of conquering towns, and recruiting soliders from that town to attack the next town, and need a slight break every once in awhile from resource management, this is the game for you.
Not bad at all, 2003-06-22
I think Praetorians is very fun and challanging. It has what I think is good graphics. It has very cool stuff. It enables you to do stuff like build war machines like ballistas and catipults and fortifacations. I espcially enjoyed the siege missions. In those types of missions you have to defend or attack a fortress. The diferent types of soldiers have abilities that come in handy. You are taken into Gaul, Briton Egyp, and the middle east. Another important is that you don't have to collect recources
14 of 16 customers found the following review helpful:
Great strategy game!, 2003-05-23
I had experience of RTS games (Total Annihilation, Age of Empires and Empire Earth) and after I bought Praetorians and played the first time, I found it very very interesting.
It's not the typical RTS game where you have to produce a lot of units and simply attack the enemy (like for example TA kingdoms or others) but you have to think in a strategic way before moving and attacking the enemy. In this game, mission by mission, you learn how to balance your troops and how to move in the territory. It's important the fact that troops can interact with territory (hills, woods). You can hide your troops, you can stay higher than the enemy and then attack you enemy suddenly (for example,if your bowmen are in a higher position they will hurt more seriously the enemy). In some missions you have to lay siege to a fortess with war machines.
To sum up, I think it's a good game, if you want to enjoy yourself and live the experience of "De Bello Gallico"!
7 of 20 customers found the following review helpful:
 Seriously flawed AI and interface killed the game, 2003-05-03
It is an excellent concept completely spoiled by bad design!In the heat of the battle an extra click on already selected group can select ALL of you troups and instead a single move/attack you have all your army moving to a position. In this time the CPU kills you with ease.
There is no EASY way to tell the arches to shoot a specific target. Especially if there are 10 enemy troops rushing towards you in a pack. As a result they don't shoot the critical ladders but some stupid axeman. Short while after that you have all the ladders on your walls and in a minute all the enemy army is in your camp. Even if you survive this then it is real pain to target the ladders on the walls. You can spend a minute to shoot down one and the CPU does not wait that much.
THIS IS A WASTE OF TIME!
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