Score: 9
"Pretty good"
date: July 15, 2009
This game is a great improvement from Kingdom of Wind. The graphs are much better.
Still, there are some issue in the mechanics. One is that upgrades don't show up on the units stats pre-build screen. Also, some of the upgrades are lame, such as HP only increasing by +1 after upgrading, I'm not sure if this was consistently so, as some ships did increase stats by a percentage by upgrading. Also, some of the upgrade stats are missing in the research panel.
The XP gain works out pretty well if you play the game properly. However, calculation of it based on units killed isn't the best way to do it. XP gain should be given primarily for the completion of a level.
Regarding gameplay, it's too easy. Also, while the movement of ships is fancy, I found it distracting sometimes. I think the KoW movements were bettter, since it's easier to follow the battle that way. It'd be nice to be able to command ships to attack or retreat, like in Epic War 3, though this wasn't necessary becuase the game wasn't that hard. As for the ships, a lot of the higher level ones sucked. I mainly just spammed battlecruisers because they can get to the enemy the fastest and were very cost effective.
In response to one other review, yes something does happen at the end! The enemy base flies off and attacks you air to air.