Your final aim is to capture the whole of Anteria and make it part of your kingdom. Winning in battles gets you loot and Renown, both helpful in expanding your influence and rule. The game's attempts at witty humour and dry sarcasm – the champions continuously joke about hero poses and how no foe presents a solid chance – do little to fill that void. Gaming is inherently more fun with others – even an average title such as Lara Croft and the Temple of Osiris worked better when you had someone by your side – and Anteria could have really done with same screen co-op.
But there is no hint of multi-player in Champions of Anteria, leaving you to control all three characters by yourself. Kingdoms of Anteria was built to have a four player co-op mode, and would even you allow you to visit others' kingdoms. The last of those is possibly owing to the game's earlier version. And three, only the selected champion's abilities are available via keyboard shortcuts, which means you'll be hitting the pause button more than necessary, just so you can queue actions with a different champion. Two, the variety of foes is severely limited, causing you to come across the same type of enemies. Rather than facing enemies, you'll spend your time trying to make one of your champions run around the place just to avoid attacks. One, your champions are heavily unbalanced, which causes the AI to chase after those it sees as vulnerable. Sadly, battling in Champions of Anteria is dull, repetitive and regularly frustrating. Just as with other action RPGs of this kind, all power-ups have a cooldown effect, which prohibits you from reusing them for a limited time. You can queue actions for each character, be it moving, attacking, or selecting any number of the champion's power-ups. The game also auto-pauses when new enemies approach you, to let you strategise and plan out your moves. Battles in the game are real-time, but you can hit pause whenever you like. Each is useful in different situations and to learn that, you get an intro mission teaching you who is powerful against whom and whom they are weak against. You start off with three “champions” in the game – Vargus, Nusala, and Anslem – with two unlocked at a later stage – Baltasar and Oona.
And the fact that it continued to be developed by the studio behind every Settlers game ever, means that the final product, Champions of Anteria, feels muddled between something new and something old. But the game originated as a Settlers title and had spent more time being one. Players who were part of the closed beta said as much in feedback to Ubisoft, which prompted the change to Champions of Anteria in April, shifting the focus to strategy and characters.
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That meant infusing real-time strategy into a series largely focused on resource optimisation, kind of like bringing Diablo to the world of Civilization V.Īs you can expect, it didn't go down very well. The game was originally titled The Settlers: Kingdoms of Anteria, under development to rejuvenate the long-running city-building Settlers franchise and give it a fresh spin. But that wasn't always going to be the case. Released last week, Champions of Anteria is one of Ubisoft's newest intellectual properties.
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