That's right – your army consists of you against the world. So much for occupying.Įxactly how you are supposed to occupy something, though, is a little bit perplexing, since you're the lone fighter on the field. On the very first mission, you'll be instructed to 'occupy all bases,' but the mission ends after you kill about 60 enemies and walk through a gate. Objectives and missions are half baked, and they tend to end before they have a chance to get started. The same cannot be said about the game's unpolished feel, for the lack of a better term. Normally that would count as criticism, but dialogue and story matter so little in a game like this one that we're not even going to hold it against it.
You'll be tasked with getting to a certain location, or just defending yourself against a certain number of enemies, your objectives being delivered in semi-coherent Engrish by one of your generals (whose garbled names, one App Store reviewer points out, have been translated into Korean before being romanized). Whereas Dynasty Warriors aims for something closer to an open battlefield experience, Heroes of Three Kingdoms guides you along its path, pitting you against enemies that appear out of nowhere right before your eyes. Sure, there are still hordes of enemies, albeit smaller hordes than we're used to, but the gameplay has been toned down way too much to still be fun, and we're really not sure why Apple's latest hardware is more than capable of accommodating a more robust experience. That's not to say that we're criticizing Heroes for being repetitive – like we said, it's not hard to tell that it's derivative of a notoriously repetitive series, but it doesn't manner to capture the player and hold them in by addictive gameplay nearly as well as the real thing. Sadly, it turns out that Heroes lacks a lot of what makes Dynasty Warriors great, and relies a bit too much on using the same (boring) environments over and over. Not that anyone ever played one of these games to learn about history.Įven though this title, by Korean studio Playbean, has flown under the radar so far, we were pretty excited by the gameplay, which looked like a good approximation of the polarizing love/hate gameplay of Koei's series. It may be toned down a notch or two (although it probably doesn't actually need to be), but it's instantly recognizable to anyone who has ever played a Koei title – endless hordes of enemies, repetitive button mashing gameplay, combos, and horribly mangled Chinese names come together to form a historical travesty. Heroes of Three Kingdoms has no qualms about what it is: a copy of Dynasty Warriors for iOS.
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