![]() ![]() This review covers only the enhancements to Kingdoms and the Iron Plague expansion itself, but do yourself a favor and give The Darien Crusades a try. Finally, the game CD includes the code necessary to play The Darien Crusades, a cooperative multiplayer game playable over Cavedog's online Boneyards site. The new campaign is tougher than the original campaign, even from the start. Along with that civilization come 25 new battle maps, and a new campaign that has 25 single-player missions tied together with another good story. You also get a brand-new fifth civilization to play, which brings with it all the units, strategies, and challenges of having an entirely new playable faction in the game. You get quite a bit for the game's $20 price tag: You get the 2.0 game-engine upgrade patch for Kingdoms itself, along with all the new units and battle maps that Cavedog made available for Kingdoms on its site since the game was released. It definitely improves the original game and also reflects Cavedog's commitment to fix what needs fixing. In the end, it's partly successful at both. But in a very real way it bears the burden of rescuing Kingdoms from its earlier problems, and rescuing Cavedog's good reputation with gamers. The Iron Plague is merely an expansion pack for Kingdoms rather than a complete redesign, so you shouldn't expect it to change the game completely. Kingdoms was decent, and offered many hours of good strategy gameplay for a lot of people, but it never lived up to its name.Įnter The Iron Plague, Cavedog's sub-$20 add-on for Kingdoms. But many played Kingdoms and came away disappointed the game lacked both the strategic flow and the tactical niceties of its predecessor, and the fantasy setting didn't fit as well as the first game's sci-fi setting. ![]() After all, the game was a follow-up to the immensely successful Total Annihilation, and fans of the original game couldn't wait to get their hands on what they hoped would be an even better development of Total Annihilation's design. Direct Play launch on ironplague.Total Annihilation: Kingdoms hit the market last year and met with extremely high expectations. Allows more than one AI per person in mutliplayer games just move the kingdoms.key file out of the kingdoms folder, but remember to put it back to play online) Command line not allowed anymore (3rd party unit makers can instead of using the -disablecavedog. Allows the 5th Race known as Creon on direct play such as, Gamespy Arcade and all the features from the Iron Plague expansion pack (movies can be downloaded apart) Allows 8 Players on direct play launch, such as Gamespy Arcade Option to always allow Monarch Expendable Sound for host in multiplayer games! (no more excuses if your monarch die while hosting, everyone can host! ) Rhiyo: On Wikipedia it says the latest game version is 4.1BB, but on GOG's version in the menu it says 4.0BB, could anyone please explain the difference between these two versions? They're both unofficial patches and the newer one seems like mostly multiplayer fixes. ![]()
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