Review Alexander totally gay says RealGamer

[Saint_Proverbius]

Tags: Alexander: The Heroes Hour

<A href="http://www.realgamer.co.uk/">Real Gamer</a> has done up and posted <a href="http://www.realgamer.co.uk/pcgames/reviews/alexander_the_heroes_hour.html">their review</a> of <A href="http://www.alexander-the-game.de/en/go.php?page=home">Alexander: The Heroes Hour</a>. Basically, it's a real mess. Here's the conclusion:
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<blockquote>On the whole Alexander: The Hero’s Hour seems too rushed and thrown together to actually deserve a good write-up, sluggish character control, numerous bugs and badly thought out menu systems make the game too frustrating to actually enjoy, there are many RPG’s out there and this one had to be really good to stand a chance, unfortunately Alexander, known as the military genius who conquered the world (of what was known of it at the time!) has this time failed to make an impact.</blockquote>
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And with that, the Greek setting for CPRGs dies with a whimper.
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[Ortchel]

Great title

 

[Reklar]

Why would anyone make a cRPG out of Alexander the Great anyway? His life is better suited to a campaign-style strategy game like the Total War series than a RPG. I guess everyone is trying to cash-in on that lame movie they made recently.

-Reklar
(a Fallout/RPG fan)

 

[Ap_Jolly]

Heh, that's what's wrong with any game where you play a powerful figure such as king - kings don't do side-quests.

 

[fizzelopeguss]

Hail Alexander!, master tactician and conqueror of the known world....10 gold if you pull them turnips.

 

[bizarrofrank]

Oh come on! Don't you think you're being too harsh? The game's not for me, but im betting a few of you enjoyed the "navigating the gay orgy" side quest. Not to mention the "suck off your best friend" subplot mission.

 

[Ortchel]

From what I gather the game is mission based and has no quests of any kind, actually.

 

[Sol Invictus]

Lusting over the hot mom who looks suspiciously like Angelina Jolie was a good, albeit disturbing quest.

 

[Lady Armageddona]

Why is Alexander : The Whatever considered an RPG, anyway?
I though it was a strategy, by the authors of Cossacs, witch is basically a crippled and rushed Cossacs rip-off.

 

[Sol Invictus]

You're thinking of a different Alexander game.

 

[Reklar]

Yes, there are several game tie-ins to the craptacular Oliver Stone movie. Apparently the strategy game based on Alexander is better than the movie though. I can't imagine how it could be worse seeing as how everyone I've talked to had nothing good to say about it. The sad thing is, it was a remake and it was worse than the original.

-Reklar
(a Fallout/RPG fan)

 

[Lady Armageddona]

I cheked. There really are several Alexander games ( at least for the developer's sake I hope they cashed a bit more than the movie :evil grin, and while neither is outstanding, neither also turned out to be an RPG. I wonder when will strategy/RPG titles stop being considered RPGs. I know there are hardly any RPGs coming out, but still -> we should not lower our standards due to lack of availability.