Tuesday, February 9, 2010

Wesnoth - game review

I am very big fan of strategy games. My first experience with Civilization 1. There from I am very found of strategy games and tried to play lot of them. Wesnoth package is small and quick to download and install. It has Estonian language support and is being developed under GNU GPL licence which means that Wesnoth is free software. Wesnoth is turn based game, like Civilization and played on the map. There are different units in the game with their strenghts and weaknesses. Unit strenght is also dependant on the terrain type it is standing on. It shows the % of terrain defence if you want to move your unit there. Units are gaining more strenght if they survive the battle - gain more experience and become stronger. I really like the game core idea and the race segmentation to bad and good. I tried to play good part and was going through various campains. The graphics are not very good, but is not the big issue, though the campaigns are interesting and free to download from the internet. The game is really easy to learn has lots of campaigns to play.
One thing I would like developers to add is to move all objects by selecting them with mouse. That will reduce time of play a lot.

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