The quickest way from A to B is a straight line
Pros:
30+ levels to achieve with your character(s), random encounters, cool magic
Cons:
the fight sequences are rather slow and not very active. The game is a little more linear than I would have liked.
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Author's Review
I've rarely a person to get excited by strategic/roleplaying video games. Tactics Ogre however was one major exception.
I've also rarely been a person to catch the train of trendy video games and the "gotta-have-it-as-soon-as-it-hits-the-shelf" mentality. I often browse the collections at local video game resale shops to see what I can get that's good for cheap. Tactic Ogre was one I stumbled across in more that a couple different stores. Perusing the back of the case of this game I thought "hmm.. graphics look good, the fight sequences look interesting, maybe I'll pick it up." So I did.
Got home, popped it in and was quickly impressed. It begins, as most games of this type do, with an intro to the scenario with the story. It's typical, it was contrived, but I journeyed forth.
The game seemed to go into alot of aspects with the creation process of your character, which soon learned most of the details didn't matter a whole lot. Only in rare instances did what Goddess you prayed to or which element you swore by actually come into play.
There is a beginnig and an end and a Richter Scale looking line in between. The game pretty much forces you to go in certain areas, do certain things and fight certain fights. The random encounters along the way kept my interest though.
More than three-quarters of the in-game conversations that take place are pre-determined and the other twenty-five percent of the time you only have maybe two choices of what to say, although whatever you choose to say may turn the flow of the game. There is eight possible endings although I've only seen a couple, but pretty much everything else along the way is relatively the same. So, the game definitely sways your inquisitive and freelancing abilities.
Your character is, however, the leader of an army. Well 30 people. Many different races and a few different monster-types. All of which are fully controllable in fighting sequences.
The towns you may journey through are not really towns, but more like save points in which to train your army, buy some necessities which there is usually a small amount of in any given town, and save your progress.
Tactics ogre is probably worth every bit of the 20 bucks I spent on it though.
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