The most notable feature, beyond the expansion of your towns, is the combat.
As you progress you unlock more buildings, allowing your towns to diversify and produce more materials to use later on. The city building element is simple on the face of it, but it's effective at drawing you in, and time flies as you engage with the early stages of its various features. Progress is quick and you'll be tapping all over the place, grabbing resources and assigning your citizens to various tasks. On the starting map there's multiple regions to conquer, and doing so will require you to either bribe or impress your neighbours to the point where they give up their territory.īut we're getting ahead of ourselves, so let's go back to the beginning, because getting started is probably where the Kingdom experience is at its peak, largely because it's the part of the game that's least impacted by the free-to-play financial model that has been implemented here. While the starting map seems to be the same for all players, you can modify the landscape quite a lot, by raising or lowering the ground, or by building dams and reclaiming land from the sea. Players build up their town, adding new buildings and arranging them for optimum effect, tapping icons and collecting up resources, with the goal being to gradually expand your sphere of influence. The map is rich with detail, and played on either a mobile or a tablet, it looks a treat (the PC version isn't too shabby either and allows you to better take in the view, so if you link your game between mobile and PC you can see your empire in more detail on the bigger screen, which is a nice touch). The digital interpretation of this particular corner of ye old England is stunning (CA is getting very good at crafting intricate and nicely decorated maps), and there's plenty to admire. It looks brilliant whichever way you look at it, with lush visuals at every turn. But we've been mostly playing on an iPhone, and rather than looking at what this free-to-play offering is not, we'll concentrate on what this lavishly crafted mobile title does offer.įirst up, in terms of presentation, Total War Battles: Kingdom is top class. While it borrows the Total War name, this is a different beast to the games you'll find on PC and Mac (although Kingdom can be played on PC and Mac - it actually launched there first).
Kingdom building is the name of the game in this latest title from Creative Assembly and Sega.
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