Customer Reviews

Romance of the Three Kingdoms VI: Awakening of the Dragon

5 star:		(6)
4 star:		(8)
3 star:		(1)
2 star:		(2)
1 star:		(1)

 

 

RTK VI is a further enhancement to the successful franchise. Now your officer's abilities change as they age and as they acquire experience. The maximum number of troops and officer can command is based on his rank (and a ruler's rank determines what rank he can bestow on his officers). There are now many more officers to interact with and the story behind the game is given greater depth. The addition of short scenarios allows players to meet objectives without having to complete a campaign game. The main weakness is Koei's lack of documentation. Your officer's loyalty increases as your prestige increases (by completing tasks asked by the emperor)-- but the manual doesn't tell you this. You find out at a council that it takes 6 months and 20000 gold to build a palace-- but not in the manual. Talk with your officers to set up a council. The graphics are only incrementally improved. Overall, this is a solid addition for those who loved Koei's previous offerings, but it requires some learning and patience.

I just say that i love the whole RTK series but in number 6. I believe that Koei made a mistake. does anyone notice that their is not hardly anything to do in between months while your waiting for tax income? theres no rewarding your generals. and no training your troops either, both of these things not only made the game more realistic but also used up downtime in between wars and tax time. One thing that i do like is that thier is a good amount of fighting in the long missions, which was lacking in previous versions. I also really think that the fighting is much improved. and the new ranking system with all of the gazillions of ranks to bestow on your officers. but you will find your self skipping many a month (turn) in the game. the graphics are the best ever for a romance game but i for one dont play this game for the graphics, i play for the strategy ive logged more than 5,000 hours playing this series!

Well, I think the latest version of Romance of the three kingdom part 6 is okay but really could have been a lot better. Some of the major differences between part 4 and part 6 are described below. Some of the things missing in part 6 that I like so much in part 4 are: Train your soldiers, rewarding your generals with gold, building weapons like catapult, rams, strong bows, and etc, learning and controlling bolt, weather, wind, boulders, and etc, extended war only 30 days war, searching a large area instead of one city, having 3 generals to one unit instead of one general to a unit, invade plot, goving food to your people, sending supplies and troops option, vassal cities operate just like the main city, and keeping prisoners in jail for more than a year. Some of the new feature in part 6 that I like are obtaining title for the Emperor, give rank to you generals according to the title obtain for the Emperor after you help him perform or agreed to some task required for you, able to talk to your general and sometime they will ask for a council meeting, some animated story line, general have distinctively different attitudes that goes according to their dream and amibition, and distinctively different plot and battle. Finally the graphics are better. These are only some of the differences mention. Hope this will helop you decide. Despite all the differences, I still like playing it. Diehard RTK fan.

I love Koei games. Liberty or Death, Nobunaga's Ambition, PTO, Uncharted Waters, Genghis Khan, you name it, if it has their name, it's gotta be good. But this installment of Rot3K lacks that really compelling flavor that makes these games so addictive.

The war portion, which is the lion's share of this game, is fine. In fact, it's better than ever. But that also betrays the game's biggest fault: besides the war, there's not a lot to do. You can make general improvements to 3 categories of your city (farming, commerce, safety) but that's about the extent of interaction with your city. The rest of your options are mostly recruiting generals (hint: get as many as you can early on, as they are difficult to obtain later) amassing troops (no training though) and giving ranks to your generals. There are some limited diplomacy measures that hardly ever work, and get very tiresome (like much of this game,) and that doesn't help.

So you are left to merely amass more troops than your neighbor, and enough generals to lead them. Other than that, it gets pretty... well... boring. The cut scenes are nice, the history is very rich and deep, and some minor troop enhancements make the battles a little more weighty. But we've arrived again at the problem of battle being the only redeeming quality of the game.

Yes, you can have very short conversations with your generals (that are mostly pointless), you can install traps around your castles (at least it gives you something to do), and receive visitors that bear gifts and gold. But there's still something missing. Just like Kessen on PS2, this game lacks a real focus on the city-building portion, which leaves you with a great war simulator, but the vast stretches in between might very well leave you snoozing. (Kessen solved this problem by simply eliminating that pesky "city management" phase, and relying more heavily on an automatically advancing storyline.)

I simply cannot give any Koei game less than 4 stars, and regardless of any negative reviews, I still would have bought this. But I can't say I was entirely satisfied, especially when one's expectations have grown over the years, only to be met with more "same old, same old."

The game is good, as they all are. If your a koei fan, or a true war sim fan you will like the game very much. Unfortunately though for the R3K fans, the feel doesn't seem to be there. When you used to get truly into the game, and live it. You know play the game for 2 days straight, finally beat it and come back to play as a different ruler or in a different scenerio the next day. It just doesn't seem to happen anymore.

I like where Koei is going, unfortunately this is like the first versions of any Windows system, it just doesn't work right. They most likely should have waited a while refined the way the game operates and tried then. Unforntunately everything is trial and error.

I would recommend trying Romance of the Three Kingdoms IV or wait till they release the next. Mabye they will be back on track, or have fully developed the great ideas that where sorely lacking in presentation in R3K VI.

Don't get me wrong, it's still a great game and series, the newest installment is just lacking the feel of the rest.

Anyone who is even mildly interested in warfare, or internal wars featured in China will be extremely addicted to this game. The fact that you can customize generals will add replay value to this game, far more than any other. I highly recommend this game if you are in to turn based, month by month, strategy, with turn based warfare, and diplomatic missions.

Koei is to strategy, as Squaresoft is to roleplaying.

With it's complex system of commands and basic visuals this is a game which many people may be deterred from giving it a chance. Once played however your opinion of it is likely to change. Played as it is to the backdrop of chinese history your goal is to unite all of China. The system is surprisingly well thought out with a lot of depth and variety. It is also fun to create your own heroes and see how they fare against those of history. Once I began playing this I couldn't stop. It really is addictive fun but it is not a game for people with short attention spans who just crave flashy graphics and action. It is very tactical both in terms of politics and battles. Give it a try but remember to guard your supplies in battle.

Good game and holds many aspects that makes it, in my opinion, better than IV. I like the new styled duels much better. I also like the event sequences.

The only draw back is that battles can last only 1 month and attacking cities is kind of a bore due to lack of strategies the gamer can employ.

All in all, a must own, especially if new to the Romance of the Three Kingdoms saga.

It seems that in this one Koei was more interested in trying new feaures for there games then making sure staples of the formers games made there way to this game. Some parts of the game I found to be fun. The fact the fact that you have to give your troops commands for 3 days at a time makes you actually need to anticpate you enemies moves, its too bad that the AI is very easy to predict. The only real problem I have with the 3 day commands is that the computer is doesn't seem to follow this, seemingly changing its mind on the second day into the commands and taking a more advantagous route. I enjoy the fact that you character age, get better as they approach their prime, and grow weaker as the have passed it, the inablity to train troops, which was the reason you or your enemies couldn't just "raise an army" on a whim, atleast not a very good one, in the older games. All in all it's a good game, but in my opinion Koei has already made a better version

Koei's Romance of the Three Kingdom series has never disappointed me in their games. Much improvement is showm on this latest of the series. More new commands has been added as well as being able to actually create custom generals into the family of an actuall character of the game. The only downside of this game that made me think VI is not as well made as V is that the command for rewarding the general with money has been taken off. In other words, if your general is not loyal to you... he is basically gone or will be gone sooner or later. Though with this minor flaw, the game is still very good and worth while to buy.