Review: Warparty (PlayStation 4)
WarParty is an old school RTS where players must gather resources to unlock new buildings, units, and upgrades, with the goal of destroying all their opponents’ bases. Players can also control a powerful chieftain that they can shape by selecting talents when they expand their settlement. These talents also offer new units or bonuses that can change the way players play.
Pros:
- Nice graphics.
- 3.26gb download size.
- Platinum trophy.
- Optional tutorial.
- RTS gameplay.
- 3 modes- skirmish, survival, and campaign.
- Wiki-in game wiki with a depth look at characters and items.
- Camera-can zoom in and out.
- Prehistoric era setting.
- Controls-move, move attack, easy to use select button, set groups.
- 3 factions-Wildlanders, Vithara and Necromas.
- Five difficulties-very easy, easy, normal, hard and very hard.
- Hand drawn voiced cutscenes.
- Game timer.
- Wild Dinosaurs roam the land and attack anyone.
- 3 separate campaigns for each faction.
- God powers–powerful abilities like uncovering the map a short time or devastating fire attacks etc.
- Shrines-capture and hold in the game for benefits.
- Nice setting.
- Approachable.
Cons:
- Slow paced gameplay.
- Small text.
- No online play.
- A lot to take in.
- Constant man management.
- Not the strongest storytelling.
- Constant difficulty/balancing spikes.
- The game boils down to create a huge army and crush the team.
- Resources dry up fast.
- Not always clear why something doesn’t work or gets made.
