Lords of War

Review

The new Emperor calls on all the lords of Grandland to gather at the capital Canaanheim. Your father was the general and confidante of the previous emperor and was well respected by him. Now, nowhere to be found, and most likely fallen, it is in your blood to follow your father’s footsteps in Lords of War.

Lords of War is a strategy / cards game where you can play quests in single mode, as well as online PVP battles, and move up leagues as you successfully beat opponents.

At the start of the game, you’ll have to choose between one of several heroes. From here, you’ll be playing a so-called single player mode until you reach level five, where you‘ll unlock the multiplayer mode. The beauty of this game is that you can choose to play quests in the single player modes or face an online opponent in the multiplayer arena mode.

In my opinion, the single player mode is basically a tutorial until you reach level five. At the end of each of your battles, you will be awarded coins, experience points and new cards as you win battles. On some occasions, you might even earn a chest, too, which you can open and receive an additional six cards. Bear in mind, you’ll start with a fairly substantial number of coins when you launch the game for the first time. Therefore, you’ll be able to head up to the shop to purchase additional chests for further chances to unlock new and exciting cards.

For your first few battles, you have a restricted number of cards to choose from. Alternately, you’ll be able to have a deck of thirty cards to go into battle with. The great news is that as you successfully complete quests, you’ll gather more and more cards. Don’t panic, you’ll be able to create several decks of thirty cards as you go along.

The battles are fairly simple and well done. Whether you play in single mode or against an online opponent, each of you will start at the opposite side of the screen. The goal is to destroy your opponent’s base crystal to win the battle. Now, every nine seconds your crystal will generate one crystal point and the maximum it can gather is nine points. Your deck cards, or units if you prefer, have specific crystal points to be activated. Be careful how you use your card; even though they are drawn at random at the start of the battle, some can only be used once, so make sure you use them at the right time. That can become quite challenging at times. There are only four races to choose from. At first, you’ll play the human and will unlock the others as you progress throughout the game and reach new levels, which makes the game more exciting, too.

I must admit that the English grammar could have been better throughout the adventure mode. I rolled my eyes a few times here and there.

Graphically the game looks pretty good as its stand right now. And, bear in mind it is still on early access.  The music and sound effects are good, too, and the controls are pretty easy to use, as you would expect for this genre of game.