The Feud: Wild West Tactics

Review

The Feud: Wild West Tactics is a turn-based strategic RPG game, based around a distant Wild West world; a world where families and groups of people rule parts of the country and keep it for themselves with violent intent and force.

The Feud: Wild West Tactics is mostly focused on two families or groups of people who are intent on holding onto a large piece of land and expanding upon it.

The game bases its story around the famous Hatfield and McCoy feud, also referred to by the journalists as the Hatfield and McCoy war, involving two American rural families based around West Virginia and Kentucky. 

The famous feud between these two infamous families boiled up over the years because of The American Civil war, Land dispute, and revenge killings.

The game allows you to choose sides between these infamous families, playing out the stories of how they lived over the years, their motivations, and their unstable oil-and-water-like chemistry.  The story progresses through 12 unique missions for each side you choose.

While the stories between these infamous families are legendary and very interesting, it seems like the game missed its mark on capitalizing on it; it felt very repetitive and lost my attention very quickly.

The game is kind of like chess with guns, but in this game of chess, randomizations are way too much. Well-timed and well-placed shots will most likely miss, and the damage is random, from 6 out of 100 health to 26 out of 100 health.

A very minimalistic, old-style UI is welcoming for newbie players.

The settings menu is simple with bare-minimum options to choose from.

The select-point and click style of turn-based RPG lets you play as 2 – 5 characters from each family; you select the characters by pressing F1 – F5.

The gameplay mostly consists of five fusions. Choosing 1 – 5 number key lets you choose –

1. Move: lets you move within a limited area throughout the map. Moving also expands/reduces your playable area and how far you can shoot.
2. Lookout: lets you spot enemies nearby and marks them.
3. Weapons: each character carries a different type of weapon; pressing 3 will allow you to target and shoot enemies within a limited range.
4. Reload: You know what this does, and in this game you have to reload way too much due to all the miss-fires.
5. Special abilities: Each character gets their own special ability, but it’s pretty useless most of the time, due to all the miss-fires.

I believe going for a more traditional point and click style of gameplay would have been much better and more enjoyable.

The game has decent gameplay. While on paper it has a lot of features, due to poor implementation, the game comes short in a lot of places and needs some more work to be put into it.

Review written by BiteMexD for Zeepond.com!