Role-playing and strategy gaming fans have a unique type of gaming experience to look forward to with Kingdom Under Fire, the new title from Phantagram. Kingdom Under Fire is an intense and intricate game which delivers a perfect blend of real-time strategy, fast-paced action, resource management and role-playing elements for the gaming connoisseur.
Seven heroes feature in Kingdom Under Fire, six of them under your control a massive real-time strategy environment. Each of the six heroes also takes a starring role in their own role-playing scenario, where much of the story behind Kingdom Under Fire unfolds, and in which you'll have the chance to develop his character, personality and build up his experience and skills.
In the real-time strategy campaign, you'll be called upon to build up your community and power-base, using the manpower at your disposal as your community grows. You'll be called upon to defend your people from frequent attack and you'll be glad of the many types of warrior portrayed in Kingdom Under Fire: the action in battle is pulsatingly fast and often brutal.
In the role-playing missions, the experience and magical powers gained by your heroes will be carried over into the next part of the game, thus strengthening your hand considerably. In order to complete the entire single-player game, you'll need to bring each hero through his own role-playing mission successfully.
The stunning fast-action graphics are created using high quality animated sprites. Advanced lighting effects and detailed backdrops perfectly capture the dark atmosphere of foreboding which pervades the world of Kingdom Under Fire.
Kingdom Under Fire is also a strong multi-player game, with its own dedicated server, WarGate.net, available worldwide. Players can challenge each other to play various different types of game including deathmatch, hero strategy and hero RPG modes, with up to eight players in any one game.
Kingdom Under Fire: features
70 units, each with strong specialities. Various tactics and strategies can be developed and employed using combinations of these units.
60 different magic spells.
Easy-to-use strategic variations: You can set the leaders and the battle formation for each group of characters.
Two independent and unique races: human and devil.
A total of 120,000 frames of character animation cuts.
Action and movements smoother than those of polygon-graphics.
Special visual effects include fog, dynamic light effects, displacement maps, lightning bolt effects, etc.
WarGate.net Internet game server provides ladder and league mode game and various ways to play.
Map editor enables you to create your own Kingdom Under Fire worlds.
Kingdom Under Fire will be published by Phantagram (Europe) Ltd in early November 2000 on PC CD-ROM. More information on the game can also be found on the web site www.kingdomunderfire.com.