There’s a single player campaign that’s a little like that of the Puzzle Quest series: an overland map through which the wizard journeys and picks up creatures and abilities to bring into the battles, serving as an extended tutorial and training ground.
And that lowly rat can get lucky and bring down the giant.Chaos Reborn has a forgettable, apocalyptic-earth-rending-mage-war story that boils down to two wizards slinging spells at each other in the end.
Each turn consists of moving the animal, spirit, and undead creatures around the hex-based map, and casting a spell to either summon a new creature, buff and existing one, or attack somewhere on the map.Each creature/spell “card” has two important stats: the percentage of likely success, and an alignment as neutral, lawful, or chaotic.Īh, but there is a 1 in 10 chance it won’t work. Each match consists of 2-4 opposing wizards, who conjure creatures, cast spells offensive and defensive spells, collect mana (which boosts the likelihood of casting a successful spell), and try to stay out of the line of fire. Except, you’re not building decks - there is little control over the “cards” you’re dealt - and movement and placement both play significant roles in the game. By the time you finish the tutorial and its supplemental bonus missions, you will understand the game.It could be argued that Chaos Reborn is fundamentally a turn-based, collectible card strategy game visualized with three dimensional figures on levels of varying complexity. It’s based on Gollop’s 1985 Games Workshop Chaos, and follows many of the original’s tenets.There are many games that pretend to be “easy to learn, difficult to master,” when it fact this translates to “the basics are easy to learn, the rest is convoluted and opaque.” Not so Chaos Reborn, the gist of which truly can be learned in the game’s excellent tutorial, itself a minor masterpiece of pacing, clearly introducing the game’s mechanics one step at a time in the form of simplified matches that are entirely possible to lose.
0 kommentar(er)
