"One of the most boring games I've ever played"

Story
A war has broken out between a bunch of people and you're one of the um people group things. The game is a history lesson and well there is a reason I didn't do well in history. I can't really grade this section fairly cause I found the story boring cause I find history boring so I'm just going to give it an average score and leave it up to you to find out if it's your kinda thing. I give story a 5/10

Control
Well you don't exactly control anything. The menus are easy to go through and moving through troop groups is easy enough. I give control a 10/10

Voice Acting, Sound Effects and Music
The voices are horrible and don't even fit the characters. One character sounds like his private area is being crushed as he speaks. The sound effects are good but there really isn't a lot of them. The music is your basic war type thing but you never really notice it. I give voice acting, sound effects and music a 6/10

Game play
It's an interactive history lesson movie. I'm not even joking here. The only thing you can really do is mess with what the general plans out for an attack and switch a few generals every now and then and give commands on the battle field, that is all you do. I was kinda hoping to get to control a character in battle or something but no such luck. Everything in the game is menu based and it's really easy to get the hang of but the problem if you don't need to do anything half the time. During the games second battle I picked a few commands and then left the room cause the game was getting boring cause some commands weren't working after I picked them. When I came back 15 minutes later the game was still going and I was winning. I didn't do anything for rest of the battle and my guys won. This isn't what I call fun and I found it really boring. I give game play a 1/10

Replay Value
I only played the first four battles and grew tired of the game. There isn't any multiplayer but once you beat the game you get to play as the other side which I guess is cool if you liked the game. I give replay value a 2/10

Final Score
I give Kessen a 4/10

Reviewer's Score: 4/10, Originally Posted: 10/12/07

Game Release: Kessen (US, 11/13/00)