Romance of the Three Kingdoms VII

"A game that shows it's the story not the graphics that make a game"

...Wow, that's all I can say about RoTK VII, it may not be pretty but it's got that inner-beauty crap you hear ugly people talk about. Except this game really does have inner-beauty, this game goes as fast as you want it to go, you can lounge around as a Ronin or be Riskesque and conquer your foes one by one, this game let's you do anything you want, with limitations that is.

Graphics: 7
The graphics in this game may not be pretty but they got one thing, smoothness. This game runs clean and doesn't have any of that slowdown that's packed into other games. The intro and some other things are about the closest you'll get to seeing FMVs in this game though, but I think the still pictures are pretty all on their own.

Control: 10
This is a game where the control doesn't really matter, but hey you have to admit that the menus move very fluently as you control and command. You'll be pressing the X button a lot in this game. The only thing weird is, if you turn on the Vibrate function in the Game Settings, both of them vibrate! So, yeah this game doesn't really need that function though.

Music/Sound: 8
Very basic sounds, but somewhat great music and sound. The music in this game is somewhat abundant I guess. Not much sounds except for a few beeps and bips, but the battle sounds are pretty interesting, from weapons clanking on armour to annoited grunts by soldiers in duels.

Funnitivity: 10
Yes I realize that is not a word but hey, half the things you do in RoTK VII didn't actually happen, unless you follow all the rules. You can live the life as... I believe I already stated that in the above summary, anywho it's a great game that anyone with 50 dollars should buy, I mean you can literally pick from 535 characters, not including the characters you can create, 10 different scenarios with different results and endings each time. This is a game where you have to be either trusting or coniving to win.

Overall: 9
Now you may be thinking to yourself, how do 7 + 10 + 8 + 10 equal 9? Well in my reviews I can bend whatever I want and since I can't rate higher than a 10 I'll just give it a 9. Why have I given this game a 9? Well it's a game that you'll have to play for a while to find out everything, and not everyone has that kind of time, but I do since in class I'm a slacker anyway so who cares? I give this game a 9 which is way better than average, and so that's all I gots to say about that. Really...stop reading...okay this is it...okay I'm done.

Reviewer's Score: 9/10, Originally Posted: 09/08/02, Updated 09/08/02