While you can comfortablywin the earlier battles without worrying too much about whatformation each of your units is in, magic plays a vital role rightfrom the start, and knowing how and where to use it is the key towinning a battle.Generals have special abilities which vary from simply firing avolley of arrows or leading a charge through the enemy to disrupttheir ranks to awe inspiring elemental attacks that can severelydemoralize your foe. New characters are introducedgradually throughout the campaign, and a helpful voice-overexplains what's going on between battles as your armies advance andretreat across a big map of China.A similar approach is taken to introducing you to the game'stactical possibilities, with more complex unit formations andspectacular new spells being unlocked as your generals gainexperience from one battle to the next. You're fired - pun editorIt might all sound a little bewildering, but in stark contrast toKoei's impenetrable Dynasty Warriors III, here the plot actuallymakes some kind of warped sense. Luckily thesheer silliness pervading the whole game makes it a joy to play,with the sometimes frankly surreal cutscenes either carrying thestory forwards or simply leaving you staring at the screen in utterdisbelief.Spoilt For Choice Goodness gracious, great balls of fire Speaking of fire.

His sworn brotherZhang Fei is a brave but drunken fool with a tendency to bite offmore than he can chew, while many of his generals are buxom youngladies who act like giddy schoolgirls most of the time. Lui Bei (inreality a middle aged general) comes across as a typical FinalFantasy style whining teenager, who leads his people to war becauseCao Cao kidnapped a dancing girl he fancied. Along the waythe plot has more twists and turns than your average soap opera,with generals switching sides, alliances being forged and broken,new armies appearing just in the nick of time, and spectacularmagical attacks carrying the day.The characters themselves are reduced to caricatures, but like thecostumes they wear they're colourful and distincitive. Playing as theShu leader Liu Bei, you must lead your armies to victory in aseries of massive battles against the tyrant Cao Cao.

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