Another run of the mill RTS this is not, but it's enough like the rest to justify a cautious try before you buy attitude, even though it's ultimately rather peachy.Ī long time ago a very powerful guy, Caesar, ruled a big ass nation fuelled by ambition, professionalism, sin, and greed. There are many other comparable and better strategy titles about. But, whether or not quality warrants purchase in this case is a decision you'll have to make on your own. What to do? What to do?Ĭutting to the chase, Celtic Kings is good. A respectable, commendable effort sits on my desk beckoning for further play, while a few dozen others rest nearby in a grossly overfilled CD case, demanding the same. Thus the truly great get enjoyed by the masses while all the rest get piled onto the all consuming furnace. No productive or sane member of civilized or Arkansan society could ever hope to play them all, let alone buy them all.

Certainly there are just as many of this genre as there are of some others (by others I mean FPS), but this is the most time consuming of the overdone. The problem is that we PC gamers are doomed to wade through a flood of strategy titles for the rest of eternity. Unfortunately, Celtic Kings is also not perfection, so we'll not find irreproachable bliss here.

It's also not incredibly boring, forcing my still adolescent self to blankly stare off into the void of an unpowered television set wishing it were on and enhancing my mental prowess with tales of Undressed and elimiDATE. Rather, it's an inconspicuous, noble, and solid strategy title with RPG elements that comes built well enough to never give me cause to question my belief in videogaming as a valid hobby. MTV? ADD? Regardless, I'm no longer capable of devoting my full, undivided attention to what I play - enjoying what's to be enjoyed and dismissing what should be burnt with furious rage.Ĭeltic Kings elicits none of the above fantasies.

Depending on the title, it can lead me to contentment, gloriously titillating lands overrun with many scantily clad Shiri and Charisma clones where I am equally content, or even fill me with grandiose delusions of storming into the developer's offices strutting my towering intellect and tyrannically commanding them all to make a better game with a booming voice that would force Unicron to shudder in a pathetically frightening Conrad-esque manner. My imagination takes over whenever I play anything.

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