Recently the glorious "True Three Kingdoms Matchless 8 Empire" officially met with players, most of the old players know how bad the evaluation was when peerless 8 was just launched, Glory originally wanted to follow the boom of open world gameplay at that time to bring some new content to the peerless series, but the helpless level was not enough to learn and not refined, peerless 8 not only lost the peerless series of refreshing mowing gameplay and the content of the open world made the whole game feel empty.
Later, in order to save word of mouth, Glory promised players that Peerless 8 would not launch the "Power Enhanced Version" of the Fierce General Pass, but would instead make comprehensive improvements and fast-forward directly to the Empire, and the new Peerless 8 Empire would cancel the open world and return to the traditional gameplay. Of course, players are also full of expectations for the newly arrived Peerless 8 Empire, the Peerless series has encountered such a big Waterloo, perhaps Glory will be painful to fight a turnaround battle in the Empire, after all, we have seen many similar examples.
However, through the evaluation of players after the release of the Peerless 8 Empire, the content of the overall game has not improved much, and even some old players believe that Glory not only abandons the few advantages of Peerless 8, but even adds a lot of new shortcomings. After the release of the Peerless 8 Empire, I also experienced it for a while for the first time, objectively speaking, the game itself may not have undergone too many earth-shaking changes compared to before, but it has made great progress, although there are still many flaws, but at least grasped the core content of the Peerless Empire series, after all, it is not too far away from the topic.
Still not giving up on the open world
Although Glory mentioned before that the Peerless 8 Empire will give up the open-world gameplay, but in the end it is not completely abandoned, players can feel that the Peerless Canon and the Open World are difficult to integrate, but the Empire Is not the background setting of the player playing a role to unify the three kingdoms exactly for the open world? Whether you're a monarch or a warrior in the wilderness, the open-world setting sounds very tempting.
Therefore, Glory still retains the open world setting in the Peerless 8 Empire, such as the player can freely move around the main city through the walking system, and encounter thieves and beasts in the wild. I thought it would be an improvement over the previous game, but unfortunately, the content of this open world is limited to walking and lackluster interactions, which can't help but feel chicken, and I have never used this walking system again after a few visits.
Of course, in addition to the tedium of the open world, another reason why I personally hate this walking system is that the glorious scene modeling and the modeling of the face of the miscellaneous soldiers are really difficult to say. Every time I look at the rough stickers and the strange shape of the volkswagen face warrior, I feel like I dream back to 10 years ago. Fortunately, most of the main martial artists can continue to eat the old, especially the exquisite modeling of female warriors, so that the game's graphics will not look too shabby.
Unfortunately, I thought that Glory could rely on the Empire series to really develop a completely open world gameplay, but it is clear that this time Glory is only on the basis of The Peerless 8, and it is still far from creating a new future. However, the most core combat system for the Peerless series has been improved in the Empire this time.
A new evolved combat and interior system
There is not much to say about the combat operation, the Empire still inherits the traditional unparalleled pleasure, cancels the open world, makes the map smaller, and the battle rhythm is more compact. The elimination of C skills makes the combat operation more smooth, and players still maintain a more pertinent evaluation of this.
It is worth mentioning that the siege and defensive battle design added this time introduces a new strategy function in the siege battle, which is actually to complete various tasks in the battle to achieve the strategy or weaken the enemy or strengthen themselves, and the completion is basically divided into two ways: occupying the stronghold and killing specific NPCs. The strategy is also divided into 1 star, 2 stars, 3 stars three difficulty, the higher the difficulty of the higher the benefits of nature, generally speaking, the completion of the plan is still more cost-effective. It is worth complaining that I once brushed out a Lü Bu's 3-star strategy, killing those few god-like apparitions in 10 minutes is almost impossible to complete, and the enemy will come out to make trouble at this time, that is the first time I have been completely destroyed on the battlefield, but not because of the enemy, but because of the strategy I used, this is really me killing myself.
And in the siege and defense of the most important is the strength value, can be seen as the blood bar of both sides, if the two sides of the disparity in strength, not only can quickly make the enemy stop, but also will have a large damage and defense bonus, so players can no longer ride as in the past, rational operation, choose an opponent of equal strength in order to make their empire develop normally.
Therefore, the internal affairs system of the Peerless 8 Empire is one of the more nuclear new content in this work, some players think that this internal affairs is too simple, although the UI looks a bit like the taste of the Three Kingdoms, but the order is executed monthly, and only one command can be executed every month, and the operability is too low to meet their dreams of pointing out the country. This internal affairs system itself is actually not a big problem, for the Peerless series, such a design is enough, after all, it is an action game, and overemphasizing strategy is also easy to make ordinary players lose interest.
But is the internal affairs of the Peerless 8 Empire really as rudimentary as the player says? In fact, this is not the case, the player can choose to reclaim farmland, develop commerce, strengthen defenses, destroy enemy lines, develop military generals, join the vertical and horizontal, etc., and due to the limitation of the number of operations, each choice needs to be judged. Especially in the distribution of military generals in various regions, as the land occupied by players in the game is getting larger and larger, and the border with other forces is also expanding, how to distribute the number of military generals in various regions is a place to be carefully considered, and the deployment of military generals also needs to consume action power, and it is often too late to deploy military generals until the enemy has launched an offensive attack.
Where does the Three Kingdoms Peerless series go from here?
If the Matchless 8 Empire has been successful this time, the only thing players have reached consensus is the love cultivation gameplay, and the excellent female character modeling makes players tirelessly engage in various unique CPs in the game. In addition to the orthodox gameplay of Liu Bei taking Sun Shangxiang and Lü Bu taking the mink cicada, there are all kinds of strange collocations that are not to be mentioned, anyway, players can always play their own unique imagination to complete seemingly impossible tasks. Glory is also well versed in the preferences of Peerless players, almost every Peerless will launch a large number of clothing DLC, and players also like to find a variety of inexplicable mods in the Workshop.
However, for the Three Kingdoms Peerless series, relying on these so-called side doors to keep players is not a good idea, at least not a long-term solution. Looking at the entire Peerless Family, whether it is the Peerless Great Snake or the Warring States Peerless, it seems that only the Three Kingdoms Peerless are not moving forward. For example, last year's Warring States Peerless 5 has made great progress in terms of screen and plot setting, and has successfully been affirmed by a large number of old players, and the Peerless Snake has also been widely affirmed.
It is also understandable that as the longest developed big brother in the Peerless series, the Three Kingdoms Peerless, over the years, basically have written all the scripts that can be thought of, the tastes of old players are becoming more and more picky, the number of new players is difficult to increase, and Glory hopes to find new development ideas for the Three Kingdoms theme through the Peerless 8, but this failed attempt and the success of the follow-up Snake and the Warring States theme will become the last straw that crushes the Three Kingdoms theme in the Peerless series.
I am not worried that the Peerless series will end here, but I am worried about the sinking of the Three Kingdoms theme, for Glory, today's Peerless Theme has flourished, Pirate Peerless, Warring States Peerless and even Zelda Peerless. But as a Chinese player, what I most hope to see is the traditional theme of the Three Kingdoms that belongs to us.
Although the Peerless 8 Empire has not been able to complete the redemption this time, it has made great progress compared to the previous game, at least back to the peerlessness envisioned by the player. In general, for old players, the Peerless 8 Empire is still worth a try, just for those modeling and CP is still worth starting, but for players who do not have too much feelings, the price of this AAA still needs to be carefully considered.