Recently, Tencent's Tianmei Studio has a new trend, launched a multi-civilization SLG mobile game called "Return to the Empire", and spent a lot of money to invite Zhou Shuyi, Luo Yonghao, Zhang Quanegg, PDD and other Internet celebrities to promote it, as well as the melon boss of "Huaqiang Buy Melon" who swept the whole network some time ago, calling on players to join the game.
In fact, before the appearance of "Return to the Empire", there was already a big brother in the market of this type of game, that is, Lilith's "Awakening of Nations". "Awakening of Nations" as a multi-civilization SLG mobile game released in 19 years, appeared three years earlier than the upcoming "Return to the Empire", and in terms of quality, it is also recognized as the ceiling of multi-civilization SLG mobile games.
"Awakening of Nations" has achieved great results at home and abroad as early as its launch, and in September 2019, it achieved a revenue of 54 million US dollars, breaking the previous record of "Clash of Kings" for more than three years. After the game returned to China, "Awakening of All Nations" has earned about 200 million yuan on the AppStore alone. Seeing that SLG multi-civilization mobile games have such a huge market, it is no wonder that "Return to Empire" wants to get a piece of the pie.
Back to the appearance of "Return to the Empire" today, it seems that Hua Qiang is asking Boss Gua for advice: "Big Brother Wan, the market for SLG multi-civilization mobile games, is it familiar?" ”
In terms of game content and gameplay, it is not difficult to see that there are some shadows of "borrowing" Big Brother. "Return to the Empire" currently has 4 civilizations for players to choose from: Chinese, Frankish, Byzantine and Roman, while "Awakening of Nations" has 12 civilizations in Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Arabic, Ottoman, Byzantine, Roman, German, British, French and Spanish. And each civilization has a distinct architectural style, and different classes also have different bonus characteristics.
In the specific play experience, if "Return to the Empire" wants to obtain more resources, it requires the player to lead the army to attack the defenders on the resource ground, defeat the defenders to obtain resources, and over time, this single way of obtaining resources will make the player fall into the dead cycle of "fighting - upgrading - fighting - upgrading". And in the process of attacking the resource land, there will be casualty losses, if the player with less luck fails to draw a good card and lineup, he will face the embarrassing situation of not being able to fight at a high level and can only slowly develop at a low level.
"Awakening of Nations" is relatively rich in the way resources are obtained in the game. Scouts can not only explore uncharted territory, but also collect anytime, anywhere. When there are more abundant resource points, the player can also assign any warrior to mine, and can send up to five generals at the same time, and there is no upper limit to resource collection.
In terms of the cultivation of martial generals, it is possible to specify the promotion of a certain skill from the skill panel of the martial general, without the need to draw cards, and the materials required to upgrade the skills can be obtained through daily activities and missions, which greatly reduces the liver and krypton degree of the gamer. Players can also improve the combat effectiveness of their troops by randomly matching them with the warriors that are easily available in the early stages. For example, Belisariu and Cao Cao can make the troops both attack and defend, and the recovery speed and marching speed can also be greatly improved.
Overall, after in-depth experience of 2 games, Xiaobian's personal preferences are more inclined to "Awakening of All Nations", and its gameplay and mechanics are more abundant at the same time, and the difficulty of getting started is also low. If you want to experience the multi-civilization SLG mobile game of newcomers, starting from "Awakening of All Nations" is a lower threshold and better experience.