66
The gameplay is standard, if sometimes uneven and difficult, and the units aren’t anything we haven’t seen before.
70
This is definitely a game aimed at the hardcore, old school crowd. Newcomers to the real-time strategy genre will find that the campaign is difficult to the point of near total aggravation.
86
One good thing is that players will face little to no slow down even with a huge battle going on in the middle of the screen.
8
The game is aesthetically appealing, a sort of grim fantasy setting with an efficient worldbuilding. That is to say the game neither tells nor shows a lot, but it is still able to spark interest in the world with its various creatures and factions. Beside decent visuals (lighting is especially good), its presentation is very cinematic. In terms of mechanics it is right between Starcraft and Warcraft 3, although it adds some features like multiple map layers (surface and underground of the same map) and unit leveling systems - different for each faction. Overall you would not play it for a unique RTS mechanics. You probably would not play ir for the story either. The point of this game today is the aesthetics paired with a decent RTS and a decent story.
10
This is the best strategy in the world. I'm waiting for the second part....
3
While it has nothing particularly good to separate it from other titles, Armies of Exigo provides bad acting and voices. With the sound turned off, it is still not a good game: in particular, the control of your units is terrible. In a sense, it feels more like playing a repetitive action game than a strategy game. A really bad gameplay indeed.
Armies of Exigo
Released On:
Nov 30, 2004
Metascore
Mixed or Average
69
User score
Generally Favorable
7.9
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89
It is simply one of the best handling RTS games that I’ve ever played, and I played just about all of them.
80
Exigo's multileveled gameplay is a good first step in an interesting direction, but unfortunately, that's not always enough to compete in the brutally competitive RTS genre. With more tweaking, Armies of Exigo could definitely give Blizzard a run for its money. [Dec 2004, p.126]
User score
Generally Favorable
7.9
69% Positive
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Jul 28, 2012
9
Game play is good, graphics are good, the story is good, the units are all good..what more does a game need? Apparently something new? Tho i fail to see what new every one is talking about. You mean like flying ships and units that can make mineshaft to quickly transport units from one location to the other? This is a game people clearly have miss judged solely on the fact that it got aliens and a familiar conflict in it. People see the beast men and they all yell the Hord! Riiiiiip offff!!!! aghhh!!!! then they spams and falls over. Then they notice a third faction called the fallen and notice that they got bug units and guess what....they all yell Zerglings! Riiiiiip offff!!!! aghhh!!!! then they spams and falls over. And that seals the fate of Armies of Exigo cause after all that falling over all people see is a clone of a clone of clones? Then comes all the complains, wahhh i can only control 16 units wahhhhh. Answer: Then make a super group with the F1 - F12 key dumbass. Wahhhhh heroes don't lvl up and you can't out fit them with items :( sniff , can't see how that's such a surprise as its Called Armies of Exigo and not Heroes and Armies of Exigo. In fact that comes to show that its not a copy of Warcraft 3 at least as their you can make all the love you want with your hero witch is everything in that game. Personally i find Armies of Exigo to be a great game, units gain experience for their kills, you got flying units that not only can transport your units but your archers can attack from within them. A good variety of units in all the factions, and once again a good story. Honestly there really should not be any need for any more to be said to convince you that Armies of Exigo is a great game. Its not a copy of Warcraft and Starcraft its not, its not a lie that its similar but calling it a rip off and a copy is going to far. In the end one more thing to add, Armies of Exigo is hard and gives a challenge and deserves my personal rating of 9/10.
75
Seems to take too much from too many other real-time strategy games, and fails to capitalize and to create its own niche.
72
With so much effort put into Being Whatevercraft, it's a real shame that a bit more time wasn't spent on really trying to surpass it, rather than just being a solid game that's as ultimately memorable as a disembowel movement. [Dec 2004, p.89]
66
The gameplay is standard, if sometimes uneven and difficult, and the units aren’t anything we haven’t seen before.
60
The artificial intelligence is also AWOL. The alertness of each unit is figured individually, and not shared even amongst a group.
42
A playable RTS and even marginally entertaining, but that’s only because its developers blatantly adopted every single hackneyed RTS convention they could get their hands on. Even the fall guy has enough self-respect to avoid doing that.
Sep 2, 2023
8
The game is aesthetically appealing, a sort of grim fantasy setting with an efficient worldbuilding. That is to say the game neither tells nor shows a lot, but it is still able to spark interest in the world with its various creatures and factions. Beside decent visuals (lighting is especially good), its presentation is very cinematic. In terms of mechanics it is right between Starcraft and Warcraft 3, although it adds some features like multiple map layers (surface and underground of the same map) and unit leveling systems - different for each faction. Overall you would not play it for a unique RTS mechanics. You probably would not play ir for the story either. The point of this game today is the aesthetics paired with a decent RTS and a decent story.
Mar 12, 2016
3
While it has nothing particularly good to separate it from other titles, Armies of Exigo provides bad acting and voices. With the sound turned off, it is still not a good game: in particular, the control of your units is terrible. In a sense, it feels more like playing a repetitive action game than a strategy game. A really bad gameplay indeed.
Jan 29, 2014
0
Might be good, but there's no widescreen support. The game doesn't have any resolutions higher than 1280x1024 and that really detracts from it's score.
SummaryWorlds collide in Armies of Exigo, a fantasy RTS where the boundaries of the battlefield are broken and war is waged both above and below the ground. This game takes strategy to new depths as elves, beasts, knights, and creatures of the darkness are locked in an epic battle for survival. In the world of Exigo, where peace and prosperity ... Read More
Rated Tfor Teen
