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Romance of the Three Kingdoms X
Average Customer Rating:  
List Price:
$49.99
Asia Trips Trips Price: $68.95
Subject To Change Without Notice
Availability: N/A
Manufacturer: KOEI Corp
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Amazon Maximum Age: 20
Amazon Minimum Age: 144
Batteries Included: 0
Binding: Video Game
Brand: Koei
EAN: 0040198001427
ESRB Age Rating: Teen
Feature: Start a rogue army, fulfill civilian requests, swear an oath of brotherhood, foretell of disaster, and much more
Is Autographed: 0
Is Memorabilia: 0
Label: KOEI Corp
Manufacturer: KOEI Corp
Model: 40198001427
Platform: PlayStation2
Publisher: KOEI Corp
Release Date: 2005-06-22
Studio: KOEI Corp
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Features
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Start a rogue army, fulfill civilian requests, swear an oath of brotherhood, foretell of disaster, and much more
Includes 650 playable characters; also create up to 110 new officers
Acquire over 40 skills plus an array of new commands
ESRB Rating: Rated T for Teen
3/5Hx5-2/5Wx7-3/5L"; 0.4 lb.
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Editorial Reviews:
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Romance Of The Three Kingdoms X is the 10th installment in the classic strategy game series. In the 2nd and 3rd centuries, a once-great nationfell into civil war. You must use leadership, management and strategy skills to make your way in this new world. Some fought to stop the chaos, some used the chaos for their own gain - your reasons and goals are up to you. Play through new scenarios and use the Item Collection feature to build up your characters, while managing your towns and land resources. Then lead your soldiers to glory as you prove your worth on the battlefield. Take charge in a time of chaos and strife, and forge a new nation! New networking features allow players to trade generals and upload ranking data
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Spotlight customer reviews:
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Customer Rating:
Summary: The only game I enjoy
Comment: Turn based strategy, as the name implies, let's you work at your own pace. I can easily spend 10 hours on the game without feeling the time passing by. I use the game as a time killer, reference for an unclear part in the "Three Kingdoms" novel and of course, the thrill of living the life/being an officer of the Three Kingdoms.
If you've never played Romance before, you will not fully enjoy/understand the game unless you are familiare with the charecters, politics and scenarios of the Three Kingdoms. You can do that through the "Three Kingdoms" novel, or for a faster and easier way, a Dynasty Warriors game.
Customer Rating: 
Summary: Great game but...
Comment: Where's the multplayer? All of the games in the series had it except this one. Granted Romance 7 didn't either but there was an easy to figure out cheat code that let you add more players. Not only does it not have a multiplayer mode but it says it does on the back of the box. False advertising! Boo! Baaooooo!
But on to the positive, this is the best games in the series as far as a single player experience is concerned. It is much more focused on character development than the previous game, Romance IX(it's even more hardcore than romance 7 in some respects). Unlike the other games there are no 'turns'. Time flows smoothly, day by day instead of the usual 'do a bunch of stuff, click the done button and the month is over' routine. That is cool and it makes the game feel more natural. Historical events are integrated smoothly and the games has a very storylike quality. One of the best additions is the art of debate where you outtalk you opponent instead of the usual head bashing. Even though it is pretty much just a card game, draw the best number and your guy will say something piffy and your opponent will stagger back under the wieght of your words.
I would have to say that for those who enjoyed Romance 7 and 8 then this will be the best game you have ever played but if you are more interested in strategy and battles than chopping down tress for some old peasant(or if you want to play with some buds) then you would be better off with sticking to the other games in the series.
Pros: Excellent Rpg elements, debating is interesting and fun
Cons: No muliplayer. Lame. Duels are somewhat convultuted and confusing, at least at first.
Customer Rating:
Summary: A great mix of RPG and Strategy
Comment: Romance games are known for kingdom management and stategic battles. RTK X focuses more on the life of officers during that time. Unlike the previous games where you play kingdoms and their leaders, this game allows you to play any officer of any rank. You can be a free officer, doing deeds for the people (or against the people), be employed by the kindoms and progress the ranks, or be a kingdom leader your self.
Confrontations come in different sorts,
1) Turn-based battle where you attack an enemy city or army.
2) Large scale campaign where you attack a whole region with several armies (turn-based).
3) One-on-one duels
4) Debates (for officers with low WAR but high INTELIGENCE).
The new debate mini-game makes it even fun to play officers who are not good in fighting as battles can be won by wits. My best description of debating: The game is like 'Trump Card' where you have a hand of balls of different numbers. Higher numbers defeat the enemy's played balls and damages the enemy. The balls are then palced on a board based on the played numbers. Like Bingo, you can form lines and you can deal greater damage to the enemy when this happens. So even if you lose out in Trump Cards, you might win in Bingo. It all depends on strategy. Characters with higher intelligence have more powerful counter moves.
The game has a lot of features and I don't want to make this review too long so here's my summary.
Pros:
Limitless replay value
Lots of roles to play
Lots of ways to play the game
Good background music (historical flavor)
Cons:
Might get boring doing mundane tasks
Needs a lot of patience
Customer Rating:
Summary: The Best RoTK Yet.
Comment: The thing about Romance of The Three Kingdoms games is that they can seem complex, confusing, and intimidatingly alien to a newcomer. In fact, it's bizarre seeing such an odd bird on a console rather than a PC. However with the popularity of the spinoff Dynasty Warrior action games many of the characters and much of the Romance story is a familiar thing these days. There are certainly much more complicated strategy games on the PC for that matter and few of them have half as functional an interface for managing all the information about the game's world.
Romance is a strategy game for roleplayers. It allows you to create a character, or step into the shoes of any one of hundreds of historical and fictional officers, or his entire family and try to unify China under one ruler. How you go about that or whether you even decide to pursue that end is up to you. Other possible goals for a given run-through of a campaign might be collecting items like treasures, tomes or weapons, winning debates, battles or duels. Certain conditions unlock special events, locked gallery content, or new portrait art for custom characters.
The sheer variety of things to do in RoTK assures that it never feels the same twice. In my first game I played as Zhou Yu, a Lancelot sort, and ended up spending a goodly amount of free time after the Yellow Turbans were defeated just accomplishing private missions and exploring the map. My Liege was allied with most of the other powers and so peace remained stable until He Jin, the Emperor's protector, unified China.
The next game was with a custom character as the son of a minor warlord Kong Rong. Kong, the younger, spent much more time helping his father build up their small city and delved into diplomatic missions as well. All for naught as Yuan Shao overran the city. But that didn't mean game over. Instead Kong's son was released from captivity with many fellow officers. He formed a rogue army on the spot, as he was close with these worthies which included Taishi Ci and his own father, and marched on a distant unclaimed territory. After conquering it, he swore allegence to Cao Cao, a rival of Yuan Shao, and has been working extremely hard to build the city up.
To make ends meet he's had to take on common missions and put his own funds into the city's accounts but it is slowly paying off. His networking with wandering officers has built his ranks up. And the occasional bandit raid keeps his armies in practice until revenge can be exacted on Yuan Shao. There's also a young maid who recently gave him a zypher as a gift. Perhaps she's marraigeable and a new Kong Dynasty will come into being? Must save gold and get a fine present for her. She seems literate, constantly quoting from historical works, maybe a rare treatise?
Anyhow - this is how things go. Over time you can become the magistrate of a city, the overseer of a province or a ruler in your own right. You can form alliances with other forces and friendships, even sworn blood oaths, with other heroes. There's political intrigue, espionage and a decent tactical game which rewards preparation of both your military, economy and character's evolving abilities. New features include a campaign mode which seperates out a section of the strategic map and feels much more like the regional campaigns described in the novel. Also a fine debating mini-game allows non-martial heroes to have some fun for a change.
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