Hoard 2011 (PC)

2011 PC Game Analysis:

Dragons, Treasures and princesses. Action strategy as simple as charming.
Become a dragon and amasses a fortune in gold in this fun action-strategy game, where you have a free hand to burn everything. With lots of scenarios and a strong multiplayer, Hoard will keep us glued to the computer hours competing against other dragons.
Already there are several video games that have incarnated a dragon, though few have opted for a style of play as the work presented in this sandwitch Big Games . And in Hoard discover the greedy side of these beings, as we devote to raze villages, castles and fields of crops with the sole purpose of amassing great fortunes in gold and precious stones, namely what we want it all dragons -. But then, despite our great ability to fly the skies and spitting fire from their mouths, we are not invincible: archers, towers magic, knights, and of course, other dragons rivals, we make things really difficult during the game.

Action strategy
At first glance, Hoard gives the feeling of being a simple arcade game in which the only thing we do is setting things on fire, stealing gold and fly back to our den to deposit the looted goods. Okay, yeah, basically this is what we do constantly, but something else, and that something else is a slight strategic component which gives a much more challenging and attractive, especially towards their side multiplayer . So, leaving aside the possibility of improving the skills of our dragon, which we’ll talk then we must consider aspects such as point multipliers, the movements of enemy dragons, which logically can hurt us much, and how not , the warriors that we will to pass.

As mentioned, our goal in most forms of the game is to amass a fortune in a limited time -10 minutes, and therefore maintain a high multiplier for most of the time guaranteed to get the gold medal at the end of game. To our misfortune, to lose this leverage is as easy as we tear down, which will lose the money we bring up and waiting to recover the dragon in his lair, or someone loot our wealth, such as a dragon or thieves who travel the map furtively. So while this is a very fast and frantic game, we always have one eye on the environment to be aware of all movements, especially when we play against three other people.

On the other hand, we can ensure that the villages regularly send us a tribute and that the archers did not attack us if we really fear us. A perfect way to increase profits significantly. The problem is that the enemy dragons can cause enough damage in these villages and to taxes they become to them, or directly destroy the bastion of those cities and restart everything.

We can also increase our profits by more dangerous tasks as kidnapping princesses of their carriages, which will cause the other knights and dragons for them to go to our lair, destroy magical towers with a capacity to get brutal damage gems, or attacking a giant that will appear regularly on stage, with the addition that destroy everything that crosses their path. Therefore, in this case, sometimes we try to deflect from their path if we want to destroy a village under our influence.

A dragon that evolves
Simultaneously with the expansion of our fortune, the dragon can improve your skills easily, and can fly faster, have more stamina fire pitching, better resistance to attacks or increased storage capacity in flight-perfect for displays where we want to load up the dragon stops. These improvements will be restarted after passing each level, since the game does not have any story mode, which eventually gets the title becomes repetitive and is relegated to the background, ie, designed to take short solo items or with a group of friends.

On the other hand, in each scenario will see various special items that we grant skills only temporarily. Thus, we can launch fireballs with great potential for harm, get a breath freezing cold with which the enemies, etc. In short, enough options to make each level involves a challenge of the more interesting and fun, and there is no doubt that he succeeds, since this is one of those titles addictive to always stay happy after a game, even if it is brief.

This helps a lot, apart from having a good multiplayer, chiggers are sometimes anthology, “the fact of filing several game modes , on the same basis, present different challenges. Thus, on one hand enjoy games in which our sole purpose is to build the greatest possible amount of money, while others have to pick what will be princesses. We have also included a way to survival in which we must endure as long as possible on a scenario in which there is no den to shelter and heal the wounds, this will be captured princesses, “and a cooperative that has the same basic search treasure, but along with an ally.

Rating Hoard
Very fun, addictive and challenging enough in its multiplayer aspect to keep a good season in our equipment. Hoard has very successfully managed to combine the best of the classic arcade action with the strategy genre. A title that is somewhat tarnished by not having a story mode that calls for play at all levels, or a higher degree of complexity that we keep discovering new ways to play longer. However, as we say, this is an ideal game to take rapid games at any time.