Chapter 99 - RTS games (1/2)

It didn’t take long for Legion Conquest to launch after Chen Mo clicked on it.

This was an RTS game that used modern themes. One could easily tell from the loading screen filled with planes and tanks among other fancy high tech weapons.

The UI was quite clear, with Campaign mode and Versus mode as the two main modes.

Chen Mo felt that this game bore some resemblance to Red Alert. However, this game had better graphics and had a much more different weapons system.

This game didn’t have the Apocalypse tank or Prism tank, but instead used tanks that were used in real life, with a few more futuristic tanks.

However, this game didn’t focus on the cold war, and didn’t split the players between the allies and the soviets.

Legion conquest was set in a fictional world after a third world war, where many countries had been subverted as the bigger armies armed themselves for an all out war.

And in the campaign mode, the players would be playing as a leader of one of the countries, with the objective of conquering the world.

There were many weaponry from real life, such as battle tanks and bombers that were available to every player, blurring the lines of the differences between countries. This was likely in consideration of the international audiences.

After registering an account, Chen Mo started Campaign mode.

In summary, the quality of the game was quite high, and the tutorials weren’t bad. However, the story was quite lackluster as the story, with barely any story progression after beating two levels. Basically the player would invade wherever the game told them to, with no attention to the story at all.

Of course, this was likely also a side effect of being set in a fictional world with the line between countries in the movie, meaning that the story was also restricted.

However, the story isn’t important in an RTS game anyways, not affecting its popularity at all.

The controls of Legion Conquest were also quite crude and were quite similar to that of Red Alert. Chen Mo didn’t find that interacting with the world, hotkeys, and clicking to assign orders as particularly intuitive.

Selecting units, moving them, and attacking with them were all done by mouse, and right clicking would cancel the assigned orders, which Chen Mo found very unintuitive.

Chen Mo looked into it deeper as he played.

At this time, an internet addicted teen sat next to Chen Mo, and looked at Chen Mo’s screen while waiting for his PC to load.

Chen Mo controlled a tank towards seven or so soldiers, and under the firing of the soldiers, Chen Mo’s tank exploded.

“What the!” Chen Mo was speechless, it was just as illogical as Red Alert, how would a few soldiers with machine guns defeat my tank? Is the armor on the tank fake?

The guy next to him asked, “Are you new?”

Chen Mo nodded, “Yep, I’m new.”

The teen said, “The tanks in this game are garbage. Either you rush soldiers or save up for air troops or super weapons. The mid game tanks are a waste of money.”

Chen Mo was speechless, “Aren’t tanks the main force of modern warfare?”

The teen replied, “I’ve been thinking about that too, but that’s the way the game was designed.”

The teen also launched Legion Conquest and started searching for an online match.

It didn’t even take a minute of searching to find an opponent. He was assigned into a 4 person map for a 1v1.

The teen stopped chatting to Chen Mo and focused on building and training his army.