Medieval Combat - Age of Glory
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Playing a fighting game is all about combos, magic, special hits; some extras are made by spectacular things like eye-candy backgrounds, several characters with different styles, and off course some adrenaline. I’m sure you know what I mean – I bet you were amazed as well when you saw a guy making a fatality or a friendship in the Mortal Kombat combat series, or kicking the hell out of another in Tekken.
Fighting games are a poorly represented genre in the mobile gaming industry because of the technical difficulties involved. The most important mobile setback is the impossibility for most devices to process multiple key inputs at the same time. Another problem would be the large number of buttons required (the famous Street Fighter, for instance, had 6 different fire buttons - more than enough, IMHO).
But enough with the technicalities. After all, it’s not the buttons that matter, but the feeling brought by the game.
And Medieval Combat(yet another Gameloft production) has one heck of a feeling to offer: great graphics, spectacular moves and magic combos, eye catching arenas, all in exactly the right amount. It gives you the rush fever specific to the gender, there are 7 characters with completely different styles(but only 5 of them available at first), and the game modes are all what a gamer could ask:
- Arcade – sort of a campaign, the main section of the game
- Instant play – self explanatory
- Survival – fight only one round each, and take the damage with you to the next combat.
I mentioned magic: you are able to use magic when a special gauge fills up. I like the smart implementation: when magic is used, the game freezes and you have to input a series of directional moves to create the triggering combination.
How to play it? Our friends from Gamespot have summarized it well:
The basic fighting mechanics revolve around two main attack buttons and a magic button. The 5 and 8 keys perform weak and strong attacks, respectively, and the 0 key, when held down for different amounts of time, unleashes weak and strong magic attacks. Your fighter’s magic meter fills up as you do more damage during a fight, and once your meter is full, holding down the magic button for an extended period of time will let you do a super attack. Once one of these moves is enacted, a combination of directional buttons will appear onscreen. Hit the four directional buttons with the right timing, and you’ll pull off an unblockable attack.
The combos are very well realized as well, they can be made using a direction key and afterwards an attack type. The sound is not overwhelming but decent, and the menu music as well. So is the music that underlines the key moments of a fight, adding up to the general atmosphere.
Full extra batteries included; among them:
- Are you a noob? Training and Tutorial sections are there for you as well as three levels of difficulty.
- A lot of game settings in Options, and the Hall of fame – a cool must-have feature for any fighting game.
- Personally, I also find cool the option pretty rare those days in mobile gaming – the ability to write the player’s name and the fact that you do it via directional keys, like in those old arcade machines.
If you miss the old fashion NEO-GEO/Nintendo/Sega fighting feeling, then this is the game you were looking for; consider yourself warned, though: your phone will probably resent itself if you press the keys too harshly in the heat of the battle. 
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