![]() Greenskins led by the warlord Grum-Gog are rampaging through your once-peaceable realms, and only you can stop them by building more guilds, marketplaces, temples, and watchtowers. Just a couple of minutes after this weirdness is introduced, you discover that these glowing eyes belong to hordes of goblins. Just when all seems well in the charming fantasy kingdom of Ardania, where a Sean Connery soundalike narrates missions and tax collectors roam around asking about decidedly IRS-like forms, you get a plea for help from a certain Lord Blackviper about being plagued by glowing eyes in the dark. The heart of Kingmaker is its new eight-mission campaign, and the only other notable addition is a map editor that, while it's powerful and relatively user-friendly, would have been more appropriate as a throw-in for a patch than as part of a full-blown expansion pack. Just when you think you're safe, whammo-here come the ogres! ![]() Missions can be incredibly grueling in Kingmaker. Shortcomings of the original game also remain unaddressed, making the expansion suitable only for hardcore fans of the franchise looking for punitive new challenges. ![]() But even though franchise veterans will get all that they can handle, the new scenarios are often so sadistic that you can't beat them without a ton of trial-and-error experimentation. This is one of those add-ons that feel a lot like a lost part of the original game, one that adds little to the core gameplay aside from new missions dressed up with extreme difficulty. Brutal difficulty is the calling card of Kingmaker, the first expansion for last year's Majesty 2: The Fantasy Kingdom Sim.
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