Words Kingdom Review by Meryl
“…in a morning everything suddenly changed. They came from the sea… the Barbarians. Thousands of them… with only one thing on their mind… destroy. They’ve take over us. Our homes… our children… our lives. But there will come a day and a leader will rise, uniting under his sword the faith of an entire nation. And will lead us to victory!” And so begins the story and the atmosphere of Words Kingdom.
Blend adventure and picturesque hand-drawn graphics with a Boggle-style game to unearth Words Kingdom. Travel back to medieval times to help a kingdom evade an invasion of barbarians that took over every region. Instead of battling the barbarians with swords and gore, battle them with brains and words.
To create a word, select adjacent letters on the board of 49 tiles. Either the letters must be next to each other horizontally or vertically — no diagonals allowed. The challenge comes in creating long words score, so you can score more points. One long word could outscore five short ones. However, time is ticking and sometimes you need to resort to building short words while searching for long ones.
Words Kingdom comes with the standard two game modes: campaign (story) and classic (not quite endless). In campaign mode, you battle the barbarians with words to recapture the land — one region at a time. In classic mode, make as many words as you can within three minutes to shoot for the highest score possible.
Conquering each region gets harder as the goal score climbs as you recapture a region and march forward. A map appears between regions so you can see your progress in saving the kingdom. Not only do you need to seek long words, but also keep the kingdom’s people happy for happily ever afterin’ or else…
The game’s dictionary is imperfect as it didn’t recognize some words, but it didn’t hurt the game experience. Thanks to the game’s simplicity, it takes little time to learn and start choosing your letters for battle. Words Kingdom’s replayability depends on the success of recapturing the kingdom. If the kingdom’s people aren’t happy, players get motivated to try again until their people are happy. Once you reach happily ever after, you may not be inspired to play the game again.
It takes only a couple of hours to conquer all the regions in campaign mode depending on your ability to build long words to chase out the barbarians. Fans of Bookworm and busy people who love word games will welcome the challenge without worrying about Words Kingdom passing too much of their prized time.
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We give Words Kingdom a 3.5/5 diamond rating
System Requirements: Windows
- Windows ME/2000/XP/Vista
- 600MHz or faster processor
- 128MB RAM
- 8-16 MB video card
- DirectX 9.0 or later
