BC Kings Reviews

I grew up playing this game, used to wake up at 5 in the morning so i could play BC Kings for couple of hours before school. It might be nostalgia but i really vibe with this game. Also the music slaps.

I know it has it's short comings but I didn't grow up with this game and I still found it charming as hell. Love the art direction and atmosphere and it took me back to the late 90's/early 2000's rts times. For me it's good shit and if you like old school RTS's you should give it a chance, especially for the low ass price.

BC Kings is an ancient game from 2008. It's a whopping 16 years old at the time of this review. The game lacks support for any modern gaming display resolutions (or widescreen monitors), hasn't been modernised or updated to run smoothly on modern gaming PCs. Despite this lack of modernisation, it carries a pretty high price tag for such an ancient game. This seems to have been put on Steam as a nostalgia gouge, or just a cash grab to try profit from abandonware. As a matter of fact for me (and for some other gamers, as the discussion forum shows), the game is broken for many players and is likely to not work at all. When launching into any missions, the game crashes to desktop immediately for me. So if you do buy this game, be warned there's a good chance it might not even work. The game itself is a lame ripoff of Warcraft 3, only awful. There's a badly done caveman skin slapped over it, in case that's a more interesting genre than ripping off Tolkien like Blizzard did. Anyway, zero points to Gryffindor for such a lame premise for a game. The game only displays in 4:3 aspect ratio (although you can force it to a 16:9 stretched resolution... which looks even worse), due to the age of the game, it predates the 16:9 widescreen gaming standard established back in 2006. It's possible they're marketing this towards people using an old CRT they found in a dumpster, or this game is being specifically marketed towards people gaming on PC's from 1995... either way, this isn't really acceptable in the modern era of PC gaming. It's obviously not going to look right on a modern 16:9 gaming display. These technical defects push this game below acceptable standards for any modern PC game. The game never really caught on with the millions of gamers on Steam, with a very low peak player count close to launch, and then just a handful of players launching this game every couple of days. This is undoubtedly caused by factors such as those raised in this review. It's always helpful with buying decisions to consider how popular and successful the product is, and unfortunately while this did accumulate a few participation trophy reviews, overall, people just aren't using it. Because the game is broken and unplayable for me, it may also not work for other gamers. This is a solid reason to approach this game with some skepticism. So, should you buy this game? BC Kings is relatively expensive for an abandonware nostalgia gouge, at $4 USD, and it's not worth it. The game is just too old, hasn't been modernised. And as the old saying goes, you can't go home again. Even when it was new, this was never a triple-A game. This is the kind of game that went almost directly from the warehouse into the cheap bargain bins at the front of the shop. Now, on Steam, without any modernisation? This is impossible to recommend. This is also competing with over 11,000 free games available on Steam, many of them far better than this paid product.

Very nice combination of Warcraft and AoE in Stone Age with dinosaurs. To everyone, who played and liked those 2 games, this is nice game for you.

Despite the dated and simple graphics (and the music tracks not appealing to me), this game turned out to be quite fun to play. Be prepared to restart some stages a few times as it is all too easy to lose a unit that "must" survive to complete a quest. BC Kings has some really good design innovation elements, but not all of these are flawlessly implemented. If you are looking for a more polished product that has some similar gameplay elements - look at Warcraft, Warcraft II, Warcraft III. However the setting for BC Kings is quite unique and the whole Neanderthal setting with cavemen and dinosaurs has a certain quirky appeal to it. With a revamp of the artwork and graphics, some voice-overs and a bit of refinement this game would certainly have more appeal and value. Overall as it stands you get a game that is fun to play, but it is very much a diamond in the rough.

This game is one of my favorite rts type games next to starcraft and star wars galactic battlegrounds. The music is spot on, it fits the whole Bc times era gameplay! You can play the longish campaign, play against the computer, or play multiplayer which has you versing other online players or nearby friends of your's. Although multiplayer is kinda dead and you can't really play against more than one computer at a time, the game still holds up as a fun gameplay experience in my opinion. If you like basic rts gameplay and some serious/comedic campaign story-line, I garauntee you will have a good time with Bc Kings!

[h1]“Give a man a fire and he's warm for a day, but set fire to him and he's warm for the rest of his life.” -Terry Pratchett, Jingo[/h1] Ah, [b]BC Kings[/b]... Such a weird title. But not because it's a weird game, or something. It totally isn't. It's pretty generic one, actually. It's just the whole idea is pretty much crazy. The whole story of this game is that one guy [i]really[/i] wanted to make his own [b]WarCraft[/b]. Or [b]Age of Empires[/b], since this game may look like both of them at the same time. Anyway, that's why [b]BC Kings[/b] is so strange. It's pretty much a story about [b]Marcell Baranyai[/b] making his own old school [b]RTS[/b] in late [b]2000[/b]s. What's so weird about it? Well... think about it. [b]RTS[/b] isn't an easy thing to make. It's not like one of those [b]Hidden Objects[/b] games, or something like that. Not one of those types of games that you can mass produce without putting too much effort into it. You need to make a proper [b]AI[/b], you need to make interesting missions, you need to balance things out... It's a pretty complicated process, really. And here we have one person doing all of it. Man, [b]Mr. Baranyai[/b] even did part of [b]3D[/b] graphics and voiced all of the characters! How cool is that? The guy literally made most of the stuff all alone here! You may expect him and his game to suck, thanks to that, but the funnies thing is – [b]BC Kings[/b] is actually pretty cool. No, really, screenshots may look poor, but it's actually a pretty solid [b]RTS[/b] title. If you like the genre and have nothing new to play on your radar, you should probably check this one out. It has everything that you enjoy in such games and all that actually [i]works[/i]. Which is a [i]huge[/i] success for one person. The problem is, as you may guess, this game can't really compete. Even with much older titles that actually had more people and bigger budget behind them. Any years old [b]RTS[/b] can easily destroy this one. Not because this one is bad. But because... it has nothing special about it. It's just your generic something without its own face. It copies every single aspect of the big games like [b]WarCraft[/b], or [b]Age of Empires[/b] series and doesn't really add anything new to the formula. Aside from prehistorical setting that is. Which also doesn't feel that good thanks to a lot of [i]really[/i] stupid humor ([spoiler]aliens and “[i]I'm your father[/i]” jokes included[/spoiler]). So... why? Why trying to make something that was already made in a much better way? I guess it's just because [b]Marcell Baranyai[/b] just [i]wanted[/i] to make something like that. Like he played all those awesome games from the past and wanted to make his own. But... even though [i]technically[/i] he succeed, [b]BC Kings[/b] isn't something you recommend to everybody. It's a very niche product for hardcore [b]RTS[/b] players, who already played every other [b]RTS[/b] out there and still want something they didn't play before. For many people this title may deserve a downvote. It looks dated, it feels dated, it has literally nothing new in it, it comes with a lot of copy / pasted concepts from the popular [b]RTS[/b] titles (at some points it feels [i]exactly[/i] like poor man's [b]WarCraft III[/b]), while story is just stupid and not really fun. So... yeah, I can see the reason for all those negative reviews. In their own way they're actually right. And still, I don't want to give this game a negative review. Not only because it's a big success for its maker, who put a lot of hard work into it. But because it actually works pretty well. If you don't mind dated graphics, generic gameplay and poor humor, you totally [i]can[/i] enjoy it for what it is. Like you can enjoy cheap bubble gum. You won't want to chew it for long and you certainly won't want to return to it, but... it won't hurt you to enjoy it for some time. If you're an old school [b]RTS[/b] fan with a free weekend... It may actually be pretty enjoyable experience. Technically, it [i]is[/i] a poor man's [b]WarCraft III[/b], but... who said it can't be enjoyable at all? The price is just right after all.

Its a fun quirky strategy game that is fun to play but I bought the game on sale when it was much cheaper. Definitely do not buy it for full price, compared to other RTS games that are made today it is not as good but it brings some of that old-school RTS feel with it and is good for gamers that remember the challenging mechanics and playstyles of old RTS games. It has an interesting campaign and a fun variety of units but the graphics are dated and the online is all but dead. If its on sale though its not a bad deal.

This is a traditional RTS where you collect four resources which you later use to build structures and create army. The strategy is not revolutionary in any way, though you do have some interesting elements such as a secondary quest system and a possibility to travel between maps. The biggest drawback is the graphics. Everything would have been much better if the devs had paid more attention to the engine. If, on the other hand, you're into old school strategies, but don't mind the graphics, give BC Kings a go. :)

Way back in 1997, an extremely well designed RTS game, Age of Empires, blew many players away. Granted the gameplay at the time was similar to the ‘big two’ being Command and Conquer and Warcraft, it stands out due to its storyline as it ties in playing out our history. Personally, I loved it because you get the play out the Stone Age as no other games done this effectively since. Fast forward to 2008, another RTS game arrived where you can play out the Stone Age (with some twists) and filled the landscape with dinosaurs – and who doesn’t like dinosaurs? This game, BC Kings, whilst kept on the traditional RTS formula (explore / build / conquer), it added some RPG elements and encourages exploration as well. A decent game considering it’s an indie title however I wished there were more dinosaurs to play with. Overall, the game was a blast to play from start to finish with some twists and turns along the way. Yes it does feel like a rip-off from Age of Empires however it’s obvious that there’s a lot of love and care poured into this game. The UI is nicely designed with beautiful pictures that resembles cavemen paintings splashed throughout is an example of devotion. However I praise the developers for trying out something new to the ever-so overused RTS formula where it encourages you to explore, have multiple maps, a spray of RPG and even has a third person view option (well…one mission has this). Some of these innovations plays well and others not so however that’s not to discredited their efforts. It’s a light hearted RTS that’s very enjoyable to play until the very end. Let’s put it this way, when I think of that title, it places a smile in my face and that’s a good thing. 8 / 10 Full review here: http://www.gamespot.com/bc-kings/user-reviews/2200-12641425/