Welcome to the Wild West! Wild enough to be extremely dangerous place to live. And where most people are struggling to survive, only a hero can lead them, protect them and take care about their needs. So, should I tell you, who is going to be a hero in this game?

Unlike most small games, Westward II is a mix of a strategy and a role-playing genre. And if you play other games than small games, you might already know a good example of such mix - Warcraft 3. And - yes, Westward II takes almost everything from the Warcraft.

At the very beginning, you find yourself probably somewhere in Texas. All alone, with a gun in your pocket and a courage in your heart. After a few steps of the tutorial, you will find a man who is complaining about no place to live and no food to eat. Well, order him to go to a nearby bush with berries and build him a shack. Then dig a well, build a farm and tell the man to work on the farm (you can’t feed him all the time, right?) Then you will also need to buy a woodcutter, a gold mine, accept more people in your community and build shacks for them (you’ll learn how to build stone houses in a while). As the leader, you need to assign your people to different jobs and to ensure that they have everything they need to live. And you also have to protect them.

Some of the settlers tells you scary stories about the gang of a Mad Russian. Well, it’s actually a good question, what a Russian did in the Wild West, and what in the Wild West have made him mad (except the lack of vodka, of course ). Anyway, seems that your primary task is to find and defeat that Mad Russian and his gang.

I didn’t played much this game. I am too spoiled by Warcraft 3, which has much better game balance (and better graphics). Besides, I don’t like country music that much to listen it for several hours. At least such annoying country music like in this game (just my personal opinion). However, even with my experience in strategy games, it was too hard to balance the resources well enough to keep the community happy. I tried to start several times, and on the second levels got not enough food to feed them, not enough gold to build houses for new settlers before they leave. And it also takes a bit long to gather necessary resources. So don’t think that a trial hour will be enough to pass several levels. I bet, you will end it on the second level, or perhaps a third level if you are much better gamer than me

What I do like about this game is that there is many different missions from the people who comes into town. They ask for your help or make good offers. In Westward II, you never have a second when you don’t know what to do. And you never can predict what is going to happens in several minutes.

I think, that you have to be the admirer of the Wild West to love Westward II. It is all about the Wild West - from the music and graphics to dialogs and the storyline. You have to love cowboys and to be charmed by the beauty of prairies. And, if you live in the United States, you have to love your great country to feel the true spirit of this very american game.

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