Genre: action-RPG
Developer: Enlight Software
Publisher: Enlight Software
ESRB: Teen
Website: Joan of Arc’s Official Website
Introduction
With the Medievil times running in the way, Wars and Warriors: Joan of Arc defines the best of medievil era. Wars and Warriors: Joan of Arc starts in the A.D. time period. In this time frame, gamers will fight vicious battles strategically to defeat this sword/cross bowing war. You will play Joan of Arc, a powerful courageous woman who carries a sword basically throughout the entire game. You could change the weapons as you purchase them from certain shops. With many battles in each level, Joan of Arc has a number of strong weaponry and hard armor to receive during gameplay. The battles are tensed, especially in the 2th-5th levels. It’s more than likely if you play the game for a while in the first level before reaching the second level. Joan of Arc is a definite plus in the strategic category, from Enlight Software.
Presentation
This strong presentational game seeks a vary of composition and texture. Joan of Arc has a flat out, well-toned, time framed scene that takes you back in to time. A realistic pleasure -- you ask? Joan of Arc has its realism alright, but the options are also pretty standard. It has a video option to lower or raise shadowing, texture, or gamma. If the Joan of Arc is going to slow for you, then you may need to lower the shadowing at it’s lowest. This will allow your gameplay to be a lot more faster and in real-time. The textures like in the glass, the waterfall in the first level going across the bridge, and the houses all look astounishing. As soon as the game starts, make sure to turn down the speakers, they will have your ears blowing out smoke by the time you start playing the game. "It’s all good!" I’m even surprised that Joan of Arc looks similar to the cover during the gameplay.
Graphics
Just to get things started on the graphics, these graphics are remarkably incredible. Well, for a PC game, it has its astounding view of things to showcase. Such as was said before, the waterfalls, the landscaping, the high-textured details and the characters all looks like it could be in the RPG category. No need to worry, this RPG has it’s setback. Look up! It’s a bird, it’s a plane, no it’s the sun -- and it looks really stupid. I mean come on, if you’re going to have a sun at least make it look presentable. Although the interior design on the earth is pretty good, not nice. The house covers on top of the roofs looks a little fuzzy but, their were some gliches found as we were going to the smaller/ closed-in areas. It gets really difficult to see how and where you want to go sometimes if you don’t have good video RAM. The male characters do seem to look a like, as we speak. The female characters, well that’s another story to cover. Even though, when you try to hit the ’normal’ people walking around, they just simply move out of your way with a slide. So in other words, graphics wise, this game is not recommended for older computers.
Sound
Ahhh! There’s nothing like the sound of birds chirping and the water splashing. Well, then you have swords hitting each other and soldiers being killed. Needless to say is that the sound quality in Joan of Arc brings the next generation of gaming to life. Make sure to put your audio settings up during the gameplay for massive results. You’ll get the best in digital audio (depending on your sound card) from the game like Final Fantasy XI, as I would say. Looking back at the cinematics at the start of the game, the movie clip will be loud so turn it down.
Gameplay
As for the gameplay, as we said earlier, the gameplay is more of a strategic game than a RPG (Role-Playing Game). As Joan of Arc goes on her quest, you’ll have to stop into very few people to help you in each level. The hardest part of it is to find the people you’re trying to look for. We like the action in the first level, just to get things started. You wouldn’t really have to much of a conversation in first level. Though, the second and third level is where you will buy your stock and weaponry, as well as, find your way to the next level. You will also need a lot of patience for the second level; it took us a day to find out how to get pass it. Going back to the graphics, if you don’t have a great computer and your game gets slower then turn your texture/ shadow options down. Believe us, it’ll help out a lot, especially in other games too.
Conclusion
There’s nothing more than the big ending, as we see it, Joan of Arc is a classified rated game that speaks for itself. Personally, I think that is it pretty good for a history lesson in the Medievil times era, but I’m no history teacher here. This is not one of those "One of a kind" type of games though, it brings excitement if you’re into RPG gaming. The graphics, for a PC, is the best feature on this game, for newer computers. "Never fear, Joan of Arc will rate this game right here!" Joan of Arc will get an overall rating of a 8.5 out of 10 for graphics, sound and presentation. It just needs to work on a few glitches for better gameplay.
