Zynga and the NaturalMotion studio have structured a game built around waiting - or paying to not wait. The campaign started to feel too long, progress becomes too slow, and the battles lost their fun.īut that’s far from all that isn’t working in Titans. But even the best parts of a game can wear you out. Seeing your titan crush opposing forces and destroy units is the most fun I had in Dawn of Titans.Īlong with multiplayer alliance-based battles, Titans also boasts a sizable single-player campaign, which I enjoyed at first. Players control both a titular Titan (which are quite overpowered) and an army of units, such as archers, militia, spearmen, and four other unlockable classes I haven’t made it to yet: panthers, grenadiers, pikemen, and goliaths. The balancing of the farming/castle building mode (which I enjoyed managing) and the additional battle-based modes are smart, and fighting while waiting for resources to generate - at least when the timers are low - also adds something for players to do instead of just having to wait around.Ībove: Players can give units individual orders ahead of the start of each battle.Īnd Titans’ battles are its strong point. This is where you’ll build farms, gold mines, barracks, and other buildings to raise resources and create units for your army. The technology behind Dawn of Titans - developer NaturalMotion’s Echo and Morpheme engines - are also in Grand Theft Auto 5 and The Lord of the Rings films, and with that, parts of the game look great, like the zoomed out view of your customizable castle area. I’ve been playing it daily for over a week now - having gotten nearly to level 8 - but am finding diminishing returns and a game burdened by an ecosystem that makes playing it more about waiting (or paying to not wait) than actually enjoying what it has to offer.Ĭheck out our Reviews Vault for past game reviews.
I’ve never played any of Zynga’s past games - I’ve avoided the bombardment of FarmVille requests over the years - so I’m not coming at Dawn of Titans as a fan of the publisher’s past work but more as a fan of strategy games that Dawn of Titans tries to emulate. But Dawn of Titans suffers from the current systemic approaches in mobile gaming, and while it was quite enjoyable at first, it falls prey to its monetization system.
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