There will not be such units with cannons or muskets like in original Kessen, but you can employ the use of various technology adding up some really devastating and unique weapons to your arsenal. You will have your mages just as well as your warlords that will serve you, each with certain ability to call lightning, meteor rain, tornado, ice storm and what all not. Very nice, yet sometimes naive, is the use of magic which game now offers you. Also another addition are sea battles where you're limited with your actions since entire battle are aboard the ships. This time battles take on a completely new level, not only do you control your troops across vast fields and take control over some bridge or mountain, but in some missions you must even attack or defend entire cities/castles. Saving works just as fine as in the original, after you finish the game, or whenever in the battle itself. This one follows its steps, but extends campaign to fource the size of the originator, adding immensely more cinematics to watch.

The original game attracted me for its imaginative way of creating an interactive war movie, yet with simplicity of controls and dozens of great cinematics. This is to be a game that connects onto a 'Romance of Three Kingdoms' series, but as I am unfamiliar with those games and/or events, I honestly couldn't care less, 'cos what I got from this game is something very similar I experienced from original Kessen, only this time setting was set in medieval China instead of Japan. The story being developed before you isn’t too original either. However as well animated as they are the cut-scenes and story that evolves during the game just begins to get annoying, it wouldn’t be so bad if it was just before battles to set the scene but there just seems to be a cut-scene for absolutely everything. The size has been greatly improved with a huge thirty levels available compared to the eleven that were available in the first.

It has been improved form the original, there are new weapons and even elephants mounted by troops.

The graphics were beautiful and the battles themselves were at first exciting because of the shear amount of action unfolding before my eyes, but after a while things began to get repetitive and I just found myself coming back to the game less and less. Kessen II is an enjoyable enough game but it really just failed to grab me, I couldn’t find myself getting engrossed in it.

Kessen 3 minor battles