Battle of Tehra: Dark Warrior

Players meet a variety of brutal, fantastical enemies in aggressive melee combat

Players meet a variety of brutal, fantastical enemies in aggressive melee combat.

In the 3D action game Battle of Tehra: Dark Warrior, players meet a variety of brutal, fantastical enemies in aggressive melee combat. Tehra is handy with a broadsword, and can cast magic by absorbing the souls of slain monsters. By filling up her magic meter entirely Tehra can transform into her Urka'h empowered form, where she turns blue, gets even more naked, and deals additional damage with her attacks.

The gameplay is your basic hack and slash adventure where you find yourself facing multiple types of enemies from Orcs, skeletons, knight and mages. Unfortunately like many other games of this genre, they tend to get a little repetitive after a while and Battle of Tehra: Dark Warrior is no different. With constantly being given the same tasks over and over you can get bored after only a few chapters

Basic has been nice enough to include a challenge mode to break up the repetitiveness of killing enemies over and over in story mode with yes, you guessed it, killing more enemies. Actually the challenge mode is pretty cool with different challenges such as survival mode where your aim is to take out as many enemies as possible before you die, while the enemies get progressively tougher. Another challenge is to survive for a set amount of time while your health gradually decreases due to being poisoned. The only complaint I have about the challenge mode is they are too easy and too few with around five different challenges you can probably complete it in less then an hour.

Graphics wise, the game looks amazing and you would be hard pressed to tell that it’s a mini, and with some nice effect included such as blood spatter on the screen when attacking enemies you can see a lot of hard work went in on the visuals. The controls are responsive and fit perfectly with the game. I would have loved to be able to rotate the camera or zoom in and out, as some points you do find that your view is obscured by an obstacle or the camera is zoomed way to far in.