Great, you're thinking as you eagerly open the box while simultaneously phoning for a number 23, a 54, and some prawn crackers on the side. By using guile and cunning, or failing that, outright brutality, you must lead your third of China on a mission to bring the other two kingdoms under your wing and rebuild the shattered nation.
The blurb that comes with the game tells you that you must take up the mantle of one of the three warlords of the time, Cao Cao, Lui Bei and Sun Quan. To add to the authenticity the game itself is also a product of that vast and ancient nation, having been developed by Chinese team Object Software. It is his historical novel about the fall of the Han dynasty in the 2nd century and the subsequent division of China into three separate kingdoms that forms the basis of this real-time strategy game. Thanks to Eidos however, the venerable Luo is about to become, if not a household name, at least a little better known outside his native land. But you might say, "Ah yes, Luo Guanzhong, the famous 14th-century novelist, author of The Three Kingdoms." Which would tell me you either went to school in China or you're one of those irritating gits who knows everything and always wins at Trivial Pursuit. Then you'd look at me blankly or say bless you. Now what if I said to you - Luo Guanzhong. Well maybe they don't have quite that effect, but at least you've heard of them. Charles Dickens, William Shakespeare, Daniel Defoe - names that every British school child holds dear, and whose rip-roaring tales of love, life and derring-do in these sceptred isles never fail to hold teary-eyed readers spellbound.
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