Comments on: Empire: Time Of Troubles, Sedate Trailer

By: Pijama

Pijama — Thu, 14 May 2009 20:54:59 +0000

Eastern European medieval warfare? Now that would make even our good Dragon Age trailer look quite sedate. :D

By: Smike

Smike — Thu, 14 May 2009 05:23:32 +0000

As much as I like the TW and EU series I would like to see another take on it….keeping my finger crossed that they didnt “borrow” too many elements from the other tbs games. I really like the art tho, it has a very russian feel to it…

By: MD

MD — Thu, 14 May 2009 00:43:23 +0000

This looks rather nice. Something about it charms me, and it’s nice to see a trailer that gives an indication of how the game will play, rather than getting a man with a ridiculous voice to deliver some ridiculous narration while things explode and/or people get stabbed. The game itself will probably overwhelm me, given that I’m an idiot who is bad at thinking, but I am tempted all the same. I hope you will give it a play when it comes out and let us know wot you think, Jim!

By: Don

Don — Wed, 13 May 2009 23:05:55 +0000

Empire: Time of Dialog Boxes

By: Wisq

Wisq — Wed, 13 May 2009 21:12:14 +0000

Flashbacks to Cryostasis. I saw that “1c Company” countdown and strangely retro red-on-yellow logo so very many times while playing that game … probably because the damn thing crashed every second level load.

(Not that it’s their fault; they’re just the publisher. Unless the crashes were caused by DRM they insisted upon … oooh.)

This definitely takes the award for “most dramatic music for just idly clicking through menus in a trailer”, though.

… a whole lot of menus, currently rendered mysterious (to me at least) by their encryption in cyrillic.

Actually, they’re probably double encrypted — once in Russian, once in cyrillic. They must really not want people understanding what they’re clicking on.

By: Oak

Oak — Wed, 13 May 2009 21:05:41 +0000

Russian zebras? Don’t be silly, that’s clearly the elite quagga cavalry of King Wladislaw II.

By: Hulk Hogan

Hulk Hogan — Wed, 13 May 2009 20:26:44 +0000

Is that a dude on a zebra? Does Russia have zebras?

By: Spd from Russia

Spd from Russia — Wed, 13 May 2009 20:01:52 +0000

looks kinda like civ+HOMM mashup? trailer is boring and confusing
the devs are my neighbours btw

By: cowthief skank

cowthief skank — Wed, 13 May 2009 17:48:47 +0000

Seemed to me like a sort-of hybrid of Empire: Total War and Europa Universalis. In a good way. I especially liked the bit where the man turns into a boat.

By: tekDragon

tekDragon — Wed, 13 May 2009 17:11:22 +0000

Actually looks more like a bleaker shade of Fantasy Wars to me. Glad someome still knows how to make interesting looking war games.

By: Bhazor

Bhazor — Wed, 13 May 2009 17:07:43 +0000

Dull you say?
Well gentlemen I beg you to consider 2:04 in which a 2000′ tall zebra besieges a town.

By: Rich_P

Rich_P — Wed, 13 May 2009 16:51:13 +0000

Is it just me or is Russia becoming a real power in PC gaming, especially in the games I wanna play demographic?

Yeah, I’m glad someone out there still wants to make games like Men of War and King’s Bounty. Some of the names are awful, though. Men of War? uhhhh. MrBejeebus already pointed out the problem with this game’s name.

But beard micromanagement could revolutionize the 4X genre.