By Kieron Gillen on November 25th, 2009 at 5:16 pm.
Oh, I’m getting wise to that Magitech now. Strength & Honour 2 is a rome-period wargame which has a new – gasp! – 1.7 Gig demo available to download. I glance at the screenshot and think… isn’t that the same engine of all those Eastern-set games? Why, yes, that’s what it appears to be. Which I thought when looking at their Takeda 3, reminding me of Sango 2. It’s the icons at the bottom that nail it. Anyway – I’m digressing. Interesting points? Well, rather than being purely Western-Europe-centric, it models as far as China if you fancy going all Alexander The Great.
They’ve tickled my field of interest.
Downloading.
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I understood virtually none of that. I must be going soft in the head. Too many burgers in the 80s, no doubt. I blame John Gummer.
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more importantly where is the news aboutthis king arthur: the RPG or somthing, its on steam now and I want some professional wordthinks on it http://www.kingarthurthewargame.com/main.html
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Seconded!
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Totally wish Total War ever went as far as including China in anything.
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Man, if Total War modelled all the way to China, I’d play it a lot mor–darn it Dorian. I read your post as I was typing. Then again, I wish for a RotK game that models as far as Europe…But no, that’d just be silly.
But anyway, yeah. Looks pretty cool.
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Unfortunately, though, I cannot stand the artstyle. So I’ll be over here, praying for somebody to mod a full map of Eurasia into Medieval 2, or something.
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Anyone else notice that it is only Keiron’s posts that anyone has trouble parsing?
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Some of his posts are a little more stream of conscious than the other threes, but I’m still able to parse them perfectly.
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He’s probably drunk
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They’re all drun on gin. *hic*
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Thanks for the link. I’m downloading the demo and it looks like my kind of thing. But please sort out your English. ;)
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If you can get past the graphics these are good games. I played the demo for Takeda 3, was initially put off, but as I played more I began to see the depth available – it is a smarter game than Total War from what I can tell – I have been waiting for this one as I am more tempted by the larger scale of this than just focusing on Japan. I would recommend giving the demo a go if you like this kind of game and can live with Shogun style graphics.
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That answers my question – whether these games are actually any good. The eye candy I can take or leave. The brain-dead AI in the total whore series alway left me a bit underwhelmed.
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Wow that’s a clunky interface.
Someone needs to make a Sword of the Stars for the middle ages.
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Ah, I see they’re after a more classic look :)
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