By Kieron Gillen on July 8th, 2010 at 11:09 am.
Hey, good work Kotaku. They’ve brought to light the unannounced project from Robot Entertainment, one of the splinter companies who formed when Age-of-Empires creators Ensemble disassembled. Pretty much all the details can be ascertained from the screenshot – strategy game with role-playing elements. Kotaku also say that their sources claim that the game draws a lot from Age of Empires. Unsurprisingly. We’ll be watching this one closely? Groundless speculation… Go! My bet? Free-To-Play strategy/RPG combo, basically doing Battlefield Heroes with the RTS.
Yes but will it be FREE FOREVER?!
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So it will be like Ikarim/Evony/Etc/Etc but hopefully actually some good?
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I’m confused…
Microsoft’s logo on a PC game?
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From the authors of Flight Simulator and Zoo Tycoon.
http://zootycoon.com/default.htm
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And Freelancer
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@Rinox. It has a windows logo on it so No it wont be free. Wish I was Wrong though. Most likely it will be like Bf. Heroes with game breaking dlc.
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please no F2P-CRAP thingy :(
A real spartan age of empire 4 and i’m sold
please
I beg
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Must…Resist…300…Quote…
I’m glad that ensemble are getting work still, but i hope its not some F2P MMO they should be working on more exciting things.
THIS IS SPAAARTAAA!
Failed.
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Guessing GFWL Arcade style, like the upcoming Blacklight Tango Down.
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The actual game title really is Spartan Launcher, and it will be a mix between PS3′s PAIN and Ace Team’s Rock of Ages, set during the Peloponnesian War.
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Ah, not just me, then. I thought it was like the various “throw a ball / animal / whatever as far as you can” webgames, but with a silly “THIS. IS. SPARTA!!!” twist of you kicking the guy off the launchpad.
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I’d prefer AOE IV.
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Games for Windows Live? Whoops.
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Too bad you’ll never be able to get a good game, because GFWL has the worst matchmaking ever.
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I saw the splash page as the title and was looking forward to “SPARTAN Launcher”; the hilarious physics web game. (promo quote: “Your Spartans will block out the sun”)
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Hah, too slow.
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“Great minds” etc ;p
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So do we know how Battlefield Heroes is doing? I got into the beta, and then played a little after launch, but it basically felt like TF2 without any of the fun, and the unlock grind was horrible in that the unlockable weapons were so much better than what you were given at first. I quickly stopped playing.
Are they doing alright for playerbase? Are there many F2Ps that are?
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Honestly I have been on the alpha of this but I have yet to play it since it’s always available when I am not :( Can’t really give any info due to NDA as well as…you know…not playing it :)
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