By Jim Rossignol on November 15th, 2010 at 3:54 pm.
Hmmph, the instruments must be playing up. I somehow didn’t get a proper reading on The First Templar which was announced earlier this year. It’s a sword-based Medieval-dude-ending experience from Haemimont Games, whose name you might recognise from Tropico 3 and Grand Ages: Rome. A bit of a departure then, from management to third-person action. (I spent a long moment there trying to come up with a “management to man-rage-something” joke, but it just couldn’t happen.) It’s the story of the Holy Grail, apparently, and that involves co-op melee action, stealth kills, ogres, and all sorts of other third-person violencing possibilities. Possibly worth a look.
I thrust a trailer into the bowels of this post, killing it dead.
15/11/2010 at 15:57 mcnostril says:
Mancuts?
15/11/2010 at 15:59 Deviant says:
Was that a leap of faith … kinda brings memories,
ah well worth keeping in mind at least coming from Haemimont.
15/11/2010 at 16:02 groovychainsaw says:
Man-age-ment to man-age-reduction?
Man-age-cut?
Man-rage-mental?
You’re right Jim, none of those are any good, and as I gave it all of 30 seconds, I’m sure there are no better possibilities. Damn. I miss punnage.
15/11/2010 at 16:11 Ed says:
m-enragement?
15/11/2010 at 16:16 Burningpet says:
If its not an ogre who says ni, no sale here.
15/11/2010 at 16:16 Chris D says:
Management to Man-rage-vent?
Although I think maybe keeping it simple and going for management to man-rage-ment might work better.
15/11/2010 at 16:21 Archonsod says:
Not really a departure. Celtic Kings was always billed as an RTS/RPG mix. Although really their RTS’s seemed to just follow the Tzar pattern, so presumably this will involve building housing for your peasants while attempting to beat down men in armour.
15/11/2010 at 16:32 ChainsawHands says:
I’m disappointed that this was posted without an explanation of what this shift from management to man-rage meant.
16/11/2010 at 09:36 D says:
We have a winner.
15/11/2010 at 16:45 Starayo says:
Ugh… That American accent… It grates on my ears.
Looks alright, otherwise.
15/11/2010 at 18:12 Sinomatic says:
Me too. I have nothing against americans, many of them are rather lovely, but there is something really incongruous in medieval swords and shields and that accent. It just doesn’t work for me at all.
15/11/2010 at 18:29 DrGonzo says:
Yeah, considering the accent didn’t exist back then it’s a bit inappropriate.
16/11/2010 at 12:12 Robert says:
Yeah, it’s marvelous that the Queen’s English has survived a thousand years without change.
15/11/2010 at 17:32 Hakkesshu says:
“Halo’d be thy name”
Man, Halo isn’t THAT influential
16/11/2010 at 04:25 DigitalSignalX says:
or Iron Maiden.
17/11/2010 at 04:10 Wulf says:
Keep that filth away from my Iron Maiden! >:C
15/11/2010 at 17:35 Hakkesshu says:
“Halo’d be thy name”
I realize Halo is popular, but this is ridiculous!
15/11/2010 at 17:49 Taillefer says:
Management to bashing men… t.
A lot of these games seemed to have cropped up recently.
15/11/2010 at 17:55 Kryopsis says:
The scene of the character’s swan dive off the roof was completely unnecessary: if anything, it bring out a comparison to Assassin’s Creed, a well-known game set in the same period.
15/11/2010 at 18:30 DrGonzo says:
Ok, all my replies keep getting eaten by the Spam-O-Tron.
15/11/2010 at 18:32 hamster says:
Is the trailer link dead?
15/11/2010 at 19:00 pakoito says:
Eeeeeeeew.
15/11/2010 at 19:01 sfury says:
I’m kinda sad they’re doing that. :/
Doesn’t look or sound that good.
15/11/2010 at 19:13 Torgen says:
I was sorely disappointed that Mount and Blade Warband’s multiplayer did not extend to co-op. Always looking for a fun co-op game!
(RPS reader poll: Do you spell it “co-op” or “coop”?)
15/11/2010 at 19:16 JB says:
co-op. the other is a house for poultry surely?
15/11/2010 at 19:14 Zwebbie says:
Aww, it’s always the Templars. Someone ought to make a game about the Order of St. Lazarus.
15/11/2010 at 21:19 Pew says:
The early build they showed at gamescom looked really rough, but it’s probably still one of those games you can casually play for hours. Kind of like every Kalypso game then. It also had a pretty big skill tree in a templar’s cross shape if that counts for anything, heh.
It’s supposed to be a fictional take on real battles and events, so it could still be a nice little game. I have a soft spot for Kalypso games, they always get average to mediocre reviews but I always end up enjoying them :)
15/11/2010 at 22:29 FRIENDLYUNIT says:
Gutstab FTW!
Also, *coughassassinscreedcough*
16/11/2010 at 01:45 Navagon says:
The Holy Grail? You’d have thought some nice priest would have told those poor sods that the Holy Grail was just a bit of bollocks tacked onto Christianity at the last minute to please the pagans.
Fancy going to all that trouble just because of some medieval PR bullshit.
16/11/2010 at 06:55 Urael says:
I have a soft spot for the Knights Templar…even though those same Templars would likely have shoved heated metal into my soft spots for being such a godless heathen. It’s been a while since we had a decent medieval hack/slash game on the PC. If it’s anything like Starbreeze’s Knights of the Temple this could be fun to play with after a hard day at work.
16/11/2010 at 08:40 Gabbo says:
I’ll keep an eye out for this, even though it conjures up urges for a game based on Umberto Eco’s novel “Foucault’s Pendulum”.
16/11/2010 at 11:16 godgoo says:
what about: ‘man-rage-vent? ‘
16/11/2010 at 14:07 K says:
Am I the only one who notices that they forgot to turn on AA when making the trailer? The edges look so jagged, you could make any man rage!
16/11/2010 at 14:32 Herr Klein says:
All i need is a new Shadow of Rome on my PC :D
16/11/2010 at 17:13 Culprititus says:
If this is anything like Severance: Blade of Darkness, I’d be exceedingly pleased.