By John Walker on August 15th, 2012 at 3:30 pm.
So Impire is Dungeon Keeper with slightly more strategic combat, right? That’ll do. As we know it’s coming from Cyanide Studios, they who brought us Chaos League and Game Of Thrones: Genesis, and being published by Paradox. You can read a bunch about it from Nathan, here. There’s a new trailer showing a good range of the different styles of play below.
I don’t really have any more to say, so instead, here’s a picture of a mongoose:
(It’s only after writing this that I noticed Paradox did the same dumb Imp… joke for their own headline.)
15/08/2012 at 15:33 c-Row says:
” … Impressions”?
15/08/2012 at 21:21 sbs says:
This! Seriously, what the hell JOHN WALKER
16/08/2012 at 09:19 Phantoon says:
He is a TERRIBLE HEALER.
17/08/2012 at 16:32 Lamb Chop says:
Imitating Images.
15/08/2012 at 15:35 Torgen says:
Purely from what has been released, I think I like this more than Game of Dwarves.
15/08/2012 at 15:56 Kestrel says:
Well the imps here have charisma and charm, whereas the dwarfs have dull, lifeless stares and look like placeholder art.
15/08/2012 at 18:33 Ghoulie says:
Yeah, I’m not liking the dwarfs’ design at all.
15/08/2012 at 19:27 LionsPhil says:
Aye.
15/08/2012 at 15:39 westyfield says:
“It’s only after writing this that I noticed Paradox did the same dumb Imp… joke for their own headline.”
Well that’s what you get when you’re impetuous.
15/08/2012 at 15:43 RedViv says:
Impossible! What impertinent impulses lead you to implying this?
15/08/2012 at 15:43 Rao Dao Zao says:
But it’s so important to make the right impression.
15/08/2012 at 15:47 The Army of None says:
And here I was thinking I was impervious to pun threads…
15/08/2012 at 15:50 RedViv says:
Consider this a most impressive show of impotence then!
15/08/2012 at 16:04 MaXimillion says:
Surely RPS Improved Paradox’s Impish puns though.
15/08/2012 at 16:33 Kaira- says:
I do insist that we indulge in these impressive insights of the impossibly ingenious ideas of inventive intelligences.
16/08/2012 at 00:55 theleif says:
Stop this nonsense!
I implore you, think of the children!
15/08/2012 at 15:50 DanPryce says:
This impudence will have serious implications.
15/08/2012 at 16:29 RegisteredUser says:
Insane. Insinuating illicit internal imperfections. I irrevocably in irregular intervals impress internationally!
Oh wait, wrong logic.
Impressive imperfection, in improvable implementation!
15/08/2012 at 15:39 DanPryce says:
This looks like it’s going to scratch the same itch that Evil Genius did.
15/08/2012 at 15:43 meatshit says:
Please, please, please don’t be as terrible as that Dungeons game.
15/08/2012 at 15:49 fionny says:
Thats my hope too, that was crap.
15/08/2012 at 16:00 Dark Nexus says:
Amen to that! I really wanted to like Dungeons… I tried to like Dungeons… but just couldn’t.
16/08/2012 at 02:20 socrate says:
this game look extremely graphicly similar to dungeons anyone know if they bought their engine or what…seriously…the room…the design and graphic are seriously bad reminder of that awful game
also pre defined room size…really?
and cyanide=bad dev they made nothing remotely worth noticing
and paradox for all their fanboy following them for i don’t get what reason is and always as been a bad publisher…the thing they do differently is only that they publish stuff like CK,HoH and SoTS…put with that that they exploit old title the same as all the big company,majesty 2 was a spit in the face of the old Majesty game which was brilliant i mean the AI in the first majesty is brilliantly made and yiet they managed to screw it up entirely and then use the franchise to get stuff like a Tower Defence majesty /facepalm…then a civilization majesty who they told was a spiritual successor to master of magic which its not even close.
im actually really tired of paradox taking all these idea like dwarf fortress and dungeon keeper just to over hype and get easy $$$ out of it and that goes for all the publisher out there basically….just the though that Dungeon Keeper franchise is in the hand of EA make me shiver
did anyone read the development on DK3? it was horrible…they were making it basically starcraft or warcraft….it was a disaster,im really glad they didn’t make it
i for one would rather never see a DK3 rather then see it ruined and exploited like all the old title these days…i could care less for “clone” and these so called “spiritual successor” to me all they are so far are easy $$$ scheme and always end up being just an horrible money making scheme that everyone seem to fall for
and yes i do take this at heart a bit to much…dungeon keeper is still my favorite game of all time and no one even came close to making something even remotely similar or good,i still play DK1 and DK2 at least once a year
they also tend to remind me the golden days of gaming and how Bullfrog(and other company at that time) was extremely innovative and always ending up shining even with all the negative.
today the best you can expect from innovation in gaming is pretty much indie dev…and then they get copied by the big company like usual and can’t say a word cause they know they have no chance of winning vs a titan
…damn now i am just angry at the world
15/08/2012 at 16:00 ludicrous_pedagogy says:
Anyone else thinks the logo looks like (MPIR)? Didn’t know what I was looking at the first time it came up…
15/08/2012 at 16:25 Severian says:
I don’t know, I’m feeling pessimistic about this. Looks like yet another game that desperately wants to ride the coattails of Dungeon Keeper but doesn’t quite understand what made the series so much fun. I want an Evil Genius style game where I set up a dungeon with monsters and traps, sit back and watch the adventurers come in and die. Basically, Dungeons without the terrible design decisions (like making you directly harvest the adventurers) + Dungeon Lords the boardgame + Tropico (meaning, a sim where you have to keep your monsters happy or they cause trouble for you). Oh, and a torture chamber. Is that too much to ask?
15/08/2012 at 16:32 Brise Bonbons says:
Wholeheartedly agree on what is exciting in these games (and usually gets left out). I think most of us want a deep, at least semi-simulated management game, but the developers keep giving us something more like an RTS with sandbox dungeon building stuff.
That said, Impire looks to be dripping with character and incidental flavor, which I love. I just hope there are some simulations going on underneath it all; without the unintended narrative moments that emerge from such a foundation, I can’t see it pulling me away from Dwarf Fortress.
Also, nice Gene Wolfe reference in the name, there. (If I’m not mistaken)
16/08/2012 at 02:34 socrate says:
add to this that dungeon keeper is really hard to make a spiritual successor to…i mean possesion spell in DK alone make it a 2 in 1 game you end up with a FPS in my simulator which as so far never been done from what i can remember.
Yes i also agree totally that RTS is totally not what DK was and its what made it so unique and so fun…and also so different,DK is pretty much the first The sims really but even then its far more then just that…its…its almost a genre in itself
Even the MMO of DK make me want to never see another DK game ever…dev now clearly don’t have the brain and resource to make a worthy successor and its just another franchise waiting to be milked /cry
oh and sadly Brise Bonbons looking good and having alots of character doesn’t make a game really good or what we expect…i mean i was hyper excited at Dungeons it looked great and almost exactly like DK….but yeah we know where it went from there…..never buying kalypso game ever again…i hope nothing good for that company
15/08/2012 at 16:44 Ghoulie says:
Eh. I’ve always wanted another DK, or at least a spiritual successor, but Cyanide’s track record isn’t that great as of now. Don’t want another Dungeons.
I’ll keep my eye on it in any case.
15/08/2012 at 16:53 Inigo says:
Predefined room sizes? Bleh.
15/08/2012 at 19:28 LionsPhil says:
That was a rather worrying half-second of footage.
15/08/2012 at 17:40 MythArcana says:
Every single minion type will be a separate DLC. Plus Gleam-required, too. PASS.
15/08/2012 at 19:17 mrwout says:
Please be a blatant Dungeon Keeper rip-off.
15/08/2012 at 19:41 Didero says:
“Build your Impire Now”
“Coming Soon”
Am I missing something here?
15/08/2012 at 19:54 Geen says:
D’awww, cute mongoose.
15/08/2012 at 20:32 linzhanfc says:
http://brk.to/ff9p
16/08/2012 at 02:18 Rovac says:
This game looks pretty. Hopefully, Impire will gain a great deal of success and break the genre-wall that is currently isolating the mainstream.
Then again, there’s no way you can play this game on a consolebox. Even if you can, it will be awkward like most RTS on consolebox. The best RTS you can get on it is probably something like Halo Wars
16/08/2012 at 15:10 MadTinkerer says:
Tsk. tsk. “Build your Impire now!” and then “coming soon”. Which is it? Tease.