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Feature: Old World Trading Company

Preview: shape nations and annoy kings in Old World, the new 4X from Civ 4’s Soren Johnson

Nate Crowley • 9 months ago • 56

I booted up the preview build of Old World expecting a game much like something from the Civilization series. Probably not unreasonably, given that lead designer Soren Johnson is well known as having been co-designer on Civ III, and then lead designer on Civ IV, before starting his own studio, Mohawk Games, in 2013. And for sure, this game, which is about founding and growing…

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Tagged with 4X, feature, Historical strategy, Mohawk Games, preview, Old World.

On the night of Friday 30th August, at PAX West in Seattle, RPS will raise the dead. Using techniques too dreadful to comprehend, we shall puncture the mortal veil like a sheet of wet tissue paper, and drag something back from the other side. That spirit will be Ghoastus, the Roman Ghost: our first fully spectral staff writer, and the site’s occasional historical strategy correspondent.…

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Tagged with Amplitude Studios, Firaxis Games, Firefly Studios, Ghoastus, grand strategy, Historical strategy, Jason Statham, Microsoft, MS Paint, Paradox, PAX West, RTS, S.EXE, Age of Empires II: Definitive Edition, Imperator: Rome, Sid Meier's Civilization VI: Gathering Storm, Stronghold: Warlords.