{"id":1004,"date":"2008-07-22T14:04:52","date_gmt":"2008-07-22T18:04:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/2008\/07\/22\/more-e3-previews-and-total-war\/"},"modified":"2008-07-22T14:04:52","modified_gmt":"2008-07-22T18:04:52","slug":"more-e3-previews-and-total-war","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/2008\/07\/22\/more-e3-previews-and-total-war\/","title":{"rendered":"More E3 Previews and Total War"},"content":{"rendered":"

Dragon Age: Origins<\/a>
\nEmpire: Total War<\/a>
\nVelvet Assassin<\/a>
\nDungeon Hero<\/a><\/p>\n

Of these four, I am, naturally, most excited about Empire: Total War<\/em>. Now I am perfectly ready for this game to not be great, but from the fifteen minute demo I saw last week I can’t imagine Empire being anything less than very good. The good news is that the new engine is properly adapted to the new era. Melee stuff will still be there, of course, in charging cavalry and bayonet combat. But by using a new physics engine to track projectiles, Creative Assembly has shown a total commitment to gunpowder warfare.<\/p>\n

They were disturbingly silent about the campaign. Around 50 factions but only a dozen playable? How long before that gets unlocked by modders? The size of the map – Indies to Americas – could pose problems, as well, if they keep the province control mechanism that has been present in every Total War game so far. With a map that large, how big will the territories will be?<\/p>\n

There will be research to unlock new weapons and tactics but no word on how this will work, especially when compared across, say, the Native Americans or Ottomans or Indians.<\/p>\n

But a new engine is always refreshing. This looks to be the same kind of splash of cold water that Rome<\/em> was for the franchise. Creative Assembly said they would have more info at the Leipzig gaming convention later this year.<\/p>\n

So if someone wants to send me to Germany…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Dragon Age: Origins Empire: Total War Velvet Assassin Dungeon Hero Of these four, I am, naturally, most excited about Empire: Total War. Now I am perfectly ready for this game to not be great, but from the fifteen minute demo I saw last week I can’t imagine Empire being anything less than very good. The […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}},"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[28,30],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5GFeQ-gc","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1004"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1004"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1004\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1004"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1004"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1004"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}