{"id":139,"date":"2005-05-25T13:53:00","date_gmt":"2005-05-25T17:53:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/?p=139"},"modified":"2006-08-19T20:25:15","modified_gmt":"2006-08-20T00:25:15","slug":"everyones-doing-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/2005\/05\/25\/everyones-doing-it\/","title":{"rendered":"Everyone’s Doing It"},"content":{"rendered":"

Gamespot has some screenshots<\/a> of the upcoming XIII Century: Death or Glory. <\/i>You can read more about it at 1c Games headquarters<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Gee. Epic battles, a Risk<\/i>-like strategy game, 10 playable factions, sieges…didn’t I play this before<\/a>?<\/p>\n

Creative Assembly has a good thing going. A distinctive look and complete command of the sub-genre. They had large battles and a strategy overlay that was finally perfected in Rome<\/i>.<\/p>\n

Immediately, after Shogun<\/i> was released, Magitech<\/a> released a similar Japanese themed game called Takeda<\/i>. They shortly after did a Rome themed one, Strength and Honor<\/i>, which is still awaiting its US release. The Magitech games put more energy into the strategy than the battles, and they had a lower budget look and feel. (They are now at work on Takeda 2<\/i>).<\/p>\n

But now we have Imperial Glory<\/i>, a Total War type game set in Napoleonic Europe and soon we’ll have XIII Century<\/i>, which will have customizable units. Legion: Arena<\/i> looks to have a Total War vibe to its battles, though we’ll have to wait until Xmas to see how they stick a strategy engine to it.<\/p>\n

In short, Creative Assembly’s trademark style now belongs to everyone.<\/p>\n

This is nothing new. Civ<\/i> sparked clones, as did Command and Conquer<\/i>. All the great strategy originators had to see their own Eureka moments copied or bastardized by less talented developers.<\/p>\n

Now, XIII Century<\/i> could be a great game. It could be the 3D Medieval: Total War<\/i>.<\/p>\n

But after seeing a Rise of Nations<\/i> campaign map tagged onto Cossacks II<\/i> and Rise of Nations<\/i> borders in Empire Earth II<\/i>, I wonder why anyone wonders why strategy gamers are a little jaded.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Gamespot has some screenshots of the upcoming XIII Century: Death or Glory. You can read more about it at 1c Games headquarters. Gee. Epic battles, a Risk-like strategy game, 10 playable factions, sieges…didn’t I play this before? Creative Assembly has a good thing going. A distinctive look and complete command of the sub-genre. They had […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"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":[],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5GFeQ-2f","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139"}],"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\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=139"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=139"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=139"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=139"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}