You Have To Look At This!!!!!!!!!!!!! Imperial Glory

[Kagetora]

http://www.gamespot.com/pc/strategy/imperialglory/preview_6107461.html

I had to see this to believe it but the TW engine has been ripped off and put into a new NTW but not by CA, it a totla revamp of the old one, with the ability to control your own Naval battles. I CAN"T BELEIVE SOMEBODY DID THIS

[Colovion]

I think it looks good, took a good idea and ran with it.

Please note the interface appearance:

http://image.com.com/gamespot/images/2004/reviews/920587_20040915_screen002.jpg

[octavian]

1) there already are about three threads here in the org about this game
2) i really dont think this is a rip-off of the TW engine
3) even if it is (although i doubt it is anything more than someone who thought it would be cool to have a game with the same style as TW, only Napoleonic) i really dont (personally) have a problem with it, just one more cool game for me to buy :P

[Colovion]

I guess I should say that I don't care if it is a ripoff of the TW engine or not. I'd rather have more games to play than less games to play.

[Quietus]

Initially, I thought they were an absolute clone myself (aside from the eye-poppingly appealling and unique naval battles).

But that is not the case. Soldiers in each unit can garrison buildings and hide behind trees. Each empire has a different political system. There's dependency on food, assimiliation of new territories, etc.

They just took the Total War Turn-based with 3d-battles approached format but they are trying to make a game on their own. ~:cool:

[DisruptorX]

Hey, if its fun, power to them. Thank god developers have begun to see that command and conqueresque games are not the only option.

[Colovion]

Hey, if its fun, power to them. Thank god developers have begun to see that command and conqueresque games are not the only option.

werd ~:cheers:

[ShellShock]

After seeing this why would CA make Napoleonic Total War next? It looks like they would only be repeating Imperial Glory - why bother, unless IG is a complete stinker.

[octavian]

and BTW, NTW was not done by CA, NTW is simply a mod made by some really cool people called the Lordz.

[KukriKhan]

Imperial Glory is made by Pyro, the same guys who developed and issued Praetorians (another RTS 3d game) last year. Not exactly a rip-off...more a validation that 3D is the way to go in RTS-genre games.