Has anyone played this game? I saw a pretty good review for it, and I'm intrigued-- in particular, the tough battlefield AI is looking real sexy as an alternative to RTW's inept tactical AI.
XIII Century: Death or Glory
Has anyone played this game? I saw a pretty good review for it, and I'm intrigued-- in particular, the tough battlefield AI is looking real sexy as an alternative to RTW's inept tactical AI.
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Sexy? Game? ...Is that possible?
Anyway, a quick google search of XIII Century: Death or Glory returns some prettysexygood looking screenshots. I'd never even heard of this so I'll be looking into it when I get the time.
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There's not that much information about it available in English. What little there is has convinced me to look at the game when it receives a release in the UK; there is no way I'm paying Gamer's Gate rip off price - £32 for a download versus the usual £18 - £25 for a boxed version!
The best information is a review on gamespot. I doubt they were paid enough to big the review up, so it should be reliable.
Pity the boxed English version is still spoken of as "forthcoming" and "soon", and not dated.
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My favourite german online magazine gave it just 58% and funnily enough they say the AI is far too easy to beat and predictable, the pathfinding is pretty bad, it has a lot of graphical errors, no multiplayer lobby, basically a cheaply made copy of M2TW they say.
I won't buy it unless a demo makes me want to.
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Well according to someone over a TWC that apperently works for the guys that did this game, the demo won't come out until the add-on comes out.
Which is strange since the same person stated that we would get a demo before the game was released.
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Appears to be a game more dead than glorious...
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I've heard a lot of conflicting things about the quality of this, but the main thing I'm not clear about is what you can actually do: I gather there is nothing analogous to TW's campaign map, but I'm particularly interested in what degree of customisation etc. of battles there is (in other words, does it amount to anything more than what TW players would call Historical Battles, and multiplayer)
Another related concern is that if it really is primarily set-piece battles, any claims that the AI is a lot better than TW become far less impressive, as it could be far more tightly scripted than CA's can afford to be.
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What I'm getting from the few reviews is that it's a very thin game. 30 or so scripted battles (Fun once, then what?), optional custom battles, and MP effectively doesn't exist. Almost sounds like it was meant for the consoles?
My interest level is: 0
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The impression I've got is of a lot of scripted battles making the AI look impressive, but falling flat when in a skirmish mode with custom setups.
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Gah! Now I'm worried. The limited English sources spoke of a strong AI, a deeply challenging series of battles, and an overall good experience. The German sources have had the finished title for some time now.
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From what I've read, my overall impression is that what the game does, it does pretty well. Still, without a TW-style campaign to link the battles together, it doesn't really appeal to me at all. I need a *reason* to fight battles -- bragging rights simply isn't enough for me.
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Well managed to give it a try.
First of all, the graphics are very nice.
The units are nicely detailed and so are most of the maps.
Engine runs smooth on my computer with all details on max.
Also got a nice rock/paper/scissor thing going
And music is good as well.
But that's where the good things ends.
-Voice acting is pretty bad most of the time.
-Animations are nothing specials.
-Units keep on stopping in the middle of a charge just to get back into formation.
-Combat is just boring to watch because of the animation and that your men is usually overlapped by the enemy(yes they clip right into each other).
-Archers are useless, I had 4 archers units firing on 1 enemy archer unit(archers aren't armored). After they had fired away half their ammo they haven't even killed one, one !!!
And this is with 100 guys/unit and in a nice tightly packed formation.
-Units attack by themselfs making setting up a nice ambush useless.
Overall this is just bad.
M2TW was far better then this despite it's buggy state.
If the add-on will fix this I don't know but this version I will forget I ever played.
Last edited by TB666; 04-13-2008 at 19:06.
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