Imagine if CA licensed out the RTW engine....

[Excalibur Bane]

If CA would license out the engine, it would be really wicked for strategy games in other genres. Most especially space strategy games. If you think about it, the tactical battle could be adapted to just about any game without too much trouble.

For example: Take the Star Wars universe, replace the siege engines with capital ships, troops with Tie Fighters and X-wings, insert a space background. Poof! You have a game ten times as good as the poorly designed Star Wars Rebellion. The graphical effects would be outstanding, we could watch fighters dive and strafe the capital ships, capital ships exchange bombardments of lasers. That's truly my type of game. I would love to see something like that, ever since the fiasco that was Master Of Orion 3. Any of you guys think the same?

That's just an example. It could be applied to virtually any of the popular licenses: Star Trek, Battletech (Mechwarrior), etc, etc, etc. Converting the strategy portion of the map would be just as easy. Follow the same general mechanics, just change the background and terrain to adjust for the game.

Or we could have brand new games like a Modern: Total War. Infantry, Tanks, Heavy weapons squads, etc going at it on a modern map of the world. That would require even less adjustment then any of the above. Probably something CA is going to do themselves eventually. After we get through Napoleon: Total War, American: Total War, Vietnam: Total War, and Iraq: Total War.

Anyway, I thought it would be cool idea. The possibilities are pretty endless. I suppose most of it could be done via modding but then I'm not that good at it and don't know how much the game can be modded.

My thought for the day!

All hail Space: Total War!

[Colovion]

Battle of the Bulge would be sweet with this engine.

One step at a time though, I'd rather have a Chinese and Medieval game in this engine first.

[Excalibur Bane]

I'm serious! It would really kick ass. Though, I always liked the idea of being able to watch one of these battles, see that a unit is doing a stupid job, take control of the unit commander, FPS style, whip out your sword and charge into a formation of spearmen, hacking and slashing your way through them!

Men! Follow me!

[metatron]

IIRC, Star Wars: Rebellion fought in 3D space.

[Excalibur Bane]

True but it wasn't exactly totally 3D. You could only go so far up and down. It was kinda psedu 3D sorta thing. I think anyway. The textures were pretty rotten. Well, they are now at any rate

[Colovion]

Me and my friend - way back in 1999 basically created Rome: Total War in our heads after playing Ground Control and Age of Empires - we wanted to combine them but on a massive scale. Very interestly Rome lives up to our depiction of how the game should be in our minds at the time. Of course there were differences but they were ones which had more to do with scale and the future of the engine the game ran on (exactly what you're talking about here).