Competition?

[Odin]

A russian devloping a game on the 13th century would be intresting, I would love to see a sim on the eastern front. The rise of Temujin to Ghenghis Khan to the battles in asia, middle east and to the expansion into poland, russian steppes, battle of Kiev and hungary.

While western 13th century games are awesome, and clearly dominating the genre a nitch like this might make it a hit with wargamers, along the lines of Birth of america, one of those games that deals with not so popular conflicts.

Its been my observation that the english market dosent get enough of the asian theatre of warfare pre japan warring states.

[Orda Khan]

47 pics in the gallery, most of them are a bit rough around the edges. I suppose only time will tell if it turns out to be worth a try and yes it would be interesting to see the Russian take on the Mongol invasion

.......Orda

[Ibn Munqidh]

Looks awful to mee, too cartoonish, and the ranks of the soldiers seem so parallel and too straight.

[ShadesWolf]

Looks awful to mee, too cartoonish, and the ranks of the soldiers seem so parallel and too straight.

But if it plays well and the AI is good. Then thats what people want.

[Dead Moroz]

I don't think this game will be real competitor to CA. I even doubt this game will ever be released. They started this project soon after release of first MTW, now they are still developing it but even graphics looks not as good as in TW. And the worst thing is that AFAIK there will be no campaign map in the game, only set of battles.

[Ibn Munqidh]

I don't think this game will be real competitor to CA. I even doubt this game will ever be released. They started this project soon after release of first MTW, now they are still developing it but even graphics looks not as good as in TW. And the worst thing is that AFAIK there will be no campaign map in the game, only set of battles.

Just like Mount & Blade, i doubt if that will ever finish either.

[LadyAnn]

Not only competition, new marketting jargon talks about "ecosystem". If Totalwar is the only game of its genre, the market would be smaller. But if there are 2 other competitors, the share of CA to the pie is not smaller than when they own the whole pie: the pie gets larger. If I like the genre, I may divert money from buying a game of another genre to this genre. It is common that players of a genre would buy other games of the same genre.

Annie