Blood, dirt & pageantry

**Tamur** · 10-10-2006, 22:58

Should be a band name...

In one of the first interviews for M2:TW, Bob Smith made the claim that "We've captured both the colour and pageantry of it, yet still made it gritty and real."

Now that some of us have had the demo for three days & doubtless played it quite a bit, do you agree that they have done this in the demo?

Let me give the obvious disclaimers in case the bolding wasn't enough: 1) the demo is a beta build and so not indicative of the final game, and 2) the demo does not include many, many things like the main game screens, campaign starts, event videos, campaign map &c, &c that could affect this feel in the final product.

**Bob the Insane** · 10-10-2006, 23:02

With out trying to come over all fanboyish i would have to say they have achieved that...

See all the pretty, shiny and colourful troops before the battle. See the dirty, bloody piles of corpses with the colours muted and the shine lost after the battle...

Just had a thought, bridge battles are going to look truely horrific now!

**shifty157** · 10-10-2006, 23:21

Im really pleased with all the different types of banners that actually wave in the wind. That area is improved like a million times better now.

**hoom** · 10-11-2006, 02:07

Certainly its a massive improvement over the bland RTW.

With the towns/camps & high valour units (more banners) in the demo, I'd say they did pretty well.

Full game I expect to be somewhat less immersive though because I doubt there will be that much detail in the real game battlefields.

**Polemists** · 10-11-2006, 03:28

Well the one does have entrenched artillery and a mansion which you may not encounter. Still I think 3 wall castles will be quite the challenge.

Still not impossible to think there wont' be a muddy feild.

My main curiousity is if the pc ai will know how to launch waves. It's a good tactic and I enjoy the combat aspect of it. Seems even when ai was in control in paxia it knew how to do that.

Banners are cool, colors are cool, and different looking guys are cool.

yes i am a fanboy, love this game :)

**RtkBedivere** · 10-11-2006, 04:08

I must say im a little worried that graphics may have been put to far forward sand elft tactics in teh dust. I dont play because i like to look at the pretty lines i play cause i want to think. Its a little worrysome that it might not be that way in MTW2.