History Channel games?

**Ramses II CP** · 10-15-2007, 01:48

I was at Fry's earlier and they had a History Channel game set in Rome. I can't find it at the HC website, but it looked fairly interesting. The thing is, I'm not going to buy a game of unknown quality from some unknown developer any more than I'm going to trust gaming mag reviews. Has anyone here played the Rome HC game, or the Civil War one?

This is the link to the Civil War one:

http://store.aetv.com/html/product/index.jhtml?id=34664

**Csargo** · 10-15-2007, 02:05

I played the CW one it was fun.

**Tiberius of the Drake** · 10-15-2007, 02:14

good game, quick but surprisingly innacurate for a game made by the History channel

**Kekvit Irae** · 10-15-2007, 02:39

Buy at your own risk. Definitely not worth the price.

GameSpot (55%): http://www.gamespot.com/pc/strategy/...ar/review.html

X-Play (2/5): http://www.g4tv.com/xplay/reviews/13...n_Divided.html

**Ramses II CP** · 10-15-2007, 03:30

Here's the website (http://www.greatbattlesofrome.com/) for the 'Great Battles of Rome' HC game. The site is just fluff and junk, but the game itself... Well, it still looks halfway interesting, so I'm hoping someone will bail me out and confess to having tried it and hated/loved it.

I didn't realize the Civil War one was primarily a shooter. Not terribly interesting to me.

**TB666** · 10-15-2007, 05:16

Great battles of Rome look horrible and if it is anything like Legion Arena(the engine which the game is built on) then it's not worth the money.
The civil war game was ok tho.
Short but still ok.

**Geoffrey S** · 10-15-2007, 10:26

I tried a demo for Legion Arena ages ago, and didn't like it. The History Channel game is supposed to be worse.

**Charge** · 10-15-2007, 14:12

Aren't this game based on RTW engine? I read this sometime somewhere long time ago. Changed perhaps...

**TB666** · 10-15-2007, 16:48

Originally Posted by Charge

Aren't this game based on RTW engine? I read this sometime somewhere long time ago. Changed perhaps...

As far as I know CA has never sold their engines so no.
GboR has always used the legion arena engine judging from the screenshots.

**Mailman653** · 10-23-2007, 19:07

There is a new HC game comming out next month, Battles of the Pacific I think it's called, same engine (or better) as the CW game used.

**ELITEofWARMANGINGERYBREADMEN88** · 10-23-2007, 19:18

Yea, I never enjoyed playing any of the HC games. Wasn't my feel, don't know why.

**Forward Observer** · 10-30-2007, 03:18

Originally Posted by Charge

Aren't this game based on RTW engine? I read this sometime somewhere long time ago. Changed perhaps...

What you may be thinking about was a History Channel series on ancient wars where the Total war engine was used to depict the battles. I remember one was about the 300 Spartans and another about Troy.

There was also a history related show broadcast in the UK where people actually got to use an early version of the Rome Engine to fight famous historical battles.

**Kekvit Irae** · 10-30-2007, 03:39

Originally Posted by Forward Observer

What you may be thinking about was a History Channel series on ancient wars where the Total war engine was used to depict the battles. I remember one was about the 300 Spartans and another about Troy.

There was also a history related show broadcast in the UK where people actually got to use an early version of the Rome Engine to fight famous historical battles.

Decisive Battles and Time Commanders, respectively.

**Forward Observer** · 10-30-2007, 04:20

Thanks, Kekvit Irae--I knew somebody would remember the names of the show.

BTW, I have wasted money two History Channel games.

The first was "The Battle of Britain" ---a combat flight sim game.

What it turned out to be was a modified version of the single player training for one of the on line monthly fee based combat sims like "Fighter Aces".

It even had a free trial to the online service. Basically I could have downloaded almost the exact same stuff if I was interested in the free trial period anyway. As a stand alone sim, it was pretty worthless.

The second was an RTS game they put out about the Alamo.

It was actually an Activision budget game by a development group named Zono.

It wasn't terrible and the first couple of missions were kind of fun, but for some reason even on my system which was about 4 times the recommended specs, it would slow down to a crawl for no reason at all.

The only way to fix it was to exit the game and re-start. This is usually the sign of a memory leak in software, but since it was a budget game and they were never going to issue a patch to fix it, I eventually filed it in my "obscure, unplayable, and never finished" games bin.

Cheers