![]() You have to manage the budding Nile-based civilisation by organising the working and professional classes to create a thriving community - or, at least, a thriving enough community to complete your mission objectives and/or construct a suitably towering edifice for you to be buried in. You're a Pharaoh (or rather, a dynasty of pharaohs, since the succession of your line is a central part of the game). And if it hasn't separated itself entirely from the games that have foreshadowed it, its attempts endear and charm. While I haven't overwhelmingly enjoyed it, I'd be a liar if I said there wasn't something distinctly interesting here. Immortal Cities, designed by the minds who created Pharaoh, is an atypical City Management game. In other words, I've got the feeling criticism is so terribly debased that we wouldn't be able to deal with originality even if we saw it. well, is this the same thing? At first glance, it looks like a city-management game, but does its core lie elsewhere? It doesn't play like an RTS because it isn't an RTS And then I clicked back to Children of the Nile and thought. It hasn't pathfinding because it's an action game, ala Cannon Fodder, and working your way around the environments is an essential part of the game design. Influenced by it, yes, and with a third-person group-control system of the genre, but far from any form of RTS. And so on.Įxcept that Darwinia isn't actually an RTS. There's no excuse for pathfinding like that in an RTS. ![]() A few stick to my mind, where some this-generation semi-literate gamers, while enjoying much of it, were unable to accept an RTS which approached the genre in such a way. ![]() Specifically, threads discussing the demo's merits. Between sessions trying to organise the economic infrastructure of pre-history Egypt, I found myself browsing the Darwinia forums. Let's approach Children of the Nile tangentially. Don't see any developer building that into a game. Ruler of an empire, cheerfully knocking one off the wrist while an anxious crowd waits and an uncaring Nile sits there. Cute fact about Pharaohs some, apparently, ceremonially ejaculated into the Nile to secure the requisite inundation of the Nile to replenish the farm-lands.
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