NEMESIS OF THE ROMAN EMPIRE 2 UPGRADE
NEMESIS OF THE ROMAN EMPIRE 2 SERIES

NEMESIS OF THE ROMAN EMPIRE 2 UPGRADE

You can upgrade your hero or hook him up with some fresh gear, but in order for him to be truly useful you need to give him a little posse of soldiers to command. Basically, the Hero system is another concession to micro managing your army and it is shaping up to being a very intuitive means of gameplay. Nemesis will recall you to the old school way of rising up, the way of the Hero. Today, if you've got a quick tongue and big check book (or friends with a big check book) you can buy the presidency. Back in the day, if you were going to get things done and rise above the common peasantry of your local pig sty, you needed to be someone worth following. Nemesis will force you out of the traditional mindset of RTS gaming.Īnother gameplay twist is the Hero System. So from that standpoint, managing your towns is not necessarily easier, but very different. You can even invest gold into some abstract project that will mature and return a 25% profit over your original investment which is not only a novel but realistic concept. All you need to do is keep your people fed and they will stick around to pay you taxes. As the game design document specifies, there is no population cap. These buildings serve your basic needs and allow you to hire heroes and equip peasants and turn them into soldiers. Each town has its town hall, barracks, tavern and arena.

Instead of having peasants build towns in seemingly arbitrary spots and augment them with new buildings as the need arises, each town and outpost is already built and cannot be added to. There is certainly resource management, but Haemimont chose to handle this aspect of the game in a much more realistic manner. The late stage beta release I demoed proved that to me clearly enough.įrom the gameplay side of things, Nemesis differs from what you would expect from an RTS game. The simply tactic of building armies and chucking them into battle is a foolhardy one. From that standpoint, Nemesis looks to be a game of both form and function which belies a certain depth to its gameplay not widely exhibited by RTS games. You will quickly find that marching your Legion down the middle of the road will quickly land you into ambush after ambush. The forest and its surrounding elements are not merely window dressing you can also maneuver your armies through the woods so as to flank your opposition. The scenery is drawn with a distinct edginess and grit you would come to expect from living in the hardy outskirts of the Roman Empire. The characters are distinct and animated with a degree of deepness not seen in most cartoons. The artwork for the game is lush and detailed. The game traces the actual campaign routes of Hannibal and also gives a little incite into the inner workings of the Roman Senate. Along the way you'll fight through Sicily, Hispania, The Alps and Tuscany. The battles take you through a historical path. What makes this game so promising from the outset is that the player is allowed the chance to forge his or her way through the Punic Wars from a Roman or Carthaginian perspective.

NEMESIS OF THE ROMAN EMPIRE 2 SERIES

Nemesis is planned to progress the CK series in a new direction by introducing the Carthaginians and Iberians. No, it is not an exercise in a micro management click fest. Yes it is played from a ¾ isometric perspective. Yes, the CK series is a Real Time Strategy game. If you are not familiar with the Celtic Kings franchise then there is some explanation in order. All of that seems precursor now to the mighty southern threat of Hannibal Barca and the barbarian horde of the mighty Carthage. The Roman Republic is fledging still even after having taming the fearsome Gauls into the annoying French.

You might remember Haemimont Games for such games such as Celtic Kings: Rage of War or…Alice's Trip Through the Windshield Glass (Simpsons reference?). Anyhow, Haemimont Games is going to let you re-enact that battle all over again, except from a little more of a hands-on approach in their upcoming game Nemesis of the Roman Empire. You probably didn't get to that part in high school history class, huh? Figures. Anyhow, remember that battle where Maximus and his gladiator buddies have to face a bunch of spear chuckin' chics riding in chariots? Well, that's supposed to be a re-enactment of the Battle of Cannae fought on the Plains of Sarma.

You've seen Gladiator right? No? Are you Communist? Oh, okay.

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