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Age of Empires III Q & A Part One
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Posted by Donster on: 2005-04-12 09:00:50 1049
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By Stuart Bishop @ CVG
Age of Empires III Explored, Part One (Thanks: Blue's News) on Computer and Video Games is a Q&A with Ensemble designer Greg Street about the upcoming RTS sequel:
"That's a good way to put it. There are some big changes to military strategy in this time period (the 1500s-1800s), most notably the huge role that artillery came to play on the battlefield and the importance of marching and fighting in formation. But players still get to control familiar units like cavalry and even crossbows. If and when we ever do a game set in a more modern time period, we feel that we'd have to change the way combat works dramatically. It seems silly to have even 50 infantry take on a tank, battleship or bomber and be able to win. That crosses the line for a lot of people."
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