cIV E3 stuff

[vovan]

Initial Diplomacy screenie. You can see some text here.

Gandhi - Indian Empire (Cautious)

Greetings. How may I be of assistance?

> We would like to make a trade proposal.
> Your head would look good on the end of a pole. (Declare War)
> What are the current deals we have together?
> Farewell. (Exit)

[vovan]

You also have some of the familiar diplo options:

Gold
Gold Per Turn
Technology
Resources
Cities

And something new:

Declare war with.

[vovan]

Check out the list of rulers in the bottom right. Second from top is Julius Caesar. I'm guessing one of the civs we are still missing "official" confirmation on is the Romans then. In fact, that's what the game was demoed as, sseing the legionnaiers and all.

[Gen. Atkinson]

> Your head would look good on the end of a pole. (Declare War)

It already looks like it is on a pole

Seriously though, this looks better each time I look at the pictures, the graphics look stunning and having just watched the movies, I can't wait 7 months.

This will be a good excuse to upgrade my computer.

[Gen. Atkinson]

Romans are definatly in it then.

[Robert]

Apparantly the diplo model is very alike to cIIIv

[Solver]

The diplo model is indeed a lot like Civ3, only apparently more flexible, and without an advisor that tells you 100% accurately whether they'll take the deal .

On the downside, the leaders (Gandhi) at least seem to be WAY too cartoonish. Come on, the Civ3 leaders were cartoonish within reason, but this is straight out of a comic book.

[vovan]

Now for some more interesting stuff.



*** Warning *** Some may consider some of my posts below spoiler material. So if you don't want to see the contents of the Pedia, don't look.



Here, we see the Pedia Techs screen, when mousing over:

Theology
- Enables Theocracy
- Can construct The ??????? Chapel
- First to discover founds Christianity

[Harovan]

Gandhi looks like Gollum.

Overall, while I was impressed with the graphics first, this perception begins to vanish. Did Firaxis hire artisans from Blizzard? The leaders definitely look WoWish.

[vovan]

Fascism (I think??)
- Enables Police State
- Can Construct Mt. Rushmore

[vovan]

Alphabet
- Enables Technology Trading
- Can build ????????

[Ari Rahikkala]

Originally posted by Adagio
Still nobody who has managed to get the video to HD?

Download links used to be here, removed June 1st 2006 due to lack of hosting space. Remember, kids, linkrot is bad.

Originally posted by Locutus
We always try to get Gandhi nice but for some reason he always gets honorary[?] in the game, it's just one of those things.

Ornery.

[vovan]

Now for some units:

Chariot (Mounted Unit)
- Doesn't receive defensive bonuses (?)
- Can withdraw from combat (20% chance)

[vovan]

Some of the other units you get popups for:

Cossack and Cavalry. Same as above, but also +50% attack vs Cannon

Work Boat
- Cannot enter Ocean
- Can create fishing boats, create whaling boats, create offshore platform

Fighter
- Can intercept aircraft (25% chance)

[Stefu]

PC tw@ts!

They get about a million un-PC points for including real-world religions, though. Oh, the debates in ol' Civ3 List Religion thread...

Anyway, the Religion model sounds like the ol' List might have a bit of influence on it. At least that's what I'm choosing to believe, since I was the originator (and the first editor) of the Religion part of the Civ3 List. Who wants to touch me?