Gamespot Preview

[Slax]

The Gamespot preview has been updated.

see

http://gamespot.com/gamespot/stories/previews/0,10869,2894699,00.html

[FrustratedPoet]

Thanks for the tip.

Some interesting stuff in the screenies:

- The Vikings appear to be called the Scandinavians. Makes sense.

- First look at the Player.v.Player diplomacy display. Sweet.

- First in-game pick of a King from the regicide mode. It's the Ottoman guy. Cool.

- The Espionage screen has been prettied up a bit. Nice.

- Another great pic of Warpstorm's terrain. He gets his name mentioned in the preview too. Credit well deserved.

[Tiberius]

Originally posted by FrustratedPoet
- Another great pic of Warpstorm's terrain. He gets his name mentioned in the preview too. Credit well deserved.

I like the way in what they are talking about Warpstorm's graphics:
the included warpstorm watercolor terrain or
the warpstorm watercolor graphics.

It sounds like Warpstorm was a watercolor type, not a person

Otherwise the preview is almost entirely about multiplayer (especially turnless) and it is very positive!

[alva]

Indeed, someone is gonna get a job offer

Great going Warpstorm

[jim_steer]

Damn doesn't look like they have added a floating palete thing for the terrain types in the editor. I hate those bloody dropdown menu windows, they make it a lot slower to make a map. The civ 2 map editor was much more usable.
Still nice article. That watercolor tileset looks more sexy everytime I see it.

[aahz_capone]

Hmmmm I detect there will be a problem in turnless mode: if you want to haggle for a long time with someone and the game continues, do the other players get to move their units many "turns" while yours are doing nothing?

It seems the diplomacy will take a long time like this. Even if it does support voice chat (which I hope it does).

[MarkG]

the new (and not similar to older ones) screens are here

http://apolyton.net/dir/index.php?t=sub_pages&cat=220

[WarpStorm]

Originally posted by aahz_capone
Hmmmm I detect there will be a problem in turnless mode: if you want to haggle for a long time with someone and the game continues, do the other players get to move their units many "turns" while yours are doing nothing?

I think this is exactly what would happen in turnless or any mode that has a time limit on turns.

[Slax]

Hmmm...modders will have control over the time step unit (years, months, etc) and increment. Good!

[statusperfect]

What are those thingys?

[WarpStorm]

Victory Point locations

[ixnay]

Does anyone with access to Gamespot Complete want to get the intro movie and video preview for the rest of us to watch?

[FrustratedPoet]

Originally posted by WarpStorm
Victory Point locations

Are you sure? They look like they might be Outposts to me.

[WarpStorm]

Positive

[Raion]

Newer article today about the multi-player features tried out by Gamespot here at this link:

http://gamespot.com/gamespot/filters/products/0,11114,561213,00.html