RON Clone

[MattH]

I just got my August CGW issue, and I noticed something odd in the reviews. It was an ad with the text

North Africa, 1942: French soldiers scorched Axis troops with blistering flamethrower assaults

(no game was mentioned). I turned the page:

Stalingrad, 1943: Russia bombarded the invaders with the Katyusha launcher's hail of rockets

I'm starting to think "Ok, an ad for RON". A couple pages later, I read that this is a new game from "the lead designer of Age of Empires and Empire Earth" and with the description "From the Middle Ages to WWII, command the deepest RTS in history".

Is it just me, or does that sound like a total rip-off? Someone should tell Rick Goodman he's too late

[Sava]

Are you surprised? RoN is just an EE/AoE clone. A better one, albeit, but still a clone.

[MattH]

Not really. I was, however, hoping that these people would have some honor left...

[Sarxis]

RoN isn't a clone of EE. Its just not close enough in game mechanics and graphics to be considered clonish.

Same genre though. But hey- its all opinions from here on out.

[Inverse Icarus]

RoN was a message from god, materialized through the head of byran reynolds. EE was just a reverse clone. they found a zygote of RoN and ripped off what they could devise from it. that was a sin. life begins at conception. they killed they zygote. bhg went out of their way to recreate the zygotes natural environment, and raised it like they should have. thats why it took so long.

[Inverse Icarus]

and cloning is against god's will (tm)

[HalfLotus]

If RoN is a clone of AoE then Zelda is a clone of PacMan.

[Andrew_Jay]

EVERYTHING is a clone of PacMan . . .
power-pellets, resource management, think about it man . . . think about it!

[Alexander's Horse]

RoN is a lot better than EE or AoE.

[DarthVeda]

Sounds like they are working on an AoE III if it's from the middle ages to WWII...

RoN covers a much broader range of history than that

[skycutter]

i believe this is the game...

http://www.gamespot.com/pc/strategy/empiresdawnofthemw/

[Sava]

oh please, have you guys played EE recently? Sure, a few things are changed, but it's still the same sh1t! RoN is much better though.

[Bridger]

So just because another historical RTS game is made and is based on history (the same place that RoN got it's ideas) it's a clone?

[MattH]

Well, it's coming out soon after RON, by the designer of AOE, has the same premise as RON, and contains similar units. They even look the same.

[Carch]

Yeah, those Empires: Dawn screenshots look pretty nasty though. MMORPG-style sparse low res texture graphics are not what I'm looking for in my 3d games.