Of course, as he was talking, two of his squads were flanked by the enemy AI and wiped out. "We went with a Total War-influenced style for this combat to make them feel less like chessboards and more like epic battles," Sas said.įacing is an issue in the turn-based combat now, he said, and you can flank enemy units to do more damage. He found some old ruins that he wanted to capture for his kingdom, which immediately put the game into a turn-based strategy mode where the hero and his supporting squads squared off against the denizens of the ruins. After Sas created the character, he chose to send out a hero to do exploration. Your leader can sit in your capital city and direct the campaign form there with his skills and bonuses, or he can actually go out and adventure. To demonstrate, Sas created a High Eleven Theocrat, one of the six classes in the game. "These classes will give you skills that you use, but also determine how your empire is upgraded." "We took tradition classes in RPGs, such as the warrior, priest and rogue, and extrapolated them to be leaders in this game," Sas said. Once players choose a race, they then get down to what sets the game apart form its predecessors, a class-based RPG system that defines the leaders of each empire. These races are divided into two factions-the Court of the High Elves and the Commonwealth Empire-with each having its own single-player campaign. While the game is wrapped in a new 3D engine with improved graphics and art, at its heart the game still thrives on it turn-based nature of exploration and conquest.Īll of the traditional races are back: Humans, Dwarves, High Elves, Orcs, Draconians and Goblins, with others races possible through post-release content. As Triumph co-owner and lead designer Lennart Sas booted up a demo of the game for us, it was clear the studio was sticking to many of the basic principles that made the games popular years ago. The game's look is unmistakably Age of Wonders. Developer Triumph Studios is bringing the franchise back with Age of Wonders 3, and we got a look at some of its updated gameplay. The Age of Wonders series has been dormant for almost a decade.
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