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Battlefront releases an Independence War game
Posted: Thu Apr 27, 2006 12:16 pm
by Korrigan
It seems to be based on the 1848 engine...
http://www.battlefront.com/products/forliberty/index.html
and Battlefront wants to release it
FREE
... wow... now that's what I called dumping...
Posted: Thu Apr 27, 2006 5:20 pm
by Adlertag
The graphics are below BoA's ones. But if the AI is good , it could be a serious challenger to BoA , especially if free...
Posted: Thu Apr 27, 2006 6:47 pm
by Ardie
I think they are releasing the older game with this engine of theirs as free. The new game featuring Revolution and Austro-Hungarian battles has a price.
Yes, the graphics are below par IMO. It's your usual "throw a huge number of icons in a small space mess".
Maybe I'll check, don't understand why I'm such a fanboy of the American Revolution being a Finn that is?
Posted: Wed May 03, 2006 5:58 pm
by Korrigan
Ardie wrote:I think they are releasing the older game with this engine of theirs as free. The new game featuring Revolution and Austro-Hungarian battles has a price.
You're right, my mistake.
Yes, the graphics are below par IMO. It's your usual "throw a huge number of icons in a small space mess".
I think a member of the Dev team has announced on The Wargamer forum that there will be a graphic update by the time of the release.
I think I will try that game too
Posted: Sat May 06, 2006 9:03 am
by Tamas
The devs are Hungarians, their 1848 game was bought by the Hungarian Ministry of Education and released as freeware.
I have respect for these guys, to risk working on a turn based title in a Hungarian market which is usually too small for much more mainstream titles, but they clearly missed the mark with 6 years or so.
1848 is a Panzer General 1 conversion, quite frankly. It has lots of historical flavor in grahpics, but thats its only strongpoint.
The military model is quite simplistic (Panzer General, as I said). It was good for PG, but our War of Independence in 1848 was also a political and diplomatic struggle, not just a military one.
There was a huge internal conflict within the ranks of the rebels: to make peace with the Habsburgs, and return to their rule with serious guarantees, or to declare independence.
The fraction of the latter gained the upper hand, and triggered the intervention of Russia...
You see, politics played a crucial part, yet, its completely missing from the game. The whole thing feels somewhat shallow, as a result.
Therefore, I wouldnt consider their American Revolution game a serious contender for BoA. They are in different leauge.
Posted: Tue May 16, 2006 6:30 pm
by Korrigan
Posted: Tue May 16, 2006 6:44 pm
by Pocus
Its a IGO-UGO system, which is less convenient for multiplaying (or even flavor, but to each his own).
Tell us Korrigan how 1848 plays...
Posted: Thu May 18, 2006 10:16 pm
by Korrigan
I'll try to write a first opinion, even though I might also try to sell a review to some media
In fact, my main concern is that these guys didn't get any kind of art direction and the game pleasure is really empered by the ugliness of the graphics.
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