Oriental Empires
Step into the world of the ancient Orient. Control a city or tribe from the dawn of Chinese history, and turn it into a great empire. Develop your land, create great cities, raise huge armies and fight epic wars. Advance your technology, culture and religion to create one of mankind’s great civilizations. All the action takes place on one spectacular game map that brings to life the mountains, forests, plains and deserts of China. Zoom in close to review your troops and see your peasants toiling, or zoom out for a strategic overview. Plan your battles, end your turn, and then watch as your armies obey your orders, with hundreds of soldiers battling right on the game map.
FEATURES
- Start out as a single nation or tribe, starting from humble beginnings with a single settlement and expand your empire and develop your culture with the aim of becoming the universally recognized Son of Heaven and ruler of the world.
- Persuade the other factions to recognize you as such by either military force, or by diplomatic persuasion.
- Play as one of 24 different factions each with their own special bonuses or penalties.
- Vast beautifully rendered map featuring an attractive and authentic depiction of the landscape of China and Mongolia.
- Large scale battles with hundreds or thousands of soldiers, depicted in detail right on the game map. Watch skilled armies and reinforcements go to battle, according to the battle orders and formations set by the player.
- Fully animated 3D models, with variations in face and clothing for each model, including infantry, cavalry, chariot and artillery units, as well as naval forces.
- Long seamless zoom range lets you step right into the game world or zoom out for a strategic overview.
- Develop your settlements by constructing buildings and developing the landscape around them, build markets and ports to enable trade by land and water.
- Elaborate research tree including technology as well as cultural, philosophical and religious developments.
- Many other elements will determine the outcome of you quest for dominance such as Leaders, Sieges, Unrest and Rebellion, and Authority and Culture ratings.
- As Emperor, set edicts, laws and decrees to balance power and move into a glorious new Era, with new technologies and military units that change the game!
- Conquer together or betray your allies. Anything goes in multiplayer mode, supporting up to 15 players.
Oriental Empires Review
A few days ago, I came across this wonderful gem of a game, called Oriental Empire. It’s a game that capture my heart, and make it race fast and furious as it reminded me of the days of Civilization 1. It’s another 4X game, with almost the simplicity of Civilization 1. Please note that simplicity DOES NOT mean easy to play. I got my team wiped out by the computer AI even when I played at Easy level, and got to constantly reworked on my game strategy. I restarted the game a few times too, and I still have not got the hang of the game. But it was fun and challenging and new and exciting….
I am an old man, but feel young again, playing Oriental Empire. Rejuvinated perhaps. Although this is a relatively new and unknown game, it already has a great start by releasing modding capabilities and steam workshops. The latest I check, there were like 100+ user created maps and 16 scenarios. Most of them are Chinese maps, but I also saw a Game of Throne map/scenario and also Warcraft. This is awesome and I cannot wait to finish the main campaign and then play all those custom made maps and scenarios.
However, I did find something lacking in the current game. It is still lacking a in-game tutorial. Although I say that I love the game because of its simplicity, yet the learning curve for this simple game is still quite steep. Steep enough for me to stumble without a tutorial. Maybe I am getting old, and my mental capacity is not as strong as it used to 30 years ago. I do not learn a new game as fast as I use to, and without a tutorial I tends to get lost.
However, I will still highly recommend this game.
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