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ANCIENT
PROPHECY
REVIEW BY JASPREET SHAHEED
Is this the game that CivII by many accounts should have been and CivIII
will hopefully be? It sounds a little like Microsofts 'Age of Empires'
meets 'Populous', and while it is difficult to say, I would predict this
game to be a hit. Why? Because it is a much truer cross between Civ &
C&C. There is much to like about the idea of 
Real time combat and Turn based strategy. (The makers have chided me for
likening C&C to real time strategy, so I think that Sid Meier's Gettysburg).
Think about founding cities, producing units and sending them out in your
war of conquest, then having a Red Alert type interface for a brief skirmish
with other armies. On the downside, though specs aren't even hinted at,
I would guess however that it will need a demon PC (True 3D world). The
screenshots look pretty impressive (although that is true for most games!!)
As for the nitty gritty, well there will
be spying and there will be diplomacy. The developers also claim it is
possible to have kind of 'cold wars' a feature we would very much like
to be see in the game. Trade will also play a part, which may end up being
the key seperating the good players from the truly great.
There are also some features which sound
pretty cool. For example, elections where if your popularity is very low
you can be ousted from power, to get back in you can resort to tactics
such asassasination!!
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