Now, I have to admit, I am far from being an expert on videogames. In fact, I've never played any of the current RTS games. My experience with videogaming was almost entirely with older, turn-based DOS strategy games like ROMANCE OF THE THREE KINGDOMS, PIRATES, MASTER OF ORION, RAILROAD TYCOON, and the like. And as you can probably tell from those titles, I stopped videogaming some years ago (not because I did not like it -- truth to tell, I liked it too much, and found that I was spending way too much time playing games on my computer when I should have been writing).
That being said... I thought what I saw looked really cool. And Ty, who DOES play a lot of videogames, seemed impressed as well. The gang at Cyanide (Montreal) have come up with some innovative features for this one, that should help make A GAME OF THRONES: GENESIS unlike any other RTS on the market at present. And fun to play as well, we hope... but that's a verdict that will need to come from the gamers out there.
Focus, our publisher, has opened an official website for GENESIS. Check it out:
http://www.agot-genesis.com/
(Just to be clear. This is the RTS game, designed and developed by Cyanide's studio in Montreal. A second videogame, an RPG, is also under development at Cyanide's studio in France, but that one won't be along for a while yet. The two games are very different, so please don't get them confused).
Anyway, I enjoyed having the crew from Cyanide down here, and liked what they had to show me. I hope you will as well.
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Speaking of Medieval 2: Total War, there is a Westeros mod in the makig there, and with the modding standards being so high for that community (Stainless Steel, TATW etc.) I'm expecting great things.
Mr. Martin I'd urge you to stay away from Medieval 2, it's a medieval strategy game to end all medieval strategy games, and it has eaten a lot of my hours. I think I must follow your example If I ever hope to write.
What's telling for me is that two to three weeks before the RTS is released, the first and only place I've heard about it is on notablog, despite being a gamer, having many GRRM-fan gamer friends, and having a "Game of Thrones" Google+ Spark.
All that said, and despite the seemingly poor graphics, I'll still buy it and at least play the single-player campaigns. (Hmm, there's another point - it's an 8-faction RTS game, and they've omitted Houses Frey and Greyjoy, yet include House Arryn, whose lords haven't left the Vale through six books...)
About the houses, the game is a prequel set in the time of dragons, so they chose houses that had stuff to do then. I'm not well versed enough in westeros history to know if they were accurate, but this could explain the choices.