Age of Mythology: The Titans
Designer: Microsoft & Ensemble Studio
Local distributor: Microsoft Taiwan
Release date: Late October
Ensemble Studio released Age of Mythology in 2002 and based the game on mythologies that allowed the player to control Scandinavian, Egyptian, and Greek heroes and gods to take charge of epic battles.
Vincent Huang (黃維倫), senior product marketing specialist at Microsoft Taiwan, said The Titans is based on Atlantean culture and the player can control them to fight the three cultures in the game's popular predecessor.
The Atlantean character set includes 12 new gods, 18 human units and 10 holy monster troops. The people cost more but their basic ability is three times higher than that of the other cultures. The Atlanteans are better at economic development but slower at population expansion, which makes them balanced with the other cultures.
Nobunagano Yabou (Nobunaga's Ambitious): Tenka Sousei
Designer: Koei
Local distributor: Taiwan Koei
Release date: Already available
Based in the Japanese warlord period, the Nobunagano Yabou series is now in its 11th generation, called Tenka Sousei. The game is entirely in three-dimensional mode. The player fights on a huge Japanese map, plans various construction projects on the virtual landscape based on real terrain, and enjoys a realistic view of his own castle.
Gamebase Web site senior editor Lai Chun-kuang (賴俊光) said Japanese PC games typically focus on beautiful and romantic comic-style art and a complex resource management mode.
The main feature of the two major games by Koei -- the Romance of Three Kingdoms series and the Nobunagono Yabou series -- is the turn-based war-game. They allow the player to deploy army formations and plan city construction, which resembles the Civilization series, Lai said.
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