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Inside Kingmakers: the big Digital Foundry tech interview
John Linneman interviews the developers of Kingmakers at Redemption Road Games, an upcoming PC FPS with RTS elements th…
Recently revealed game Kingmakers seems to perfectly capture the childhood thrill of smashing together characters from different worlds, with its debut trailer featuring a huge medieval army being demolished by a modern soldier with automatic weapons, a beat-up pick-up truck and command of a helicopter. Beyond that now-infamous plot twist at the 23 second mark, there's a lot going on: third-person shooter gameplay, real-time strategy elements and a massive scale to the proceedings with thousands of soldiers on-screen; it's like dropping a guy from Battlefield into Medieval: Total War. The 14th century has the Black Death which interrupts the war and Henry V restarts it; he wants to take their territory back from France and claim the throne of Charles VI... but also keep the peace [at home].
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