Camera Angles and Zooming

[Gobalopper]

Mike expands on his post yesterday regarding camera angles and responds to a question about Westwood releasing a "fully zoomed out" screenshot. Check them out below:

I've seen guys play entire levels of Emperor without adjusting the viewpoint once. It's like you're playing C&C. If you're into oldschool RTS, this might be the way to go.

I personally don't mind maneuvering the camera. Sometimes I rotate for a better look behind a mountain ridge for hidden enemies. Othertimes I zoom all the way out to get a better feel for the relative distances on the map.

The key point to remember is flexibility. I like when developers give me a choice how I want to play a game. Emperor can be equally enjoyable whether you want to mess with the camera or not.

Hmmm...you might have to wait to play the game to see a max zoomed-out shot. I can see how helpful this might be, but we don't like screenshots floating around where you can't tell what's what. Some units can appear pretty darn small when zoomed all the way out.

I think a lot of people are afraid the camera angle might ruin the game, like it has in other 3D-RTS games, but from what we have been told you should be able to keep it at the old top down view if you want. I'm taking a guess here but something like this screenshot might be close to what most of you are used to and from the sounds of it fully zoomed out is really high up.