so good game

[maziar]

This is very very beautiful game , but why it has no music list like another westwood games??????? :'(

[ken124578]

I always had have a strange feeling that westwood studios/EA used Emperor just to test things, getting more experience for their future games, i might be wrong though.

[Chris Longpre]

This is very very beautiful game , but why it has no music list like another westwood games??????? :'(

Only because it would have taken more time .. one of many cut features... Heck, if we put all the featues into it that we wanted to.. it wouldn't even be out yet!

[Navaros]

is that why there is no House Speech at the end? that really disappointed me A LOT, i almost wanted to cry. especially for the Gunseng Harkonnen ending... that guy was a very talented and compelling actor. to see a crown placed on his head for 20 seconds, and then that's it, no Victory speech, no nothing, is downright tragic.

[Terror]

I always had have a strange feeling that westwood studios/EA used Emperor just to test things, getting more experience for their future games, i might be wrong though.

well, in an interview they confirmed this. Emperor was their first 3d RTS game and emperor was actually created, to test the 3d engine. The conclusion was that it was not good enough and so they designed a total new one for Generals

[Chris Longpre]

well, in an interview they confirmed this. Emperor was their first 3d RTS game and emperor was actually created, to test the 3d engine. The conclusion was that it was not good enough and so they designed a total new one for Generals

Not exactly true. As you may know, Westwood RTS's were firmly glued in 2D. Even Tib Sun, while other companies were starting to play with 3D graphics in this genre. IMHO, it was wise to wait it out a bit, and let the 1st & 2nd generation of 3D video cards come & go. This also allowed them to start to get a feel for what aspects of 3D would enhance the game experience, rather than just show off your 3D card.

Emperor was not an 'experiment' to test a 3D engine. It was their first venture down that road of 3D RTS games, and what were the design/production ramifications. Westwood had previously made 3D engines & technologies, none of which were used for Emperor (Lands of Lore 1, 2 & 3, Bladerunner, Tib-Sun, Dragon-Strike, etc.).

The Emperor engine was developed and refined over the 2+ years of development to be a great 'Dune' universe 3D engine. Specifically, to create sand, spice, rocky bluffs/mesas. Hence, the final engine was not suited to doing other enviornments really well (i.e. you can see how much we tried to push it, on the homeworld levels). Generals needed an engine better suited to earth enviornments, and Emperor's was too specialized to Arrakkis.

Still to this date, I think the Emperor game, on full detail settings looks superb, and runs on much lower system specs, then say 'Generals', Warcraft3, etc. But, that is just my personal opinion.

BTW, IMHO, the days of 'named' engines are waning dramatically. Most code bases, while nice to believe that they will remain viable for several products, several years, will just not stand up to the test of time. If you do it right, you will get the main product out, and its add-ons and a single sequel, before the public will cry out against seeing the same engine over & over. After 2 full product cycles (i.e. original game + sequel), you should scrap it and start over.

Of course, sports games are exempt. ;)

Again, just my humble musings....

[Terror]

well sure, even though i have to admit that IMO the total annihilation engine is the best 3d rts engine i've seen till today. Not because it presents the prettiest graphix (cuz it doesn't, hence.. it even has certain bitmaps like the trees) but the physics, and the way units walk, drive float, fly etc. Generals and War3 for instance just have unrealistic physics compared to that.

[AWACS]

No music? huh? Do you mean on the cds? There is the file music.bag that has all the music put into one file. You could burn it onto cd

[lowzeewee]

No music? huh? Do you mean on the cds? There is the file music.bag that has all the music put into one file. You could burn it onto cd

Music list in the sense that you can play the music you want in the options menu during your game,like in Red Alert 1,2,Tiberian Sun.