Behold, BEHOLDEN UNTO IT YE SINNERS! Intelligent Systems, the extremely Japanese company behind Fire Emblem, Pushmo, and the "Wars" series, has made a new turn-based/real time hybrid strategy game. Steam punk Abraham Lincoln and his army of the US of A's greatest fictional heroes fight off an invasion of aliens, as the defenders of the Earth! I'm talking fighting alongside John Henry (folk hero), Henry Fleming (Red Badge of Courage), the Cowardly Lion (Wizard of Oz, my guess is he arrived in Kansas), Tom Sawyer (Tom Sawyer), Tiger Lily (Peter Pan, and certainly a better choice than another shot at ruining the real life story of Pocahontas), and others.
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I hope to see Ichabod Crane in there somewhere, he's dealt with monsters before without losing his head. No, don't bother mentioning he was a coward in the original story. So was the lion! I suppose we could also get Billy the Kid or Johnny Appleseed.
Yeah, they announced the game at E3, but this is the first we've seen of it since then. As I probably said then, I'm interested, but I do like strategy games a lot more like shooters, so the basic concept here isn't really for me... I mean, this game is a strategy/action hybrid. I like pure strategy games more, overall. Adding a third-person shooter element to a turn-based strategy game probably would make me like it less overall, not more.
So yeah, make Fire Emblem and Advance Wars again soon, Intelligent Systems... but sure, make this first, it could be good.
Abraham Lincoln is flying around in an airship killing aliens! What else could you possibly want?!
To just click on the unit and then click on the target, instead of having to go into first/third person mode and actually aim at them!
Also, I said this about the game back in the E3 thread:
Quote: Today, Nintendo announced a game for the 3DS, Project Steam or something like that. It's a shooter/strategy game from Intelligent Systems, with a Western cartoon art style and a steampunk setting -- you control a group of steampunk soldiers defending earth from aliens in the 1800s. Abe Lincoln actually founded the group, explaining that Lincoln Mii in the SSB video... interesting. Instead of having an overhead map, you play third person only with a team of four. It sounds decent to good, but simplified from Fire Emblem or Advance Wars -- there's no permadeath, no overhead strategy view, the third-person-shooter element, you only control four characters at a time, etc. I suspect that I'd like this less than a pure strategy game, and I'd rather see one of those than this. Still, it IS IntSys, so we'll see.
This reminds me that their repeated mentions at E3 of trying to attract people who don't usually play their strategy games (Advance Wars, Fire Emblem) makes me wonder if this one will be challenging or not...
I do agree that the setting is pretty cool, though. Steampunk, Abe Lincoln leading a team against aliens... why not, sounds fun. :)
Intelligent Systems hasn't let me down yet, and they've done well combining action and turn-based before (Paper Mario). I don't expect it'll be the same as a Fire Emblem game, but considering they JUST got done making one a bit ago, I'm okay with them branching out a bit to try something new.