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Royalty among real-time strategies.

Tzar: The Burden of the Crown, an elaborate and masterfully executed real-time strategy driving its inspiration from the history of medieval wars, is available on GOG.com for only $5.99.

Many people imagine the life of the monarchs to be simple and blissful. There's no higher authority, so there's no one to tell them what to do. They can decide to spend their days feasting, dancing, hunting, and pursuing other frivolous activities. The thing they don't understand is the weight of the crown. Not the actual weight--that's quite bearable, even though many rulers would much prefer a simple felt hat, then a layered construct of fine gold and jewel stones--they weigh no less than regular stones, mind you. The metaphorical weight is far greater. The burden of the crown is the burden of the ages. As it rests on one's head, so does the whole history of a nation: the past, the present, and the future. To tell you the truth, the latter feels the heaviest, today. Excuse your Tzar this moment of chatter, Field-marshal. The battle is upon us, let gods make it the last one.

Tzar: The Burden of the Crown offers the best in real-time strategy gameplay with a believable setting and nice sense of scale, and just a splash of fantasy. The three factions available in the game--Europeans, Asians, and Arabs--differ greatly from one another in terms of gameplay style and available facilities. The main campaign spanning across twenty scenarios grants many hours of challenge and excitement. When it ends the game provides an infinite number of randomly-generated maps, and a solid multi-player mode.

Accept the greatest responsibility and take a nation's fate in your own hands in Tzar: The Burden of the Crown, for only $5.99 on GOG.com
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Licurg: Is this as good as it looks ?
If you are RTS fan then definitely. If you do not care about them - most probably. If you hate them - probably not, but who knows... perhaps...
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Crosmando: I'd much prefer a game where you play as Bolsheviks and your goal is to kill the Tzar
Damn commie...
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Ghorpm: If you are RTS fan then definitely. If you do not care about them - most probably. If you hate them - probably not, but who knows... perhaps...
Well I am an RTS fan... so wishlisted :D
Post edited July 16, 2013 by Licurg
This looks cool. Also nice to see a variety of languages. Nice addition gog.
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Ghorpm: Well... it was within 20 minutes and as a physicist I'm rounding a lot so I think it still counts ;)
uh hu.. okay.. ;p

as for me, almost "instawishlisted", but I still have a backlog of RTSs..
(wishlisted only after reading your review, the video is terrible... thanks for that btw ¬¬')
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Roman5: Never heard of this, though this makes this release even better

Underrated gems is what makes GOG special, by looking at the screenshots I'm getting a bit of a "warcraft 2" vibe here, can someone who has played through the game comment on what it's like?
I played it long time ago, so I mostly rely on memories (very good memories by the way):
- the settings is medieval with 3 playable human factions (European, Asian and Arabian) with some added fantasy elements
- the graphics is a sort of "updated Warcraft II style"
- it was the first RTS game to implement experience and leveling for the units (long before Warcraft 3 did), where every unit you control can level up to a maximum "hero" level (if you can keep them alive)
- units have an inventory system; they can pick up items found on the map (like swords, magic books, and so on...) and use them to improve their stats
- the resource system is based on 4 resources: gold, timber, food and stone; you'll need to build farms for the food and send peasants around for the others

So it can be considered a mix of "Warcraft II RTS style" with added RPG elements and a sort of "Age of Empires resource system". It was a very original RTS mix for the time.
Post edited March 18, 2014 by Quizblorg
Still playing summer sale games, but happy to see this here. Will buy as soon as I've cleared some backlog. =)
Have this game lying around somewhere. IIRC it's kinda similar to Seven Kingdoms and I found it to be much more enjoyable than the latter.
Nice classic release, I guess. I have the retail CD already, but maybe I'll get it in a promo.
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Stooner: as for me, almost "instawishlisted", but I still have a backlog of RTSs..
(wishlisted only after reading your review, the video is terrible... thanks for that btw ¬¬')
I'm first to admit that! It would be better to show the actual gameplay without those ugly artificial effects...
I did not believe this game will be released, but It seems the guesses from thread about announced games were correct. What I've seen and read so far the game looks very interesting (slower placed rts with build up, maybe more violent then settler) and there is also multilingual, which means it's just a question of time it will become someday part of my library.

A special thanks again for the multilingual support, maybe you can dig some of the older publishers in the ribs to update some of the older releases, after this release the Settlers series came immediately in my mind.
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One game on Tues, so much for GOG "picking up the pace" of classic releases after the month-long sale.
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Stooner: as for me, almost "instawishlisted", but I still have a backlog of RTSs..
(wishlisted only after reading your review, the video is terrible... thanks for that btw ¬¬')
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Ghorpm: I'm first to admit that! It would be better to show the actual gameplay without those ugly artificial effects...
LOL, if I had just watched the video there is NO way I'd buy the game. Truly truly awful video -- not doing yourself much good in the sales dept GOG with that POS :)
Great release. Well done!
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Crosmando: One game on Tues, so much for GOG "picking up the pace" of classic releases after the month-long sale.
That's it, you little brat, I'm calling your mother.
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keeveek: That's it, you little brat, I'm calling your mother.
mum said i can do wut i want
Post edited July 16, 2013 by Crosmando