Posted January 10, 2011
First I apologize if this is not the right place to post. :)
I want to suggest a wonderful game to GOG team and if it's possible to add it to their catalogue, so many old game lovers to be able to play it.
The game is called Tzar- The Burden of the Crown. It is a bulgarian game made by Haemimontgames. They are most known with the new Tropico 3 game, Grand Ages: Rome, Glory of the Roman Empire, Imperium Romanum and Celtic Kings which is sold here on GOG too.
Tzar is a real time strategy game, similar to Age of Empires 1,2.
There are three races to choose from, European, Asian and Arabic. From buildings, to units, every race has different skins, abilities and upgrades. There are many paths to develop your nation, through war, trading or magic.
The game offers so loved by me random map generator, which makes every skirmish map different by the last you played. The maps in general, could be from tiny to extremely big and up to 8 players playing vs AI or in multiplayer.
Graphics are in beautiful 2D. Sound effects are good too, with amazing screaming voices of dying warriors. :) Unfortunately the music soundtrack is not very good and it's kind of boring. Good thing is it can be easily muted from the menu and listen to nature and game play sounds instead.
Tzar gives many goodies like items scattered through the map which grant bonuses to your soldiers and the most important every unit you have can gain levels and become stronger and even a hero. Heroes can lead your armies and give them bonuses.
The population is huge over 200 units per player, which makes battles spectacular and bloody. Unfortunately here is the second problem with the game, the path finding. If you just send your units alone on huge distances they might get scattered and some will just stop or come minutes after the first ones. It is easily avoidable if the player keeps more attention to his army and guide them more precisely.
The game has many fans in Europe, and even today there are lots of people playing it.
I decided to suggest this game here because since the day one, atleast in Bulgaria it doesn't have any DRM. Another thing is that the current price is less than 5 euro, perfect for GOG. :)
I have the game from many years and I have installed it only once, since then I changed many hard drives and just copied the game files and even today same old installation works fine on Windows 7 :)
Here is the link of the game site, I don't think it violates any rules, because there is no shop or something:
http://www.haemimontgames.com/tzar/
Unfortunately the screen shots don't justify the game very well. they are too old and small.
EDIT: Here few videos showing big battles
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NSesBRCLMOs&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=54sAnylkjl0&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lv3_cJMOtDQ&feature=related
I want to suggest a wonderful game to GOG team and if it's possible to add it to their catalogue, so many old game lovers to be able to play it.
The game is called Tzar- The Burden of the Crown. It is a bulgarian game made by Haemimontgames. They are most known with the new Tropico 3 game, Grand Ages: Rome, Glory of the Roman Empire, Imperium Romanum and Celtic Kings which is sold here on GOG too.
Tzar is a real time strategy game, similar to Age of Empires 1,2.
There are three races to choose from, European, Asian and Arabic. From buildings, to units, every race has different skins, abilities and upgrades. There are many paths to develop your nation, through war, trading or magic.
The game offers so loved by me random map generator, which makes every skirmish map different by the last you played. The maps in general, could be from tiny to extremely big and up to 8 players playing vs AI or in multiplayer.
Graphics are in beautiful 2D. Sound effects are good too, with amazing screaming voices of dying warriors. :) Unfortunately the music soundtrack is not very good and it's kind of boring. Good thing is it can be easily muted from the menu and listen to nature and game play sounds instead.
Tzar gives many goodies like items scattered through the map which grant bonuses to your soldiers and the most important every unit you have can gain levels and become stronger and even a hero. Heroes can lead your armies and give them bonuses.
The population is huge over 200 units per player, which makes battles spectacular and bloody. Unfortunately here is the second problem with the game, the path finding. If you just send your units alone on huge distances they might get scattered and some will just stop or come minutes after the first ones. It is easily avoidable if the player keeps more attention to his army and guide them more precisely.
The game has many fans in Europe, and even today there are lots of people playing it.
I decided to suggest this game here because since the day one, atleast in Bulgaria it doesn't have any DRM. Another thing is that the current price is less than 5 euro, perfect for GOG. :)
I have the game from many years and I have installed it only once, since then I changed many hard drives and just copied the game files and even today same old installation works fine on Windows 7 :)
Here is the link of the game site, I don't think it violates any rules, because there is no shop or something:
http://www.haemimontgames.com/tzar/
Unfortunately the screen shots don't justify the game very well. they are too old and small.
EDIT: Here few videos showing big battles
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NSesBRCLMOs&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=54sAnylkjl0&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lv3_cJMOtDQ&feature=related
Post edited January 10, 2011 by mutishev