First Gameplay of Battle for Middle Earth REFORGED!.
Hello, my name is ColdBeer and I want to share with you this amazing looking gameplay of a Battle for Middle Earth Reforged. This is a fan project aimed to recreate and upgrade Battle for Middle Earth games. So, recently they have released this gameplay video where we can see how units move and interact with each other. Also there is one surprise that nobody of us anticipated. Gameplay has no sound, because this part of a game is not finished yet, so you miss nothing by hearing me talk on the top of it.
We were shown graphic customization abilities - you can change them as you want and of course if you work in NASA you can play this game on the highest settings and not lag. Well, the rest of us will probably have to tweak a setting or two, because nobody wants to melt their laptops over this. Game has a multiplayer lobby where we can already see the possibility to play 1v1 or 2v2, also you can play as a clan member, so I guess that they have a few ideas of making a ladder system or something like that later. Also, they have already implemented button for Replays, so it’s an educated guess that they will be available.
Original Battle for Middle Earth ran only at 30 frames per second and this Reforged version is way smoother and it’s FPS is significantly higher. How much higher? I guess it depends on your machine. Developers say that all the units will look awesome and detailed even if a camera is zoomed in all the way in - we will be able to see battle scars or even face mimics of the certain units. The buildings are also impressive. Not many are made yet, but just look at this orc breeding facility, the detail is stunning, it’s really stuff of the next generation. One of the biggest change from the original games is that units now walk around each other, and do not go through like they were ghosts. Implemented collision is a great deal to immersiveness, because it’s more realistic and does not trigger that part of the brain which is responsible for bullshit detection. Although this is quite unexpected, because this will definitely change the way the game is played, because you will have to think about surrounding the enemy from as many directions as possible, otherwise your troops in the back will do nothing, at least until their brethren will fall and they can take their place. But the coolest change and, let us call it ability, is that you can take control of any unit and walk with it in 3rd person. How cool is that? Remember Dungeon Keeper where you could possess some demon and go to battle as in the first person game? Something similar will be implemented here. Maybe. Developers repeatedly said that this is an RTS game, not a 3rd person game, so it may be that only a control part, but not the fighting will be implemented in 3rd person. We’ll see. As for now, creators tend to avoid the mighty banhammer of EA and Warner Bros. As I have mentioned before, in my previous video about this project, creator and publisher of Middle Earth EA Games doesn’t own the rights to it. Rights of publishing belong to Warner Bros now, but Warner doesn’t own the game. It’s a stalemate. So maybe this situation is complicated enough for both EA Games and Warner Bros to not swing the legal banhammer over the Reforged creators head. We’ll see. Maybe they could even make a deal and release a game with a Warner Bros approval. That would be great, I would gladly pay some coin for this without a doubt. So, subscribe and follow my channel for more news about the project, I will post everything newsworthy here and also a release date when it will be available, so check that bell button so you would get all the notifications.
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