Thursday, March 27, 2008

A look back: Minotaur Cliffs


Today's screenshot won't have much new material, so don't expect a long read. The minotaur on the cliff is possibly the most widely known myth unit in age of mythology and has gone trough lots of changes throughout the game's production. The version you see here is the second or third one. It's texture is almost just like the one now but the model was changed so it looked tougher. The trees you see were planned to be in almost every random map and campaign scenario. Then ES decided not to use them. You can still find the trees in the editor. Finally, boats. Those large boats were the original triremes and a placeholder ship for the egyptians when they didn't ships designed yet. Then, somewhere along the way in stage two after it was resized, it was cut. The ship didn't go completely to waste. An edited version of that very ship became "the Argo".

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