Sunday, April 6, 2008

A look back: Egyptian Invasion


After many days of searching I have recovered from a website no longer in existence. This screenshot was not one of the weekly screenshots. It was given to special websites as exclusives.
-TERRAIN-
Greek tile: No longer available, it was later edited into the egyptian tile we have now.

Grass: Like other plants and trees from the time, the grass was dark green. The patches of dirt look nothing like the ones now.
-UNITS-
-Egyptian Spearman: The egyptian equivalent of the greek hoplite or norse pikeman, though they would be remade, the spearman idea was kept even till release. These spearmen actually put their spears on their backs when walking and took them out when fighting which was hard to animate.

-Chariot: The version you see here was actually kept like that till stage three. There isn't much you can say about these units as they are rarely seen. Though the horse clothes appear to have the same texture from the sphinx's headress.
-BUILDINGS-
Wall: This another one of the things kept till stage three. The reason possibly bing other things were being worked on instead. Actually the same model is used by the AGE 3 egyptian wall.

House: On the left, that small structure was the house for stage one. ES got rid of it because it didn't look too much like a house and they wanted more than one variation for houses.

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