Après avoir diffusé au compte-gouttes de mystérieuses images ces derniers temps, Paradox dévoile enfin son futur nouveau jeu de stratégie. Comme certains le supposaient, il s’agira vraisemblablement d’une sorte de clone de Civilization, avec certes des variations et originalités dans le gameplay, mais avec certes également certaines ressemblances. Du moins du peu que l’on peut en voir pour le moment, car évidemment, tant que l’on n’aura pas une présentation détaillée du gameplay, il est difficile de juger.
Quoiqu’il en soit on peut espérer à terme avoir un jeu très soigné, et qui offre une alternative probablement intéressante. En attendant Civilization VII, actuellement en chantier et pour lequel on ne sait quasi rien de concret. A noter que de ce que l’on devine de Millennia, le jeu va mettre l’accent sur des aspects très hypothétiques de l’Histoire humaine, ce qui dans un 4X n’est pas forcément surprenant, mais devrait donner lieu à des situations touchant clairement à la pure SF (ex : il y aura une époque dans le jeu dite Age of Utopia). Pourquoi pas, si les combinaisons proposées sont amusantes et équilibrées. On verra quand on en saura plus l’an prochain.
Pour plus d’informations sur Millennia, dont la sortie est prévue en 2024, sans plus de précisions, voyez pour le moment cette fiche sur Steam.
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Paradox Joins With C Prompt for New Strategy Game
Millennia Offers 10,000 Years of Turn-Based History
STOCKHOLM – 21 September 2023 – Lead a nation of your own design through thousands of years of history in Millennia, a new turn-based strategy game from Paradox Interactive and C Prompt Games. Progress through ten ages of humanity, from the Stone Age to the near future, unlocking new technologies, new ways of living, and, maybe, alternate pasts that could have been.
C Prompt Games is an American development team helmed by veteran strategy game developers Rob Fermier, Ian Fischer and Brian Sousa. Motivated by a passion for deep and replayable systems-driven games, they bring their experience working on many celebrated real-time strategy games (including Age of Empires II, Age of Mythology and Starcraft II, as well as Orcs Must Die) to the turn-based 4x space in Millennia, a game that pairs the familiar comforts of the genre with fresh new gameplay to enable players to write their own stories of the past.
Features of Millennia include:
History and Alternate History: Lead your people through ten historical ages, steer your timeline into the uncharted alternate history of a Variant Age or the danger and opportunity of a Crisis Age. Each Age involves unique rules, units, buildings, goods, and challenges, which can alter the path of history.
National Spirits: Decide what your Nation is famous for by selecting National Spirits and using the bonuses they provide to achieve your goals. Combine multiple National Spirits as you progress through history to craft a unique civilization in every game.
Domains: Invest in six different Domains that influence the focus of your Nation – Exploration, Government, Warfare, Diplomacy, Engineering, and Arts. The better you provide for each, the more your Nation can make use of unique Domain Powers. Everything from claiming territory, to adopting new governments, to spreading religion, to reinforcing Armies flows from mastery of the Domains.
Deep Economy: Design your economy to support your strategy. Gather raw materials, then build Improvements to refine basic Goods like logs or iron into lumber, paper, books, ingots, tools, or weapons – specialized products that allow you to improve and adjust your economic engine to suit whatever history sends your way.
Army Based Combat: Customize your approach to war by combining individual Units into powerful Armies. Each Unit influences the capabilities of its Army, allowing you to employ a vast number of varied strategies. Once in conflict, watch the action unfold through the Combat Viewer, where battles play out and provide details on how different Armies perform.
And more: discover natural landmarks, build the Pyramids, compete in the space race, finance expeditions, survive plagues, use diplomacy to your advantage, defeat barbarians, unleash innovations, deal with alien visitors, govern underwater cities, manage air combat, and master a host of other historical-themed content.
Millennia is targeted for a 2024 release.
