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Never heard of this game. Seems like it had some interesting ideas but the final version didn't live up to the developers ambitions.

For some reason i thought this game was just American Conquest and i just thought i misrememberd the name. Anyways as per usual i always appreciate people talking about these obscure RTS games. There is a lot of them still need talking about. And it even has a bit of that Empire Earth campaign principles of some of the overacting voice actors haha. Also having everything explode despite it not making any sense, just reminds me of the Goldeneye on the N64 where also everything exploded when you destroyed them

As someone who played a lot of alpha and beta versions of the game i gotta say it had a lot of wasted potential. The finished game is patched together from levels of different versions (often from different story drafts too) and you can pretty much notice a sharp transition in writing style at two spots in the released version. Some systems were made functional but never shipped as part of the release like being able to load vehicle into the dropship to have it carry it into a mission(before ofc) or between zones , choosing squad composition and different subvariants for GRUNTs and specialists. The release version of some early missions were also more linear then early ones as there was a rush to just finish and ship em out. The ship was also to be a hub of sorts between missions that you could go around and explore with various functions.

This is one of those odd games I picked up back when since I didn't really have any context about games and wasn't smart enough to figure out quality, strange part is basically how much of the data is just plain text which meant my young self could mess about with it quite significantly. Also the one thing that really makes the flying bad is the fact that the fighter actually loses engine power as it's health decreases, I'm not sure if other vehicles suffer this but somehow I managed to get to the last mission before giving up. Also if I recall right there's a shocking amount of pictures of topless women in the files, seems you could get away with an awful lot back then.

My God, how did you get this game to run? In my case, I get error that states "Scripting: out of vehicle def space”. Despite all the problems, I really want to relive my childhood memories associated with the game...

Wow, I was beginning to think I was the only person who remembered this game. I played it a lot when I was a child. I'll always appreciate how much variety the missions of this game had.

Sweet video brother

Holy shit remember playing the demo of this this ages ago, could never remember the name. Thanks for the memory

this is one of those games that i played when it was new, you forget it exists, you remember it exists every 1-3 years, you look it up and get transported back to 2004 and then you forget it exists all over again.

Ok, heres my experience with this game in America. I read in a magazine that this game had co op, at the time, I was starved for co-op, so I pre ordered, brought it home, installed it. No co op. I looked at the back of the box for how many players to see a sticker saying "single player campaign" or something to that effect. I peeled off the sticker and I shit you not it had 1 to either 3 or 4 player co op underneath. They cut the co op after review copies went out. Ok whatever is it a good game I thought? Well I load the tutorial and tried running over an enemy with a tank. Nothing, it lived. Uninstalled and got very grumpy.

I remember being mindblown by this game. In hindsight I think a good isometirc 2d graphic style like Stronghold, Anno 1503, Cossacks 2 and ofc Age of Empires 2 have aged better overall. And just a very short time later 3d graphics like this was way surpassed by games like Age of Empires 3. Things moved fast in the early 2000s. But for a time I thought to myself that this surely was the peak of graphics in strategy games and that it could barely ever look more realistic than this. Also I got black bars flickering over the screen when playing because the GPU wasn't up to the task:P I still remember the soundtrack and despite being dated this game still does something so right, which many modern games somehow struggle with. Atmosphere!

This game's graphic design reminds me of Empire Earth, and I mean that in the best possible way.

Given the "modern cultural climate", I'm genuinely kind of surprised that nobody's ever tried to re-release this game. Then again, maybe it's for the best - can you imagine the kind of online discourse that this game would generate if it were released today?

1:19 That's odd. It was the Spanish who wanted to integrate the natives into the colonial system. The English didn't want the natives at all.

there is a game called "warrior kings battles" it's an old rts from 2005 or something,but the thing i really loved about it is there's the whole religion tech tree that can change your whole playstyle

150th subscriber, proud to be that number. Do more of these, loved it! Only way is up!

I'm absolutely surprised that you as a youtuber hasn't reach a 4 digit subscriber count, for that. I'm going to subscribe to you as this is one of the most informative RTS reviews I ever seen from a youtuber such as you. Keep up the good work!

in all my life i could never get this game to run,i REALLY wish gog got its hands on it.

Great game, liked it so much back in a day's

God..I played this damn game when i was a kid, in fact i'm like 100% sure i still have at lest one CD of it still laying around. But like you said, some of the voice lines are still burned into my head, even as i'm nearing 30. "That is not the way, to Santa Minetta" Being one i just CAN'T GET OUT.

where is arkantos?

Bought the CDs like 2 weeks ago but i cant install the game on windows 10...

I remember seeing screenshots of this game back in the day, but i never found a copy of it. Great video, I liked your style of humour too! Another early 2000s obscure RTS i can recommend is Warrior Kings. It is a janky mess at times, but it has so many great ideas that no other RTS game has tried since. Its campaign is especially interesting, where player choices really matter and can alter the campaign drastically. It is on steam for a buck or so, and I've managed to make it work on my computer (windows 10)

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the style of menu's backgrounds i cant decide if its inspired by 'generals' , or by age of mythology hmm , or maby those two big studios rather took inspiration from THIS title!

My best friend worked on this. Mostly programming for wayfinding iirc. Gold rush times in some parts of the German gaming industry. Related Designs had to lay off half their staff just two or so years later (my friend among them), when sales didn`t keep up with production costs. Nevertheless they managed to put out another good and somewhat original RTS after No Man`s Land, called Castle Strike.

I played this game so long ago and forgot what it was called, some of the unit sounds have been burned in my head since and driven me absolutely nuts.

79 subscribes!? I'm getting in at the ground floor of a great channel, to be sure.

Forgotten is right, I lived through that era and played in it and loved RTSes but I don't know if I ever heard of it back in the day.

Childhood.

Speaking of Forgotten RTS, you should do a review on "Armies of Exigo" a game from 2004 thats very similar to Warcraft 3.

Feels like this game engine was also game engine for Castle Strike

I actually know and remember No Man's Land quite fondly because of the Amerindian campaigns. I was always very fascinated with Amerindian history and culture since I was a kid. So I played every game with Amerindians that I could find. Very cool. This game BTW is the sequel to America, and it was initially simply titled America II. They had to change the name because of some legal issues though, so they renamed it to No Man's Land before release. I'm surprised you didn't review America first, like before No Man's Land. There's also another cool game called American Conquest which is basically Cossacks II but in the Americas. I'm sure you know it. You should maybe review it too one day. Would be grand.

I played this game when i was young. Fun times

Just discovered your channel and already binging 😂

There were so many good or at least memorable strategy games in the 90 and 2000 decades. Fond childhood memories

I genuinely had no idea this game existed, and I thought I knew about pretty much all the 2000-s era RTS games!

How missions are there per campaign? As I understand it there are 6 independent campaigns in total?

Shame that many of these older strategy games aren't available on gog.

Great job! I enjoyed this game. Didnt 100% it but enjoyed the play through even as an unskilled player

Nice editing. What software do you use to edit?

I'm going to attempt to finish this feat as well ..have most things. 1535/2000. Essentially all crowns, research, treasures and guild cards. And of that I have about half the crowns just by playing. Shouldn't be TOO bad to finish from where I am.

Geat vid, I'm just starting chapter 2

another one also trying to tackle worlds achievements before wilds releases unluckily for me though i decided to do both base game and iceborne at once which has been an ordeal grats on getting all the base games done in the video, and hope your wrist doesnt perish over the course of icebourne

Iceborne next?

Apart from my 50 achievements, I have 12 secret achievements, how can I get them?

Hello, I've logged in this morning and see there are now 12 new hidden achievements. I search the internet and there is nothing about it. I'm playing on steam btw

I have entered the editor menu and created a game for a militia mission. Although I created many militias and killed many units in the skirmish, it doesn't count.

I was stuck chipping away at Age Against The Machine (Defeat 100 AI opponents). Playing on the Tiny map is the fastest method, I went Atlantean and rushed with Hero Destroyers. I was unable to do this until I saw your video noting the Bonus to improve my stats and decrease the opponents. Otherwise even on standard the 11 AI build so close that you can't mass Destroyers before they're attacking you.