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Chris Nahr
05-16-2003, 03:02 PM
The new expansion for Civ3 is apparently a collection of preset scenarios with a pittance of minor enhancements (new civs and resources etc.), as detailed on the official website (http://www.civ3.com/conq_features.cfm). I guess I'd buy it anyway if I was still playing the game but there doesn't seem to be anything to rekindle my interest, so I don't.

And much to my surprise, Celestial Heavens (http://dynamic3.gamespy.com/~homm/) is reporting that Heroes of Might and Magic V is still on track for a Spring 2004 release. They have a couple of MP3 interview clips with Jon van Caneghem but he's not telling much. I still don't know how they expect to develop a full-blown sequel with whatever team is left after the announced layoffs, seeing how they barely got HoMM4 working with a bigger team.

GuildBoss
05-16-2003, 08:16 PM
"Improved Multiplayer and PBEM support"

I hope they patch PTW with these improvements.

Jakub
05-16-2003, 09:38 PM
The expansion to patch the expansion that took a year to patch multiplayer into the original game.

Tyjenks
05-16-2003, 11:18 PM
And much to my surprise, Celestial Heavens (http://dynamic3.gamespy.com/~homm/) is reporting that Heroes of Might and Magic V is still on track for a Spring 2004 release. They have a couple of MP3 interview clips with Jon van Caneghem but he's not telling much. I still don't know how they expect to develop a full-blown sequel with whatever team is left after the announced layoffs, seeing how they barely got HoMM4 working with a bigger team.

I read the interview and dammit if I did not get interested all over again. JvC sounds like he is taking back over and going to make a proper HoMM game complete with a functioning A.I. He sounded terribly displeased with what went down with IV and is vowing to make it right.

We'll see....