{"id":36421,"date":"2015-08-25T12:11:13","date_gmt":"2015-08-25T19:11:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.quartertothree.com\/fp\/?p=36421"},"modified":"2015-08-25T12:11:55","modified_gmt":"2015-08-25T19:11:55","slug":"heres-whats-on-the-menu-in-hegemony-iii","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.quartertothree.com\/fp\/2015\/08\/25\/heres-whats-on-the-menu-in-hegemony-iii\/","title":{"rendered":"Here&#8217;s what&#8217;s on the menu in Hegemony III"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Canadian developer Longbow Games made quite a splash with Hegemony I, set in ancient Greece, and Hegemony II, set in ancient Rome.  The schtick in their strategy games was a unified real-time world where you didn&#8217;t have to sit through a long loading screen every time you fought a battle.  The battle just happened, right there on the strategic map, the same way actual battles happened in history.  That&#8217;s realism.<\/p>\n<p>Unfortunately, Longbow&#8217;s attempt to Kickstarter Hegemony III didn&#8217;t take.  Was it because it was set in pre-ancient Greek times, before Alexander came along and made everything cool?  Was it because Hegemony II was already plenty good and full of open-ended content?  Was it because strategy game fans are too stingy to pony up a mere $30,000?  Canadian dollars, sure.  But, still, only thirty thousand of them.  Whatever the case, Longbow was all, like, screw Kickstarter, we&#8217;re going to do it anyway and hope people just buy it when it comes out.  That time is now.  Hegemony III is <a href=\"http:\/\/store.steampowered.com\/app\/308173\/\">out today on Steam<\/a> for less than thirty bucks.  <\/p>\n<p>The thing about a Hegemony game is that the gameplay trumps the setting.  I have no idea who these people are when I select one of the four factions in the basic campaign.  The Veii, the Valathri, the Velch, and the Clevsin?  I think I&#8217;ve fought all those guys in Star Control, but I couldn&#8217;t tell you anything about them.  Hegemony III&#8217;s objective-based campaign will walk you through the ins-and-outs of being, say, a Veii in the olden days.  But for everyone else, there&#8217;s the grand campaign, where you aren&#8217;t limited to just four factions.  Let&#8217;s take a look.<\/p>\n<p><strong>After the jump, I came, I saw, I froze up because I didn&#8217;t know which one to take.<\/strong><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><a class=\"fancybox\" rel=\"36421\" href=\"http:\/\/www.quartertothree.com\/fp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/Hegemony_III_boot_flair.jpg\"<\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.quartertothree.com\/fp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/Hegemony_III_boot_flair.jpg\" alt=\"Hegemony_III_boot_flair\" width=\"700\" height=\"394\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-36422\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Holy cats, that is <a href=\"https:\/\/vimeo.com\/102830089\">a whole lotta flair<\/a> on that boot!  Each one of those circles is a playable faction in the grand campaign.  There are, I dunno, about thirty of them.  A faction is basically a starting location, but factions also have unique troops and a couple of basic modifiers.  For instance, Rome &#8212; pretty much the only name I recognize &#8212; gets a bonus for vineyards.  Romans love wine.  You also get to pick a starting general with whatever attributes you want to buy.  Or just hit random.  <\/p>\n<p><a class=\"fancybox\" rel=\"36421\" href=\"http:\/\/www.quartertothree.com\/fp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/Hegemony_III_start.jpg\"<\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.quartertothree.com\/fp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/Hegemony_III_start.jpg\" alt=\"Hegemony_III_start\" width=\"700\" height=\"394\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-36424\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>From there, Hegemony will start with a single city and guide you through the gameplay with a dynamic objective system.  If you&#8217;ve played a Hegemony game, you know what you&#8217;re in for.  If you haven&#8217;t, Hegemony III is as good a place as any to start.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Canadian developer Longbow Games made quite a splash with Hegemony I, set in ancient Greece, and Hegemony II, set in ancient Rome. The schtick in their strategy games was a unified real-time world where you didn&#8217;t have to sit through a long loading screen every time you fought a battle. 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