Wednesday, March 09, 2005

Where in the world is the Supreme Ruler?

Until now we have been marketing the fact that Supreme Ruler 2010 has over 200 starting regions to play from. Scenarios will be used for multiplayer or single player games when you want to play a particular map or region of the world in non-campaign mode. Introduce our new feature of "grouping playable regions" and things get interesting.

Take the Canada map for example... which is divided into 5 regions. Ontario, Quebec, The Prairies, The Maritimes and The West Coast(which includes Alaska). When you play the campaign, starting as Canada, you will play as one of these five regions. But when you play Canada as a scenario (in either single or multiplayer) you'll be able to group these regions together, if you wish. You could play the east versus the west with the dividing line between Ontario and Quebec or you could play in another other combination you can think of.

Another way to look at groupings is how it will provide its own levels of difficulty and challenge. If you find yourself overwhelmed with running a country when you are starting out you could take a scenario and give yourself all of the other regions except for one. As you get a handle on things you can hand off regions to AI control and eventually play as one region in a 16 region map.

So, just think of the possibilities... How will you divide the world?

-- Daxon.