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Old September 17th, 2003, 10:45 PM
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and why is there no product info on the rest of shrapnel's site? somebody have links with info?
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Old September 17th, 2003, 10:51 PM
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Dominions II is a rather "HC" fnatsy strategy game. You are one of the pretendeing gods, and your goal is to become a real god by destroying your enemies and spreading your Dominion, the embodiment of your divine power. Dominions I has huge batles, incredible amounts of depht, and i believe so will Dominions II have.

You can always try the demo of Domiions I. If you liek the demo, you'll like Dominions, and then you'll propably like Dominions II also.

http://www.illwinter.com/dom2progress.html
Dominions II progress...

See screenshots at Dom II Preview

I believe Shrapnel will give more atleast when the game goes gold.
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Thursday err- today, mid morning you will have the product pages, be able to pre-order if you wish, everything but the demo, which is in beta now and will be released as soon as its stable.

Sorry if we confused anyone.
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camping on the forum.

Welcome everybody to the sequel to the most enjoyable game ever devised since antiquity !
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wow, looks wild. is it mod-able? can we expect fervent shrapnel fans to turn it into a SE4 ground combat game?

this definitly goes on my shopping list.
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I must confess that Dominions I was not that must geared toward text files with bunch of parameters to tweak...
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I like the screenshots, the map screens are pretty nice. The Last one though, the sprites are kinda, well, pixelated. Its pretty good looking overall, but the troops look to be tiny when zoomed out. Of course, this is a game with what looks to be huge battle involving lots of units, so that might not be a huge issue.
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The images look like the Dom I images, but scaled for perspective.

Having over 600 different units in Dom I is great. I would much rather use my imagination with simpler graphics, than have "pretty" sprites but be limited to fewer unit types, as in other games in the genre.

If they eventually add a way to import user-made images at higher resolution, then perhaps the fans could come up with nice graphics without sucking all the developers' time away from doing gameplay-relevant work.

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I wonder how many new units there is in Dominions II...
Or new spells...
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Just above 1000 units.

Spells. Hmm. Not sure. 50-100 new ones perhaps.
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