As the first Kingmakers gameplay trailer illustrated, an army of heavily armored medieval soldiers is no match for a man from the future armed with a shotgun, grenade launcher, and sniper rifle. The matchup becomes even more lopsided when you can call in an attack helicopter to strafe an entire battalion into red mist.
A new trailer for Kingmakers answers an equally important question of who would win: a huge medieval castle or an Abrams tank? Yeah, the tank wins in all situations, whether it’s versus Tudor architecture or a company of knights. It appears the latter just becomes hamburger stuck in the treads of that tank. Gruesome stuff. Also, there’s going to be a lot of virtual horse death in this game, for which I have extremely mixed feelings.
What Kingmakers’ latest trailer is actually intended to illustrate is how well it handles the destruction of buildings, from humble cottages and taverns to towering stone castles. Kingmakers developer Redemption Road promises that these dynamic collapses and explosions all happen in real time, with realistic physics, which will make the shooter-medieval-military-strategy-simulation fun to watch if nothing else.
Kingmakers is due to arrive sometime later this year on Windows PC via Steam.
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