Fate of the Dragon announced

Title: Three Kingdoms: Fate of the Dragon Developer: Overmax Studio Format: PC Release Date: Q4 2000 Overview Three Kingdoms: Fate of the Dragon is a real-time strategy game based on the 14th century historical Chinese novel entitled Romance of the Three Kingdoms. Known to be one of the most famous and turbulent periods in Chinese history, the story has been passed down the generations throughout Asia through books, plays, puppetry, and storytellers. Now, in the Chinese Year of the Dragon, Eidos Interactive brings The Three Kingdoms to a worldwide audience with the release of Three Kingdoms: Fate of the Dragon on the PC. At the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty, government officials were fighting for power while ordinary people were starving to death. In 184 AD, large groups of farmers rose in rebellion against the state. The empire of the Eastern Han Dynasty suppressed this rebellion, but in doing so, the empire itself, which had been in decline for many years, collapsed. In the confusion following this collapse, rival warlords took control of their respective territories and set up their own kingdoms, splitting China into three parts. As one of these three warlords, build your own regime, develop new technologies, and create a mighty army in an attempt to control The Three Kingdoms and reunify China. Features: Establish comprehensive power through production, construction, trade, science and technology, alliances and war. Multiple paths to victory – military control through war and strategic deployment, economic control through trade and the development of new technologies, or political control through diplomacy and strategic alliances. Each kingdom contains unique technologies, buildings, and characters uniquely modeled from the actual technological, cultural and social development of the time to accurately reflect the Three Kingdoms’ culture. Campaigns are based on historical significant events of the Three Kingdoms’ period. Head-to-head or cooperative multi-player support for up to 8 players via LAN or the Internet.