The workers will need to be vigilant."Įmpires of the Undergrowth is an ant colony management game, in a fast-paced real-time strategy style. Their priority now is to find food, and there is plenty around but there are other hungry creatures in the undergrowth. Her first brood will need to move quickly if the colony is to survive. From butterflies drifting across the flowers to vicious enemies like the preying mantis, each species is detailed and realistic."Your queen has set up home beneath a rotting log. Every blade of grass, flower, and mushroom fits into the landscape as well as a varied mix of other insects and other critters who roam about doing their business. Day and night cycles as well as the changes through spring, summer, winter and fall are all rendered in detail. Huge raindrops (well, huge for ants) splash across the ground during storms. Weather and seasonal changes affect the gameplay and are richly detailed. The best part of Empire of the Ants is the detailed world that has been created. A few patches to improve the stability and fix compatibility problems will go a long way toward improving playability.
Getting through a campaign without crashing is entirely too uncommon (I recommend that you save often). The game requires 3D acceleration, but doesn’t support many popular cards. This style of economic management will be very familiar to strategy fans, and is very well done in Empire.Īdding to these issues are the stability problems rampant throughout Empire. Keeping the queen well cared for and happy is most vital - if she is unhappy she will stop laying eggs. You will also need to allocate resources for hill maintenance and care and feeding of larvae. Too many soldiers and your food supplies will disappear leaving your colony dead. You do need to allocate your workers prudently - too many workers means can give you plenty of resources but leave you vulnerable to attacks. Your control over the worker ants in your colony is very indirect - you can locate resources and assign groups of workers to harvest them, but the individual actions are largely out of your control. To succeed you will need to master managing your anthill as well as waging warfare against other ant species and non-ant enemies. As a new commander in the ant army you will guide the destiny of the Bel-o-kan Federation, an empire of russet ants with a history that spans five thousand years.
With their own insectoid technology they have built an empire that is vast and as advanced in many ways as human civilization. In Werber’s book, ants are intelligent beings with their own eons-old civilization of trillions.
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