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A Look At the AI of Empire: Total War and F.E.A.R. 2

Posted by Soulskill on from the entertainingly-foolish dept.

mr_sifter writes "The newly released Empire: Total War and F.E.A.R. 2 have both been praised for their excellent AI. In this feature, Bit-Tech talks to the developers behind these games about how they handled the challenges of creating Empire's armies of thousands of AI soldiers and F.E.A.R. 2's aggressive teams of military operatives. The discussion also talks about how game AI is 'smoke and mirrors' compared to research AI, and looks at the difficulty of improving the quality of game AI." We talked about F.E.A.R. 2's engine and AI back in December as well.

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  1. More DRM by Aceticon · · Score: 0, Troll

    As a side note

    Empire: Total War uses online activation (through Steam), so if you buy this and you don't have an Internet connection all the time in your gaming PC, or you upgrade components on it or you upgrade your OS or any other arbitrary condition (which can change at any time at the whim of one of the suits at Creative Assembly) then you've just threw away a nice chunk of your fun money.

    Also forget about re-selling them game or giving it to a friend once you've became bored with it (or if you find out that you don't like that kind of games)

    Funny part is, if this just had a key check or CD check instead of the "can be remotely disabled at any time" style of DRM, this would be one of the few games that I would buy this year.