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Yet Dune II didnвЂ™t receive a direct sequel. The game was only a modest hit, selling about 250,000 copies in its first few years, but it convinced the gameвЂ™s producer, Westwood Studios cofounder Brett Sperry, that a follow-up was necessary. It meshed the adrenaline rush of an arcade game with the complex strategic decisions of a turn-based empire builder. Released by Westwood Studios in 1992, it was the first game to mix base building, unit command, and resource gathering with real-time gameplay and a mouse-driven graphical user interface. If these games provided a blueprint, it was Dune II that laid the foundation. Populus wasnвЂ™t a real-time strategy game, but it did have an attractive, intuitive interface that will be recognizable to fans of the genre. These ideas cumulated in 1989вЂ™s Populus, a вЂњgod gameвЂќ from Peter MolyneuxвЂ™s Bullfrog Productions.

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Games like The Ancient Art of War, released by BrГёderbund Software for MS-DOS and Apple II in 1984, and Herzog Zwei, released for the Sega Genesis in 1989, pushed the boundaries of real-time play. The game proved real-time play was technically possible, but it was a challenge, as contemporary computers could only handle small, static maps, with a couple dozen visible units at most.

Legionnaire was innovative, but also a bit ahead of its time. This may sound obvious today, but in the early 1980s, it was a direct challenge to a status quo that saw computer strategy games as replicas of physical, turn-based miniature wargaming.Д¬rawford put his ideas into action with 1982вЂ™s Legionnaire, an early real-time strategy game that pit squads of Roman troops against AI-controlled barbarians. He argued that вЂњreal-time play is both more realistic and more challenging than turn sequence play. The seed of the real-time strategy genre was planted when Chris Crawford published a treatise on the future of real-time gaming, titled вЂњThe Future of Computer Wargaming,вЂќ in the debut winter 1981 issue of Computer Gaming World. Fortunately, the developers behind tomorrowвЂ™s blockbuster real-time strategy games are mindful of the genreвЂ™s past mistakes. This resurgence is good news for fans of real-time strategy games, but the genre must adapt to tastes of modern gamers. And gamingвЂ™s largest companies, including Microsoft and Tencent, are bankrolling studios behind new RTS entries like Age of Empires IV, which is set for release on October 28. 2020вЂ™s unexpected remaster of the original Command & Conquer saw more than 42,000 concurrent players on Steam at launch.

Age of Empires II: Definitive Edition regularly cracks 20,000 simultaneous players on Steam, putting it in league with legendary RPGs like The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim and The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt.

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