Strategic Conquest is a two-player turn-based strategy game for the Apple II and Apple. Inside Mac Games nominated Strategic Conquest as its pick for 1996's best strategy game, but ultimately gave the award to Command & Conquer.
Click to expand.From what I've seen we can be glad that the Windows users are the beta testers, and we can hope that if and when it does come to the Mac they'll have sorted out the worst problems. Petitions are useless. Hard commercial realities are what drive companies to develop products. If they think they'll sell another 5% by adding a Mac version to the product list, and if 5% of their Windows sales adds up to a good return on investment in developing it, then they'll do it. So just hope they sell a shed load of Windows product.
Porting a game to Mac is actually quite hard. If the game is developed with cross-platform support in mind from the beginning, like eg Blizzard and id (usually) does, it is much easier, but Civ was not developed that way. In this particular case, however, the actual game has already been ported and Conquests is just a patch on top of it. The hardest part to port might be the network play (which came in PTW, but is included in Conquests), particularly if it should be compatible with the Windows version, but I still think that its should be doable.
In any case, QA testing for any release takes time = costs money. I would't really care if the game came as Multi-player or not. Frankly, playing CIV as multi-player would be about as much fun as a root canal. I could not stand to wait for the other player to finish their moves, heck, i can barely stand waiting for the moves to be finished by the computer. I find CIV III to be almost unbearably slow as it is, and i have a G4 1Ghz dual processor. I had a chance to see the game on an equally equipped PC and was astounded at how quickly the game moved along. Ultimately, i am still disillusioned with the whole 'civ' franchise.
Conquest Machinery
I invested in a game that was, from the start, disappointing in its capabilities (i was especially bothered by the limited political interactions-i still wish the game had some of the cool options politically such as can be found in SMAC such as being able to move your forces inside the cities of your allies to help them protect their terroties as well as intervene to stop conflicts between factions). But, to make matters worse, despite the best efforts of Mr. Oliver, patches for the game have been a little too long in the coming, and the editor is still a sorry excuse at appeasement as it doesn't even work with the current version of the game (which even though i am using the 1.29 beta, is soon to offically, be at that version). Then, these additions come out that my money is on them NEVER appearing on the Mac.
American Conquest For Mac
- Art of Conquest for Windows 7/8/8.1/10/XP/Vista/MAC OS/Laptop. Art of Conquest for PC brings together a host of different genres. You’ve got RPG elements for the main gameplay, RTS to keep you interested and a touch of MMO in case you get lonely.
- The Lord of the Rings: Conquest developed by Pandemic Studios and published by Electronic Arts is an Action, Single, and Multiplayer video game. The game takes place in the stunning world and enables you to play as both the forces of evil and good, but the ultimate task of the game remain same, in which you have to fend off the One Ring from being smashed and using it to restore the power of.