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The Great Siege

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UPDATE 04/21/2009: Update Boss and Elf Warrior.

Developer's Note:

After several months of development, polishing and exchanging ideas with many great players, reviewers and sponsors, we are finally able to release The Great Siege on Newgrounds.

The game features a great combination of impressive defense gameplay, sharp graphics, competitive balance and immersive theme music. The building system in the game pays tribute to Heroes of Might and Magic III, one of my personal favorite, while the battle system includes elements such as the catapult, tank transformation, and traps that make the gameplay more dynamic without being overwhelmingly complex. The Great Siege is generally a very simple game but it has a subtle depth of strategy that embraces many possibilities.

it was my great pleasure to work with Selcuk and his group on the original music score for The Great Siege. The amount of time they've put into the works and the creative energy and inspiration they brought into this game through their music are incredible. Every music track is not only perfectly fitting to the game's theme, but also elevates the atmosphere of the game to another level.

Above all, I really hope you guys will enjoy this game.

Let's keep PLAYING and keep in touch.
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Game Description:
Friends and comrades, my brothers! The Dark Lord has sent his minions upon our city to end the last surviving bonds of humanity. We cannot let our city fall into the wrath of darkness and watch our home fade into another shadow of abyss. Brothers of humanity! Let's load up our cannons, fire up our catapult, and let us march through the gates and send those filthy devils besieging our home back to where they belong!!
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Instructions:

Hot Keys:
City Mode:
[M] Market
[B] Building

Battle Mode:
[A]Build Army Panel
[S]Send Army Button
[D] Command Army Panel

Fire Catapult:
*Mouse: Click-and-Drag at the head of Catapult to adjust target, release mouse to fire.
*Keyboard: Use arrow keys UP + DOWN to adjust catapult target, SPACE BAR to fire

Dig a Trap (Foot Soldier only Ability)
Click on the Foot Soldier in order to make it digging a trap. The trap will take a while to finish, so make sure you have people cover up for him.

Tank Regular/Tower form
Click on the Tank to transform it into a Tower.
Click on it again to turn it back to Regular form.

Resources Conversion:
In the Market, you can convert your Bonus Points into different resources.

Upgrade and Level-Up
Most buildings and weapons in this game can be upgraded. Foot Soldier and Elite Guard can also be leveled up to become stronger units.

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its an older game so expect graphics to follow. however- i dont want to learn 60 different mechanics when i play a game. i want to be able to think outside of the box with a strategy game, not be limited by its confusing mechanics. Also- the catapult isnt fun to use. its kind of a pain in the arse.

being a game from 2009 it's holds up great a decade later. Honestly though I couldnt get past the first boss. I couldnt figure out how to get troops and you sure as hell aint killing him with a lvl 2 catapult

Entertaining enough

Well it was interesting for sure and after a few minutes you do need more life into the game as it does get stale after a bit but I have come to enjoy this game for what it is and liked it but you could ad much more content bringing in more fun and entertaining elements to this piece. It was an enjoyable game but just needs Abit more to it as it does get stale kind of quick but besides that I liked what you put out

~~THINGS TO IMPROVE ON~~
Needs some extra stuff to keep the player entertaining enough maybe a bonus game or something

~X~

really nice game. only annoying thing was, that i couldn't turn the music off but leave the sound effects on. otherwise its really great.

waste time

Is that all to upgrade.. waste time to play; better have a very cool hero

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Uploaded
Apr 19, 2009
12:19 PM EDT