Glest is, or was, a popular open source real time strategy game. Developed by a team in Spain, the project's development was discontinued since 2009, so MegaGlest is a project that picked up and continued where Glest left off. It is now quite established and already has new and improved content over the original game, as well as a lot of bug fixes and changes. Since the development of Glest stopped, two new projects emerged from it, MegaGlest and he Glest Advanced Engine, so in the future we can expect to see these projects merge in a single one. MegaGlest is open source too, and you can control one of the seven armies in a beautiful 3D environment: Tech, Magic, Egyptians, Indians, Norsemen, Persian or Romans. You can play the game in 14 different maps (currently, but more to be added) and is amazing how good the scenery is, you can tell that a lot of effort has been put in the development of this game. The story has the same core as most other real time strategy games, you start on a map of different sizes and have to establish a base, gain resources and attack your enemies with the purpose of remaining the only one on the map. Strategy is important as each army/race/faction needs different resources and allows creating different buildings, so you have to do a little study before deciding which army suits you best. MegaGlest is multi-platform, meaning you can install and play it from Windows, Linux, Mac and FreeBSD, and allows multi-player games in the same LAN or even over the Internet (you have to connect to a server) of up to 8 players in the same game.
VERSION HISTORY
- Version 3.4 posted on 2011-04-01
Several fixes and updates - Version 3.4 posted on 2011-04-01
Program Details
- Category: Games & Entertainment > Other
- Publisher: Mark Vejvoda
- License: Free
- Price: N/A
- Version: 3.4
- Platform: linux