The FPS-RTS

flying starfish · 2003-09-01T17:34:58

Basically I''ve become intrigued by this idea and wanted to hear some input on it. Essentially what I''m thinking of is an RTS in which the player is in fact a commander on the ground, who generally does not partake in the hand to hand fighting (of course they can - with whatever weapons they can acquire). The idea would be that they can build structures and units much like any other RTS but which have the sorts of scales one might expect compared to an individual human. Basically what I''m wondering is, could this conceivably be done? The success of games like C&C Generals leads me to believe that it could be, since they utilize a fully 3D landscape, and hence path-finding and such could be rationalized in a similar sort of fashion as they do. Of course there are still other issues - but what does everyone think of the idea? ---- flying starfish