- Platform: PC
- Publisher: Play Ten Interactive
- Developer: World Forge
- Genre: RTS
The Golden Horde is a historical RTS based on real events that took place at the beginning of XIII century. Those were the times of mighty warriors and military leaders whose power and daring instilled courage in common soldiers. The goal of the project is to create a RTS game with the background of Europe at the beginning of XIII century, using the special features of the AWE Engine (powering “Ancient Wars: Sparta”). The title should be interesting to a wide range of gamers because of the unique historical setting, a number of special features and realistic graphics and physics never before seen in any similar project.
The gameplay is based on the use of heroes. They significantly strengthen the troops, have special skills, can progress through the course of the game in many directions, and can be armed with different weapons. The heroes have real historical prototypes, like Hermann von Salza (Grandmaster of Teutonic order), Batu Khan (grandson of Genghis Khan), Alexander Nevsky (ruler of Great Novgorod) and many others. The setting of the game is truly original, based on the events which happened in eastern and central Europe during the Mongol invasion.
The combat system of the game will be very special, allowing the use of the captured weapons, war animals and engines, as well as equipment. Thus it will be possible to build horse archers for Crusaders, and to give gunpowder to Russian infantry.
Storyline will be non-linear, allowing the completion of the game in several different ways. Those will include the conversion of the Mongol hordes to Christianity, bringing the steppe warriors to the shores of Adriatic sea and forging of the united Russian empire some 300 years ago before it happened historically.
