Riverworld

A real time strategy game, similar to Microsoft's Age of Empires. Although Burton is the central character, it is seen from a third-person perspective, and other people within the game can be moved and controlled.

• Title — Riverworld • Publisher — Cryo Interactive Entertainment • Composer — Stéphane Picq • Released — June 1998 • Genre — Strategy • Platforms — Windows

The player begins with control of one territory along the River, with two opponents – shown in green and blue, and led by other historical figures - controlling other territories. These areas of land can be captured by gaining control of the central grail stone – a mushroom shaped object in the centre of each. More people can be recruited by building houses, for which building material needs to be collected. Towers can be built for defense purposes, barracks can be built to train soldiers, warehouses can be built to construct war machines, stores can be built to add building materials to stockpile, docks can be built to construct ships, workshops can be built to train people as engineers and scientists, and technology centres can be built in order to advance the civilisation. The game begins in the Wood age, a very primitive time where wood from trees is the main resource. The game then advances, after completing sufficient technological research and recruiting a special sort of builder (e.g. Jules Verne from the Electric Age) to build a special structure to proceed to the next ages, including the Stone and Iron Ages to more modern ages (Steel, Uranium), and through to the future, with corresponding advances in technology and weaponry.

Riverworld was written entirely in assembly.

• Edge #65 • PC Zone - Aug 13, 2001 • PC Games - Nov, 1998 • GameStar - Nov, 1998