AGEOD and Paradox Unveil New Details about Rise of Prussia

Developer AGEOD and publisher Paradox Interactive have unveiled new details related to their upcoming strategy videogame, Rise of Prussia. The title is set to offer players a chance to guide a variety of nations during the period of the Seven Years' War in Europe and will feature a wide array of historical details. The game should be released during the first half of 2010 and will be the first title AGEOD puts out after having been acquired by Paradox.

Rise of Prussia is set to feature 20 complete scenarios, broken down in the following manner: 12 focused exclusively on the major battles of the Seven Years' War, seven focused on one of the years between 1756 and 1763 and another scenario, which allows the player to experience the whole conflict from the point of view of one of the participants.

The game will simulate more than 200 leaders that took part in the combat and 300 units will be available to command. The map will be made up of more than 1,000 regions, which need to be controlled and exploited by the skilled war commander who seeks to be victorious.

The people at Paradox and AGEOD are not yet unveiling full details on the command system that will permit wargamers to actually create the hierarchy for their armies and then issue orders to the various units. The developers are talking about a “brand new system for the construction of units, allowing players enhanced ability to control and purchase their forces as they wish during the annual and grand campaigns.”

Paradox Interactive is also confirming that Vainglory of Nations, another project that AGEOD was working on before having been acquired, is still set to be released before the end of the year. There has been speculation that the title will be canceled because it tackles the same historical period as in-house project Victoria 2.