games on discov channel?

[Smoke]

wow! i was just watchin the discovery channel (dont laugh) and they were using a souped up version of the game rome:total war
to simulate a battle between alexander the great and hannibal,
they didnt mention any game names but TRUST me, it was that game.
what you guys think? ooh ooh! maybye the game was developed from the discovery channel version, or mabye the discov channel asked them o soup up a version of the game just for that?

any thoughts?

 

[h00dlum]

wow! i was just watchin the discovery channel (dont laugh) and they were using a souped up version of the game rome:total war
to simulate a battle between alexander the great and hannibal,
they didnt mention any game names but TRUST me, it was that game.
what you guys think? ooh ooh! maybye the game was developed from the discovery channel version, or mabye the discov channel asked them o soup up a version of the game just for that?

any thoughts?

Why would anyone laught at you cuz ur watching the Discovery Channel? Its a great channel and you can learn alot from watching it...and i think i have seen that show too...

 

[Frank]

Why would anyone laught at you cuz ur watching the Discovery Channel? Its a great channel and you can learn alot from watching it...and i think i have seen that show too...

**** me... you said exactly what I wanted to say!

 

[Smoke]

yeah but there are some pri*ks all over the web, i love it man its really interesting and !HEY! hmmm..... isnt your sig a moment from the movie gladiator?

man i love the romans, the way they fought there battles ruled over anyone else (cept alexander of course cos he NEVER lost a single battle in his life)

 

[ComradeBadger]

It's called Time Commanders. And yes it uses an early build of R:TW

 

[Smoke]

It's called Time Commanders. And yes it uses an early build of R:TW

yeah, clash of the generals right?

HUZZAH! I WAS RIGHT!!

yay me

 

[nick_t]

man i love the romans, the way they fought there battles ruled over anyone else (cept alexander of course cos he NEVER lost a single battle in his life)

the Romans never fought Alexander (he ruled before them and basically paved the way for the Roman empire). Maybe they could have beat him. I think Hannibal was a pretty cool general - he owned the Romans but then he couldn't get supplies/reinforcements to capture Rome!

 

[PvtRyan]

I thought it was a BBC program?

 

[Edcrab]

Yep, but it must have been shown on the Discovery channel as well... has been a month or two since it premiered.

Interesting how little some of the contestants know about military tactics- perhaps games can be educational after all

 

[Janzar]

!!! JUNK YARD MEGA WARS

I live in belgium and the dude presenting the program is just sooooo overreacting about everything that its funny,
there was a lighting flash and he pointed towars the lightning and yelled:

3 PEOPLE JUST DIED THERE

I laughed my ass of

 

[XtremesT]

I thought that show was on the history channel, and it was called Decisive Battles.. must be different, but they use rome total war and it was actually pretty fun to watch.. ( i love the history channel) Now after re-reading your posts, it doesnt sound like the show i watched, as you mention contestants... as the show i watched just recreated the battles.

 

[[Matt]]

there are two TV shows that used the RTW engine. The first was Time Commanders for the BBC and the second was decisive battles for the history channel...

 

[Smoke]

the Romans never fought Alexander

never said that they did

 

[Vulture]

...

Sorry to bump this post up but I think this needs clearing up.

Time Commanders was a british programme that used an early version of the R:TW engine.

Desicive battles was a history channel programme, (I think it was only aired in America)

Finally, Clash of generals uses it.
Clash of generals is on the discovery channel and features 'what if' battles.

 

[Smoke]

yay!

done and done!

 

[Maxi]

Wow, that's pretty awesome. Didn't know tv programmes used game engines.

And the discovery channel rocks! I've got Discovery Channel, and tranvel and adventure, science and civilisation.

Time team is awesome

 

[Smoke]

blah!
time team scum!

*pulls out gun*

"DIE HEATHEN! DIE!"

 

[westie]

Yeah it used to be on BBC2 i think, could have been BBC1.