Real-time strategy games used to be criticized for being all the same: You invariably started them off by using peasants to gather resources, you built a base, and then you built an army to crush your enemies as quickly as possible (or else you'd suffer a similar fate yourself). Thankfully, this no longer seems to be the case, since many games are incorporating plenty of interesting new features. One of these will be Armies of Exigo from EA Games and Black Hole Games--a developer that is home to some of the same motion-picture talent that helped produce big-screen action movies like Terminator 3 and Die Hard. Armies of Exigo will be an unusual fantasy-themed game that lets you play as one of three factions--the humans, the beasts, and the evil fallen--to battle for control of a fantasy world. In fact, you'll battle both above ground and below it. Producer Matt McKnight explains.

GameSpot: We've heard a bit about the story that brings together the game's three factions of humans, beasts, and the fallen, but what can you tell us about the story without giving it away? Are the factions fighting over resources, territory, or just sole survivorship? And how does this figure into the single-player game?


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