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While waiting for Cyanide shows something of his role-playing game, also based on the Song of Ice and Fire by George RR Martin fans of this saga of fantasy novels - which began twenty years ago and has not ended yet - have to settle the real-time strategy that we are going to review a game "indie" in the soul, not so much because of the budget (which was not suppose, however, the level of the most renowned productions) but for the experimentation that pervades the mechanical and makes it worthy of attention even by those who do not feed special love for the works of Martin.

The idea behind strong A Game of Thrones - Genesis is to fuse the rhythms typical of real-time strategy with the thickness of the political component that is usually found in turn-based games, or at least those of the mold much more simulation . Leaving aside for a moment the types of missions of the single player campaign and take the traditional skirmish maps to an object on which to challenge the AI ​​or other players via the Internet, every game starts with the various factions - from two to eight, at most, the map that includes the entire continent of Westeros - committed to expand its sphere of influence, but without making war. The castle of each family is in fact surrounded by small villages neutral, with various resources (wheat fields and mines, mainly) and willing to ally with the first to send out the special messenger to a pact or, possibly, a spy for a secret agreement.

This has solved the spies of the first level of a game of intrigue that he can become much more complicated, especially in view of the inexorable passage of time and the increasing weight that takes the micro-management, in every game, as new units are created . You can pause at any time, fortunately, and assign various tasks remain idle, but the developers have preferred to get rid of the bailouts so that every decision is - unfortunately - the final one. Only in the single player campaign will include a couple of checkpoints in the longer missions, but nothing that puts the player away from the frustration of repeating segments of a length and monotony embarrassing, before being able to complete an assignment.

The depth of the game in time of peace, said, is something truly unprecedented in an RTS: strengthening alliance "in the light of the sun" you can use a noblewoman, to be given in marriage, or simply a patrol of guards - or both. The spies, in return, are not limited to secret alliances but may sneak into the castle of another faction and be used as a unit "undercover" by unsuspecting opponents, again, the messengers can be seduced, provided by noblewomen, or corrupt, as well as the murderers, who can pretend their killing without the knowledge of principals. Any subterfuge, however, can be discovered by a spy, when contracted to conduct an inquiry on a specific city or units, which would usually take a lot 'of seconds.