In the spirit of the books, Cyanide has tried to turn this game into a back and forth of political maneuvering, spying, backstabbing, and shifting allegiances. House” and a multiplayer mode allow you access to many gameplay variables and options to use as you like. A single-player mode filled with mini-campaigns lets you play through some of Westeros’ historical events during the 1000 years before the first book, while a skirmish “House vs. The meat of Genesis is divided into two parts.
More or less eschewing every audience other than a hardcore PC strategy crowd that knows the entire Targaryen family tree by heart, starting with Aegon the Conqueror’s landing on Westeros, Genesis attempts to deliver an overly ambitious and deep strategy game and succeeds at it about as well as the average character succeeds at surviving in ASOIAF. The world of A Song of Ice and Fire is not one filled with enough epic battles to make for a more traditional strategy game, after all.
Bearing no relation to the recent TV show, A Game of Thrones: Genesis delves into a world of politics and backstabbing, and puts less of an emphasis on the tired real-time strategy mechanics seen in so many licensed RTS titles.