Wackerfuss scored the honor of challenging Reynolds at his own game when he won Microsoft Game Studios' "Lunch Hour Challenge." The challenge was simple enough: E3 attendees were invited to sign up for the tournament Thursday morning, and four contestants were randomly selected from that pool. Wackerfuss and Francis "Angel Draco" Cermak, also of Chicago, Illinois, defeated their opponents in the first round of competition, going on to face each other in the second round. Wackerfuss soundly defeated Cermak to take the grand prize and square off with Reynolds.
Reynolds is a founding member of developer Big Huge Games and has a formidable background in strategy gaming, including working with Sid Meier on such masterpieces as Civilization II and Alpha Centauri *. Rise of Nations is an ideal first project for Big Huge Games, combining the epic scope of turn-based classics like Civilization with the faced-paced action of real-time strategy games. Players can take multiple paths to victory, using everything from military might to economic finesse to expand their national borders as their civilizations quickly progress from the stone age to the information age.
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