Marines, Seals firing their guns?

[timdk]

So, I meandered over to the Civ IV site to see the latest, and watched the video clips of the Marines and Navy SEALs fighting. But I'm confused, the animations showed them aiming their guns, but I heard no sounds of guns firing, not even a muzzle flash. The soldiers then sort of ran up to the enemy figures and tapped them with their muzzles, and that was the end of the fight.

Please tell me that's not a final animation?

 

[Mercade]

So, I meandered over to the Civ IV site to see the latest, and watched the video clips of the Marines and Navy SEALs fighting. But I'm confused, the animations showed them aiming their guns, but I heard no sounds of guns firing, not even a muzzle flash. The soldiers then sort of ran up to the enemy figures and tapped them with their muzzles, and that was the end of the fight.

Please tell me that's not a final animation?

It has been widely discussed in this thread and the consensus / expert opinion of those who can know (beta testers and the like) is that the animations on the website are not the final battle animations. The game will contain better animations including better battle sound.

 

[Dicanio3]

I don't understand this or the previous thread as when I watch the video clips on the Civ IV site as I can hear the Marines/ Seals fire their weapons!!

 

[Aussie_Lurker]

If it makes you feel any better, timdk, the gunship animation at the official site suffers from EXACTLY the same problem. Yet, in the IGN video preview, we can clearly see and hear the guns firing away. I feel certain that all the other gunpowder units will be the same!

Yours,
Aussie_Lurker.

 

[Cyberstar]

I had sounds and everything looked complete to me. How come they don't have a video of a tank vs. spearman?

 

[timdk]

Thanks for the answer, I realized I forgot to search for an already existing thread on the subject. I really hope those are not final animations, cause if so, they look worse than Civ III marines (IE tommy gun blasting away)