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Summary: A fun fantasy game
Review: (NOTE: this review is based on the demo. I have liked the demo enough to buy the full version.)While any fantasy kingdom-building game will be compared to Warcraft, this game is not just another WC clone. The developer bills it as a "fantasy kingdom sim" instead of an RTS game. The biggest change is that you never give orders to individual units. This is very nice if you don't like the mad click-fest that Warcraft can become when you're trying to order around large numbers of units. Instead, you recruit heroes from the guilds, then manipulate their attacks through placing bounties. Heroes can gain experience levels as they hunt monsters, and spend the gold they earn on better equipment (such as better weapons, magic rings, potions, etc.) The levels have a set quest for you to accomplish before you move to the next level. If there's anything keeping this review from 5 stars, it's that you almost don't do enough... once all your buildings are set up, you can sit back and watch most of the time. On the other hand, that is more in the spirit of Sim-type games, which is what they were aiming for.
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Summary: Fun For the first 2 hours. Then kinda ho hum
Review: cool concept, and intresting for the first hour or two. Loses intrest after a short while though. It made me realize I like to directly control things. Kinda makes me feel like I just build buildings after a while, and the game plays itself.
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Summary: Good game, a little too easy
Review: I agree with most of the other reviews that this game is well executed on the MAC. It is somewhat novel in that rather than directly controlling units like you would in a more traditional real-time strategy game like Starcraft or Command & Conquer, you indirectly bribe them into compliance. The graphics and sound are above average, comparable to most other RTS games, although they seemed a little flatter and less inpired than Starcraft. The biggest flaw with this game in my opinion is that it is way too easy for moderately experienced RTS players like myself. In the end, there seems to be little or no shortage of resources even on the "expert" levels. The heroes which you are supposed to bribe into helping you basically take out most of the monsters automatically anyway, leaving you with little to do. Finally, the single player missions are way too easy. I beat literally all of them the first time I played. In comparison to a game like Starcraft or Warcraft that took me days or weeks per mission to master, the missions in Majesty could all be solved in one sitting. So, overall a good game and a welcome addition to my game library, but ultimately too easy to master to offer any real replayability.
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Summary: Good game, some problems
Review: I bought this game especially for my 9 year old son, but it's rich enough so that he and I can play it together and we both have fun. The simulated world is good and quite rich . You control the objectives of the characters rather than their individual destinations or actions which makes the game much less tedious as it progresses than alternative like warcraft. Although it's about killing mosnters, I find it less gruesome and disturbing for a young person that starcraft, for example, which we don't let our son play.
The network play over appletalk is good, but has gotten hung on us a coupleof times. The network play over TCP/IP (internet) is very buggy, a problem you don't discover until you pore over the README file. We never got it to work despite a moderate amount of fiddling.
While the world is as ich, or richer, than warcraft or other competing games, it is surprising to me that there is no way to add more "things" (creatures, etc) to the game. Also, I wish there were larger playing fields so that there was more room for developing your terrain as opposed to just hacking and slashing. The best thing about the game is that there are different styles of country development you must choose, and it takes some time to discover all of them. (For example if you develop "priestesses of Krypta" you are unable to build temples of some incompatible religions.)
All in all, I think it's one of the best games of it's genre, although it still has a few shortcomings.
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Summary: worst game i ever purchased
Review: I can't believe that I was excited to get this game. I've had it only 24 hours and I am already bored with it. I have beaten most of the pre-set quests and I am not a hardcore gamer. Where is the challenge? It should take me longer than an hour to beat this thing. There is very little to do with this game. The quests are generic and unchallenging. I'm sorry I wasted my money on this. It is great for my 8 year old nephew, but anyone over the age of 12 will be bored senseless by this game. No wonder gamers switch to pc. I love my mac, but it is games like this that drive people away.
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Summary: worst game i ever purchased
Review: I can't believe that I was excited to get this game. I've had it only 24 hours and I am already bored with it. I have beaten most of the pre-set quests and I am not a hardcore gamer. Where is the challenge? It should take me longer than an hour to beat this thing. There is very little to do with this game. The quests are generic and unchallenging. I'm sorry I wasted my money on this. It is great for my 8 year old nephew, but anyone over the age of 12 will be bored senseless by this game. No wonder gamers switch to pc. I love my mac, but it is games like this that drive people away.
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Summary: This is A GREAT GAME!!
Review: I have played this every night with ... and it is the most origanal, distinguished, and interesting games this century! Its not like those other, ... games, that are too violent, too scary, too boring, no, this is a great game from a great company!
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Summary: 3 seconds of fun
Review: I liked it ... when I first got it, but over a period of time I got very board of it. The levels are okay, but after a while you realize how boring they are. The graphics are much to cartoonish for a fantasy war game. In closing this game will start off as a 4 star game and will end as a 2 star game, but I guess there might be some people out there who like the game.
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Summary: Majesty's Beauty is Skin Deep
Review: I was impressed with this product for the first couple hours or so - the graphics and sound were good, and the interface was easily learnable. Soon, however, I realized I was simply playing SimCity with a few battles going on in the background. The fact that the game is mission oriented helps things a bit, but the storyline and background (as the missions are not threaded) were extremely disappointing. In the Swords & Sorcery genre, Baldur's Gate, Diablo, HOMM, and Planescape are all much better bets, even if they are older games.
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Summary: This is the funnest game Ive played in years
Review: Im only 15 and dont have a credit card so right now Im still saving to buy it but I play with a friend sometimes and LOVE the demo. The quests are kinda easy but freestyle and multyplayer are very good.
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