Majesty (Mac)

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Summary: To much Fun
Review: This is a great game. It has action and strategy. It never gets boring. I recomend this game to every one.

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Summary: Majesty is king
Review: What an awesome game. We think it has it all. Great graphics.Fun game play.Finally,a game that my son has not grown bored with. Even after you beat all the different quests the free style games could keep you going indefinitely.

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Summary: A uniquely addictive game
Review: While Majesty looks like a fairly standard real-time empire building and goal-oriented scenario game, its unique interface is what keeps you playing. Rather than directly controlling your "game pieces," i.e., the various fantasy heroes you enlist to help build your kingdom, you can only place rewards for certain activities. Need to find something in this scenario? Then an exploration reward will send heroes off to push back the fog of unexplored terrain. Dragon attacking your castle? A price on its head brings the heroes running.

The mix of scenarios is good, providing a good path to learning how the kingdom works while being a challenge to complete. The ability to create freestyle quests and also to download quests adds to the game's variety. My only quibbles are that the scenarios don't tie together into a good plotline. While you cannot attempt some until completing others, there is no "story" behind the greater task of completing all of them. It would also be an interesting addition if heroes from one quest could be recruited into another.

The graphics are stunning, the game play smooth and easy to pick up. Music and sound effects are good, with some particularly cute utterances by some characters. This is a fun game and it's great to see it for the Mac.

Rating:
Summary: A uniquely addictive game
Review: While Majesty looks like a fairly standard real-time empire building and goal-oriented scenario game, its unique interface is what keeps you playing. Rather than directly controlling your "game pieces," i.e., the various fantasy heroes you enlist to help build your kingdom, you can only place rewards for certain activities. Need to find something in this scenario? Then an exploration reward will send heroes off to push back the fog of unexplored terrain. Dragon attacking your castle? A price on its head brings the heroes running.

The mix of scenarios is good, providing a good path to learning how the kingdom works while being a challenge to complete. The ability to create freestyle quests and also to download quests adds to the game's variety. My only quibbles are that the scenarios don't tie together into a good plotline. While you cannot attempt some until completing others, there is no "story" behind the greater task of completing all of them. It would also be an interesting addition if heroes from one quest could be recruited into another.

The graphics are stunning, the game play smooth and easy to pick up. Music and sound effects are good, with some particularly cute utterances by some characters. This is a fun game and it's great to see it for the Mac.