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Summary: Populous the Beginning -- Beginning to get Addictive
Review: This is great! My little men run around, stand still, jump, build houses. When they fight, they don't leave blood and gore all over the place (hooray!), instead, they push and shove and kick. (Dare I say it, it's cute.) When they die, their spirits ascend upward. There is strategy involved, although after you play it so many times, the computer becomes predictable. The best part is the destruction -- earthquakes, volcanos, tornados. It's quite the stress reliever to unleash these on your enemies. Very dramatic. This is my favorite game. I just wish there were more missions ("worlds") available. (Anyone from EA listening out there?)
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Summary: I love it
Review: This is such a great game and one of my favorite ones. The graphics are OK, but I don't care how good or bad they are. You are the shaman and you have to take over other tribes to become the most powerful shaman. The first level is so easy because the other tribe won't attack your settlement, but they will on the on the other levels. I'm not exactly sure about these things because I only have a demo version that was on my Simcity 3000, but if the demo is so good then the actual game has to be better. I saw a lot of spells and stuff that were not available on demo version and they looked pretty cool. You can also turn your braves into warriors, priests, firewarriors and more. Some of the spells are the lightening, the landbridge, the earthquake, the tornado, the magical shield, the swamp, the swarm, and more. Buy this.
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Summary: Not for me
Review: This was one of the worst games that I've ever played. The graphics were alright, but the game itself was bad. I mostly play games where you conquer,rule and build cites. Populous did let you build things - the options were very limited. The pleges weren't anything to get excited about either. Say for instance you were to do the plege with all the lochus-it looked so fake, it was as if a small tiny cloud was flying by. The tribe people practicly don't do anything. When you did let your people attack another tribe, there hardly was any action. When I bought this game, I expected it to be really good. Once I actually played it I wanted to return it.
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Summary: Do you like playing God?
Review: Video games for the most part, I leave to the kiddies, but with the release of POPTB, the simulation genre of PC entertainment has attained the next evolution. The strategy involved is similar to that of chess; position your forces where they have the best chance to triumph in combat, but the similarity ends there. You preside over the specialty of each and every follower, and you do not take prisoners. Followers can be warriors, preachers, even spies, and you can assault by sea, air, and land. Once specialized, the follower can work independently, but you can intervene and retask at will. You can acquire various spells in each world to aid your conquest, but be careful, for each spell has a particular area of effectiveness, and a misplaced spell may not only be a waste of resources but it may backfire and kill your own followers. The ultimate goal is godhood. The 25th world (named 'The Beginning'), you ascend into heaven and become a god. This perspective is remenicent of the original populous, where you can rove the landscape, delivering your wrath to the unbelievers, whereas in the first 24, you are a shaman, which means that not only do you have to be within a set proximity of the reciever of your magic, but you can also be killed, depriving your followers of divine protection until reincarnation. If you have ever asked 'Why me, Lord?", then this experience will show that being a god is a full time job.
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Summary: Ever played this game?
Review: Well, don't! I can't tell you just how horrible it is. First of all, you are not an all powerful entity. The graphics are slick, but sometimes choppy. Things that die also have the tendency of blocking the screen. The spells you can cast ... . You must "worship" totem poles to gain these spells. They take forever to get and are extremely limited in range or power. There are few things interesting. There are only five units is this game, and most of them are illogical. Take my word. Dont buy.
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Summary: It's time to become a god
Review: You are the shaman the leader of a primitive tribe, if you are to realise your dream of becoming a god, you must defeat your foes and conquer all 25 worlds in the solar system. To conquer the worlds you must use your minions, spells and houses. You could send a few fire warriors by boat for a devastating sea attack or send spies to burn their houses or say what the heck and use the volcano and wipe out their whole tribe. Build huge cities complete with civilian houses boat shacks, churches, spy huts, guard posts and many more. Have faith in the elements as you use 26 unique spells like the Tornado, Earthquake, lighting and Meteor shower spells. Then send your braves, warriors, fire warriors, priests and spies into battle against the enemy.I must say that Populous is the best computer game I have ever played. With 25 highly detailed 3D levels you will find yourself playing until late at night. You can have your attacks as basic as you want to as complex as you want. The really good thing with this game is that not only do you have the normal close up view but you can have a view from outer space which is excellent when you want access your options before going into battle. Even though I haven't yet done it, you can your play friends or strangers over the Internet. I feel if you want to get the most out of populous you must have "direct 3D rendered" it just makes the game 3D accelerated and the landscape is more detailed and as just more clearer but if you don't direct 3D it doesn't matter that much. I take my hat off to bullfrog with an anther superb 3D strategy game. I can't wait until I play Dungeon keeper 2 which another bullfrog game. If you like Populous then look out for Dungeon keeper and Age of Empires they'll be up your ally. 5 stars.
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