Geneforge

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Summary: Full Description of Game
Review: A unique fantasy role-playing epic. Features a fascinating and open-ended story, the ability to create your own army of lethal, totally obedient creatures, and a cunning enemy AI with foes who can go on patrols, stalk you, and run for help. Geneforge has a huge and open storyline. You have the freedom to choose your own path and decide how the story will turn out. You can fight the evil overlord or you can join him. You can help the peasants or you can torment them. You can be the bold hero or you can just try to get away. No matter what you choose, Geneforge offers an enormous adventure with plenty of replay value.

You are a Shaper, a member of the most powerful and secretive of the magical guilds. You have the power to create life and mold it to serve your own needs. For millennia, your world feared and respected the Shapers above all others. Their creations could go everywhere, do anything, all according to the wishes of the Shapers and no others.

If you need a servant, you simply create it, and it will gladly die for you.

But now the secrets of your people are at risk. Someone dares to try to steal the power of the Shapers and take it for his own. He has committed the ultimate crime: he has captured you, and he will do anything to get you to surrender your secrets.

He would use the power of the Shapers to remake the world. The question is a simple one. Will you fight him? Or join him?

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Summary: Fyoras rule!
Review: All of Spiderweb Software's games are solid stories with lots of exploration and excellent game design. The thing that makes Geneforge different is the mutant creatures you create and travel with. Far from using them ruthlessly, I found myself getting attached to them, especially the game little Fyoras. I mean, flaming spittle -- what could be better?
Anyway, try it and see. It's a good, cheap, good game. Also good.

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Summary: Long live game design over flashy graphics!
Review: Geneforge is a fantastically good roleplaying-style computer game for anyone who values great game design over giving their new graphics card a good workout. If you liked the classic top-view games like the Ultima series, you will love Geneforge. The graphics and sound are definately outdated, but it just doesn't matter. You will get caught up in the engaging storyline and the deep gameplay.

On the technical side, Geneforge is also a very solid game. It features a detailed but very manageable stats system and the combat is quick, fun, but still strategic. Instead of managing a party of adventurers, your party consists of your monster creations, each having different strengths and weaknesses. You have control over which creations you make, so you can try to build the perfect group to defeat any foe.

Considering its low price, its gameplay and depth make Geneforge an excellent buy.

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Summary: Long live game design over flashy graphics!
Review: Geneforge is a fantastically good roleplaying-style computer game for anyone who values great game design over giving their new graphics card a good workout. If you liked the classic top-view games like the Ultima series, you will love Geneforge. The graphics and sound are definately outdated, but it just doesn't matter. You will get caught up in the engaging storyline and the deep gameplay.

On the technical side, Geneforge is also a very solid game. It features a detailed but very manageable stats system and the combat is quick, fun, but still strategic. Instead of managing a party of adventurers, your party consists of your monster creations, each having different strengths and weaknesses. You have control over which creations you make, so you can try to build the perfect group to defeat any foe.

Considering its low price, its gameplay and depth make Geneforge an excellent buy.

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Summary: Excellent Story Telling and Addictive Game Play
Review: I played all of this game and I highly recommend it to anyone who likes Role-playing games with a good story but don't care much about having the latest graphics.

My favorite thing about it was the story telling. I quickly got sucked into the world and characters. I had to make moral decisions throughout the game. I really liked that the game was flexible enough to let you be good or bad and that the choices you made effected the ending. I really agonized over what faction of the serviles I would side with. I ended up playing the game several times just to see what happens. The combat system (making killer pets and some magic) for me was pretty easy to learn and I even felt pretty powerful by the end.

My least favorite thing about the game was the color choice for the interface. But I found I learned to ignore it quickly. The game's graphics are a throw back to the day when icons ruled the gaming screen, but I prefer a well crafted story to flashy graphics any day.

Overall, I loved this game and recommend you play it.

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Summary: Surprisingly Fun
Review: Spiderweb Software makes old fashioned games. By which I mean that they're not 3-D video card charged mini-movies. Graphically they're stuck somewhere in the early 90's, and one would think that after playing todays more advanced games, you'd find them tedious. You would be wrong, wrong, wrong.
If you start playing Geneforge, or indeed any of Spiderweb's Games, you will look up at some point and discover that several hours have passed. These games suck you in by way of the intriguing stories and the easy-to-learn game play.
In Geneforge, you play a character who can create other, subservient creatures who will do your fighting for you. These come in a variety of types, and you have to balance and upgrade their stats as well as your own.
The story involves the rediscovery of a lost colony that was abandoned when a process for creating super-monsters was found to be uncontrolable. Naturally, somebody's found it and you've got to stop them. Or do you?
One of the great things about these games is that there are different ways the story can go. Do you want to save the world from the Ultimate Evil? Great. Do you want to BECOME the Ultimate Evil? Can do. Throughout the game you make decisions and forge alliances with various factions. And these decisions have consequences. You can make mistakes. It makes for a game that you will actually want to play several times.

Disclaimer; I'm actually friends with Jeff Vogel, the creator of these games, but make no mistake, this is an honest reveiw. I own all his games and I think they're a blast. Try one. It's free.

Rating:
Summary: Surprisingly Fun
Review: Spiderweb Software makes old fashioned games. By which I mean that they're not 3-D video card charged mini-movies. Graphically they're stuck somewhere in the early 90's, and one would think that after playing todays more advanced games, you'd find them tedious. You would be wrong, wrong, wrong.
If you start playing Geneforge, or indeed any of Spiderweb's Games, you will look up at some point and discover that several hours have passed. These games suck you in by way of the intriguing stories and the easy-to-learn game play.
In Geneforge, you play a character who can create other, subservient creatures who will do your fighting for you. These come in a variety of types, and you have to balance and upgrade their stats as well as your own.
The story involves the rediscovery of a lost colony that was abandoned when a process for creating super-monsters was found to be uncontrolable. Naturally, somebody's found it and you've got to stop them. Or do you?
One of the great things about these games is that there are different ways the story can go. Do you want to save the world from the Ultimate Evil? Great. Do you want to BECOME the Ultimate Evil? Can do. Throughout the game you make decisions and forge alliances with various factions. And these decisions have consequences. You can make mistakes. It makes for a game that you will actually want to play several times.

Disclaimer; I'm actually friends with Jeff Vogel, the creator of these games, but make no mistake, this is an honest reveiw. I own all his games and I think they're a blast. Try one. It's free.