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Your most powerful tribal member is your Shaman, able to summon swarms of insects, call down lightning bolts, and conjure up tornadoes to aid in the battle against neighboring tribes. She leads your people in a struggle for ultimate power through religious conversion and frenzied battles. She and her tribe are your pawns as they combat neighboring warriors and preachers, ultimately destroying the enemy Shaman.
To boast that this game has biblical proportions is slightly grandiose, but Populous: The Beginning definitely appeals to the control freak in all of us. With more of a mythical than biblical background of gods and goddesses, Populous: The Beginning provides interesting strategic challenges, along with visually interesting animation. For those of us ready to conquer not only the world but also other planets--and weren't satisfied with Civilization or Age of Empires--Populous: The Beginning offers another opportunity in the strategic struggle for power. --Madeleine Miller
| PLATFORM: | Windows Me, Windows 95, Windows 98 |
| CATEGORY: | Software |
| MANUFACTURER: | Electronic Arts |
| ESRB RATING: | Teen |
| FEATURES: | CD, For 1 to 4 players, via Internet, LAN or modem, Action strategy game that lets you control nature, 25 different worlds with beautiful 3-D real-time environments, Annihilate enemies with spells such as lightning, tornadoes, and earthquakes, Transform your worlds by shaping the land and sea, and commanding its inhabitants |
| TYPE: | Computer Games, Strategy (Strategic), Fantasy, Simulations, World Building (Builders) |
| MEDIA: | CD-ROM |
| # OF MEDIA: | 1 |
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| UPC: | 014633078220 |
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Customer Reviews of Populous: The Beginning
The only way to escape is to break the disc... That's what I had to do. This game is single-handedly responsible for my blowing a semester of college. Fortunately the classes were easy, but man I'm paying the price. <
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>This is the only game I've ever began playing after dinner and didn't look up to see the time until the sun was rising the next day... well, with the exception of Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri, but that's only because I wanted to get the blasted thing over with and return the game to my cousin. <
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>My only complaint is there's not enough swamp or fungus. It's delicious to hear the natives get gobbled up by these antipostes.
POTANGA...B***TCH
First of all let me begin by saying that games like these generally don't tickle my pickle. Starcraft was incredibly redundant, command and conquer overhyped, and the civilization series is slightly entertaining.
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>with that out of the way let me tell how this game has ruined my social life. how many nights ive spent conquering the universe for literally hours at a time. The game sucks you in and doesnt let go. Thoguh the graphics are horrible the sequence of events steamrolls that one small weakness. You build your army traing each of your people to become a warrior priest or other awsome specialties. Then you beat the living crap out of the enenmy tribe(s) with brute force and amazing spells.A comical plus is the words your followers and shaman come up with. This is well worth your seven dollars for sure.
I always wanted to become a god!
I love this game -- half sim, half war games! You are the shaman of a tribe. As you progress through the game levels, you gain more and more magical powers, and learn how to train your braves to be warriors, priests and fire-walkers. Many of your powers are earth-powers giving you the ability to make lightning, tornadoes, control swarms of hornets, volcanos, deadly swamps, etc. Your other powers give you the ability to hypnotize other tribes warriors, convert wild men to your braves, and create force fields around your warriors.
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>There are 25 levels. On each level you struggle with one to three other tribes, each with its own shaman. Your objective is to totally destroy each other tribe, including all its citizens and buildings. As with sims, you need to build housing so your tribe can grow, training facilities to train your warriors, priests and firewalkers, and build boats and balloons to carry your warriors into battle. The more warriors you have, the faster your magic is built up. Each time you destroy an opposing shaman, you gain some of her destructive magical power.
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>In the last level, you are divested of your body, and can travel anywhere on the last planet to cast destruction on your enemies. But, as you progress, you discover that a god without worshipers, like a shaman without warriors, cannot win.
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>The graphics are out of date as this game has been around for years (it only requires a 133MHz machine), but it does not stop the game from being fun and challenging. There is a lot of cartoon violence, so the game may not be suitable for younger children.
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