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Fun but lightweight RTS

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 6 / 6
Date: March 16, 2008
Author: Amazon User

It's hard not to like Majesty when you first play. Graphics are pleasingly "garden gnome" cute, soundtrack is atmospheric and there are tounge in cheek humorous touches scattred throughout from the quotes your heroes say to the narrator who sounds not a touch unsimilar to Sean Connery, Your Majeshty. And like a good empire builder it's satisfying to watch your buildings be improved, heroes gain levels and workers go about their business. Probably the most intruiging aspect of the game are the various temple factions which you can choose from. Some are mutually exclusive, so you may concentrate on one aspect at the expense of another.

The main problem with Majesty is that it's simply not very deep. Usually you'll be able to construct just about everything and upgrade it, giving you few dilemnas. And you have no direct control over your heroes you can simply tempt them to battle mosters or explore by placing reward flags. The biggest flaw with strategy IMO is that the landscape really has very little effect on anything. Trees don't block movement there are no roads, no meaningful elevation changes etc. It's like it's all being played on a billiard table. You're unable to build any defensive structures like walls either.

Overall an entertaining game, but pretty lightweight. Might appeal to younger players, or those who like their fantasy CS Lewis wholesome.

Simple strategy. But good.

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 2 / 2
Date: March 22, 2006
Author: Amazon User

Majesty is a very simplistic point and click game. Based in medievil times where knights, wizards and dragons roam the earth. You, the player, play the king of your kingdom. Situated in your castle, you fight off evil enemies ranging from trolls, minotaurs, vampires, triffids, zombies, skeletons, giant rats and rat men with your knights, archers and wizards. You start off slowly building your empire with guard towers, warrior's guilds, markets, blacksmiths and wizard towers. As you build your kingdom, you generate more money with the help of the tax collecter who happily visits every home and shop keep to collect tax for the construction of your kingdom. You then train knights and archers to protect the castle and its peasants.

With simple yet impressive graphics and colour, Majesty looks well. The gameplay is very simple (which isn't bad) and sometimes gets repetative (which is bad). Majesty reminds me of Dungeon Keeper (which is also a good game) with its humour and character movements.
Overall, this game is a pleasure to play, but lacks long life. The other bad thing that I can say about this game is that you can't controll any of your men. They just wonder around where ever they like until they stumble across a monster to fight. Good game but soon lacks over time.

This is one of my favorite games!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: July 04, 2005
Author: Amazon User

Majesty, The Fantasy Kingdom Sim is one of my favorite PC games. In this game, you take the role as king of the mythical land of Ardania. You have the responsibility of building a kingdom and recruiting heroes to protect your kingdom from enemies who may be trying to destroy you.

There are 19 epic quests for you to play. The quests vary in difficulty and can range from making money to pay off a debt, to killing off the ultimate enemy. Some of the quests are locked, and you have to unlock them by completing other quests. Or, you can create your own freestyle game and build the kingdom of your dreams.

Majesty includes over 30 building types, 16 different classes of heroes, and 32 types of enemies. Majesty features richly detailed graphics, a great musical score, and hilarious voiceovers. Although you won't have direct control over what happens in the game, you will have lots of fun building your kingdom and discovering new secrets.

Majesty fits into the same category as SimCity, Pharoh, Cleopatra, and Caesar III. But this game is a lot more fun to play. If you like both city-building and fantasy games, Majesty is the game for you!

Majesty Rocks!!!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 3 / 3
Date: July 15, 2004
Author: Amazon User

Very fun and exiting. Provides hours of entertainment! It kept my brother, cousins, and I occupied for the whole summer! It lets you controll you palace and medieval city, and lets you create Knights, Rouges, and other magical people! Conquer your enemy, or whatever feat you must occomplish, and reap your victory!

This game [stinks]

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 0 / 8
Date: February 26, 2003
Author: Amazon User

This game [stinks]. ... Buy it if you want to occupy yourself for 1-2 days. It's basically doing the same thing over, trying to achieve new goals that each mission sets. Not much of an RPG, juz plain strategy with a medival theme.

Majesty

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 6 / 6
Date: July 03, 2002
Author: Amazon User

This is a great game, mainly because it combines a new type of playing with a cool Sword and Sorcery enviroment.

You have just been crowned King of Ardainia. You will need to manage your kingdom all by yourself (But you will have the aid of your faithful and sometimes humurous advisor Ven Fairwhether.)

The first cool thing about the game is that the single heroes that you recruit from your guilds are not directly controlled by you. They run around and decide what to do themselves. Each hero is unique, and some heroes hate each other, so you cannot have both kinds together. Some help out each other, some steal and betray each other.

Warriors, for example, like fighting and defending buildings, as well as hard quests. "Now I'm ready for ANY trouble!"

Rangers like exploring and making healing potions out of plants. They also like aiding wizards and barbarians. "I take the path less-traveled."

Rouges are sneaky theives who like stealling from lairs and gravestones, and even your own buildings! "One day, this will all be mine!"

You will build buildings, and they will be constructed by your peasents. As your kingdom grows, you will get new buildings, and upgrade them. Also, you will need to choose between the three difrerent non-human races, if you want one in your kingdom. There are gnomes, elves and dwarves.

You will also fight monsters, who pop out of lairs. Lairs can be caves or castles, or something in between You will also need to overcome truly challenging Monster Lords, such as the Witch King, who summons hordes of evil giant spiders, The Liche Queen, who uses her dark magic to raise the undead, Rrongol the hunter (Two 'R's) who hunts your heroes down as they struggle to get at the keep he guards, Url Shekk, the three headed beast who enslaves those he captures, yto draw life from them, Dirgo, the giant cyclops who lost his one and only eye and blindly attacks your settlement with his tree trunk, Vendral, the two headed dragon who chars your heroes with his fiery wrath, and is almost immortal...and three shadowy apparitions, known only as the black Phantoms, who will challenge you the most...

Overall, a phenomonal game. You should also get the expansion for the full experience.

Not bad, but not great either

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 2 / 4
Date: April 01, 2002
Author: Amazon User

Majesty isn't a bad game, the graphics are quite good for a strategy game, and the game play allows you to catch on quickly. The tutorial is pretty good as well, but the game can either be too easy or too tough.

Some of the scenarios are really easy and others seem very hard. There are a few I couldn't get after several tries. At least all the scenarios had decent stories to them, which is better than some games out there.

My only real complaint with the game was that it didn't hold my interest. I played it for about a month, and then went on to another game. It's not bad, but it tends to get old after a while, it's the same types of things over and over.

Old

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 2 / 6
Date: August 04, 2001
Author: Amazon User

The game is a typical real time strategy/tactics. It combines elements from familiar Microprose games (e.g. Masters of Magic) with real time components. The major drawback of the game is that there's really not much to do - the game kind of plays itself. You only contribute by building buildings and telling them to produce units. The mechanism for controlling the units is kind of awkward, even if somewhat different than other games. You set a price on a territory to explore or a bad guy to kill and the units respond based on their character. There's no way to give specific commands to units. The game gets old really fast, the variations in strategy from one scenario to the next are negligible. It's interesting at first but gets boring very quickly. In addition the scenarios are kind of easy. I gave it up after the first two hours. I think you can find tons of better RT strategy games. I am a huge fan of the Microprose titles and this was a big time dissapointment.

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5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 4
Date: August 03, 2001
Author: Amazon User

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this game is a mixture of age of empires 2 and a simulation that u probably have in your mind it is truly an awesome game and will keep u satisfied for a very long time not just a few hours like a lot of simulations and u can even make your own scenario

if u like medievil and simulation games this is a must buy

Lovely fantasy game.

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 2 / 2
Date: July 30, 2001
Author: Amazon User

It's fun and challenging, though you do not exert a lot of direct controll over your subjects but I think it's great building your castle and town (inviting heroes, guardsman and peasants to come live in your cities) then watch new subjects being drawn to it and see them save the day and the kingdom.

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