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Not the best

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 2 / 15
Date: July 28, 2005
Author: Amazon User

I expected more from this game. It is not as interesting as one would have liked. For instance the game is too hands off, too high level. There is little control over the game. The terrain, and character you play determines a lot of what happens and there is not much need for skill, or ingenuity in the game play. Which kind of dumbs down the game play and makes the player a kind of slave to the game.

Complex & Unpolished

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: November 15, 2006
Author: Amazon User

First let me say that I've been playing this game for 3 months now. This is a turn based fantasy strategy game loosly similar to Master of Magic. It is quite complex and a little klunky. It feels like it was made in some guys garauge. You start off by choosing to play a specific race of beings. The game gives you very little information about these races and almost nothing about thier strengths and weaknessess. Some races like the ambient temperature to be hot, others cold. Each race has different army troops which can vary widely in thier abilities from race to race. You have to figure them out through trial and error. After choosing a race, you then have to design a "pretender God" (i.e. you). The game gives you a bunch of different choices in body types and initial stats but doesn't let you design a mage completely from scratch. This is kind of lame. Why not just give everything a point value and let you take what you want? Once you have designed your mage, you are sent back to the beginning. Why? It can be quite confusing and makes you think you hit a glitch in the game. Then you have to "create a new game" You are told to pick which players will be in the game and are given a list of the different races available. If you don't know anything about the game, it's time for trial and error again. So you pick an assortment but don't forget to include the race that you just picked earlier (you). Here is one of the problems with this game. It is unbalanced. There are about 15 different races that you can pick. These races can't be modified except for their leader (the pretender god). Some of them are much stronger than others. Some of them are laughable in their simplicity. It's like the programmers put all of their effort into about 6 of the races and then just made up a bunch of garbage races to make it look like there were lots of choices. Now that you have chosen who your opponents will be, you have to choose a map to play on. There are about 4 real choices here; 2 small and 2 medium. There are a couple of huge maps but if you try to play a game on them, you will get a few hours into the game and the game will freeze/crash. You cannot randomly generate a map. You apparently can make your own map using the editor but I haven't tried that. Each map is "reccomended" for a certain number of players but remember that you have already chosen the number of players so the order of the setup just limits your choices if you follow the "reccomendation". After you have chosen a map, you are once again returned to the beggining. You then have to "continue a game in progress" You see, you started your game and then left (by finishing the setup) so you have to go back to the game you just designed before you can even play the first turn. Klunky. Once you start playing the game, you will find that each turn is autosaved and you may not save the game manually or go back to an earlier save. You are stuck with playing the game as is. It is especially frustrating when you are more than 6 hours into a game and it freezes. Try to reload and you will probably find yourself in the same position. I have played games where I was obviously dominating and lost because the computer got to the last victory province that it needed to win the game.
With all that said, I am still enjoying this game. I have muddled through with much trial and error and have discovered strategies that I like. If you do decide to buy this game, visit the Forums and read about some of the different strategies and the FAQ section. This game could have been much better but it is playable and it is fun.

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