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Yes, but it deserves a chance

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 7 / 9
Date: November 24, 2001
Author: Amazon User

As indicated by a previous reviewer, Myth III is a work in progress. Mumbo Jumbo pushed the product out the door and sacked the development team since it had no new project lined up for them. The initial releases possesses a few bug (to be addressed by a patch within a few days of this message), but none which significantly hammpered play. The graphics are lush and the single-playter is an improvement over the previous Myth titles. Once the development team (working from home now) puts out the Vengeance editor, then a large number of mods should appear. The extremely poor ratings come mostly from die-hard fans of the Myth series who in part feel betrayed by Mumbo Jumbo's failure to carry through on all of its promises. Ironically, similar rhetoric appears in Civ 3 forums (although Civ 3 had fewer bugs).

Anyone interested in a different gaming experience will find this truly enjoyable.

OMGZ this game r0x

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 6 / 32
Date: May 21, 2001
Author: Amazon User

this game r00lz gl MoL in mwc2k1 w00t!

0mg3rz!!!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 5 / 13
Date: May 30, 2001
Author: Amazon User

All internet Mythers must get this game!!!!

For all you people who have never played this game, I strongly recommend that you get the whole trilogy. It has great graphics, units, and a good story line.

This game is awsome!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 4 / 10
Date: June 09, 2001
Author: Amazon User

If you liked the other 2 your gonna love this one! As a Myth11 map editor and unit creator i can tell you, if you thought the last 2 had good graphics and game play... you havent seen nothing yet! -the StrioX

The best is yet to come!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 3 / 7
Date: September 25, 2001
Author: Amazon User

If you never played Myth 1 or 2 this title is a must have! Myth is one of the most ingrossing title ever to grace a PC/MAC in years! Go order it now and I promise you, you will love life! Its like age of empires with good graphics, gameplay, people, all rolled into one!
Coffee

Come in the great myth on-line community

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 9
Date: October 29, 2001
Author: Amazon User

Hey guys, i recommend you to get this game, because it's the best rpg ever seen and because, after myth1 and myth2, we are making all together a very nice on-line community. Come with us and enjoy, we want hundreds people playing myth3 on-line at every hour!

Great Game!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 5
Date: November 26, 2001
Author: Amazon User

If you loved the originals, as I did, you will not be disappointed with Myth3. A great game!

Fun, and awesome graphics!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 8
Date: March 19, 2002
Author: Amazon User

The graphics are really beautiful, there is no question about it. The human figures look like they have real skeletons, rather than the bloblike humanoid forms you see in other inferior game graphics. The programming team should be commended for doing such a good job on visuals.

In addition to looking awesome, it is really fun to play. What more could a gamer want?

this game is a must

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 8
Date: October 26, 2001
Author: Amazon User

hey guys, this game is the best RPG ever seen. Trust me and get it immediatly, we are making a very nice online players community and we'd like to have lot of people in it in order of having a great fun!

Better, but not enough improvements

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 12 / 15
Date: February 14, 2002
Author: Amazon User

The release date of Myth III: When I came out of school I rushed to the local gamesshop. I had been waiting for this third part of my favorite game all time for so long...

I was glad to pay the $40 for the game... I would've payed the double amount too. I had always been a big fan of Bungie's first two parts of the game, which were my favorite games that time.

So I came home, and read the manual while installing the game. Not much new. I already knew Take2 and Mumbo Jumbo had taken care of this game instead of Bungie. It was too sad to see Bungie go down, taken over by Microsoft. When this happened, the Myth II community died. No more patches for SoulBlighter. (Myth II)
The Myth community has always been very strong. Patches, MODs, and A LOT of third party maps... that made the game so great and never boring.

The game was installed. I started up, and chose a 1024x768 resolution with all eyecandy turned on. It didn't run very badly, but not very smooth either. I switched to 800x600, still with all the extra options at max. On my Pentium III 500 with 128 mb of ram and a poor-performing GFX card: A TnT2 M64 (which was a really bad version of the TnT) that was not really unexpectable. The game is not for the low-end computers any more though. That's a pity. Also a bit weird, because actually, when I started playing, I did not really see a lot of differences with Myth II, which DID run on a much lower-end machine back in those days.

Anyway, I played whole day. I sure did like the game, but the gameplay didn't feel perfect... The units respond a bit late, and don't always do what you want. The controls haven't changed much, but that's good because they were perfect. Why change the winning formula, eh?

I am a spoiled gamer. I buy a lot of games. I am never satisfied with a game, and I think not much games of the last 5 years really have a good, addicting gameplay. I even quit playing Max Payne after an hour of 10 of playing... Never touched it again :)

I wasn't totally satisfied on this point with Myth III either, although it certainly isn't bad. After 2 weeks, I quit playing, but installed it again 2 weeks ago. Playing now, my opinion about the game is totally different.

In that first week, I tried online play, but not a lot of people online. This is not weird, because I bought the game at the release date, which might be a bit early so there just were no online players yet. :)

When I went online those 2 weeks ago, there were not much players either. The community of Myth III is still too small, but increasing slowly. Reasons why people didn't play online: GameSpy server is too laggy, they said. Nonsense. You host your own games, GameSpy is only for chat and NOT laggy at all. In game, I played games with 6 people with ping 50. It's just the person serving the game... not GameSpy.

Second point: Bugs, especially online.
Ok, they were there. The patch, which has recently come out fixes most of them though. The game really improved after the patch! So most people can now play bug-free.

Third point: No ranking system. True, but it's going to come! Yes people, it WILL be there soon... the ranked rooms are even up already but not yet in use...

Looking better, I must say the graphics DID increase a lot... Nice shadows, lotsa limbs, more polygons and details, more colors, bigger maps and more blood. Effects like wind and snow really show their results: snowy maps, waving trees, molotovs who are blown away by the wind, and slower moving units when it snows.

The gameplay is still not totally satisfying, but it feels more comfortable now. I got used to the game again (Myth II was long ago for me :)) and I like it now, and I can play quite a nice game right now online with my skills... The gameplay just needs getting used to, but after that it'll feel like you used it for your whole life.

About singleplayer. The campaign is great, with varied missions, a nice plot and nice "big bosses". (giant units which you have to fight) Some missions seem a bit rushed though.

Nice thing about Myth is, you really focus on strategy. Your unit count is always less than the enemy's, so you really need to use tactics to overcome them. Sneaking, surprise attacks, high-ground-placed bowmen, etc.

I can write a lot more about the game, but I'll stop after a list of pros/cons:

Pros:

* The graphics have improved a lot
* The campaign/plot is great
* Great 3rd party development because editor is included
* A lot of bugs were fixed with the patch
* A lot of online maps and units for much variation
* Game is really difficult, even on the easiest level
* Myth III is addictive, just like the other Myths
* All the units have their own taunt :)

Cons:

* Still some nasty bugs left, especially with Windows XP
* You need a higher-end system now if you want the graphics settings turned high.
* Campaign still has some rushed maps.
* The future of the game is unsure because Mumbo Jumbo is gone
* The game is addictive, but not as addictive as the old parts
* The game is not more than an improved version of Myth II (just like Myth II was an improved version of Myth I)

My advice: buy it, and play it. You'll love it! It's really not like some people who are just Myth haters say, the game is great. It's also really cheap on this site, only 25 bucks I believe? That's a shame... it should cost 50...

Now let's blow up some limbs!

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