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Throw away Diablo II... Sacrifice is in town

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 25 / 28
Date: November 08, 2000
Author: Amazon User

I am a member of the press, and when I got my copy of Sacrifice for review, I have been playing it non-stop. It's been hard to take time to write the review!

The game has: (1) The most amazing engine I have seen on the PC. (I think Intel wrote some of it) (2) The most amazing graphics I have seen. (I have an Nvidia card) (3) It's a full scale Epic RPG action strategy game (My favorite genre) (4) It has fantastic net-code... I have been playing other editors on Gamespy and the gameplay has been flawless (5) There is a level editor... It looks cool, but I have not had time to try it out yet

Yes I am gushing, but only because I have been hoping the RPG game developers would finally make the break from 2D to 3D... So until Warcraft III comes out next year, Sacrifice is my No #1 pick for Christmas.

- Mike Lois

The Reason Of My Insomnia

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 19 / 21
Date: December 20, 2000
Author: Amazon User

I want to say that this movie is wonderful.Its graphics are so perfect.The 3D world is well designed also the charcters are so unique.Besides The sound fx are so good absolutly the graph and sfx in the magic scences are so outstanding.Also the story is well writen . The games atmosphere is on maximum , Sacrifice takes you inside itself.At last I want to thank InterPlay to serve us a game like this and reccomend everybody to have this Jaw Dropper Game.

Sacrifice - Who needs to sleep anyway?

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 16 / 25
Date: November 19, 2000
Author: Amazon User

This game has it all - visually stunning graphics, simple, well thought out interface, a sense of humour, and great game play. I picked this game up two days ago and have been playing ever since. If you are familiar with RTS, and in particular 3D RTS games like Battlezone, then you will feel right at home. The units are generated through summoning spells which are provided to you through a God that you are serving. Each of the Gods provide some form of melee and ranged, air and ground units to summon. Summoning units and casting any other spells in your repetoire requires mana. Mana structures need to be found, generated and gaurded so that a ready supply is available for casting - slow down on mana recovery and you will quickly find yourself without any units to do your bidding. Units are controlled much like other RTS games. Group your units, assign them a group number, command them to gaurd, attack, etc., and hold onto your err... hat. Enemy wizards attack fast so there is no time to slowly build up your forces. One final thing - did I mention that this game has the most awe inspiring graphics imaginable?

A stellar game by any measure!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 17 / 18
Date: June 18, 2001
Author: Amazon User

Remember all those things recent games were supposed to offer? Gorgeous, detailed graphics, getting to play god, intersting creatures and minions. Well, while many others ended up with a few failings, Sacrifice truly shines in all of these areas, plus more.

The graphics are amazing. It offers a true, HUGE 3-D world that you roam around, under and through. You get to choose from one of 5 different gods, from the Earthy James to the fire-inspired Pyro and others. The gods are not content with each other, and their back-and-forth is half of the fun. Each has different spells, creatures, techniques, aims, and attitudes.

With all of the things to keep track of, you might think you'd be overwhelmed. However, the tutorials are fantastic and easy to work through. There are so many different ways you can approach it - as a true-to-one-god roleplaying, as a strategic mission, as a hack-and-slash adventure. The game supports you no matter which way you go, and the graphics and music surround you in lush beauty.

A must-have for any gamer looking for a worthy time-sink! This is one game I *love* writing the walkthroughs for!

Shiny Does it Again, Brilliant!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 13 / 14
Date: November 27, 2000
Author: Amazon User

Gorgeous, Great Voice acting, well developed character, Awesome music.... Shiny has just developed an instant classic.

You play a wizard who fled his homeland by travelling across the 'Astral Void' to a beautiful but mysterious realm which is the home of 5 gods:

Persephone: goddess of Life. James: god of Earth. Stratos: god of the Air. Pyro: god of Fire. Charnel: god of strife and death.

Finally a game that has a non-linear single player campaign. During the course of the game, you can listen to each god explain their predicament and offer assistance, in turn they grant you special creatures and/or spells to assist you in meeting the objective. The campaign also offers moral choices during regular play that can have a significant impact on the story! You may want to set up a library of save positions. The story is remarkably intertwined if you make more characters and play the other gods, you get to be part of the developments that the other gods spoke about in passing.

The graphics are as dazzling as Shiny's MDK. You feel that you are a part of the experience and not just punching build icons as in other RTS games.

Shiny went to the market and recruited some great voice acting as well as hiring a professional music studio to score the game. Each realm has it's own distincitive music. Beware though, the musical themes are quite catchy and you might catch yourself humming them.

Another boon is that this RTS game bypasses the base building / researching / upgrading / tech tree icon smacking building slapping that dominates most of your time in the classic RTS arena. The action moves fast, very fast. Games can finish in mere minutes if your opponent(s) catch you off guard!

This game is not without drawbacks [mostly because it's just plain tough!]. This is a borderline twitch game. You need to be able to work the controls fast and have a lightning wit in order to survive the most heated of battles. I strongly suggest selecting missions from only one god during the campaign so you can learn how that god's creatures and spells work. The same tactics you employ with one god may fail miserably if you chose to employ yourself with another god!

If you frustrate easily when you lose, you might want to purchse this game with caution (or watch your superstar gaming friends get vanquished first). If you love a challenging, rich, immersive RTS gaming experience then this is the right game for you.

Worthy of a "Wizard Without a Home's" Time

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 7 / 7
Date: December 21, 2003
Author: Amazon User

I've never played a game so original as Sacrifice. It cannot blow any other games away simply because it is in its own category. We'll call it a Real Time Third Person. In the game, you are Eldred, a wizard lord that has wondered about the planes looking for a world to inhabit (since he unintentionally destroyed his last one). With him is his imp familiar and guide, Zyzyx. He comes upon this world with five bickering gods, each with completly different takes on the world. You, as the player, chose to follow one, or occasionally serve the interests of a couple, of them. You march into war with the 3rd person perspective, spells, and souls. Souls are used to summon troops and spells can do just about anything else. The gameplay of this game is virtually flawless. It gets increasingly hard as you progress, but nothing becomes unbeatable. Patience is important in this game of games though, it takes time and strategy to get places. Beyond the gameplay is the intigueing story, twisted and delightful characters, and passable graphics even now (this was a 2000 release). A great game to get, especially for the price it has dropped to. If you are a gamer, play it for fun, if you are an artist, study the characters and be inspired, if you are a writer, listen to the story and be intrigued. I did all three.

Superb RTS,even for those who don't know what RTS stands for

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 6 / 8
Date: December 31, 2000
Author: Amazon User

Real Time Strategy (RTS) games do not often appeal to the action genre we have today with games like Quake III and Unreal Tournament. Sacrifice, however is an excellent blend of action and strategy that can easily appeal to these audiences. This game is similar to Warcraft for action, going to battles only after you know you have outnumbered and outpowered the enemy, but without the resource management required such as gold or supplies. This game's main points focus on organizing your units and attacking at the right place and time, while protecting your territory.

Here's the basic story to Sacrifice: You are a wizard that tries to please 5 gods by doing tasks for them, only to realize that the gods constantly argue and you are eventually forced to choose one god or god alliences. The storyline is excellent as it is non-linear and new events unfold with every mission. Each of the 5 gods have 9 missions but it is only possible play all 45 missions by playing the game again and taking different paths with the gods, offering excellent replay value for this game. The worlds are gorgeous, having varied terrains with hills from lush green areas to barren wastelands. The level editor provides real-time level editing that shows you exactly what the level looks like while you're designing it.

The only problem with this game is the camera angles. Sacrifice has a third-person perspective and at times you need to cast spells on your wizard, but your army always seems to be in the way and selecting the wizard is rather difficult at times. The camere angle is adjustable, but it takes some getting used to.

In conclusion, Sacrifice is a unique game offering good amounts of both action and simulation. The game provides great playibility, excellent graphics, good sound, and most of all it is great fun, even for those like me who get bored easily by strategy games.

Its a bit of everything

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 5 / 13
Date: November 05, 2000
Author: Amazon User

This game borrows characteristics from several gaming genres and combines it into a single game. It borrows the action and quick reflexes needed from a FPS game. It takes its resource managmement and creature control from RTS games, and it uses the 3D person perspective as seen in the Tomb Raider series.

This game will appeal to any gamer that likes any of those game types. The graphics are outstanding and so is the gameplay. You can play this thing on the net with little to NO lag! Its fantastic

Complicated, but highly engaging

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 5 / 5
Date: November 30, 2000
Author: Amazon User

Be warned, this game is not easy. Sacrifice is an immensely complicated RTS that is also incredibly rewarding. Expect to spend several hours getting a handle on the user interface (you will not succeed until you bind your own hotkeys.) Once you so come to grips with the UI, you will realize that this game is not about total strategic control, rather it is about managing the flow of the natural action. You must think and act quickly, not methodically.

Once you get past the rather steep learning curve, this game has a very large payload to offer. The single player campaign is exceptionally well done; you are allowed to ally with different gads as the game progresses. The choices you make affect both plot development and the magical development of your wizard. The re is a subtle alignment system that allows you to get comfortable with several gods before choosing a power to focus on (I reccommend staying with 1 or 2 gods for the first time through.) Replay value is also very high due to this system, each time you play, you can tell a different story.

Sacrifice is perhaps one of the most visually stunning pc games to come out this year, but comes at the cost of high-end requirements. This game is not designed for a run-of-the-mill PC. Much of the magic of this game is in the small details. Every creature has a wide array of personality traits, and there are really no two similar units anywhere in the game. This means playing well means knowing the creatures you ar e fighting.

Overall this game offers a visual feast, and delightfull complexity, but it is tailored towards a pretty hard-core gamer. Improvements could be made to both the unit selection models, and unit spacing to avoid battlefield clutter, but these are minor flaws. If you are (hotkeys) willing to (hotkeys) set up and learn a system (hotkeys) that works for you (hotkeys,) then this game may indeed be (hot) one of the best titles (keys) availible this holiday season.

p.s. You should really set your own hotkeys.

Easy to learn, lots of fun, MAGNIFICENT EYE CANDY!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 5 / 5
Date: May 09, 2001
Author: Amazon User

This is a great game for us 40+ gamers: easy to learn, tremendous fun, spectacular graphics. The people having technical trouble probably do not have a sufficiently powerful machine-you need 500MHz and a good graphics card. But that's standard on most midrange machines now! (Hint: NVidia GeForce is the only graphics chip worth buying these days).

I've only put in 6-8 hours, and I'm at the seventh mission out of nine-but that's just one mission path. I'll start again with one of the other four gods to get their spells.

This game will suck up all my free cycles for 2-3 months. That's about all you can ask for.

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