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boring and over rated

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 8 / 15
Date: February 07, 2003
Author: Amazon User

No strategy in this game at. Units have horrible pathing and NO sort of structure. No support units of any type means it is a rush to build the big bad quick and hope you simply outdamage your enemy. It also has it's own rush for resources which is lame. Coal stacks are never enough. Perhaps Battle Realms spoiled me with the living resource model... but these coal piles deplet way to fast which means you just have to expand and land grab quick every game (once again, no strategy). Awful game with a great idea. Could stand to use to a sequal if they actually put in some content rather than that tepid single player campaign (which is so insanely dumbed down to get a T rating). The online part of this game is really bad... the matching room is a massive step down from things like AoM and even Red Alert... It is also incredibly laggy and just a rush for resources.

The graphics are ok... but otherwise, I wouldn't buy this game ([bummer]! I already did). I hope this is not what we have to look forward too in Homeworld 2...

Just Another RTS

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 15 / 19
Date: January 09, 2003
Author: Amazon User

I'm an computer gaming addict. You name it, I've played it. That being said, I'll explain why I gave this game three stars.

1. Graphics are enjoyable.
2. Sounds get annoying.
3. Somewhat improved missions, but nothing spectacular (don't expect something parrellel to Warcraft III or Starcraft)
4. Heavy Counter system. For those of you who don't understand that, it means that like another person said, its "rock-papers-sissors" A beats B, B beats C, and C beats A kinda thing. This is the exact idea that made Starcraft so popular. So its nothing new, but a great concept to be included, and one of the concepts that made Warcraft III less of a block buster hit.
5. Lots of unit variations. This leaves for a variety of attacks and defense. Although they claim an absolutely absurd number of different unit combonations, this is only because you can mix two creatures together in different ways. There are 1275 unique unit combonations, which is still a lot. But there are only so many that are worth using.

Thats my thoughts on the game...

My Opinion Doesn't Count

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 6 / 9
Date: February 07, 2003
Author: Amazon User

The reason for this statement is as follows: It's impossibly hard. I did get quite far, but, I of course got stuck. After playing this single mission over and over and over again, I quit. Then, I went back to it, played it over and over and over again, for the second time. Guess what I did? I quit for good. I'm not bieng completley negative, though. There were some good sides, well, one good side. The game lets you get creative. I've always dreamed of dominating the world with a giant army of...MONKEYFISH!!! My master plan was finally put into action. Unfortunatley, it was crushed. My poor, poor, Monkeyfish died. All of them. Not one of them survived. And because I had 45 of them, I couldn't believe my army was defeated in a quick 10 seconds. If you like Monkeyfish as much as I do, then you might want to get this game. But, before you do ANYTHING, think about all of the other places that hefty 25 dollars could go. The Sims Online would be a superb alternative, but, that's just my opinion. That's all that this 13 has to say. I shall finish with one final quote: "Ummmmm...donuts" -Homer Simpson

Godspeed,
Noname

Ok at first but gets boring.

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: August 05, 2003
Author: Amazon User

When I first bought this game I was really addicted to it for a whole week then after that it just got boring.I liked the fact that you could mix animals together but there were some flaws that I could see.When playing a game there is a high demand to be fast about making your army.The random map mode is very hard I have not won once since I bought this game.(...)

Great game, poor support

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: February 08, 2008
Author: Amazon User

Well, the game is a lot of fun, hence the reason for the 5/5 on the fun, but the overall score has to be lower because the patches released by the game developer (Relic) for additional content simply don't work. Apart from the annoyance on the patches not installing, the main game is fairly stable, but you cannot enjoy the free "Insect Invasion" expansion back because of the patch update issues. This game is fun and has a lot of potential, but alas it is very much DEAD in the support department.

Nothing Is Impossible Here!!!

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 2 / 2
Date: January 03, 2007
Author: Amazon User

I first had the pleasure of playing this game via my roomate's laptop a few years ago. I have been enjoying it on my own ever since. He had bought it all on a whim to see if it was as good as the cover art made it seem.

The graphics are not too bad(all things considered). The game play resembles that of the Command and Conquer series...so if you are a fan of "A view from the top" then you should fit right in to this genre.

The is a great aspect to the possibilities of creation. "Playing god" if you will. Even though you are given a decent amount of base animals, you will find your possibilities of creation will be so profound, that you might not know where to begin.

A great game and a great time killer...and for the price, not a bad bargain at all.

The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly...

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 7 / 8
Date: August 15, 2003
Author: Amazon User

Im gonna put this like my title:

The Good:
You design your own army. You can make units to fit your personal playing style. This is the only reason I bought the game and the only reason its fun.
A long engrossing campaign allows you to stay playing single player for quite some time.
A lot of strategy invloved.(If your stupid than this is a bad thing)
Exceptional graphics. (3D)

The Bad:
CHEAT CODES! I hate em! (For real time strategy(rts) newbies this may be a good thing)
Poor pathfinding.(but every rts game has this problem)
The campaign is a little stupid and not for anyone over the age of 10
Not enough people online makes finding multiplayer games difficult.

The Just Plain Ugly:
Resources run out 2 minutes into the game. this makes alot of the campaign missions veerrry hard. this is a good thing for the rush minded player but [is bad] for anyone else.
If you cant design good creatures youll have a hard time with the game as some combinations are obviously better than others.
The fact that its a memory hog makes it not worth your hard drive space.

All in all this is a decent game and the question I know your pondering "Should I buy it?" Only if you want to fork over cash and hard drive space to get it. If your over 13 may I suggest Empire Earth or Age of Mythology instead. Warning: both are memory hogs

GOOD GAME

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 6 / 9
Date: January 14, 2003
Author: Amazon User

Well to start off this game isnt the best game I have ever played in my life, but it is a really good game. One of the bad things about it is that it seems to me like it is just too much like starcraft. Instead of Vespene Gas and Minerals you have to mine Coal and Electricity. Instead of Drones, Probes, or Scv's, you use henchmen. But I must say that I did like the story and I like the way you can change what creatures can look like and there powers. So all in all I think that this is game that is well worth spending you money for and that you will have countless hours on this game having fun.

Stellar idea, somewhat flawed execution

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 3 / 3
Date: September 24, 2003
Author: Amazon User

Strategy games, both real-time and turn-based, are my preferred genre of computer games. Sadly, there hasn't been much innovation in them since Starcraft added asymmetrical armies (i.e. each unit does not have a direct corresponding unit for another race). This game changes all of that. By allowing you to create your own units, a much greater range of flexibility is introduced (as one other reviewer pointed out, this is flexibility is not as great as the publisher claims, since a large percentage of the combinations would be fairly useless). Because the units are created from existing animals, the process of figuring out what you want to make is also pretty intuitive (e.g. poison frogs poison things, gorillas are big and have powerful arms, and so on).

Some reviewers complain about the relatively high cost of units and buildings relative to the availability of resources. This is true, but I see it as a positive thing. "Turtling" is not a valid strategy in this game. The single most important element at the macro level is expanding your resource gathering and preventing your opponent from doing the same. It also has a vital impact at the micro level as it now becomes very important to try and keep your critters alive and bandage them up after battles.

The graphics are all very good, although if you don't have a fairly new video card (something that was mainstream within the last 12-18 months), you'll find yourself having to drop the resolution or detail level to get acceptable framerates.

The game lacks some of the niceties that Warcraft III introduced to the genre - no hotkey to select idle workers for instance, and no choice of formation based movement vs. everybody-run-in-a-straight-line movement. The path finding at times is abyssmal.

The missions in the campaign are all real missions that will take at least half an hour, with many requiring more than an hour. This is much better than some of the missions in Warcraft III that can be completed in under ten minutes if you work hard and fast.

The cutscenes in the campaign are pretty much par for the course, but at least the developers seemed to realise that, so they are handled with a bit of self-deprecating humour.

Had it been an option, I probably would have given 3.5 stars. It isn't the greatest game ever, but you should get plenty of hours of enjoyment out of it without having to fork over the cash that some of the new releases require.

Impossible Creatures

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 3 / 3
Date: March 27, 2004
Author: Amazon User

This is an extremely easy, but fun game. Even though it is pretty easy, you can play the same mission over and over again. I beat the game on the hardest level about twenty times and didn't get bored. You can combine two animals together for a invinvible mutant army. It is much like Warcraft 3 or Armymen R.T.S. I highly recomend it for young and old players.

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