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Goblin Commander

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 4 / 5
Date: November 18, 2004
Author: Amazon User

This PS2 game is one of the best RTS games I have ever played! The graphics, sound, and gameplay in 'Goblin Commander' are awsome! This game is very addictive and fun because you go around killing other enemy goblins and destroy enemy territory cammanding an army of your very own goblins and titans. I highly recommend that you buy 'Goblin Commander' for the PS2! Another game which I highly recommend you buy for the PS2 is 'Giants: Citizen Kabuto'. It is also a great game and, in my opinion, it is a little better than Goblin Commander.

Rating ('Goblin Commander'): 5/5

RE: WHAT THE HECK

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 3 / 15
Date: December 25, 2003
Author: Amazon User

RTS stands for Real Time Strategy. If you are still confused, try thinking of a chess game that does not require taking turns. Examples of great RTS games are Starcraft, Warcraft, Command & Conquer, and Age of Mythology.

WHAT THE HECK?

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 24
Date: December 10, 2003
Author: Amazon User

What in the world is RTS???? I don't know what the reviews mean if I don't know what that is.

Unleash the carnage!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 16 / 16
Date: October 30, 2004
Author: Amazon User

This game offers up some pretty decent RTS mayhem. It's not quite as massive as it could be. I've seen better. Still, Goblin Commander is a charming little game in its own right.

The story is the weakest link in the chain here. It's not a great story by any means. In fact, it's just enough of a story to give us a reason for the battles. The setting is high fantasy, and five clans of goblins work for a human wizard, building a "great machine" for him. There are the down-to-earth Stonekrushers, who work in a quarry. The Hellfire clan plays around with gun powder and explosives when they're not busy cutting down trees for lumber. The Stormbringer clan builds machines that harness the power of lightning and the winds. The ugly Plaguespitters inhabit a swamp, where they harvest noxious herbs and poisons. And the mysterious Nighthorde clan has powerful magic at their command.

Things were going fine and life was good for clan chief Grommel and his Stonekrusher goblins until they found their master Fraziel (the wizard) murdered under mysterious circumstances. The other clan chiefs believe that Grommel murdered their master. So Grommel and his followers have to set out on a quest to confront the other clans and discover the truth.

The Stonekrushers confront one goblin clan at a time as they work their way through a five-chapter campaign with fourteen missions. After Grommel conquers a clan and dispatches the clan's leader, he becomes that clan's new leader, and the newly absorbed clan becomes playable. You can play up to three clans at a time, each with up to ten combatants on the field at a time. In addition, you can have up to three turrets on the field to help defend your home base, and one titan (a larger beast who serves the goblins). Each clan has a different type of turret and a different titan. A large stone ogre, a warpig catapult, lightning elemental, slime, or spiked ball.

Each clan has five units. Four combatants and a support unit who provides healing, defense, or some such benefit. Basically, there are two archetypes of fighters. Melee combatants and ranged attackers. Each unit has his own stats. Fighting power, armor, speed, range, and so on. In addition, you can get three types of upgrades that improve the clan's units. Each clan has different upgrades.

Structures include a Clanshrine for each clan and a Hall Of Titans. At the Clanshrine, you purchase goblins and upgrades. You get turrets and titans at the Hall Of Titans. That's pretty much the depth of this game. Not a whole lot going on.

The controls are easy to master, and the first two missions are guided tutorials. In-game help is available on everything. Even someone who hasn't played an RTS (real time strategy) game before will be smashing boulders, collecting resources, and skirmishing with enemies in no time. Controlling your clans is as easy as setting waypoints on the map for them to move to. You can also enter "direct control" mode, where you move one goblin around and the rest of his clan follows him. The camera starts out in an overhead view, but you can customize it to your liking. While in direct control, you can rotate it to get a better view or zoom in to get a good look at your war party. You can even position the camera behind your goblins to give a good panorama of the dangers they're walking into.

Most of the scenarios involve a "seek 'n' destroy" objective, but there's some variety to it. Your goblins have to find inventive ways around obstacles and sometimes find a way to turn the weapon of the enemy against them.

The visuals are appealing. Vividly rendered and textured landscapes. Great-looking scenery. Forest, ruins of an ancient city, snowy mountain, swampland, and quarry. All look great. The goblins themselves are small until you zoom in on them. There's quite a variety of goblins here, and they're all colorful and well animated. Scenes with dialogue show a picture of the speaking goblin in a corner while he talks in his goblin language with subtitles (a nice touch). The goblin language is cute and adds flavor to the game.

Sound effects are all great. Hacking 'n' slashing, arrows being fired, gunshots... The sounds of intense battle and panicked outcries of dying goblins. Some of the Nighthorde goblins have annoying, high-pitched effects when they attack, though. Background music does a great job of setting the mood for each situation the goblins find themselves in.

The game's difficulty is also expertly engineered. It starts out ridiculously easy and steadily works its way toward hard. This progression is as it should be, offering an easy entrance to the campaign while you're getting used to the controls and such. By the time you've got it mastered, the challenges begin. Each new scenario gets a little tougher, culminating with a pretty difficult end-game scenario.

My biggest complaint with this game is that there's only one thing a single player can do with it. The campaign. There's no one-player Skirmish mode. It's for two players. After you've completed the campaign, the most you can do with this on your own is... play the campaign again.

All said and done, I had a great time with this game. The limit of ten goblins per clan is kind of... limiting. There are RTS games on the PC that offer more massive carnage. But as small in scope as Goblin Commander is, it was fun and addictive. I'd say its strengths outweigh its weaknesses.

This game ROCKS!!!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 7 / 11
Date: December 05, 2003
Author: Amazon User

This game is awesome!!!!! It is a lot of fun for people that like GREAT games, let alone RTS games. There hasn't been anything like this before that I've played, cuz all the other RTS games on the PS2 have been weakass. This is the game you want to be playing, want to be asking your mother for, or using your gift certificates on....then you can play it lots, get good at it, then come over to my house and I will skool you in multiplayer.

Hah ha, take it!

The best RTS for a console 100% sure of it.

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 3
Date: February 28, 2004
Author: Amazon User

There are quite a few of rts games that were on computer and got put over onto a console like dune 2000 which was ok but it got boaring really fast, command and conquer which was almost the same as dune 2000 then came along starcraft which was the best rts game for consoles for a long long time well thats what I thought until now Goblin Commander came out this game is alot better then all of em put together there are 28 levels, (I think) 5 diffrent clans, multiplayer mode so if you`ve got some friends call em over and have some multiplayer action but the biggest put down is that there is no Skirmish for 1 player :( but don`t worry after you beat the game just play some levels over with cheats and stuff it`s great fun for the low price I would recommend you getting this.

Goblin commander

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 1
Date: November 25, 2003
Author: Amazon User

THIS IS A SUPER GAME.
EVEN BETTER THAN THE WARCRAFT GAMES.
YOU CAN CONTROL YOUR OWN UNITS, IT LIKES A 1st PERSONSHOOTER.
THIS GAME IS DRIVING ME MAD!
EVERY TIME WHEN I AM ON SCHOOL I AM DREAMING OF IT TO PLAY IT WHEN I AM BACK HOME.

This game isn't expensive because this could be the GAME OF THE
YEAR.

I am so glad I traded in my old games...

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 7 / 11
Date: February 19, 2004
Author: Amazon User

Oh...my...god...THIS IS THE BEST RTS GAME TO EVER BE RELEASED!!!!!!! I at first looked at this game and thought that it would just be one of those games that had no effort put into it. Well, this teaches one thing: "Never judge a book(or video game) by it's cover". Though the graphics aren't the best that I have ever seen, they are great. The missions get longer and longer, making a great challenge that will have gamers up all night staring at their t.v. Now then, to bring out this game's full potential, make sure you have someone to beat in multiplayer. I was dissapionted that this game had no computer a.i. to play in multiplayer. One more dissapiontment is that there is no online feature for this game(though I am unable to use online). Even so, rush out to your local game store and purchase Goblin Commander: Unleash The Horde. You won't be dissapointed.(Also check out Starcraft for the PC.)

Hands Down the Best RTS ever made on Console!! Believe it!!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 5 / 5
Date: December 05, 2003
Author: Amazon User

Any one that has ever played an RTS title on a console know they SUCK!! They Just do. This is the first RTS title that really works and its a Blast. Direct control over clans and Titans is just Freakn Cool and takes you all the way into the world unlike any RTS title has ever done.

Has all the high action of a Console game with cool strategy elements. Highly recomended!! Five Stars!!

a good RTS

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 4 / 7
Date: February 03, 2004
Author: Amazon User

first RTS I've seen with split screen multiplayer action and easily the best on any console

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