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spellforce is about 2 rock

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 4 / 4
Date: November 26, 2003
Author: Amazon User

Spellforce is a mix of an roleplaying game and a realtime strategy game. so it is comparable with warcraft 3 but here the mix is more advanced.

it features a detailed world, 6 different races, a new click'n'fight system, awesome graphics and multiplayer modes.

the was honored to be the "best game" on the games convention in leipzig, germany.

check the homepage...i own spellforce since some weeks and i can say its great!
initially i got some bugs which are fixed or will be fixed in short time. my rating:
check out that ur computer and graphicscard are not low-end, because otherwise u wont see the great graphics.
after that:

BUY THE GAME!! tons of great entertainment awaits you.

Truely a force to be reckoned with for fans of RTS and RPG's

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 5 / 7
Date: December 01, 2003
Author: Amazon User

If you enjoy RTS games and are looking for something with some depth- or if you are an RPG fan who digs strategy- or even if you're just a fan of GOOD games, you will have a blast with SpellForce. Every aspect of the game feels well polished and finely tuned, and the design and balance work is evident. Do yourself a favor and pick this one up; Just in time for the holiday wish list, too!

Best game in 2003!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 15
Date: December 02, 2003
Author: Amazon User

Great graphics, great gameplay, can`t stop playing, I love it!

Best Roleplay game 2003

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 13 / 16
Date: December 05, 2003
Author: Amazon User

Love it. It is like reading and playing a fantasy book.
You can move into the play in a first person view and feel like in Dungeon Siege or Gothic 2.
You have a story like Baldurs Gate or Icewind Dale with a lot of carefully created characters. Not the crap like in DS.
You have Realtime Strategy like in W3 and AoM with hundreds of units battleing.
It is epic. You have a huge world consisting of lots of islands connected by portals. Even after finishing one island you can/sometimes must return to old islands and you may find out that the situation has changed.
Playing it for 1 week now and it feels better than all I have had in my hands the last 3 years...

what a game...

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 5 / 8
Date: January 08, 2004
Author: Amazon User

Perfect blend between strategy and role-playing. Visuals are simply stunning and the storyline is so immersive, that it will make you forget to eat, drink, sleep and anything else for 24/7, one week straight. That is, unless you don't start over again once you're through... Go, get it!

A Wonderful Hybrid of Strategy and Roleplaying!

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 11 / 13
Date: March 05, 2004
Author: Amazon User

As a fan of both Real Time Strategy (RTS) and Role Playing Games (RPG's), I was immediately drawn to the concept of Spellforce: The Order of Dawn. I've not been disappointed. The RTS side of the game is challenging, but not frustrating. As for the RPG aspect, it's very engaging. It's not quite as in-depth as an actual RPG - the story is linear, quests have generally one solution - it's still very fulfilling.

The graphics in this game are phenomenal. Something fresh that the developer, Phenomic, did was add the ability to go into 3D, first-person view. Most of the time you want to keep the game zoomed out into the standard RTS isometric view, but sometimes it's awesome to just look at the buildings or units up close.

The music in the game is fantastic. It's very appropriate for the genre, and it moves from beautiful to haunting to menacing and back again. All dialog is voiced and has sub-titles, which is nice. Most of the voice acting is decent, some of it's great, but every so often, about 15% of the time, you get some that's just ludicrous. Thankfully, those characters are generally the ones you only have to talk to once or twice *whew*

As for value - I've been playing the game for about a week straight, probably about 40 hours so far, and I'm only about 1/3 of the way through. I can also see replaying the game in about 3-6 months to try different types of avatars.

In conclusion, this is a wonderful game. It's fun, it's gorgeous, and it's innovative. Give this game a try (there's a demo available) but if you like RTS and RPG's, you'll love it!

A good RPG though a bad strategic game

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 16 / 19
Date: March 19, 2004
Author: Amazon User

I'm a huge fan of both RPG and strategy games. When I saw that there was a game that combined the two I was excited. This game really is decent. It even had potential to be even better though.

As an RPG it is fairly straight forward. You can choose certain paths, but there aren't any consequences, other than missing out on side quests, for either not talking to or choosing different options in conversations. Fairly idiot proof as the main quest goes. Go and talk to this person and then that person and you're done.

As a strategy however it is lacking. You can command your units to go here and there and even attack along the way. Other than that there are no further unit commands. Your healers and mages will rush into battle as though they're swordsman. Your archers actually hang back and for the most part just pick people off until they're physically attacked. The only unit command that you have is 'Hold'. This works great for your healers and mages until the stream of enemies keeps drawing your fighting units deeper into their territory taking them from the healing range of your healers.

To make this game truly awesome they really need to incorporate some kind of unit behavior options so that you don't have to constantly tell your healers and mages to back off from physical combat. I'd also like to see some variation in the RPG path that you can go down rather than just side quests.

All in all the game IS worth playing though I'd wait for the price to come down to ~$30.

Great RPG, good RTS, quality control stinks

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 22 / 24
Date: March 20, 2004
Author: Amazon User

Spellforce is probably the best RTS/RPG combo ever, essentially combing Warcraft II (build a big base) with Heroes of Might and Magic (get a hero to go kill something). I'd give it 4 1/2 stars if I could, knocking the 1/2 off for fairly bad quality control, no real explanation of game mechanics, and a slightly annoying UI.

Basically, you play an avatar going out to save the world. The character development is actually quite neat - you aren't limited to classes like wizard or fighter; rather, you get to pick up skill classes like heavy weapons or death magic. This allows some really interesting combos that vary the difficulty level dramatically - playing an archer/white mage specialist is not something I'd like to try.

Like Warcraft, you go through about 20 or so maps in the single character version. To solve them, you're allowed to summon either units or heroes, with the heroes being classed into 6 skill sets (warrior, archer, etc). The mainquest is relatively straightforward, although it seems to me trying to solve the game without doing the subquests is near impossible. Still, one of the most compelling games I've been locked into for a while.

I have 3 nitpicks. First, the quality control on this is atrocious - having a couple of subquests in German (the developers are in Germany) would be amusing, except that it took months upon months to get version 1.10 to even get several quests working. Yet, they still haven't fixed that. Second, even looking at the 'official guide' you still don't get much in the way of game mechanics, which is really disappointing given the uniqueness of the engine. Comparing heavy to light weapons damage, for instance, is impossible. Finally, its very difficult to control units at times; I found myself simply seperating heroes individually to even get close to reasonable combat (e.g. your mage doesn't go in to punch the bad guy, which the AI seems to like to do rather than zapping him.)

Still, great game despite the teeth grinding. Looking forward to the expansion pack, which has already been announced.

Empire building meets RPG

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 2 / 3
Date: April 20, 2004
Author: Amazon User

I bought this game recenty and I have to say, I'm addicted. True that the battle system leaves a little to be desired butI personally throroughly enjoy building little hamlets for troops, and wandering around finding lost chests, creatures carrying items and generally enjoying the rpg story line, the main plot is straightforward and engaging, the sidequests are fun and intriguing. over all it's got marvelous graphics, decent voice overs, you have to give kudo's to any game that gives sound to every single sentence the character's speak, excellent character customability, and hours worth of good old fashion goblin bashing. my only gripes with the game is your character is human, no choosing race there, and you have to build towns to get troops. don't get me wrong, i love empire building games, i'm just not used to doing it and an rpg at the same time.it's just..odd. but over all i love the game and forsee many many more hours of fun game play.

Warning!

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 3 / 6
Date: June 07, 2004
Author: Amazon User

Warning, I bought this and although my system seemingly meets the minimum requirements on the box it wouldn't run on my computer. What they don't tell you is that it requires a nvidia card in order to work properly, or at least not a ATI card like I have. Their website offers no help except the discussion boards suggest they may issue a patch to fix this at the end of the year or the begining of next year! That's just TOO long to wait. Why didn't it say this on the box? If it had I wouldn't of bothered obviously. Add to this that it locked up my computer and even their latest patch didn't fix the compatability problem... So unless you have an nvidia card don't waste your money!

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