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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...

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!

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!

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.

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!

Fantasy Game of the Century!!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 2
Date: August 18, 2005
Author: Amazon User

Spellforce has been my most lasting computer game favorite for two long years. I am constantly playing it to learn better tactics, create stronger avatars, and just pure enjoyment! I have found this game to be a rare and lucky find! The graphics are beautiful, even when the graphics setting is set to medium! The music is fantastic, and is well composed to each island. The magic is deep, powerful, and the most fun to work with. I have yet to use every spell the game has, and I believe that I have not even discovered all of the magic possiblities. The warriors are beyond powerful and they just look awesome! I have found the gamplay to be many notches above my other games, creating a problem free atmosphere! Although the game lacks an editor, the possibilities are way beyond limitless! I can't wait to purchase the next two additions! [...] It will take you straight to the mainpage! This game is a MUST MUST MUST MUST HAVE for any game collection!

one of the best rts/rpg combos ever

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: October 09, 2005
Author: Amazon User

wow, what can I say. I got spellforce a year ago, played it for a short while, and it took a back seat to the newer games. after a year or so, i am again playing this with renewed vigour.

this is the first rts/rpg which goes into 3d view. wow! the coolest thing ever! i usually build bases in 2d view and fight the enemies in 3d view ( you can use tab to switch enemies). it feels like battles in lord of the rings.

the graphics is excellent, wonderful and 3d view is simply too cool. sure the voice acting and a few commands could have been a bit better, but this is forgiven.

this game was totally ahead of its time and it will run beautifully on current machines. i have finished 4 levels and still not experienced a single crash.

Highly recommended for rpg/rts/tolkein fans.

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.

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!

Two thumbs up!

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

A mix of Warcraft, Diablo, and Never Winter Nights.

Hard to believe they were able to put these types of games together, but they did just that and very succesfully. If you enjoyed playing such games then you will love Spellforce. It has the settlement building with troop summoning/upgrading and resourse requirment features as in WC, the Diablo type of hero leveling, abilities, portals, towns, merchants and items, as well as a very NWN story feel and interaction with choices in quests and subquests.

Very little negative can I say about the game, however the voices of characters met along the way sound like theyre reading their lines. Its such poor "voice-acting" that its difficult to get into the story.

Another thing I didnt like was when I went back to previous completed map areas via portal, I had to sit through the movie clips of the level all over again with no way to bypass.

Besides that its great and will keep you busy for days.

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