Simply one of the best RTS games ever made
User Rating: 9.9 | Populous: The Beginning (Classic) PC
Its hard to get started about populous without mentioning the graphics. So I'll start with the graphics. Except for the people themselves, the graphics are comparable to graphics even in this day and age. To this day I've never seen a game that allwos full control of the land. and the land is another matter. even the textures themselves are in layers. you can find a streak in the ground and follow i ta long ways. Tiles are just pressed together, they flow perfectly from one tile to the next. For all elevations. Battles are very good aswell. What they do corresponds to what happens. If you attack someone that is running by water, usually your guy will just shove them in the water. The automation in the game really helps too. You can focus on the attack rather than making sure you have enough untis available for defense. You don't have to search the world looking for peoplel to build your structures. If there is a brave standing around, he will come build it. Self-motivated followers, go figure. Put a warrior in a guard tower and he rings a bell that brings all followers in range to help fight. Preachers automatically beat the crud out of other preachers. firewarriors automatically pick priority targets (shamens, other firewarriors, preachers). This is simply a great game. fun in both single and multiplayer.
