Populous™

For finally putting this CLASSIC up w/ it's sequel Pop 2.. This was an impossible to find title.. I lost the Floppy disk a decade ago, thought I would never get to play it again.. When i can i will totally buy this 2 games.. Just got a kindle fire and had a few credit cards paid off.. GOG.com really is the best source for games that I really love.. This game was difficult to play, but was so cool to see little people walk around, given the limited technology they had on computers back then.. I think this one was originally on a 486 intel.. thats 486 Mhz... Dirt slow by today's standards but those were good pc's even with 16 MB's ram..

Populous truly stroke me at first for its graphics that stands true to the test of time and its gameplay.. well, I had some difficulty since I started playing without reading a manual. Still, once I figured out the controls ( and all the hieroglifs), the game ''opens up'', revealing a simple but delicious core. Said core, its gameplay's mechanics, allows the player, as you can imagine, to perform godly action like raising and lowering terrains, setting up swamps or flooding the entire. Speaking of which, raising and lowering terrain are basically the main action to perform in order to aid your faithful flock to build better buildings and achieving higher peaks of technology ( and to kill all of the other guy... historically fitting ;) ). One positive thing to note is that the game doesn't allow you to take direct control of your faithful ( good ol' freewill) but technically it does allow to issue some orders for your religious leader to perform ( like commanding him to go on a holy crusade :) ). And that's its strong point, the commands are relatively few but every single one of them is relevant for the gameplay as a whole. So, a game which focuses on strategy utilizing just few commands while giving the full ''BRUCE ALMIGHTY'' ( just with less monkeys... if you know what I mean) experience? Sign me up! Deus Vult

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When I first saw demos of this game.. I didn't know what to think, ( is this even a game? what the heck is going on?). Based on the rave reviews I bought it for my Amiga. What a Game Changer! This was absolutely Unique. You are fighting against a rival god by taking care of your people and screwing over the other god's people. This game is part of Gaming History. It created a whole new category of Computer Games. A Must Buy.

to Brett41, you can get Powermonger for dosbox on Abandonia, but without all the sounds, is it a cannon or catapult, sword or pike, lol. Pop was great but I agree, Powermonger was for me the BEST game around at the time.