Posted on: April 20, 2025
plateospaghetti
Verified ownerGames: 178 Reviews: 3
populous 2
a little complex, but a classic strategy game
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Populous™ 2: Trials of the Olympian Gods
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As the offspring of almighty Zeus, you demand a seat among the gods. But before ascending to the top of Mt. Olympus, you must first defeat some of the most powerful deities in the Greek pantheon. Such a task would be impossible for a puny mortal, but you wield the raw power of the universe in your hands, for you are destined to become a god! Learn to shatter the sky with lightning and shower the earth with fire. Summon heroes to aid your people, and plagues to destroy the enemy. Call forth tornadoes, hurricanes, tidal waves, and columns of flame.
The second installment of Bullfrog's Populous series follows the path set by its predecessor and remains one of the greatest god-games ever created. Populous 2: Trials of the Olympian Gods vastly improves the formula by adding new spells, better quality sound and graphics, and a character development system that allows you to customize your divine powers in any way you want. You really can’t go wrong with a game where you can kill gods, obliterate entire continents, and strike down upon the infidels with great vengeance and furious anger. Just as Peter Molyneux, those things simply never get old.
The second installment of Bullfrog's Populous series follows the path set by its predecessor and remains one of the greatest god-games ever created. Populous 2: Trials of the Olympian Gods vastly improves the formula by adding new spells, better quality sound and graphics, and a character development system that allows you to customize your divine powers in any way you want. You really can’t go wrong with a game where you can kill gods, obliterate entire continents, and strike down upon the infidels with great vengeance and furious anger. Just as Peter Molyneux, those things simply never get old.
- Greatly improved gameplay with many new spells, an enhanced interface, and a system for customizing your deity's awesome powers.
- 1000 maps on which to wage your epic battles against gods and many different mythical creatures.
- A great way to feed your desires to become omnipotent and maybe learn something about Greek mythology in the process.
© 1991, 2011 Electronic Arts Inc.
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ACCEPTANCE OF END USER LICENSE AGREEMENT REQUIRED TO PLAY
Please be advised that Windows 10 operating system will receive frequent hardware driver and software updates following its release; this may affect game compatibility
Recommended system requirements:
ACCEPTANCE OF END USER LICENSE AGREEMENT REQUIRED TO PLAY
Please be advised that Windows 10 operating system will receive frequent hardware driver and software updates following its release; this may affect game compatibility
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Posted on: November 19, 2011
Numbers.747
Verified ownerGames: 350 Reviews: 23
One of the best there is.
Populous one set groundwork for God-Games while the second part was ground breaking in terms of options. Large array of spells (Close to 25) and effects as well as an RPG aspect of building your own god was amazing. It was an upgrade to the first game in every regard. It features over 999 levels and a good selection of summonable Greek-Roman Gods. The game also came with a Data Disk - The Challenges which was more Asian themed, but it's up to GoG to up it up there. All GoG needs to do is release Powermonger - the cheery on top of God-Gaming ice cream.
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Posted on: December 26, 2022
evild4ve
Verified ownerGames: 183 Reviews: 21
Not really Multiplayer on modern PCs
This game has a win32 installer but runs in dosbox, which creates numerous issues for Wine. To get a 2-player game working over LAN, dosbox must be opened from a shortcut so that the correct config settings are loaded. This is probably just putting some flags after the .exe, but in Wine this becomes obscure. What I need from GOG is a dos installer (or just to unzip the game directory) and instructions for the config files. From the in-game UI for multiplayer it seems that the client and host must save each others' IP addresses into config files. It doesn't work out of the box, and it doesn't have any provided instructions - so I don't think it should be listed as Multiplayer.
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Posted on: November 23, 2018
akoskiss
Verified ownerGames: Reviews: 14
historic value only, unplayable
Too fast on my computer. Very clunky. Not fun at all. At least i tried it.
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Posted on: April 5, 2017
wheelmandan
Games: 21 Reviews: 4
Populous
I reamber how fun it was to make city leting groew and just be evil. takes me back to when i was young great game it up there with any "real RTS" by that i mean building thing keeping your people safe and putting the evil guy in too ash. ok maybe i was little evil with the game but sitll hell fun!
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