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Posted on: March 2, 2012
Cthulhu0429
Verified ownerGames: 526 Reviews: 2
The true definition of a GOD game
They don't get much better than this classic. This is the reason I joined GOG. The fast paced build and destroy strategy that made populous such a gem, combined with and RPG element that allows you to gain skills as a God and become more powerful. Ah, my good old Amiga days.
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Posted on: December 3, 2011
sharpy69uk
Verified ownerGames: 40 Reviews: 1
Cant get it to work
was really looking forward to playing this but cant. i start it and everything seems ok, the intro video plays etc, but the mouse wont work and if i press any key on the keyboard it just crashes DOSBOX. Gutted :(
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Posted on: December 6, 2011
nitrogenfingers
Games: 330 Reviews: 48
A wonderfully unique power trip
I must have been seven or eight when I got my hands on Populous II, something my parents really need to be held to account for. With the graphic violence and religious intolerance the game seems to preach, only the period game Syndicate could be any more damaging for a young adolescent (which I received at age nine). The story is clever but barely acknowledged in-game- suffice to say you have a group of villagers you can control and your task is to increase their population and use them along with your own godly powers to destroy every person on the map who doesn't believe what you do. How did this game make it past the censors unscathed? Half the game is spent ensuring the countryside is suitable for your villagers to inhabit- this means flattening and raising large tracts of land so they can build increasingly large structures like temples and castles, which in turn generate more population. This often feels more like busy work than anything else but varied landscape and limitations on your powers do enough to keep it engaging for most of the game. As your population grows so does your capacity to cast godly powers, and here things get interesting. You'll start with an uncontrollable column of fire that chars buildings, damages land and cinders villagers with a hilarious animation. Later you'll have the capacity to cast lightning storms, earthquakes, swamps, baptismal fonts, volcanoes and fire rain. Your followers don't just stand idly by too- soon conflicts will break out as they wrestle for territory at the borders. Why not create a leader to start the campaign against your enemy, using the papal magnets? Better yet convert him into a mythical hero like Perseus and Odysseus and use him to devastate nearby villages. If this is all still not enough call an Armageddon- every person on the map will come to the centre for one huge battle royal to decide the winner of the bout. Even to me this sounds like rose tinting, and it is- I have a lot of fond memories of Populous II. I can't deny however that the game isn't perfect- for one the formula doesn't really change from start to finish, with the god powers providing most of the variation. You can't choose these, they're assigned according to the stage which is a bit of a disappointment granted the supposed RPG elements of this game. But that doesn't detract from the experience for me. It remains unique, exciting and vastly enjoyable. Very few games, even modern RTS games are able to produce the same sense of frantic activity Populous II achieves, without bogging you down with unnecessary details- the AI handles the small issues like pathfinding and troop organization so you can concentrate on having fun. Will the contemporary player enjoy Populous II? I really don't know- graphics are charming and aesthetically pleasing but hardly eye-popping, and the gameplay is a bit simple for the modern FPS player. But the refreshing thing about Bullfrog games is how much fun their games were with such simple underlying mechanics. Populous has just the right amount of depth- enough to keep things interesting but not so much as to make the game inaccessible. So I can recommend it to even modern gamers, because fun never gets old.
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Posted on: November 18, 2011
Llian
Verified ownerGames: 82 Reviews: 1
Populous the game
Populous II is one of the most brilliant yet simple games ever devised. The rules are simple 'create a tribe sufficient in size to overthrow your opponent come armageddon and do whatever you can to ensure the diminishment of your opponents tribe'. You're tools for the job are unlockable miracles and the ability to attract and repel your followers generally to objects and areas. But it is not as simple as clicking the smite foes button (although for most intents and purposes most of those icons may as well state) as you have a hugely upgradeable system whereby your miracles or people get stronger; and your not the only one who gets increases in these 'skills'. a thoroughly enjoyeable sandbox god game that have hints of puzzle aspects based on it's miracle limitations imposed by the levels (albiet not how much you use them). In fact there are only two god games i have enjoyed since one of which does not run well at all on my system currently. These are: Populous the beginning a more personal version of populous where you take on the role of a tribal leader and go between for omnipotent power (does not like playing with newer hardware very choppy) and black & white 1 which promised a brilliant game and not to put too fine a point on it seems to have been sliced in half with a rusty butterknife simply because it was so ground breaking at the time the company must of believed a rough shod split to create an add-on pack would bring in the dollars hand over fist (as opposed to creating a highly profitable game franchise based on inflating the public opinion of it's products) leading of course to massive failure to deliver a decent product and no doubt turning the company to look to the console market to grab extra revenue for it's sequel instead of once again making a decent game.
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Posted on: December 21, 2011
ant_3008
Verified ownerGames: 27 Reviews: 1
Works
Don't know if you'll ever see this review but to the people saying it doesn't work, be sure to run program as administrator, mine crashed after intro until i did this. Stupid windows 7, I'm a pc and it was fine as it was thanks.
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