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Populous™: The Beginning
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Includes Populous the Beginning and the Undiscovered Worlds expansion.
Shaman, the path is laid before you. Your destiny is to become a god! But it will not be easy. Not for you, and not for your followers. To become a deity, you must conquer all 25 planets of the system and defeat every other tribe and their shamans. The ultimate struggle will be a difficult one, as you build mystical cities, unleash devastating spells, harness volcanoes and tornadoes, and shape the face of the planet at your will. Remember, your apotheosis awaits!
In the third part of the Populous series, you control your shaman and the tribe of her followers in a difficult quest to conquer all 25 planets of a star system and ascend to godhood. For the first time in the series, the world is presented in true 3d, which at the time amazed both the players and the gaming press.The level of control you exert over your followers also takes you to a new level: you can order individuals or groups to perform certain tasks like gathering resources, constructing buildings, or attacking your enemies.
Populous: The Beginning takes a slightly different approach from the previous installments of the series but this is not, by any means, a bad thing as it kept the series fresh and innovative. It was a bold move for Bullfrog but the proof exists in the fact that, after all these years Populous 3 is still a great strategy god-game.
Shaman, the path is laid before you. Your destiny is to become a god! But it will not be easy. Not for you, and not for your followers. To become a deity, you must conquer all 25 planets of the system and defeat every other tribe and their shamans. The ultimate struggle will be a difficult one, as you build mystical cities, unleash devastating spells, harness volcanoes and tornadoes, and shape the face of the planet at your will. Remember, your apotheosis awaits!
In the third part of the Populous series, you control your shaman and the tribe of her followers in a difficult quest to conquer all 25 planets of a star system and ascend to godhood. For the first time in the series, the world is presented in true 3d, which at the time amazed both the players and the gaming press.The level of control you exert over your followers also takes you to a new level: you can order individuals or groups to perform certain tasks like gathering resources, constructing buildings, or attacking your enemies.
Populous: The Beginning takes a slightly different approach from the previous installments of the series but this is not, by any means, a bad thing as it kept the series fresh and innovative. It was a bold move for Bullfrog but the proof exists in the fact that, after all these years Populous 3 is still a great strategy god-game.
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23.5 hMain
30 h Main + Sides
32.5 h Completionist
26.5 h All Styles
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Posted on: September 6, 2018
zaine1979
Verified ownerGames: 200 Reviews: 1
MEH
dont work for me
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Posted on: June 15, 2021
Sarxis
Verified ownerGames: 266 Reviews: 52
TAB-F11
BYRNE, TAB-F1, TAB-F2, TAB-F3, TAB-F4, TAB-F5 And then you will know the TRUE power of the Darkside! Mwuahahahahah!
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Posted on: May 2, 2012
lot84
Verified ownerGames: 43 Reviews: 5
This is one great game (buy it)*****
this was possibly one of the first games i ever played and age of empires this game is also great online you gotta but this *****.
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Posted on: April 28, 2012
klausthorn
Games: 62 Reviews: 1
victim of 3D Hype
Populous 2 was perfect for me, but this one made me only fight with the user interface. Getting and keeping an overview is much harder in this tiny ball of a world, compared to the isometric view or any other game. Only a tiny fraction of the world is visible at a time, and most of it is hidden by some hill or the camera angle. In previous populous titles, there was some easy grid to coordinate my build actions with, not here. Although repetetive, I enjoyed raising and lowering ground in Populous1&2 and a good deal of the gameplay was influenced by it; size of houses, paths from&to the enemy, protection from floods etc.. All gone or ruined in this title. Thus it is not really a sequel but an experiment in early 3D, with only few elements from other earlier titles - in an entirely different genre if I judge by the atmosphere, user interface and gamemechanics. Maybe RTS. The idea of the ball world, which abandons the slightly anoying borders of flat maps is intruiging. But in this size, implementation and with this user interface, for me a disappointing and horribly frustrating dead end.
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