Populous™: The Beginning

This game is, without a doubt, my favourite game ever. When I was little, this was THE first pc game I ever played; I was given it by my cousin, who found it boring, but I loved it. Working your way from level to level, finding new and ingenious ways of winning- and some of these levels were particularly difficult or tricky, requiring good timing, or management, to complete (level 16, I'm looking at you). With all kinds of fun powers, from the regular ones like a basic bolt, to the extremely fun to use- volcanoes and angels of death- this game as a pleasure to play. The visuals were bright, and fun; the sounds were great (especially the names of each spell!), and the gameplay was so, so addictive- five more minutes gameplay at it's finest! If you don't play this game, you're missing out on one of the (in my opinion) best experiences ever.

This was an *Instabuy* for me. You are a god who has a Shaman on the planet you are taking over. You use this Shaman to control your population and fight opposing tribes (and their gods) in order to take over and rule the planet. The game play is great. The difficulty is just right and, as you'd expect from Bullfrog, the attention to detail is excellent! You'll get plenty of hours of fun. Just hope that GOG get their act together and release the 'Undiscovered Worlds' expansion soon.

I bought this game and tried it under Windows 8.1 x64 and it works :) However running the GOG Launcher will not work, to play the game you must launch it via popTB.exe in your installation folder. No need for compability mode or launch as admin.

Great game, I remember it well. But there's major problems being experienced by a number of users. I can't get this to work with hardware graphics acceleration and above 800x600 so it's completely unplayable as things stand. I'm not the only one having this issue - see the forums.