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With the powers of nature in your hand and the Blue tribe following, will you become the omnipotent entity?

With great power comes great responsibility and with small price comes great value--combine these two and you’ll get a GOG.com exclusive Populous™: The Beginning, a 3D Strategy game with almighty strength, released for only $5.99 right here on GOG.com.

The third part in the series, the first one in full 3D, Populous: The Beginning places you in control of a female shaman and her tribe. You need to battle your way through 25 planets and defeat the rival Dakini, Chumara, and Matak tribes for dominion over the solar system. Grow in followers, grow in strength and unleash the earth-shattering powers to wreak havoc and control your tribesman. Build your forces, annihilate the non-believers, and finally become the ultimate almighty ruler of the Populous universe.

Execution of Populous: The Beginning is quite impressive: each scenario sports a different richly-detailed small world, and the engine accurately represents the fact that you are on a globe, with curved surfaces and an effective horizon. The creators of Populous and Dungeon Keeper packed some clever ideas, fun-to-play gameplay, 3D graphics, and sweet multiplayer into a perfect cure for gamers with a god complex. If you like real-time strategy games, this is one of the most innovative and well-designed you’ll be ever likely to play, especially when it’s only $5.99, available now on GOG.com
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tfishell: Haven't we already been over this? :/ Some blue-text posted a while ago that they were fighting for the rights (very tangled "legal and licensing" issues), so presumably they're still trying.
"licensing issues" is all we ever get from GOG. there's nothing to indicate that the absence of expansions is EA's fault. to the contrary, EA seems to have been particularly forthcoming with extra content, and they have not insisted on the higher price point, which they well could have considering their games are among the very best currently available on GOG.
Post edited April 19, 2012 by Fred_DM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0qNGvCaGV3A the soundtrack ALONE is reason to buy!
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RafaelLopez: I never liked this series (much because of the horrible interface of the first game which kept me away from the sequels) but anything with "Populous" in its name is huge and classic, and that's the kind of game I like released on GOG. I'm glad this came up.

I never played this third installment, it appears quite polished from the screenshots. Correct me if I'm wrong though, it appears it's one of those classics that might have been supplanted a while ago by a very similar but newer and better game: Black and White. This happens with many great games (Lords of the Realm II x Medieval: Total War, King's Bounty x Heroes of Might and Magic). Might be the case.
It's very different from the first two games in the series - this one's more of an RTS, and you've got an actual avatar character on the field you need to keep protected. I didn't like the first two either really, but I loved this - although it gets DAMN hard later on!

Black & White is much more a successor to the original two Populous games than The Beginning, but otherwise you're quite right.
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gyokzoli: That's very young. :)

I'm 38.
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dirtyharry50: That's very young. :-)

I'm 53.
Holy shit!
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dirtyharry50: That's very young. :-)

I'm 53.
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Paingiver: Holy shit!
lol

Hey! I ain't THAT old! Dirt is older!
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keeveek: Expansions were made mostly by different companies. Maybe this is why EA didn't decide to write agreement for them with GOG.com , because EA hasn't secured all the rights for them?
I believe that pretty much all Bullfrog expansions were actually made by Bullfrog (official third-party expansions only really became a standard when modding communities arose). Although I know that the "Undiscovered Worlds" expansion has already caused a lot of problems in the past. As far as I know it only had an official release in the UK but it's actually rather easy to get it through the fan community of The Beginning.
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Ric1987: The Beginning more?
The Beginning. Populous 2 may be slightly more original as The Beginning has more aspects of typical RTS games such as direct control over units - but it still remains a completely unique experience, even if there's many guys out there who claim otherwise (mostly hardcore fans of the original two games who hate the changes). There's no typical ressource gathering, a lot is achieved by casting awesome spells of your shaman and there's *huge* battles between the followers (up to 200 units per player - the same amount as in Total Annihilation). What I love most is that this game feels much more "alive" than most other strategy games out there. There's a lot of ridiculous physics, people being thrown around by fireballs, drowning in the water, tornadoes tearing villages apart and volcanoes that will simply rock your world (and especially your enemies' :B). Yes, I'm a big fan. ;D
Post edited April 19, 2012 by F4LL0UT
I was hoping this would show up on GoG. It brings back memories.
YES yes YES yes YES w007.
Also: Yes.
Ill hopefully buy this soon, Think i had it originally and enjoyed it. If i remember the music was pretty good as well.
I liked all the bullfrog games,they seemed more original than other games out there.I've played the campaign to this at least 10* including the expansion.Use to love have the Firewarriror in towers and see the fireballs knock enemies senseless.I like the height aspect where the higher up you are the further away spells could be cast.
So this game ... will it run normally and not super fast? I think that is the issue that keep me from playing it again. In fact all of Bullfrog games suffer the same issue: Syndicate, Populous, Magic Carpet .... they become so fast in today's computer and are impossible to play...
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greyzebra: So this game ... will it run normally and not super fast? I think that is the issue that keep me from playing it again. In fact all of Bullfrog games suffer the same issue: Syndicate, Populous, Magic Carpet .... they become so fast in today's computer and are impossible to play...
Have you bought any of the old games from GOG? They try hard to reverse engineer to ensure the compatibility, that's what GOG's about!

Some issues are sometimes not resolved completely but you will almost always find an answer on the forums.
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CaveSoundMaster: Have you bought any of the old games from GOG? They try hard to reverse engineer to ensure the compatibility, that's what GOG's about!
Ah, good to hear that! To the wishlist!
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CaveSoundMaster: ...
Some issues are sometimes not resolved completely but you will almost always find an answer on the forums.
Just as a sidenote: I would then conclude that the forums are more clever than GOG. :)
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CaveSoundMaster: ...
Some issues are sometimes not resolved completely but you will almost always find an answer on the forums.
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Trilarion: Just as a sidenote: I would then conclude that the forums are more clever than GOG. :)
Depends, in some games the solution is specific to the particular system configuration, so there's no one general fix that GOG could apply for all to be happy. The further you go back in time, the less hardware/software standards are there.

I agree though in some cases the GOG team may have been a little behind the community.
Post edited April 27, 2012 by CaveSoundMaster