Posted on: May 12, 2019

Daggerknight

Gry: 195 Opinie: 13

A fresh yet familiar RPG experiance

Note: This review is based off of a Steam copy. It was on sale that day. Spellforce 3 is about as typical a fantasy world as they come. There's a battle between mages and theocrats, magical plagues, orcs, dwarves, elves... and yet, somehow, playing through it's campaign was the most fresh RPG adventure I've been on in ages. This is largely thanks to the scope presented by the RTS side of things. Maps are large, and the battles equally so. Unlike many other RPG's, which tease massive clashes but rarely let you jump into the thick of it (hi, Dragon Age!), this game lets you be Aragorn in Helms Deep. The RTS battles themselves are a bit chaotic, and sometimes amount to throwing mobs at each other, but in the campaign this rarely felt like a bad thing. Most of my attention was on my heroes anyhow, so I was almost glad for the lack of complications. There is, however, one caveat to that; the economy in this game is much more in-depth than most RTS titles. It's also a bit clumsy in the UI department, which makes management a little hard. That, however, is my only serious issue with it. All in all, this is a far better mix of RTS/ RPG than Warcraft or Warlords. I highly, highly recommend it.

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Posted on: January 4, 2018

ianuse

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Gry: Opinie: 9

Amazing

Simply amazing and until now ~ 15 h better then Pillars of Eterity.

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Posted on: July 13, 2019

czernobog666

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Gry: 164 Opinie: 1

No progress vs. S2 except graphics

For me the only progress made in the 13 or so years after the last entry in the series is the evolution of graphcs, but that is it. Its more of Spellforce, which is great, however there is also lots of frustration within: - characters move really slow, traversing the maps is painfully dull; this is especially true in the player run stronghold - no real fast travel; yes, there are the godstones, but you first have to get one, secondly - which in my opinion makes no sense - the stone-to-stone connection are always one to one, and you have to define them before using the system. Why not display a map when using the stone, to select a target? - most equipment is trash, and its hard to distinguish items because almost all items of one class use the same icon - no auto loot or automatic looting by pressing a button - the story is pretty boring and voice acting uninspired - on uneven terrain focus is lost on lower/farther ground and - I have many times used a skill on a wall/tree/bridge etc that was obstructing the view. Why not bind to mouse cursor to the plane that characters can walk on? I really really wanted to like the game, just as I like the first two instalments. However due to the frustrating mechanics (this especially after experiencing DoS2) and lackluster story, I have completely lost interest in the game and most probably not return to it.

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Posted on: March 25, 2019

NinjaDork

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Gry: 15 Opinie: 1

I am mildly angry about my rating.

I really wanted to rate this game a 4/5 - it has all the elements needed to make a masterpiece. But I couldn't. Because this entire game feels like it was written by two completely different people endlessly fighting each other. First, mechanics. The character management system is simple but effective, nothing much to write home about. The RTS mechanics are well done and have a couple of innovations that are the masterpiece elements I mentioned. A game where you actually need to manage and protect supply lines between bases? Fantastic. Combat is smooth flowing and seamless, and the UI is easily managed in both Spellforce and Classic forms. Placement is a bit odd, but everything you need is quickly and easily accessble. Now for the bad part. The first writer is someone I call the "Homage Maker", which I didn't have a problem with. This is a person who likely grew up on classic epics like Lord of the Rings and Conan the Barbarian. This person is responsible for writing the overall story, the side quests, and the NPCs. The world is well defined and explained in a variety of ways. The factions are reasonably complicated and have their own features worth remembering. The plot is pretty standard with some interesting twists that keep it entertaining throughout. The other person is the "Idiot College Student" responsible for writing most characters with a major speaking role. Apparently, this author felt that monologuing stupidly left-wing politics and never including any meaningful counter constitutes character growth. Your PC - the Corporal - exists as nothing more than a foil for the ICS. Any options where you disagree with the writer's politics are magician's choices where you never say anything worthwhile. The characters themselves are terribly bland, because the ICS has taken what few pieces of actual development are present and pounded them endlessly until they are just flat self-inserts for the ICS to use as a ranting and raving soap-box.

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Posted on: June 3, 2024

EwigWandernd

Gry: 737 Opinie: 263

Fantastic prequel

I was always a big fan of Spellforce 1 and it's addons, Spellforce 2 was still enjoyable for me, but some decisions weren't my cup of tea; however, one of my most favourite parts of this series was always it's story/dialogue-writing as well as the worldbuilding and the narrative topics of corrupting power, being an outcast between conflicting societies and so on. And Spellforce 3 delivers on all that and nails it even better in my eyes, it has some of the best writing of the 2010s and is vastly underrated in this regard. AND it got rid of the bikini/sexy armour which, in my eyes, was always a flaw of the older titles.

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