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I used to love this game as a kid back in the day. It's pretty much like a SNES version of age of empires but you can't really make war units specificaly 'cept for 1 knight but you can conjure up some devastation godly powers like flood, swamps, earthquakes and of course the end of the world itself where all the buildings get destroyed and all your units merge into one powerful unit and then dukes it out with the merged unit from the computer player. Good fun really. I loved sending my knight into enemy territory to go into their home kill the inhabitant leave and put the house on fire. haha very viking-like. as you progress through the game you'll be in different worlds and your buildings and units will look different. one i can think of is the candyland world.
This is one of the first strategy games that allowed you to take on the role of a god in charge of helping a little civilization of humans. You can sculpt the land, train soldiers, and conquer other tribes on the planet. I seem to remember there being dozens of levels with varying difficulties and different landscape themes (grasslands, checkerboards, snow, candy land, etc.). This game has nostalgic value that shades my view of it because my older brother used to play it all the time. From the little bit I've played so far and in the past, the game stacks up to be a decent real-time strategy game, albeit a bit of a basic one. From what I know it was an idea of Peter Molyneux, the same guy who'd later come up with Dungeon Keeper, Black and White, and Fable. There is a sequel to this game, so I want to check it out sometime. If you want a real-time strategy game with 16-bit graphics that is a lot like a primitive Age of Empires or Warcraft, then this is for you. But apart from the nostalgic value, this concept has been refined a lot since this game was made.Read full review
Still fun after all these years. It holds up pretty well one of my favorite world building games.
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Populous is a really fun game for people who like RTS. It feels pretty good ruining your enemies villages with swamps and then hitting them with a volcano right before your knight arrives to wipe out the rest of their men. Tons of levels I really enjoyed how they keep it fresh by having different environments as well as different enemies. You can find it pretty cheap on here and is defiantly worth the couple bucks for the amount of game-play you get. I would recommend it to almost anyone.
Great original game at the beginning of SNES
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