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« Reply #15 on: August 18, 2011, 03:41:31 PM »

That's great thanks, but I was rather hoping for more focus on gameplay rather than controls and graphics?  What exactly do you DO in this game? What are the game modes, is it strategy, how similar to populous?
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« Reply #16 on: August 18, 2011, 04:13:18 PM »

I was going to write a short summary of the game, but everything I wrote just made it sound boring. Your best bet is to watch a gameplay video/walkthrough on youtube. And I can't say how similar it is to populous as I never played it.
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« Reply #17 on: August 18, 2011, 04:44:39 PM »

I was going to write a short summary of the game, but everything I wrote just made it sound boring. Your best bet is to watch a gameplay video/walkthrough on youtube. And I can't say how similar it is to populous as I never played it.
The youtube and "no populous" generation Cheesy

Populous was the grandfather of god games... epic and I still have it on 3.5" disc (http://lmgtfy.com/?q=3.5%22+floppy+disc)
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« Reply #18 on: August 18, 2011, 04:49:00 PM »

Well, Populous is older than I am. I did play Black & White however, that was great.
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« Reply #19 on: August 18, 2011, 05:27:19 PM »

J: it's not that similar to Populous. I haven't played FD so don't treat this as gospel, but it's less of an RTS with terrain shaping elements and more of a terrain shaping game with puzzle elements, focusing on helping a single tribe get places, grow things and not get swept away by tsunamis rather than conquer another tribe.
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« Reply #20 on: August 18, 2011, 06:38:27 PM »

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« Reply #21 on: August 18, 2011, 06:40:11 PM »

I'd respond by asking why companies like Valve and EA seem capable of doing it?

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« Reply #22 on: August 18, 2011, 06:44:23 PM »

Exactly what I thought
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« Reply #23 on: August 18, 2011, 06:50:32 PM »

I generally thought things like DirectX, OpenGL and the operating system itself would make computers more "standard" :S
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« Reply #24 on: August 18, 2011, 07:00:59 PM »

I wouldn't say EA are good at it.. better than ubisoft by a long way though

They're clearly in it for consoles.. Valve are in it for the PC gamers. Seems to me, valve make a game for pc and port it to the consoles.. most other devs do it the other way around
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« Reply #25 on: August 18, 2011, 07:46:00 PM »

That guy needs some grammar lessons, half of those sentences don't even make sense.
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« Reply #26 on: August 18, 2011, 08:42:40 PM »

http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2011/08/18/ubisoft-edits-forum-keeps-from-dust-drm
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« Reply #27 on: August 23, 2011, 11:13:44 AM »

drm patched out in approx 2 weeks

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« Reply #28 on: August 23, 2011, 11:31:43 AM »

That guy needs some grammar lessons, half of those sentences don't even make sense.

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« Reply #29 on: May 02, 2012, 03:49:35 PM »

So finally got around to playing this after picking it up for somewhere in the region of £3 with a midweek madness some time ago. After reading things here I really didn't know what to expect.

Basically for anyone else who's confused, this is nothing like Black and White in the sense that it's some form of city building RTS(ish) type game, I'd compare this more to a puzzle game that uses the premise.

You need to advance to each totem in a level to build a village there, and extend palms and other wildlife over the map. This is done by doing effectively what you would do in Black and White only with the emphasis solely being on influencing the surrounding terrain.

Can't get to a village as there's a stretch of water? Create a bridge by moving earth.

Tsunamis coming every few minutes to areas of land you need to protect? Use lava to build a wall and guide the sea into somewhere more preferable.

Really enjoying it so far, but the first few levels are a bit sort of 'wtf?'. Really does get you thinking, the physics for the water and the like are amazing. Still, I wouldn't pay anymore than £6 for this game as at its heart it feels like a really indepth mini-game - I'd wait for the sales.
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