Populous

Description

You play a god, gaming against other gods in a celestial game of conquest. To win, you must help your chosen people take over the world and wipe out the vermin who worship that other god.

Each god starts out with a single human, dumped into the middle of the wilderness. Sometimes there is inhabitable land in sight, sometimes not. To get win, you must change the landscape, creating flat land for your followers to build on. The more followers you have you have, the more powerful you will be, so take care of them. Build as fast as you can, because the other god is doing the same.

When you have enough followers, you can make the leader of your people into a hero. He will then go around the land you have built, literally taking strength from the people into himself, and working his way toward the enemy. When he gets there, he will engage in holy warfare upon your enemy's people. He will burn; he will kill. And he won't stop until they're all dead... or he is.

But you don't have to let your people have all the fun; the god's have other tools as well. You can drown your enemies one at a time with your land lowering powers. Submerge their towns in swamps. Raise a volcano in the middle of their best farmland. Even better, you can flood the land and drain all the people who didn't build on high-ground.

And when you win, you'll have 500 more worlds to conquer. A god's play is just never done.

Part of the Following Group

• Populous series

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The Press Says

Atari ST User	Atari ST	May, 1989	10 out of 10	100
ACE (Advanced Computer Entertainment)	Amiga	Apr, 1989	963 out of 1000	96
Computer and Video Games (CVG)	Amiga	Apr, 1989	96 out of 100	96
Zzap!	Amiga	Apr, 1989	94 out of 100	94
CU Amiga	Amiga	Apr, 1989	94 out of 100	94
The Games Machine (UK)	Amiga	Apr, 1989	90 out of 100	90
Power Play	Genesis	Nov, 1990	86 out of 100	86
Sega-16.com	Genesis	Sep 25, 2006	8 out of 10	80
PC Player (Germany)	DOS	Apr, 1994	80 out of 100	80
High Score	Macintosh	May, 1994	4 out of 5	80

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Trivia

Populous was named #30 overall among the “150 Best Games of All Time” by Computer Gaming World Magazine (15th Anniversary Issue--November 1996).