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.

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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
CU Amiga	Amiga	Apr, 1989	94 out of 100	94
Your Amiga	Amiga	Jul, 1989	93 out of 100	93
Power Play	DOS	Mar, 1990	92 out of 100	92
ST/Amiga Format	Amiga	Apr, 1989	92 out of 100	92
The Games Machine (UK)	Amiga	Apr, 1989	90 out of 100	90
Power Play	Genesis	Nov, 1990	86 out of 100	86
Amiga Joker	Amiga	Mar, 1992	85 out of 100	85
Sega-16.com	Genesis	Sep 25, 2006	8 out of 10	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).