Alexander

by Ubisoft

Product Features

• Travel to the ends of the Earth, facing four ancient forces - The Greek, Persian, Indian, and Egyptian armies
• Staggering on-screen battles -- up to 64,000 units on the battlefield at once
• The resources of a vast empire - Armies you can move on land & sea, 120 unique buildings, and unlimited natural resources
• Complete each objective, testing your cunning and leadership through a deep campaign
• Wide variety of multiplayer missions on random maps

Product Details

• Shipping: This item is also available for shipping to select countries outside the U.S.
• ASIN: B0002X5MEO
• Item Weight: 8 ounces
• Media: CD-ROM
• Release Date: November 24, 2004
• Average Customer Review: 2.1 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (9 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #27,904 in Video Games (See Top 100 in Video Games)
• Discontinued by manufacturer: Yes

Product Description

Based on Oliver Stone's Epic Film

Product Information

It is 330 BC, and the 3,000 weary military units under your command face a fearsome opposing armynumbering in the tens of thousands. You are David to your opponent's Goliath, even though you have ample resources and a multitude of units, buildings, and advancements on which to spend them - your enemy has more.

Blood will be spilt on thebattlefield and honor will be put to the test, as the courage and cunning of your decisions determine the success of your forces. Command vast armies and heroes from Alexander the Great's era. Triumph in epic real-time battles using formations, morale,and authentic battle tactics.

Become a legendary hero!  He was many things to many people - a dashing warrior king, a relentless conqueror, and a visionary who helped to shape the face of the world we know today.

Relive thearduous battles and triumphs of history's greatest legend with characters, imagery, and sound direct from Oliver Stone's blockbuster film.

Limited Movie Edition featuring:

• A printed historical map, an exact replicafrom the movie!
• Bonus soundtrack material, including an interview with renowned composer Vangelis and "making of" footage from the creation of the movie soundtrack.

Warrior...
Overcome formidable forces through feats of valor, leadership, and tactical brilliance.

King...
Rule an unparalleled empire with diverse armies on land and sea, 120 unique buildings, exotic and extensive terrains, and unlimitednatural resources.

Conquer...
Command massive armies in clashes of staggering scale - an unprecedented 64,000 units on the battlefield simultaneously, with 8m,000 on-screen at one time.


Product Features

Customer Reviews

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18 of 19 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Yet another "Conquering the world .." game, March 30, 2005

By 

avilr "avilr" (Miami, FL) - See all my reviews

= Fun:4.0 out of 5 stars 

This review is from: Alexander (CD-ROM)

Started playing Alexander yesterday. After a while, realized that the game's interface comes from the Cossacks' stable, which I liked plenty, so I liked this one too. Easy to set big and
disciplined units of 32, 64 or 100 soldiers; great the way the horses run; same stoned ground surrounding the buildings; the tunneled mines; aside the basic buildings and a few of dwelling structures, you don't have to bother building a lot of houses to grow your population; practically unlimited size of population; etc.

Like American Conquest Fight Back was a departure from Cossacks series, even though I didn't see the Strategy First or CDV logos in Alexander, this is another branch from the same tree, still have to say the graphics detail and realism have been greatly improved, when compared to the original Cossacks, which were fairly good at the moment. And still, being a heavy loaded game with thousands of units and realistic graphics, the software runs fast and light.

A couple of nice details: this game solves, for me, the main shortcoming of the genre - the need to click once (at least) for every unit you want to create in the game. When playing against the computer AI, this is a great unfair disadvantage, which has nothing to do with your intellectual skills. In Alexander, any unit you select to create in the correspondent building, you have to click only once, and then the building keeps creating continuous units till you right-click again to stop it.

When under massive attacks, you can start creating soldiers from your barracks and sending them to a convenient rally point, and then you can keep an eye in the overall developing of the battle, and take the appropriated decisions, instead of stay clicking franticly, till your hand breaks, trying to cope with the enemy numbers.

The second nice feature I noticed, was the "living" walls (Crusader series style) with bastions, so you can build like real fortresses and populated the walls with archers or any range-shooting units to defend them. Every section of wall has a "bastion" and stairs to allow the garrison go up and down. Linking wall segments, allows you to create the fortress, and you can choose any "bastion" and convert it in the gate. The process of constructing the walls is lovely to watch: peasants do a great job carrying materials, setting wood structures, etc.

Final word, if you like battle oriented RTS games, you won't be disappointed with this release.

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Great RTS in the Tradition of Age of Empires!, November 11, 2006

By 

Media Lover - See all my reviews
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= Fun:5.0 out of 5 stars 

This review is from: Alexander (CD-ROM)

I actually think this is a splendid game. The graphics are very good, the levels and maps are designed wonderfully, and the gameplay is marvelously addicting. It probably reminds me most of Age of Empires 2, which was another great RTS.
Highly Reccomended!
PS
Also check out the Lords of the Realm series, my all time favorites.

5 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Terrible, October 24, 2005

By 

S. Vitale - See all my reviews
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= Fun:1.0 out of 5 stars 

This review is from: Alexander (CD-ROM)

Sorry, but this is 2005 and this game sucks. Even in 1995 this would be a poor game. I would have given it zero stars, if that was an option. With games like Rome - Total War out there, I can't say enough bad things about Alexander. It's obviously a marketing scam to sucker money from people based on the movie and appeal for these types of games. The people who developed and marketed it should be shot.