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Myth 2: Soulblighter (Linux)

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This is one of the better Strategy games that I have played since Warcraft. This game has the ability to have up to 16 different individuals playing at the same time which makes it a great multiplayer experience. It is available for windows, but if you are a linux fan like myself, you realize that it is not so easy to find linux version games. This is one you should definitally have. If you like Warcraft, Starcraft, Command and Conqeuor, or any other strategy role playing style of games then you will love this port for linux. If people buy and use linux and its games, then developers will make more linux versions of popular games. Thanks for reading my opinon.

Quite an addictive game, with much energy spent both on details and ensuring overall continuity of structure. Good character design (specie design, really), imaginative and well-balanced character types, where success depends on proper use of different characters together in effective ways. Cartoonish and with some funny bits, it manages to remain be both lighthearted and immersive at once. Unlike most every game I've encountered, the narration is used properly and does not come off as the least bit stupid -- good voiceover talent went into it, and the script was written decently.

My only complaint at all is in the difficulty of controlling a battle force effectively, especially one of significant size; the unit behavior algorithms aren't quite good enough to be left alone in the face of the enemy, so a lot of hands-on adjustment is needed to avoid stupid casualties (one melee fighter running straight into the hands of doom alone when a target came within its attack radius, rather than falling back a bit to let the range units have more time to shoot, then attacking simultaneously). However, the degree to which individual units can be controlled is excellent, and they do follow instructions when given.

Technically, an excellent port by Loki. No apparent bugs of any significance, and Loki's excellent about releasing patches with changelogs. Good installation, and it does everything right with respect to behaving itself in a multiuser environment.

Expanding on Bungie's incredibly successful Myth:the Fallen Lords, this is the second installment in the story. Taking place some decades after the fall of the Fallen Lords, Soulblighter, a lieutenant of the Fallen Lords, returns to decimate the populations of Alric's Kingdoms with new allies. Again, new units are introduced, and one is challenged to one's limits through the command of increasingly larger armies against increasingly tougher foes.

For those unfamiliar with Myth, Myth expands the concept of multiple unit battles in real time, where arm-chair generals control individual units in battles against sinsister foes. Unlike Age of Empires or Cossacks, both of which are favorites of mine, Myth involves gradually larger scale battles in a sword and sorcery setting. The graphics are superb, and the storyline gripping enough on its own to warrant novelisation (these guys invest heavily in story development). Battles begin simply, but grow rapidly more complex as the numbers of units one controls (as well as the number and variety of units one opposes) increase. Ultimately, there is a battle royale with the forces of evil, and at no point during the game does one get a respite or break. There are no easy levels here. There will be moments when you will be tempted to smash your screen to bits when, after a particularly adrenaline pumped session, you lose your entire army. Like the original, Soulblighter is destined to become a classic and benchmark in the PC gaming community.

I've lost my crossed swords! I'm a plain shield again, a victim of collusion between two players who caught me in a murderous cross-fire. With Giant Myrkridia on either side pummeling them with exploding projectiles, my poor warriors were doomed no matter which way they turned. Too, late, I realized that I should have taken to the high ground earlier, gotten a little more range for my dwarven bomb-throwers, and maybe wreaked enough damage to minimize my point loss.

If you've tried Myth II on-line, you know what I'm talking about. The game was "Body Count;" the setting was the "Badlands." The goal was simple and brutal: kill as many of the other players' creatures as possible, while minimizing your own losses. Depending on how you do, and the ranks of your fellow players, you will either gain or lose points, sometimes a lot. Your rank depends on points, and your self-esteem depends on your rank. How I envy the princes and emperors who flaunt their exhalted status, disdaining the lowly swords and shields who make up the vast bulk of the players. Sometimes one will allow you to team up with him, giving you a simpler task, while he goes off to trounce the enemy. Several times now, in "Flag Rally," I've undertaken to guard the home flag while the senior partner endeavors to capture the enemy's, knowing that any points I get, or lose, will be soley the result of his prowess. But how else can I learn the tactics and strategies that will allow me to progress?

If you haven't guessed yet, it's addictive; it's, in fact a sub-culture. As a parent of now fortunately grownup kids, I hate to think of all the home-work left undone, the books unread, the basketballs undribbled, and the girls undated because of "King of the Hill," "Assassin," "Hunting," or the several other variations that Myth II online offers. Combine this with several map options and the ability to play alone or as part of a team, and you have a combination that will suck you in big time. As my wife said, it they had had this years ago when we were dating, I probably would not have had time for her. True, so true! So, I say, young men, for the sake of future generations--indeed, so there will be future generations--stay away from this game" Leave it to my generation; leave it to me, "Hirtus Vetus", the "Old Goat!"

--Hirtus Vetus for Skirmisher Online Gaming Magazine

This is a nice arcade and puzzle-solving game, but definitely not what's often advertised to be, namely a medioeval tactical wargame, even in the broadest sense of the word. It's basically a collation of arcade scenarios requiring multiple attempts to guess what approach (use of certain weapons, a path of flight, a certain tactical deployment, or a combination of those) will do the work and allow you to advance to the next scenario. After you complete the campaign, you can start all over again at higher settings of difficulty, or go for more clearly-cut victories.

If you like solving puzzles, this is your game game; if you don't, stay away from it. Most important, this is NOT a wargame, in any sense of the word. If you enjoy nice (in comparison with the date of release) graphics, lots of gore and clickfests, go for it; if you care for the flow of medioeval battles, tactical planning, battle integrity, or are simply interested in thinking out the outcome of battles, do not buy it -- here pitched battles are over in a matter of seconds, and what's important is not how you develop your left wing or deploy your wizards, but the exact nanosecond you'll order that dwarf to set the explosive trap. It's basically an arcade game in a medioeval setting, provided with a campaign plot that links the various situations you will be confronted with.

Myth 2 is very good. Anybody who likes starcraft or command and conquer will luv this game its better then both of them.

Myth 2 is actually the best game I have ever played. I got Myth 2 about 2 years ago. And over those 2 years I have bought about 6 new games and I still think Myth 2 is the best game I have ever played. Its the only game I play.

Its multiplayer is the main reason I play the game. you can play up to 16 people at a time. And the maps you download are the funnest. One map is so good, Its the only map I play.

These days I usually compares games like this against Starcraft 1 OR Command and Conquer. It's a little on the slow game pace side (even after speeding it up a bit). My kids thought it was ok then asked when can we play command and conquer or starcraft 1.

::sigh:: Wish something like that would come out natively for linux :/

AS said it is great! The graphics are nice for when it was written and the game prgression is a challenge. On-line play is also fun.

The game itself features a beautiful 3d landscape. You'll see a blood covered battlefield mixed with medieval combat. It uses old fashioned 2D sprites, but it still looks quite good. The only real problem is that the single player is too long. There are forty or so missions, and it eventually gets boring.