14 of 19 people found the following review helpful:
2.0 out of 5 stars
A really awesome screensaver., February 13, 2002
This review is from: Myth III: The Wolf Age (CD-ROM)
This review will only deal with the multiplayer aspect of the game because I'm lazy.
This game has been out for months on the PC, and the biggest turnout you can expect to see on Gamespy is around 20 people - and these 20 people will likely be first-time players who haven't realized how awful the multiplayer experience is yet.
Even though the developers have released a patch already (which, for the record, was created by the original development team for this game after they got fired), this game still has nasty bugs like the ability to crash other players by using the "buddy" feature (no, I am not making this up), abundant chat lag, and random crashes. Log on to Gamespy and you'll see rooms with the word "ranked" in the title - ignore these, because the ranking system was never implemented and never will be. If this doesn't turn you off, the game features horribly unbalanced maps like "Creep on the Borderlands Dark" which have literally zero useful units other than the invincible Trow Iron Warriors, which can only be effectively killed by other Trow Iron Warriors. The only strategy available on such maps is the "rush the middle with all your units and hope your opponent is stupid enough to use a different strategy" strategy - a far cry from Myth 2, where using multiple flanks consisting of a mix of artillery and melee was just one of the many strategies that good teams could use to win their games.
The developers of Myth 3 also removed many useful features from the previous Myth games. The ability to make strategic drawings on the overhead map is gone. Click on one of your teammates' units and they'll appear exactly the same as your own units, unlike in the previous titles where team members' units had a blue box around them to make them easily distinguishable from your own.
Even the features that the developers didn't remove, for some reason, have been made inferior to what they were in other Myth games. For example, in the previous Myth games, there was a small bar at the top of your screen which displayed which units you had selected, which was useful if your camera wasn't near those units and you were the forgetful type. This has been replaced with a huge, bulky bar which takes up a quarter of your screen unless you're playing at 1024X768 or above and consists mostly of useless "flavor text".
On to the graphics. With all the graphical options turned on, the game is very beautiful. Fully-detailed 3D units and realistic terrain complete with grass sprites make this game almost seem worth the money. Unfortunately, unless you happen to have a supercomputer, better graphics means a nearly unplayable frame rate. Even with the graphics minimalized and running at 640X480, the game will start to get laggier and laggier as more dead bodies start to pile up. This can get so bad that live units actually start to disappear to make room for the growing piles of 3D bodies. There is the option of turning off blood entirely, but why anyone would want to play a war game with no blood is beyond me.
In summary, don't buy this game if you're looking for a fun multiplayer experience.
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2 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Best Game Ever, December 5, 2002
This review is from: Myth III: The Wolf Age (CD-ROM)
I love all 3 of the myth series. This is by far the best. The graphics are amazing and the multiplayer is really fun. I don't know what the other reviewer is talking about. There can be some lag sometimes. But I have a G4 Mac and have never had any lag on my machine. Plus even if you get some it is still worth it just to play.
That's all i have to say. Buy it or burn it and get online to play me.
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