Paraworld

by Aspyr

Product Features

• 3 different LAN and Internet multiplayer modes for up to 8 players
• Wage war for control of a prehistoric parallel world in this RTS game
• Explore 16 dangerous prehistoric scenarios located in 5 climatic zones
• 9 playable heroes and 3 completely different tribes; control up to 52 units
• Over 50 different types of animals, including 40 incredibly detailed dinosaurs

Product Details

• Shipping: This item is also available for shipping to select countries outside the U.S.
• ASIN: B000HWZYF2
• Item Weight: 5.6 ounces
• Media: CD-ROM
• Release Date: September 25, 2006
• Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (12 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #12,303 in Video Games (See Top 100 in Video Games)

Product Description

From the Manufacturer

ParaWorld is a real-time strategy game in which warring tribes team with vicious prehistoric beasts to wage brutal combat for control of a world that is parallel to our own. Armed with devastating weapons, commanding powerful fighting dinosaurs, and controlling up to 50 units, players go into battle in gripping single-player and multiplayer action. Up to eight players can battle each other via LAN or Internet on one of more than 15 multiplayer maps, with three multiplayer modes to choose from.

ParaWorld utilizes an unprecedented unit-management user interface called the Army Controller, which truly evolves the genre and goes beyond the typical RTS interface. The Army Controller interface appears unobtrusively on the screen. Players can view all of their units at a glance and have general awareness of each unit’s health, danger, activity, and level-up capabilities. Using the Army Controller, players can select several units consecutively, even if they are spread across the map, in just seconds by simply marking the unit icons in the Army Controller.

In ParaWorld’s robust single-player campaign, players get to know and play three different tribes--the Norsemen, Dustriders, and Dragon Clan. Each tribe is based on a different ancient culture and each sports its own unique play style, units, architecture, skills, and controllable beasts. Utilizing their tribe’s skills, and with the help of nine controllable hero characters, players explore 16 equally atmospheric and dangerous prehistoric scenarios located in five climatic zones. Each level contains main quests and side quests.

Features:

• Prehistoric parallel world with more than 15 playable maps and five different climatic zones: Northland, Jungle, Savannah, Icewaste, and Ashvalley
• Nine playable heroes and three completely different tribes--Norsemen (Viking-inspired), Dustriders (African-inspired), and Dragon clan (Asian-inspired)
• Three different LAN and Internet multiplayer modes--Team Deathmatch, Defender (one player has to defend base against all the other players), and Domination (capture the flag)--for up to eight players
• Revolutionary unit-management system called the Army Controller, whereby players at a glance can select and organize their units
• Gigantic combat units--control up to 52 units, each with several different special and finishing moves
• Three different categories of units: human, machine, and animal, along with support units (workers and transporters) and pure combat units
• Ability of heroes to construct unique buildings, develop new abilities, and collect and use different items
• Over 50 different types of animals, including 40 incredibly detailed dinosaurs
• Each tribe possesses a unique "Titan" unit, a massive, powerful dinosaur that wreaks incredible havoc on the battlefield

Product Description

ParaWorld is a RTS game in which warring tribes team with vicious prehistoric beasts to wage brutal combat for control of a world that is parallel to our own. Armed with devastating weapons, commanding powerful fighting dinosaurs and controlling up to fifty units, playiers go into battle in gripping single-player and multiplayer action.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars AN EXCELLENT PREHISTORIC RTS! (WITH ATROCIOUS DRM), January 18, 2008

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NeuroSplicer (Freeside, in geosynchronous orbit) - See all my reviews
(TOP 500 REVIEWER)   

= Fun:5.0 out of 5 stars 

Amazon Verified Purchase

This review is from: Paraworld (CD-ROM)

The RTS genre has yet to be saturated. Nevertheless, it had been getting repetitive and stale lately. PARAWORLD was a breath of fresh air and it is a VERY FUN game to play!

You are thrown into a world where dinosaurs roam the land and different tribes wage war on each other for the control of resources (wood, rock and food). Each of the three tribes have distinctly units and buildings - and their own tamed dinosaurs. Mounted rhinos, war-mammoths, prehistoric...steam-warships, guarding water-snakes - the list of original ideas is endless!
What has to be mentioned is that playing each different faction does not convey the feeling that you are replaying the same over and over - only with different colors. One tribe has stronger buildings yet weaker units; the other has more dinosaurs yet its fortifications are easily overrun. On top of that, they are all beautifully balanced.

Graphically the game is very well made. Units look and move in a very realistic way, the environmental elements (grass, trees and water) have been nicely rendered - all in all, an impressively looking game.

I picked this for a song - but that is the fate of any game sporting an idiotic protection scheme. The are bin fodder before the year is out. PARAWORLD uses STARFORCE (can you say "class-action suit"?) - hence the star withheld. A pity, such a great game to be shot in the foot by its own publisher.

If you are boycotting STARFORCE games be warned. Otherwise,

RECOMMENDED!

6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Paraworld------Absolutly Oustanding, October 5, 2006

A Kid's Review

This review is from: Paraworld (CD-ROM)

This game, can make you stand in awe as you watch a game so inventive and great, that it seems as one of the greatest games of all time. The game includes special feats that you and your team can accomplish. This game also includes over 50 different beasts, inlcluding T-rex, Allosaurus, and much, much more! Who says games can't be this good? Try Paraworld out and find out for yourself! I have, and that is why I have rated it a 5.

8 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Absolutely fantastic - pushes RTS games into new dimensions., September 28, 2006

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Cano2 "Cano2" (Nowhere, Important) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Paraworld (CD-ROM)

This is one of the most flawless and engrossing executions of the RTS genre I have seen in a long time. Superb graphics and music, outrageous dinosaur units, a tremendous variety of units, upgrades, special attacks.

This one has it all, and with 3 full single player campaigns it has the replayability that few games can match.