Populous

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Product Details

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• ASIN: B000035Y24
• Item Weight: 8 ounces
• Media: Video Game
• Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #15,920 in Video Games (See Top 100 in Video Games)
• Discontinued by manufacturer: Yes

Product Description

In this original god-game you are a deity. However, there are other gods with their own followers. Use your powers to destroy them.!

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

4.0 out of 5 stars Under rated God Sim, January 19, 2011

By 

Thomas Drusen (Oklahoma) - See all my reviews

= Fun:4.0 out of 5 stars 

This review is from: Populous (Video Game)

This was one of my favorite games growing up. You are God and you alter terrain. Sounds simple enough. There is one guy on an uneven terrain and you must flatten out the land for him in order for him to survive. He will build a hut and expand the kingdom. As long as your terrain is flat enough, he will eventually build up a castle/kingdom and more people will come from the houses and huts. Here is the really fun part. As you are doing this, the other side of the map is also being changed with other inhabitants. Those are your peoples enemies and they will fight each other. The more people you have, the stronger your forces will be. You can elect a person to be a knight and fight off their forces individually. Once your moral meter is raised high enough, you are able to cause earthquakes, floods, volcanoes. Overall, all you are really doing is altering terrain so your people will build a society for the sole purpose of global domination.

7 of 16 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Sim City like game., November 14, 2001

By 

Jeff Johnson "Jeff Johnson" (Chicago, IL) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Populous (Video Game)

You are god... literally in this game. The point of this game is that your blue tribe must survive and destroy the rival red tribe. You play as god, with a birds eye view of their world, and you flatten land for them to build houses and castles, and you create hazards for the rival tribes, such as floods, swamps, knights to destroy and burn their villages, and even create huge mountains from nothing. This is a good game, for the first level! But then there are around 400 levels, each with different lands, featurings deserts, snow, grass and dirt. Each level takes about an hour to three hours to complete, so it gets very boring! Also, pretty poor graphics.