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PA vs Populus - The Beginning

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NeonSturm 11 years ago (edited 11 years ago) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Populous:_The_Beginning Released 30 November 1998 It had an earth like map where you could walk around. It had terraform. It had ships where up to 5 units could be behind each other. It had baloons - with these 2 units could fly around the map. Units could sit down, had attack animations, could live in buildings, etc. The shaman unit could cast spells like terra-forming ones or a big dragon. PA's planets aren't a new concept. Another game I've played with planet-like maps is an over-head shooter 'Vangers - One for the road' from the same years. EDIT: thx Vermind, didn't noticed +0 / -0
Kyubey 11 years ago when i initialy saw the idea for PA i was like O.O amazing, it may be the best thing since the invention of boobs! as time went on: O.o wut is dis crap, you is breaking an epic game now its: =.= ahh fuck its starcraft 3 i miss the games from 10+ years ago, the developers had no idea what they were doing, and what was "normal" so the games that came out were developed on the ideology of "would i play this crap myself" now its all "clone the nearest game with 100,000+ sales, and add a gimic with beter graphics" +0 / -0
Vermind 11 years ago (edited 11 years ago) Off-topic: @AFK_Kitty: I think you mean Vangers. Also: V2000 has wraparound maps that behave like planets. +0 / -0
GoogleFrog 11 years ago It depends on what you do on the planet. Also Populus didn't use a sphere. A sphere is pretty distinct from a flat torus. On a sphere there is a lot less surface area for any given circumference. +0 / -0
Eisai 11 years ago Does PA have terraform? +0 / -0
TheEloIsALie 11 years ago It does. They support heightmap deformation. +0 / -0
Zag 11 years ago (edited 11 years ago) There was multi-planet simultaneously RTS game in 2001 also... http://www.giantbomb.com/mission-humanity/3030-18237/ lol http://www.metacritic.com/game/pc/mission-humanity +0 / -0
Anarchid 11 years ago I played that. It was really boring, and the simultaneous-planets thing was really useless. Of course, it might totally look like PA multiple-planets thing will be just as useless. +0 / -0