In this game, your goal is usually to destroy all of your opponents, by building a settlement and raising an army of human and myth units to conquer your enemies. The task sounds simple enough, but the enemy has similar units at their disposal too, and god powers thrown into the mix could add more challenge to your conquest.
You get to control one of four factions as one of three major gods for each faction. You have a choice of Greek, Norse, Egyptian and Atlanteans. Each one has 3 gods to choose from and 12 minor gods which you unlock during play. The Gods have different powers and weaknesses, but overall they are almost equally matched. When picking minor Gods, each one brings something different to the table, each one has a different myth unit, and provides upgrades for different units too. So in one game, you will never have all the myth unity available for you to use.
Each faction culture has different ways of obtaining "favour" and other resources. They have different themes and units, but overall they are almost the same as one another, except each one has unique "myth" units which are also almost equally matched. Well they do have to be all "balanced" or how else would you win against the tougher factions.
The game tends to play out in a similar fashion most of the time, but tends to be fun either way. You begin with your starting units, start building, get an army first and attack a weak settlement, or get attacked yourself and possibly lose. Your attack or his may fail as it should, to make the game more interesting and continue the building and research to climax at the final battle which in theory should contain plenty of unique units. But reality is usually harsher with an attack much too early from the enemy catching you off guard and ending the game.
To reach the stage of having a massive army for the final battle, you will need to start collecting resources! Food, wood, gold and favour. Four basic resources which you can never have enough of. In my opinion collecting food is the slowest of all three, the fastest being favour and both gold and wood are mostly equal in terms of collecting speed. You will need to recruit an army of villagers to collect resources for an army of conquerors. The only other thing that gets in your way is the population cap! a horrid little number that always limits your potential, something I think they should of removed when they updated the game.
The buildings you can construct are simply just the basics. No extras like other games, you have the ones you need to play the game without all the fluff that others bring to the table, Each building has certain upgrades which improves the units it produces and the building itself. They are also quite expensive, very expensive for some upgrades, which are not even that great to begin with.
The buildings you can construct and units that you can draft, depend on your civilizations level, from 1 to 4, you unlock new units, buildings and pick a minor God who grants you new powers and myth units to take advantage off. Each level requires certain buildings to be constructed and a large batch of resources donated to reach the next level. Each Minor God also provides you with a God power which can be almost anything depending on the faction and minor God you have picked. Some useful, others not quite so.
The army you can build is a mixture of infantry, cavalry, archers, siege weapons, navel units, heroes and mythical creatures. Each one is strong against a type and weaker against another. Infantry defeats cavalry which defeats archers which defeat infantry. So on with navel units which also have strengths and weaknesses. Myth units defeat human units while heroes defeat myth units. In the end, a large enough force of even one unit type will be able to take down almost anything as long as you have the numbers.
Multiplayer mode has access to seven different modes of play with up to 12 players on one map. You can create a connection with LAN, or even a direct IP connection and of course using the game servers available to host a game. You should definitely master single player first before heading into multiplayer against strangers, play with friends however much you want, but those strangers usually have more experience than you, some have played since the original release.
The game comes with an "editor" which lets you build a map featuring everything you can imagine. You can even make your own triggers and cinematic movies. Or simply pit hundreds of soldiers against a couple of the most powerful myth units and see how it plays out. With the editor, you can make anything you can imagine.
Conclusion:
It's a great game dusted off and upgraded only slightly. They could of done more with it, but we got what we got. I would completely recommend to try it out yourself, just don't get scared of the polygons which are visible on most of the units. Definitely a must try, if you missed it during the original release, now is your chance to try it for the first time!Get it here!
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