LYCOS RETRIEVER 
Populous: Populous Ii
built 614 days ago
Populous II is a direct sequel to Bullfrog's earlier game Populous and is one of the company's most famous games. Like its predecessor, Populous II is a god game, where the player takes the role of a god, helping his people fight battles against followers of an enemy god.
Source:
In 1991, Populous won the Origins Award for Best Military or Strategy Computer Game of 1990 as well as 1990 Computer Game of the Year in American video game magazine Video Games & Computer Entertainment. It was the first game in the Populous series. It preceded Populous II and Populous: The Beginning.
Source:
Whereas Populous only generally alluded to gods, Populous II is specifically set in Greek mythology. The player takes the role of a demigod, one of Zeus's countless children with mortal women, and has to battle one Greek deity at a time until finally facing his father. Zeus has promised to let the player into the Pantheon if he can survive all the battles.
Source:
In POPULOUS: The Beginning you play as a Shaman, and you must directly control your followers in order to organize them against opposing tribes. You'll have to command your tribe to build various structures, like living quarters (huts, actually), training facilities where they will learn how to fight, and guard towers, which will keep the enemy at bay. POPULOUS: The Beginning plays like a real-time strategy game, as opposed to the slower and deliberate POPULOUS and POPULOUS II. As the Shaman you have the ability to cast a variety of spells to wreak havoc on the opposing forces. Casting these spells takes a form of energy called Manna, and in order to learn and cast new and more powerful spells, you continually need to increase your Manna supply, which you gain as your followers worship at the shrines. With plenty of spells at your disposal, you should be the leader of the world in no time.
Source:
Als Hintergrundgeschichte von Populous II - Trials of the Olympian Gods wählte man die Griechische Mythologie, in der der Spieler in die Rolle eines Sohnes von Zeus schlüpft. Sowohl die Gebäude, die Spielfiguren wie auch die Benutzerschnittstelle wurden grafisch an die Optik der griechischen Antike angepasst.
Source:
MORE ABOUT
Populous Ii