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Powermonger is a real time strategy game where the player must defeat the opponents by conquering towns and tipping the balance of power in his/her favor. This is done.
Screenshot of the Amiga version of Powermonger The game features a game map, although camera movement is limited to rotating the map by 90 degrees or small discrete intervals and 8 pre-defined levels of zoom. Only the map itself is 3-dimensional; people, trees and other game objects are. The game also features a fairly advanced (for its time) 'artificial life' engine. Each person seems to have a mind of their own and will go about his or her job, fishing, farming, shepherding, collecting wood or making items without any input from the player. You also have a query tool that can be used to see the name, sex, age, allegiance, vital stats, hometown and equipment for any given person you click on. This aspect of the game has some clear resemblances (though less advanced) with the later game also designed.
While the player cannot form the land like in, actions can still have some limited effect on the environment. For example, if a large area is deforested, the weather pattern will change and more rain or snow (depending on season) will fall, making movement slower. The player starts out on each map with a small number of soldiers, and maybe a few towns already under control. To win the map, the balance of power needs to be tipped completely to the player's side (represented by a scale below the mini-map), by conquering all (or at least most) of the towns on the map, and killing any opposing captains. Once a town is under the player's control, locals can be drafted into the player's army and bigger towns or enemy armies can be taken on. Some of the bigger towns also have neutral captains and if these survive the battle they come under the player's command as well. The player can only control as many armies as captains, so it is important to keep them alive.
If a captain is killed, his army is disbanded and his surviving soldiers go back to their town of origin. Unlike the player's main army – which the main character commands – the subordinate captains have a 'lag' time (indicated by a tiny animation next to their command icon) before their commands are executed. The further away from the player's main character they are, the longer it takes for orders to reach them. Food is the single most important resource in the game.
Aside from friendly towns the player can also slaughter wandering sheep, barter food from neutral towns, or kill an enemy captain and pillage his food supply. Aside from manpower and food, towns can also provide equipment. Townspeople will occasionally make items but to speed things up the player can order an army to 'invent' at a friendly town. Depending on nearby resources and what posture the army is set to (passive, neutral or aggressive), men will then go to work collecting resources and make items.
As the more useful items can usually only be made in one or two towns on any given map these have great strategic importance. There is no involved with equipment.
Once an army is ordered to equip itself from a pile of equipment it is automatically distributed. If there are bows, swords and pikes available, soldiers will pick them up in that order. As long as there are soldiers without any weapon in the army no one will pick up more than one weapon. If everyone has something then people with the least valuable weapon will have first pick and so on. The captain carries any excess equipment. There is no limit to how much a captain can carry, but the more he carries the slower he (and his army) will move. Powermonger: World War I Edition In an (for computers only) was released that changed the setting from the conquest of a medieval kingdom, to.
The game play was still essentially the same, but with more ranged weapons and war-machines. Reception The game got 5 out of 5 stars in. In 1991 praised PowerMonger as 'simply superb. A joy to play'. The magazine favorably cited the graphics and realism, but criticized its unusually strict and the need to load a saved game twice to return to the previous state. In a 1993 survey of pre 20th-century strategy games the magazine gave the game three stars out of five.
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Reviewing the Sega CD version, criticized the graphics, commenting that 'the maps are so that you can barely see what's going on or who's who. After going through lots of slow strategy, a nice visual payoff of your decisions being executed would've really added to the FunFactor.' However, they gave the game an overall recommendation based on its slow-paced strategy gameplay.
Gave it a rave review, applauding the high detail of the simulation, the graphics, the 'subtle' sound, and the enormous length of the campaign. They scored it 6.6 out of 10. It won Computer Gaming World's 1991 Strategy Game of the Year award.
The game was ranked the 32nd best game of all time. References. Lesser, Hartley; Lesser, Patricia; Lesser, Kirk (April 1991). 'The Role of Computers'. Dragon (168): 47–54.
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Retrieved 7 July 2014. 'ProReview: Power Monger'. 'Review Crew: Power Monger'. EGM Media, LLC. September 1994.
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Out of all of the great God games designed by the legendary Peter Molyneux, Powermonger seems to get the least amount of love. While the likes of Populous have been given a second lease of life through digital distribution, this strategy war game is nowhere to be found which is a shame as I think it's one of Bullfrog's best from their early years. First released to great reviews in 1990 for the Amiga and Atari ST, Powermonger was a huge success. Over the next four years it was ported over to several systems including the PC and the Super Nintendo as well as SEGA's MegaDrive and its Mega CD addon. They were no mere ports either as each had their own control scheme, redesigned graphics and the occasional cinematic.
The original systems got their own extra love with a World War I themed addon. SEGA CD Opening Cinematic, SEGA CD While the Amiga had the benefit of this interesting expansion pack and the SEGA CD added cutscenes to beef up the story on the main campaign, the DOS port is in my opinion the best by far. Being released two years later, it is graphically better than the Amiga as well as having a smoother 3D engine than 1994's SEGA CD port.
A game like this should also only ever be played with a mouse, which out of the console ports only the SNES version had the foresight to include. SNES Game Over Screen, SNES It looks very similar to Populous. The lands are explored in isometric chunks and there's a similarly confusing smorgasbord of icons and buttons surrounding it. The difference is that this would probably be considered a RTS rather than a God game. You have no control over the terrain and you exist only to order your troops around. 1990 was before the term RTS was coined with Westwood Studio's 1992 release of Dune 2 often cited to be the first of its type.
In fact, that game only polished the mechanics that Powermonger started. I wouldn't say that Powermonger is better, but there is something of a logic to the design which is only complimented by that usual Bullfrog charm. At the beginning of the game, you're plopped into a world with no idea how to continue. There's a group of men (your army) sitting in a circle around a castle tower, perhaps waiting for their turn to pass the parcel.
You instinctually click on one, which does nothing so instead you want to just punch them. Naturally you're eye comes across a icon of a muscle-bound arm. Clicking on this before you do the peasant doesn't slap them silly, but gives you a little bit of information about them.
This is usually such important titbits as their name and how they like to spend their day. Inconsequential, but at least more intersting than the info for each tree. So you've had enough of getting to know you're crew and want to attack something. There's three sword buttons to the left numbered 1-3. This isn't how you attack, but how much aggression you want.
To attack a stronghold, you first have to select your aggression, then another sword icon towards the bottom of the screen, then the town on the map. Depending on how aggressive you are you'll either; overpower them with minimal casualties, kill some of them or kill all of them. If your selection is well-advised the general with reply with an enthusiastically mumbled 'yes'. His fuzzy speech impediment (amongst the best speech a floppy disc could allow) will lower in pitch if he doesn't agree, but like any good soldier he'll still do it anyway. Once you've taken a village, you can ransack their food reserves as well as recruit more men to your army. This is done in the same way as attacking, instead choosing the relative icons.
Look at the manual to find out which is which as the images themselves isn't particularly clear. If a larger town is taken over, a second general will join you. His avatar, and that of any other generals are represented on the top half of the screen along with some data in regards to their health, food and soldiers. To complete a map, certain objectives have to be accomplished. They're not really conveyed to the player at all meaning it takes a lot of guessing to see if you're doing it right. In fact, the first time I played the introductory scenario I played for 10 minutes without realising I'd already won eight minutes a ago.
Thankfully, most maps are simply about attacking an enemy and overtaking their lands so just focus on rampaging your neighbours. In case you're wondering, the only way to know if you've won is if the scales represented on the left has been tipped to the right. The game doesn't stop to tell you you've succeeded you just have to make sure you notice this. To carry on to the next map you have to 'retire' by clicking on the floppy disc icon - an icon which is normally reserved for non game functions like save, load and quit. To confuse matters even more, it still has those options too.
Once you're back at the main menu in this fashion, you can then - and only then - continue your campaign. I spent way too much time trying to figure out this over-convoluted method which again isn't entirely clear in the user manual. Amiga WWI Expansion, Amiga Considering the game comes on a single floppy disc, it's not short. There are 100 maps with many more in the Amiga expansion. Each one plays very similar even in the new setting which I found got old after about the 20th level. The console ports are commendable in that they successfully brought the computer RTS to the TV without sacrificing too much by having to use a gamepad instead of a mouse. Kudos should also be given for the extra effort put in the graphics and exclusive features.
The SEGA CD is perhaps the best of these by making full use of the extra space with additional cut-scenes and CD-Audio which do more to compel you to continue. The lack of a mouse support and slow loading times do let it down though. While Populous hogs all of the limelight by being the first so-called God-game, I found Powermonger to be superior in a lot of ways.
Attacking and overtaking villages, towns and castles were satisfying and using their extra resources to overpower the next town is rewarding. I very much recommend it, but I'd be remiss if I didn't say that other games were more cohesively designed. To download the game, follow the link below. This custom installer exclusive to The Collection Chamber uses uses to bring the PC version to modern systems and to emulate the Amiga version. The console games are emulated using with the SNES9Xnext and Genesis Plus G.
XBox 360 controllers supported for the console games. Manuals included Tested on Windows 10.