Game Review: Populous DS
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Posted on June 4th, 2009 by
Some may argue it should only be placed in the “God Game” genre, but I think of Populous as one of the best, very early examples of Real-Time Strategy. Published in 1989, three years before Dune II, four years before Warcraft, and five years before Command and Conquer, Populous had strategic depth but also made players think on their feet to respond to what the computer was doing in real time. I remember fondly my college days where I was raising and lowering the LEGO shaped landscape so that my followers could create large dwellings in order to reproduce and fuel my divine wrath towards the opposing deity and his followers. Amazingly, this icon of my early PC gaming days has returned in the form of a strategy game on the DS. I am admittedly looking at the game through rose colored glasses of nostalgia, but it is one of the top retro games I have played on the DS.
GamerFamily Playlist – May09
Posted on June 1st, 2009 by
Here at the GamerDad family residence (a small house by a big lake) we play games. A lot of games. I pretty much have the opposite problem you do. I never have enough time to really get into a game – gotta move on – and my kids know that dad has A LOT more games downstairs then he lets on. So lets talk about my spoiled family a bit. (Note: there’s a lot about the old Sid and Marty Kroft’s Land of the Lost too.) more…
