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» March 08, 2006
The Top Five or Ten Best Games that are Awesome - Number Two
The next game on this prestigious list is one that I pretty much guarantee none of you have ever heard of. Spellforce: The Order of Dawn, is a relatively old PC game, maybe two or three years old, and I believe made in Britain. Anydangway, this game is pretty fucking weird, because it is both an RPG and a RTS. You make a character at the start, picking from a set of pre-made male and female models and naming him or her to your liking. My guy was called “Bob.” So you go and travel around, doing some tasks and trying to get some bad guys, but as you travel you’ll come across shrines of sorts (forgive me, it’s been quite some time since I’ve played this game) that produce the three good races - humans, elves, or dwarves. Each character set has different buildings to build, and new units to produce after the technologies are researched, like in any typical RTS. They also have Titans, which are the unique elite unit that pretty much fucks everyone else up.
After some time, you get to control the three evil races: the weak Dark Elves, the hordes of Orcs, and the cannibalistic Trolls. In some areas you can control both good and evil races, but they will attack each other if put together, so you have to go into some serious strategizing to get attacks to work with clashing groups with the same goal. You still get to control your main character the entire time, and if he or she dies, you get resurrected immediately, but minus some stuff. I don’t remember.
I don’t know what it is about this game, but it is without a doubt in the top three best games I have ever played. Even though there is no music and a lot of running around, the interactions with NPCs in towns and throughout the battlefields a real treat. It’s a game that doesn’t necessarily make you want to play it all day and night, but every time you play it’s very enjoyable. Spellforce 2 comes out very soon and I can only hope it’s as good as this game.
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