I think I'd played Starcraft before we got this one, but I still thought it was awesome. RTS gameplay with actual historical units (give or take a wololo), boats, and siege vehicles seemed like a great premise for a game. And as with most RTS games I got way more into playing the campaigns than any actual multiplayer against other humans. I did usually end up resorting to using cheats though, as I think the extensive micro-managing of units and buildings was too much for me as a kid. For as much as I liked battling with actual ballistas and archers, I also enjoyed calling in the convertible sports car with a rocket launcher-toting driver.
9/10. One of my first PC games, easily the best thing I ever got from a cereal box.
Never got good at the game and the genre is not for me, but I liked progressing my civilisation, and even playing around in custom mode, using the game almost as a city builder. Sometimes I’d stay Stone Age and have an expansive army of clubmen and axemen, trying to take on armoured phalanxes and siege weapons. And of course the cheats were classics.
Never got good at the game and the genre is not for me, but I liked progressing my civilisation, and even playing around in custom mode, using the game almost as a city builder. Sometimes I’d stay Stone Age and have an expansive army of clubmen and axemen, trying to take on armoured phalanxes and siege weapons. And of course the cheats were classics.