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Populous on DS

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Populous is a Strategy game available on the DS.

Populous is a Strategy game. Strategy games provide experiences that require quick thinking, and forward planning from the gamer. They combine the unfolding tactics of classic games like chess, with more recent board games such as Risk. Usually focusing on a theatre of war context, players enjoy the tactical overview of the battle these games provide.

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Family Gamer review Tue, 03 Feb 2009

Populous DS brings the best of Bulfrog from the early 90's. Whilst being well engineered and honed for Nintendo's popular handheld, there is no hiding the fact that this is a re-issue rather than a re-imagining.

I still remember the trip to the store as a teenager to buy the original Populous. Back then, its GBP20 price tag represented a few months pocket money. Getting the game home and playing it for the first time was a revelation. If the gaming world hadn't heard of Peter Molyneux beforehand, this was both an impressive introduction and a sketch of a path that would lead to the likes of Black and White and Fable. These games, like Populous itself focus around the players ability to influence rather than control the world in which they played.
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