SpellForce Review

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Written by BuckGB on February 23rd, 2004

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Overall SpellForce is an RTS game that doesn't hide behind its genre with the same gameplay and features of every other RTS game but rather tries to break the mold down a bit and carve out a new facet of the genre for itself. The RTS gameplay is solid and presented well, and while the way you control multiple races via set shrine points may take a bit of getting used to most players will take to it like a fish to water within minutes. The avatar system is a beefier system than what you'll find in any other RTS game on the market and offers for a little higher degree of flexibility and even strategy, outfitting your avatars with various weapons and spells in order to complement the other normal units of your attacking force. A little more direct control over the avatars while at ground level would have been welcomed, but at its heart SpellForce is an RTS game after all. While it doesn't have a huge budget or a big name behind it, SpellForce does come across as a solid title that not only has great looks and decent sound in relation to other games in the genre but also stands as a fresh new look at the RTS genre.

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