Sacrifice
- November 24, 2000 14:47 PM PST
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Leave it to Shiny Entertainment to create the most bizarre 3D real-time strategy game ever. With its striking visuals, addictive gameplay, and offbeat humor, Sacrifice is definitely going to turn a few gamers' heads.
Leave it to Shiny Entertainment to create the most bizarre 3D real-time strategy game ever. With its striking visuals, addictive gameplay, and offbeat humor, Sacrifice is definitely going to turn a few gamers' heads.In Sacrifice you take the role of a powerful wizard helping five bickering gods battle for control of the land. Players start with an altar, which acts as their home base. The object: protect your altar and destroy your opponents' altars.
You won't have to go it alone, though, as you will be able to summon an army of minions to do your dirty work. The collection of creatures available depends on which of the five gods you are serving. Wizards siding with Persephone, goddess of light, will have Rangers and Druids to do their bidding, while those fighting for Charnel, the god of death, will have access to Scythes and Locusts. Each creature comes equipped with unique abilities, such as healing or invisibility, and as your character increases in level, more powerful beings become available.
Like other RTS games, Sacrifice requires you to harvest resources, only instead of wood or gold, your wizards gather mana for spells and collect souls for summoning. As summoned creatures die, their souls wait to be collected by their former owner. Enemy souls can also be converted by summoning a creature that sucks out the enemy soul with a giant hypodermic needle and carries it back to your altar.
As with most Shiny games, Sacrifice shows off the developers' technological talents as well as their warped sense of humor. Wizards range from Medusa-like snake creatures to a gnome riding a one-legged beast and the minions look like demented Muppets in a Tim Burton nightmare. The 3D engine is capable of rendering scores of objects simultaneously while automatically adjusting itself to maintain the best possible framerate.
Sacrifice is definitely not your typical RTS game. Gamers can look forward to plenty of twisted action when Sacrifice is offered to stores in winter 2000.
