Populous Demo COLOR This is a Strategy Game Mactivity's CD-ROM nr 10 advice: This application did run on a color 68030 processor under System 7.1. It was also tested on a big ColorScreen of a PowerMacintosh running System 7.1.2. The game was also tested on a Quadra with 68040 processor and a 13 inch Color Screen and System 7.1 by Mactivity. Attention: This application runs only on COLOR monitors. Populous sees the birth of two nations - one good, one evil, both warriors by nature and fanatical followers of their own God. You play God and your aim is to wipe out the population of the opponent so one nation remains. Populous features an overview map of the current world and the ability to instantly zoom in to any one point in the world and view it in 3D. You begin by clearing land for your first people to settle and build villages. As these villages grow into cities, so the technology level of its inhabitants evolves. The number of people and their technological advancement in turn determines your divine power. As this grows, you will be able to direct your leader to any place on the map, create knights who will fight and burn the enemies' cities and harness the natural elements against the enemy by ravaging the land with swamps, earthquakes, volcanoes and floods. The full version of Populous features two modes of play, a conquest and a custom mode, but only the former is available in the demo version. The full version also features hundreds of worlds, of which two are included in the demo version. There are two colour versions of Populous on the disk - one for small colour screens and one for larger colour screens. The mono version is not provided. Back to the Computer Games Index