
- Summary: Sacrifice provides a truly fresh approach in the 3-D RTS genre, allowing players to act as both commander and combatant over huge, real-time, generated landscapes in single or multiplayer modes. Wizards will not be disappointed as Sacrifice serves up over 50 spells and creatures. [Interplay]
- Developer: Shiny Entertainment
- Genre(s): Strategy
- # of players: 1-4
- Cheats: On GameFAQs
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Score distribution:
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Positive: 28 out of 31
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Mixed: 3 out of 31
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Negative: 0 out of 31
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If William Blake made a videogame, it would be this. If that isn't a recommendation, nothing is.
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You find a spectacularly violent and wonderfully thrilling adventure composed of epic, earth-shattering battles between deities' champions, fought in a dreamlike landscape as weird and varied as it is beautiful.
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No matter how smooth, pretty or great sounding a game is, if it ain't got that swing it ain't got a thing. Sacrifice has swing, oh lordy, it has swing.
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PC GamerThe best fully 3D real-time strategy yet. [Feb 2001, p.58]
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Despite a few minor control problems that crop up during battles, Sacrifice emerges unscathed with graphics, sound, gameplay and artificial intelligence that are all of extremely high caliber.
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Daily RadarThe few weaknesses come from repetitive gameplay in the single-player game, simplistic tactics that often boil down to "get 'em," and steep system requirements.
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The camera view is frustrating, the controls are frustrating, the AI is frustrating, the resource system is frustrating, the missions are frustrating, and above all the fact that this game isn't half as good as we were all hoping it would be is very, very frustrating.
Score distribution:
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Positive: 23 out of 25
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Mixed: 2 out of 25
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Negative: 0 out of 25
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NickR.Jan 26, 2008This game pioneered the 3D RTS landscape and paved the way for games such as Gloom, Natural Selection, and Savage.
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[Anonymous]Feb 3, 2005The last truly innovative game I have played. An all-time favorite with great production values and gameplay.
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Aug 9, 2016
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StevenS.Mar 2, 2003
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Mar 24, 2015
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JanosV.Aug 22, 2009
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AnonymousMCOct 9, 2009
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