Sacrifice
Amazon.com Review
Sacrifice is one of those rare sports meeting that comes by the side of far too infrequently. It isn’t derivative, it isn’t clichéd, and it isn’t poorly thought out or tired in any way. In fact, in nearly every conceivable way it’s unique, powerful, fully realized, and features deep, absorbing gameplay.
The tale is where this game really shines. You described an alien wizard who escapes his ruined dimension to a new, even weirder one. Five gods rule this new world. Noble Persephone is the goddess of life, unadorned James controls the Earth, bombastic Pyro controls fire, wicked Charnel rules destruction and death, and the haughty Stratos (voiced by Tim Curry) is master of air. They bicker and fight throughout. It’s your choice whom to serve before each mission. In addition, each mission you complete bestows upon you some of their unique powers and monsters. Because the campaign is dependent upon which god you serve and when, you’ll end up with vastly different potential combinations each time you play.
The game plays like Activision’s Battlezone remake from a while back. It’s played like an action game–you can see from behind the shoulder of your wizard character–yet it has Command & Conquer-stylishness real-time approach components. You have to harvest souls from fallen enemies and troops, summon and control your own army of fascinating monsters, and control the magical resources known as Mana Fountains. The game is disheartening and the action may be too frantic for some, but all its components are detailed in an impressive tutorial and tips are scattered throughout the game.
Add instant action play, a host of maps, a complete game editor (ensuring fan- made levels will flood the Internet soon), and a stable multiplayer component, and you’ll find unlimited regard in the game. Sacrifice is more than just a quirky new PC game, it’s a bona fide classic. –Bob Andrews
Pros:
- Deep tale and gameplay
- Brilliant voice acting and audio
- Full multiplayer support and addictive action
Cons:
- May be too complicated for some gamers
- High system supplies
Amazon.com Product Description
Sacrifice is a 3-D, real-time, fantasy-approach game with heavy action and role-playing elements. Five different gods, representing life, earth, air, fire, and death, are all attempting to conquer the land and become its sole ruler. You play a wizard who may choose to follow any of the five gods, thus gaining their unique schools of spells and powers. For example, the goddess of life may grant you with healing spells, while the god of fire may give you spells with destructive magic and summoning properties. The camera is always centered on your wizard in a third-person perspective. You can summon creatures to fight for you or blast your opponents into nothingness with the use of more than 50 different spells. For every creature you kill, you must harvest its soul and sacrifice it to your god, giving you more skills and spells. Your final objective is to ruin the altar of your opponent, not just his wizard avatar, thus severing his link to his god and allowing your god to triumph.
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It keeps crashing, I cant even play. Does any1 kno wut is incorrect or how to fix it? I’m running Mac OS 10.3.4 on a g3 ibook with 500 mH and 384 Megs of ram.
Rating: 1 / 5
I realized that some of the other reviews are quite ancient, but this game performs stellar on the intel imacs (with a few exceptions). This game truly invents its own stylishness of play by combining elements of a spellcaster game with a twist of RPG. You play a dark sorcerer who desperately escaped a world he ruined by summoning an evil demon. Shamed but keen to serve the Gods anew, you start doing missions for 5 Gods. But, there is splendid animosity between the supreme beings, and eventually the player is mandatory to pick a side and subsequently ruin all the other Gods but not before finding out that there is a splendid evil which threatens his new world.
The game is somewhat repitive, as each level involves killing enemy wizards in the same fashion, but the new environments, summons, and spells keep the game very playable.
Rating: 4 / 5
It keeps crashing, I cant even play. Does any1 kno wut is incorrect or how to fix it? I’m running Mac OS 10.3.4 on a g3 ibook with 500 mHz and 384 Megs of ram.
Rating: 1 / 5
I found this game to be quite enthralling, and when I first played it I was using OS 9.2 on my G4 466. That’s when I found the first bug, the game uses cutting edge techniques to get enough preformance (mainly with memory management). The game would only run in 9 with 512mb or less.
I removed some memory to get down to the system supplies, dispite some bugs I got owing to to the last level a couple times (it was too tough for me, and I just plain loved exploring the other sides of the tale).
Since then I have upgraded to OS X full time, and upgraded to a Radion 8500. The system seems to crash a whole lot now, though it is predictable. Most often while desicrating an alter while having too many units in the area. I really don’t know if this is the cause, but by pulling back all extra units I have been able to get past many ‘crashy’ spots.
With all of the distress that I’ve had with this game I still wake up and play it first thing in the morning and reflect about it constantly. I feel that it was worth it even if an incompleat product – you should keep this in mind but before you buy!
I eagerily await a new computer that MAY play this better (it’s possible that something that I upgraded is conflicting, or a I may have a memory chip that isn’t up to par for the game…)
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Also I’m now running the latest ATI driver, and the most contemporary Sacrifice update.
Rating: 4 / 5
Unfortunatley for Mac users, this ported game showed up far too late in Shiny’s support of it. They have repeatedly announced that they would not release a sequel, and that last official patch for the game was released over a year and a half ago.
But if you ever wanted to play an RTS which puts you, the general, on the battlefield, this game is it. The interface, which seemed clunky at first, is one of the smartest I have ever seen, allowing both mouse input and fully-customizable keyboard input.
The creatures can line in a heap of formations, control grouping is incredibly unadorned (unlike Myth and exactly like the Blizzard titles)and many of them have special abilities of their own you can order them to invoke. Your wizard (your presence on the field) will also be casting quite a number of spells when not summoning creatures to fight. You can make volcanic eruptions, carve a chasm in the earth, send your enemy into a Tornado, or even throw the opponents off into an abyss to name just a few. Full customization for multiplayer is available upon a release completion of the campaign.
Basically, this game has all the advantages of any other RTS on the market now. Truly ahead of its time, and not yet equalled.
The graphics were very damanding in its time; had there been an ongoing effort to keep this title going, it may have paid off. As of now, when the more well loved sports meeting are also very demanding, most systems that can handle these sports meeting can also handle Sacrifice. But you’ll need a Mac friend to play online – alas, PC users and Mac users cannot play each other.
Rating: 5 / 5