In the beginning, there was darkness. And in the darkness was the Mana, and in the Mana, The Visions. Populous The Beginning is a God/RTS game that puts you in command of a Shaman who can cast devastating spells to turn the battle field to her favor. However she is not the only one who has the Ability. There are three other tribes with similar "Shamans" so the only thing you can rely on is your quick wits and Strategic mind. Your followers will help you in the battle to help you become the new God of the Solar System. The campaign has about 22 levels in it. 22 levels of fun, action and major army's killing the heck out of each other! you will only be disappointed when you reach the end. One thing is that this isn't in stores anymore so there's no way of playing it now unless you buy it on Ebay or somthing.
ESRB Rating: T
System Requirements: Pentium 133 MHz, 16 MB RAM, Windows 95, DirectX, CD-ROM drive, and 100 MB hard drive space.
Due to the official services going offline 13+ years ago try www.popre.net for an active community.
For both singleplayer and multiplayer. The closest experience to the original release. Only accepts the original 4 tribes, and thus, up to 4 players in the match. You can not launch "1.5" maps on this version.
For both singleplayer and multiplayer. Developed by some Popre's members, this version aims to fix the game's bugs, improve gameplay, and increase players up to 8! You can also launch "1.03" maps with this version.
Exclusively singleplayer. This version exists when playing through the Multiverse launcher tool. It's closest to the vanilla version of the game, but with tons of fixes, quality of life, and additions (only 4 tribes).
Still confused? Watch this guide.
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PopRe Site to download the game, its expansions, forums, to play online (up to 8 players), and much more.
PopRe Discord to reach the community, find support, and all sort of files.
Download campaigns: Pop Campaigns. (old method of manually installing, using base game version or 1.5 version).
Download the campaigns manager Multiverse Launcher. Allow you to easily install multiple campaigns at once, easily swap at ease, use mods, and much more. (requires base version of the game).
Populous: The Anniversary mod (make sure you have Populous: The Beginning installed first, so you can replace the files to play this mod). Medium difficulty...
Populous: Original Worlds mod (make sure you have Populous: The Beginning installed first, so you can replace the files to play this mod). Easy difficulty...
Populous: Path of the Godchosen mod (make sure you have Populous: The Beginning installed first, so you can replace the files to play this mod). Very...
Populous: The Order System mod (make sure you have Populous: The Beginning installed first, so you can replace the files to play this mod). Hard+ difficulty...
Populous: JC Levels mod (make sure you have Populous: The Beginning installed first, so you can replace the files to play this mod). Hard- difficulty
Populous: War for Survival mod (make sure you have Populous: The Beginning installed first, so you can replace the files to play this mod). Hard difficulty...
Awesome Game & Mods. I´m Just Testing all Mod´s!
Hey guys,
Really someone has to mod this game.
I have just red a Wikipedia page about this game which is very unfavourable for this release, but this game is awesome!
Same like Homeworld 2 someone should remaster it.
I like these messy battles and economics where only wood piles are important.
check out www.popre.net if you want to play this game online with quite a large community for a game this old ;)
We offer a wide variaty of maps, modifications, singleplayer campaigns and a multiplayer matchmaker to play online!
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we need a propa modden day revamp off this.
Wildman Productions have been working on a Populous Game since like, 2006...I don't know if they're ever going to continue working on it, though because it's been at 46% for like 4 years or something...
For anyone who's interesting in looking and not in Google-Searching, Poptc.wildman-productions.org
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i love this game, it was always fun to mess around and deform the landscape, one thing i always wanted tho was a way to play the other colours/tribes.
Still, 10/10
you under rated it 20/10
Good times, good times....