Before i begin i'd like to say that this is my first review... ever. All comments and feedback welcome.
Demigod opens with the story of how one of the ancient gods of old has broken the rules of the gods and has been striped of his powers. This has left an opening in the ranks of the gods that needs to be fulfilled. Of course position of a God is going to generate a lot of interest (it has good dental) and so eight powerful beings (who happen to be the bastard offspring of the fallen god) have all applied for the position, so rather then go through the mandatory interview process, the old gods have decided to spice things up with a competition in order to gain favor and become the new god.
Demigod is a real-time strategy with RPG elements as you compete with seven other Demigods who are all vying for the same position as you. You work in two teams of four in order to complete the objective to win the match before the other team does. There are really only four types of objectives for the game and since each campaign is only eight stages in length you are going to end up doing each objective twice before the end. There are only about eight different maps in the game, and since the maps in the campaign are chosen at random, its highly likely your going to end up playing the same level over and over again, only with different objectives (if your lucky).
As mentioned there are eight different Demigods to choose from at the beginning of the Champaign, which have been divided into two different categories, Generals and Assassins. Generals have the ability to buy idols in the shop so that they can summon units that follow them around and support them in battle. Its also possible to send these units off on their own, but unless their fighting the common horde of enemy monsters running around the battlefield, then there?s not really much of a point, but even sending them off against the common horde is pretty much a waste of time. Assassins are more the loner type that prefer to do things by themselves without having to worry about others following them around.
As the battle begins you move out to capture flags that are placed around the battlefield that will give you specific bonuses depending on what?s near them (gold mine, artefact shop, portal and in one game mode points towards winning the match). Capturing the flags will also earn you experience so that your character levels up and you get one point to spend on a new ability to increase your strength. Along with the other Demigods on your team, you will also have a number of minions emerging from portals at set periods, and they will run off along a set path until they find another group of minions from the enemies side who are following the same set path and fight each other until there?s only one left. You have no control over these minions, even if you?re a General, which kind of begs the question ?which part of this is meant to be RTS??
As the battle progresses the collective experience of your other three Demigod comrades will cause your battle rank to increase. When this happens you can return to your Citadel and buy new upgrades for your army including new units, better weapons and better armour, as well upgrades to your gold mines and experience generation.
Graphically the game does actually look quite polished and the detail on some of the units is quite nice, but the effect wears off quite quickly, especially when you see units getting trapped off the path and just seem to be running in mid air and going nowhere.
The only strategic part of this game that I have really discovered is at the start of each campaign when you try decide what path to follow in terms of your characters tech tree, and once you?ve decided on that your really just going to end up doing that for the rest of the game, since you start at level one at the beginning of each match.
Bottom Line: Demigod is an RTS with RPG elements, just that its really without any major RTS elements, and gets very repetitive very quickly.
Recommendation: If you liked the Dynasty Warriors series you might get an extra hour of enjoyment out of this since you?ll be used to doing all the work, otherwise avoid.
Demigod opens with the story of how one of the ancient gods of old has broken the rules of the gods and has been striped of his powers. This has left an opening in the ranks of the gods that needs to be fulfilled. Of course position of a God is going to generate a lot of interest (it has good dental) and so eight powerful beings (who happen to be the bastard offspring of the fallen god) have all applied for the position, so rather then go through the mandatory interview process, the old gods have decided to spice things up with a competition in order to gain favor and become the new god.
Demigod is a real-time strategy with RPG elements as you compete with seven other Demigods who are all vying for the same position as you. You work in two teams of four in order to complete the objective to win the match before the other team does. There are really only four types of objectives for the game and since each campaign is only eight stages in length you are going to end up doing each objective twice before the end. There are only about eight different maps in the game, and since the maps in the campaign are chosen at random, its highly likely your going to end up playing the same level over and over again, only with different objectives (if your lucky).
As mentioned there are eight different Demigods to choose from at the beginning of the Champaign, which have been divided into two different categories, Generals and Assassins. Generals have the ability to buy idols in the shop so that they can summon units that follow them around and support them in battle. Its also possible to send these units off on their own, but unless their fighting the common horde of enemy monsters running around the battlefield, then there?s not really much of a point, but even sending them off against the common horde is pretty much a waste of time. Assassins are more the loner type that prefer to do things by themselves without having to worry about others following them around.
As the battle begins you move out to capture flags that are placed around the battlefield that will give you specific bonuses depending on what?s near them (gold mine, artefact shop, portal and in one game mode points towards winning the match). Capturing the flags will also earn you experience so that your character levels up and you get one point to spend on a new ability to increase your strength. Along with the other Demigods on your team, you will also have a number of minions emerging from portals at set periods, and they will run off along a set path until they find another group of minions from the enemies side who are following the same set path and fight each other until there?s only one left. You have no control over these minions, even if you?re a General, which kind of begs the question ?which part of this is meant to be RTS??
As the battle progresses the collective experience of your other three Demigod comrades will cause your battle rank to increase. When this happens you can return to your Citadel and buy new upgrades for your army including new units, better weapons and better armour, as well upgrades to your gold mines and experience generation.
Graphically the game does actually look quite polished and the detail on some of the units is quite nice, but the effect wears off quite quickly, especially when you see units getting trapped off the path and just seem to be running in mid air and going nowhere.
The only strategic part of this game that I have really discovered is at the start of each campaign when you try decide what path to follow in terms of your characters tech tree, and once you?ve decided on that your really just going to end up doing that for the rest of the game, since you start at level one at the beginning of each match.
Bottom Line: Demigod is an RTS with RPG elements, just that its really without any major RTS elements, and gets very repetitive very quickly.
Recommendation: If you liked the Dynasty Warriors series you might get an extra hour of enjoyment out of this since you?ll be used to doing all the work, otherwise avoid.
