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Maxwell Eden reviewed Populous World Editor for Computer Gaming World, and stated that "Now all Populous fans wanting to be apprentice wizards can share in the magic of that gift. Populous is a great game and PWE is an ideal enhancement that breathes new life into weary bytes. Absolute power was never as incorruptible, nor this creative."
Populous is a series of video games developed by Bullfrog Productions and published by Electronic Arts. The first game in the series, Populous , was released in 1989. At the time, it was hailed as revolutionary, and it coined the term " god game ".
Populous: The Beginning was the first in the series developed with entirely 3D graphics, allowing the environment to be scaled and rotated in real time (though characters remained two-dimensional sprites.) [18] [19] The game was published more than four years after Populous II, as Bullfrog waited for hardware advancements to enable a new ...
The company's first release was a 1988 Amiga port of the 1987 Commodore 64 game Druid II: Enlightenment, and its first original game Fusion was released a few months later. Bullfrog's second game, Populous (1989), garnered widespread attention and awards, and sold over four million copies, leading the company to grow to around twenty employees.
Populous II is a direct sequel to Bullfrog's earlier game Populous and is one of the company's most notable games. Like its predecessor, Populous II is a god game, where the player is guiding his people in battle against the followers of an enemy god. Whereas Populous only generally alluded to undefined deities, Populous II is specifically set ...
Populous DS (ポピュラス DS, Popyurasu DS) is a real-time strategy video game developed by Genki. It was published in Japan by Electronic Arts on February 21, 2008, in North America by Xseed Games on November 11, 2008, and in Europe by Rising Star Games on February 27, 2009, for the Nintendo DS.
Bullfrog Productions Limited was a British video game developer based in Guildford, England.Founded in 1987 by Peter Molyneux and Les Edgar, the company gained recognition in 1989 for their third release, Populous, and is also well known for titles such as Theme Park, Theme Hospital, Magic Carpet, Syndicate and Dungeon Keeper.
This category groups articles on topics relating to the Populous series of video games. Pages in category "Populous (series)" The following 5 pages are in this category, out of 5 total.