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Mixed or average reviews - based on 9 Critics What's this?

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Generally favorable reviews- based on 21 Ratings

  • Summary: A real-time strategy game in which the plot influences mission objectives and which has multiple endings depending on player's actions. Contrary to other games, there is no other way of creating new human units. Each man or woman is unique. [Altar Interactive]
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 3 out of 9
  2. Negative: 1 out of 9
  1. 88
    The game's combination of strong story, seriously tactical real-time battles, gorgeous graphics, and real-time role-playing, make this one of the best surprises of the year.
  2. Less good than the interface, but not bad by any means is Original War’s graphics.
  3. The sound track leaves something to be desired. The music is good, and the effects are typical or what one would expect, but the vocal characterizations are not that good, and the game is laced with strong language (profanity).
  4. 45
    The game makes noble attempts to take the RPG elements of character importance and development and blend them with a twisted real-time strategy, but although the effort is commendable in spirit, the final outcome is so harshly lacking in so many departments that it actually hurts to play it.

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Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 6 out of 6
  2. Mixed: 0 out of 6
  3. Negative: 0 out of 6
  1. Original War was one of the first game which I played and enjoyed. Interesting story, missions, good looking graphics even after 11 years. Strife which require a lot of thinking and planing. Maybe it has some bugs, but in my opinion this game is a very important position for every fan or RTSs. Cheers. Expand
  2. MantrimasZ.
    10
    This game is great i played it and i liked it very much. I would like to play this game with someone.
  3. CommandZ
    9
    This is a really under appreciated experience, and one of the first RTS(s) I can think of that makes you really care about the characters.
  4. SeaK.
    8
    Nice!

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