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Left Behind: Eternal Forces

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Game Info

Publisher: Left Behind Games

Developer: Left Behind Games

Genre(s): Real-Time Strategy

Players: 8

ESRB Rating: T (Teen)

Release Date: November 7, 2006

Summary

Left Behind: Eternal Forces is a Real Time Strategy game. You, as the player, control your forces from a vantage point high above the action. You do not personally participate in the action; you command your units to perform tasks by giving orders via the game interface. You can order them where to go and what to do whenever you wish. Lead the Tribulation Force from the book series, including Rayford, Chloe, Buck and Bruce against Nicolae Carpathia - the AntiChrist. Conduct physical & spiritual warfare : using the power of prayer to strengthen your troops in combat and wield modern military weaponry throughout the game world. Recover ancient scriptures and witness spectacular Angelic and Demonic activity as a direct consequence of your choices. [Left Behind Games]

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GameDaily

An intriguing effort from a first time development company and it warrants a look.

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AceGamez

Where Eternal Forces does a great job is in the loads of biographies for what would normally be throwaway units. Granted, some of the bio information is strangely comical, but you end up caring about each character under your command. Sadly, there are far too many other characters that might be seen by some as astonishing stereotypes.

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IGN

Unfortunately, the inconsistent behavior of your recruits means you'll spend more time fighting the interface than the Antichrist.

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Just Adventure

An RTS with a couple of interesting variations. It is written in a religious setting, but is not preachy nor does it condone violence against the heathens. If anything, it discourages violence and intolerance. The game was just too complicated for me to enjoy. But, to be fair, I am an Old Fart and the game was written for the young, gamers crowd.

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GameShark

It’s overtones about religion and beliefs are something that some may be wary of and those people more than likely wouldn’t want to touch the game with a ten foot pole. Those that can look past that though, would have a pretty good time with the game despite its few flaws in gameplay.

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WHAM! Gaming

Left Behind: Eternal Forces oscillates between the boring and the aggravating and is far from ever being a rapturous experience.

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Game Chronicles

A waste of time. The gameplay is terrible and I saw better graphics on video games two years ago. I can’t understand all the uproar this game caused because the game in itself is not worth bothering with.

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G4 TV

The real problem is the bland graphics, micromanagement, and repetitive gameplay. Good RTS games know that and tend to create missions you can complete in a variety of ways. Not so here.

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GameSpy

As representations of the End Times go, this one's about as scary as a Sunday school play (and not as well written).

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Games Radar (in-house)

Left Behind: Eternal Forces just doesn't play very well. As exciting and even (for at lot of folks, at least) uplifting as some of the content could be, it just doesn't move quickly enough or play smoothly enough to compete with the other, more gameplay focused titles in the admittedly more worldly marketplace.

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Digital Entertainment News

Left Behind: Eternal Forces misses on all cylinders. The game needs a serious tune-up on nearly every level.

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PC Gamer

The moral of the story is, if you're looking for a half-decent real-time strategy game, skip Left Behind. [Feb. 2007, p.66]

PC Gamer UK

Smug, poorly made, and incredibly frustrating to play, they managed the fearfully but not the wonderfully made. [Apr 2007, p.86]

GameSpot

Nobody has enough faith to endure a game with such a hokey story, terrible mission design, serious problems with the interface and graphics, and loads of crippling bugs.

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Worth Playing

Avoid this title like the plague. Not only are you sparing yourself the discomfort of ham-fisted preaching and shoddy game mechanics, you’ll also be doing your part to ensure that this obscene mess of eschatological flotsam and apocryphal jetsam never sees a sequel.

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The Onion (A.V. Club)

On top of resources that can't act independently and controls that damn you for mistakes that aren't your fault, the game resets most of your progress between missions—giving you no incentive to pray the extra mile.

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Gaming Age

On top of it all, the game crashes so often it seems like a sign. Every load and option change is a risk that results in equal occurrences of the following: a complete crash, stuck on locked screen or more playtime of a terribly boring and frustrating game.

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GameZone

If you play games at all, you'll instantly see this game for the unbalanced, unfair and unattractive mess that it is. [May 2007, p.77]

Computer Games Magazine

It's hard to imagine for whom this game was made. It's certainly not for gamers. And it's even more certainly not for nongamers, who are going to be entirely confounded. [Feb. 2007, p.68]

Game Revolution

The real problem is that the game is frustratingly hard. The camera is wily, and the tall buildings of New York frequently get in your way.

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What Our Users Said

The average user rating for this game is 4.0 (out of 10) based on 14 User Votes

Note: User votes are NOT included in the Metascore calculation.

Jinx M. gave it a10:
Not a perfect game, but it's a lot better than a lot of the garbage that is getting better scores here. Shadowrun beat this? Please! The company has been very faithful and timely in issuing free patches to address bugs and to improve gameplay. I suspect many reviews are based on the non-patched version. (And what game these days does not need patches?) I also suspect many reviews are based on prejudice against the religious beliefs held by the makers and presented in the game.

M. gave it a0:
Broken gameplay, annoying camera, terrible storyline, and often disturbing...For instance, when you "convert the Antichrist", they turn from a multi ethnic group into a completely white group...very, very disturbing.

Zee gave it a0:
Extremely Difficult and Irritating... Way to hard... Already stopped playing it the second day I bought it.

Captain Qwug gave it a1:
Way way way too difficult to even complete the 3rd mission. Difficult to understand objectives and the constant threat of making a minor mistake and having to relive the nightmarishly bad level again make this game a poor choice for anyone... However with a little TLC this game could be amazing.

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