Populous

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The Populous series 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.

The games involved the player taking on the role of a deity and leading followers into battle against opposing deities, and intervene by using a variety of "divine intervention" effects.

The first two games were similar. In Populous and Populous II, much emphasis was spent on flattening the terrain. The view of the game-world was isometric. Populous: The Beginning was more like a conventional war-game than a god-game and uses true 3D instead of isometric 3D. In Populous: The Beginning, the player is set in the role of a shaman instead of a god, but at the end of the game attains godhood.

• Populous (1989)
  • Populous: The Promised Lands (1989)
  • Populous: The Final Frontier (1989)
• Populous II: Trials of the Olympian Gods (1991)
  • Populous II: The Challenge Games ?
• Populous: The Beginning (1998)
  • Populous: The Beginning - Undiscovered Worlds (1999)
• Populous DS (2007)

External links

• The Populous series at MobyGames
• FreePop — an attempt to write a free remake of Populous

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