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Populous: The Beginning
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Game data
- Released
- 1998-11-30
- User rating
- 4.02 / 5
- Genres
- Strategy, RPG
- Platforms
- PC, PlayStation
- ESRB
- Teen
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Populous: The Beginning is a strategy and god-style video game. It is the third entry in the Populous video game series, developed by Bullfrog Productions in 1998. The PC version of the game was released November 30, 1998 and a PlayStation version was later developed and released on April 2, 1999. Unlike earlier games in the series, which cast the player in the role of a god influencing loyal followers, The Beginning took a radical departure and placed the player in the role of a shaman, who directly leads her tribe against opponents. Throughout the twenty-five missions of the campaign, th…
- Released
- 1998
- Genres
- Real Time Strategy (RTS), Role-playing (RPG), Strategy
- Platforms
- PlayStation 3, PC (Microsoft Windows), PlayStation, PlayStation Portable
- Game modes
- Single player, Multiplayer
- Developer
- Bullfrog Productions
- Publisher
- Electronic Arts, Dice Multi Media Europe, Sold Out Sales & Marketing
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- video game
- Genre
- god game
- Country of origin
- United Kingdom
- Publisher
- Electronic Arts
- Series
- Populous
- Developer
- Bullfrog Productions
- Platform
- PlayStation
- Game mode
- single-player video game
- Game engine
- Magic Carpet
- Distribution format
- digital distribution
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- software version identifier
- 1.01
- publication date
- 1998-11-30
- distributed by
- Steam
- PlayStation DataCenter URL
- psxdatacenter.com/games/U/P/SLUS-00277.html
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