Dominion – Storm over Gift 3
Ion Storm

Yes sir, three bags full sir:
All the unit sounds you would expect are here and they are different for all four sides. The Scorp’s have a insect type sound, Merc’s have a robitic tone of voice and the Darken sound weird enough, Humans sound like Humans of course. So while the units sounds are fine the building sound and building ready sound are the two most annoying sounds i’ve ever heard. It sounds like the effect you get when you stick a mic in your mouth and talk, you end up with this deep base HMMM noise and it ain’t half annoying. The music we won’t even mention, if you even remotely know what type of music John Romero likes then you know what to expect, all I can say is that I turned it off instantly.
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War, never been so tame:
Gameplay wise this game falls into two parties, some hate it outright and some just aren’t to found of it. Single player it’s boring, the missions are very samey and not too intelligent, laid out like a group of amature levels.

And the sides are laid out just like Warcraft 2 with only a graphical difference seperating them (and two unit’s with slight modifications but are still the same thing). Although when it comes to the unit problem it worked in Warcraft and it actually does work in this too. The big problem is the code, it seems not finished, as soon as the unit limit passes a certain number the game jerks severly, no matter what computer you are on. With that goes their promise of 30 FPS, and in multiplayer it’s even worse. But while the jerking is a major pain, multiplayer is the games only real saving grace.

Multiplayer is fun enough despite the slow down and is set out well enough to allow a decent game but more than 4 players with different types of computers is too slow. It is actually a shame because I like the units in the game, what with mechs and tanks and troops and it has enough good ideas to speed it along but it isn’t enough to keep it alive really. Oh yeah and the A.I. Promise is bull, your units are as dumb as ever, same with the stupid computer.

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