Sacrifice

Shiny Box Games · Nov 1, 2000

Teen

About

Sacrifice is the acclaimed real-time strategy game that focuses on combat instead of resource gathering. The only two resources you'll need to worry about are mana and souls. Need more units? Capture the souls of your enemy. Cast spells of awesome power. Choose which gods to support and you will be rewarded with a different selection of spells. Banish your enemy by sacrificing one of your allies at his altar.

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Critic 8.0 (3 critics) · Gamer 9.0

Critic reviews

IGN
IGN Staff · Nov 16, 2000
9.4
You'll find tons of fun with going through the single player game in different ways and tons more fun with the multiplayer. And they include a very easy to use and powerful editor to create your own scenarios and multiplayer levels. You can import your own sound bytes and all of that good stuff to create your own storylines and campaigns. This is a hugely robust game overflowing with character and creativity. Sacrifice shines like a freaky star in a field of overused ideas and clones. Go get it.
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GameSpot
Greg Kasavin · Nov 06, 2000
8.6
Sacrifice supports online play and has a fully integrated player-matching service, though it doesn't have a direct-connect TCP/IP option. The game also comes with a very amusing manual that's written from the perspective of the different gods. Sacrifice even includes a powerful map builder called Scapex, which lets you easily build a great-looking Sacrifice level from a fully 3D view. Since the layout of a Sacrifice map can drastically affect the way in which you must conduct the battle, and since the level editor works so well - and, most importantly, since Sacrifice is such an interesting game - Scapex is bound to give Sacrifice a great deal of longevity.
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Euro Gamer
Gestalt · Nov 20, 2000
6.0
Sacrifice isn't a bad game, just frustrating. If I drop dead from a heart attack tomorrow, it will be because of the massive increase in blood pressure I've suffered from while playing this game. The camera view is frustrating, the controls are frustrating, the AI is frustrating, the resource system is frustrating, the missions are frustrating, and above all the fact that this game isn't half as good as we were all hoping it would be is very, very frustrating.
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