Combined with liberal use of pause-dropping (pausing the game immediately after your hand leaves your borders while grabbing something, then unpausing once you're in the desired location and dropping the object immediately after) poisoned grain on the enemy Village Stores, their entire population will eventually wither and die, and as villages with no people need no Belief to take over, you can quickly conquer your foes' territory.

Another from the first game: AI gods cannot distinguish poisoned food (when you drop a red mushroom on food, it turns green and deadly for humans) from normal, untainted food.

With enough luck, you can get the entire village burnt to the ground without hurting anyone yourself. The enemy villagers aren't so lucky, if you place your Creature in a hostile village. Your Creature can easily counter this with a Rain Miracle (and will do it instinctively if it knows the spell it doesn't even need to be taught).

In the first game, AI Gods always fireball or lightning your Creature if you send it into their territory.

The sequel begins with you saving a handful of villagers while their city is being invaded and burned, everyone they know is killed, and even the once-familiar landscape is rent asunder by 'natural' disasters.

The original game begins like this with a couple desperately crying out for divine intervention after their child runs off into shark-infested waters.

Every time they entreaty you for help, they do so with a song backed by accordions.

Accordion to Most Sailors: A Sidequest Sidestory throughout the original game concerns a group of would-be sailors who need your help in building a ship and gathering supplies for their voyage.

The Creature's appearance will change, too, with its behavior (for example, a horse trained to be good will become a super-sparkly unicorn, while an evil horse becomes dark-colored and monstrous-looking.) Interestingly, you can train your Creature to either follow your morality example to the letter, or be your complete opposite. the sky will start to grow dark and threatening, the hand will become demonic and followed by noxious smoke, and the temple will grow spikes and generally look really badass.

For a god who decides to sic wolves on neutral or enemy villages, make your subjects worship you until they die, feed the corpses to your Creature, then throw around a few fireballs for light relief. A god who sends rainclouds to the fields, heals the sick, builds homes for the people, and gently converts neutral or enemy villages with cute doves will eventually rule a land suffused with light, where rainbows arc the sky and trains of sparkles follow the god's hand, and your Citadel, or temple headquarters, becomes a white Disney-esque tower of beauty and joy.

You also eventually acquire a Creature, a somewhat autonomous giant animal that can learn various tasks and spells from you.Д«ut the interesting part about this game is that the environment changes depending on what sort of a god you are. You can pick things up and move them around, and cast miracles by making gestures with the mouse. The core concept of the game has you taking on the role of a god, represented by a disembodied hand, ruling over various tribes on various islands. A Simulation Game released by Peter Molyneux's Lionhead Studios in 2001.

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