CNET Editors' review
The rise of the horrific race of the Fallen has thrown the world of Exigo into turmoil, pitting the factions of Empire, Beast, and Fallen against each other. Armies of Exigo's contribution to the real-time fantasy genre promises to be a split between aboveground and underground worlds, which could open up an entirely new set of tactics. The demo's gameplay is standard resource collecting, technology development, and real-time battles between humanoids and monsters. However, it doesn't demonstrate the potential of multilevel battles and displays the underground world only briefly. It's all fun in the impressively detailed 3D world, but it's nothing to scream about.
Veteran real-time gamers will pick up the game easily, but newbies should peruse the read-me file first, since the demo includes no tutorials, help, or control information. Some necessary interface functionality went missing in this first demo. You can't zoom or rotate the view with the mouse; you can't save or load games; and you can't select all units by type with hot keys. While the two-leveled universe of Exigo looks intriguing, the demo's gameplay didn't impress us as much as we hoped.
Publisher's Description
From EA Games:
Armies of Exigo is a real-time strategy game in which elves, beasts, knights, and other creatures battle both above and below the ground. Take control of massive armies, wage wars in forests and river valleys, and then descend into the caverns and catacombs to face off against the dark evil. Armies on all sides can delve deep underground to travel unseen by foes, or they can rise to the surface to unleash powerful attacks on unsuspecting enemies. Engage in a single-player campaign and save the world of Exigo, or go online for massive multiplayer skirmishes with up to eight players.
You and your army are the sole survivors of an air crash in the magical forests where evil lurks behind every corner. Seek out resources to build yourself an army of up to 200 units and defeat the Beasts' army aboveground. Then descend to the caverns below and encounter a mysterious enemy. To survive this incredible demo you must break the two seals that protect the entrance to the catacombs, defeat the beast army, and survive the evils that await you in the world of Exigo.
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"Great game"
Version: Armies of Exigo demo
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Been playing the multi player demo for 2weeks. Had no problems running the game.
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"a superbly made and incredibly fun game"
Version: Armies of Exigo demo
Summary
as an avid beta tester for this game i can say that the close to final version of the game we are currently playing is much better then the single player demo and the multyplayer aspect of the game really shines out and makes the game the best M-play experience ive had since playing starcraft so many years ago...if you like this demo then try the Multy play demo as well who has just come out on EA exigo's main site (28/10/04)..game should be out soon so i am certainly looking forward to that :)
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"Didn't load..."
Version: Armies of Exigo demo
Summary
If a game doesn't run, it's not much fun, and certainly not worth paying for... It installed fine but hangs up whenever it loads the game. VERY disappointing.
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"great demo, want to play the full game"
Version: Armies of Exigo demo
Summary
this could be better than WC3 if mp is as good as this demo
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"keeps freezing, warcraft ripoff"
Version: Armies of Exigo demo
Summary
even with a 2+GHz processor and 500+mb ram this game keeps freezing; the graphics are ok, as are the characters, but the whole thing is a warcraft (and to some point age of empires) ripoff
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"resourse hog"
Version: Armies of Exigo demo
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hi
1280x1024 res. only.choppy on my amd 2800+.
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"* Great demo"
Version: Armies of Exigo demo
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As an avid WC3 FT player, if the multi-player and map maker are good this could give Blizzard a run. EA is better than Blizzard.
