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- Quick specs
- Price: Free
- Operating system: Windows Vista, Windows Me, Windows XP, Windows 2000, Windows 98
- Date added: February 27, 2008
- Total Downloads: 98,754
- Downloads last week: 392
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- CNET editors' rating: stars
- Average user rating: stars out of 33 votes
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CNET editors' review
Reviewed by: CNET Staff
For a freeware game, Glest stands out at an astonishing level. A real-time strategy game in the vein of Warcraft III or the Empire Earth games, it asks players to create workers, harvest resources, construct buildings, produce military units, and ultimately destroy enemy bases.
Though its technology isn't quite as deep as the commercial games, we were quite surprised to find very well-rendered 3D textures, good music, detailed models, and a well-developed game system. The game pits two opposing factions, Magicians and Technicians, against one another, each having different structures and units. Players can choose either one, although novices might want to start with Technicians, which are similar to humans in Warcraft.
Magicians are a bit more complicated, with the ability to conjure new monsters and fire magic projectiles. Given the game's solid gameplay, good design, a small size, and, above all, a price tag of zero, we highly recommend Glest to anyone with a soft spot for real-time strategy games.
Publisher's description
From Glest Team :Glest is a free 3D real time strategy game. The game allows the player to take control of two completely different factions: Tech, which is mainly composed of warriors and mechanical devices, and magic, that prefers mages and summoned creatures in the battlefield. Multiplayer game over LAN/Internet is available to up to 4 players. Version 3.1 includes several changes such as in-game chat, main menu background model changed, Server IPs are now stored in a file, and other improvements.
What's new in this version:
Version 3.1 includes several changes such as in-game chat, main menu background model changed, Server IPs are now stored in a file, and other improvements.
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User reviews
- Average user rating: 4.2 stars out of 33 votes
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2 out of 2 people found this review helpful
Version: Glest 3.1
"Excellent game, hours of gameplay in there"
Pros: There are lots of maps, factions, mods and addons you keep you entertained for ever, since its VRY active community is always churning out new stuff.
Addictive and entertaining
Cons: Only negative I see is it takes a little while to load all its stuff on every game. Other than that it's great.
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3 out of 3 people found this review helpful
Version: Glest 3.1
Pros: Good graphics,Its small but its very fun and its free!!
Cons: None
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Version: Glest 3.1
"good game gets boring pretty quickly"
Pros: good game, nice graphics, fun!!
Cons: gets boring to quickly
Summary: i downloaded this game cause it looked fun which it is.but then after a while i didnt want to play it again for a pretty long time. if your looking for something to just play here and there a little then its a good game. if not youll probablly get b... read more >>
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Version: Glest 3.1
"An awesome game, it's open source run by XML."
Pros: open source, run by XML which makes it easy to edit the game
a great way to kill timeCons: absolutely no cons it's just the perfect game!
Summary: This game is totally awesome cause i mean if you do't like something about it you can edit the XML's and completely change the game without any limits!
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Version: Glest 3.1
Pros: Glest is a fantastic game because it combines fast, action packed play with fantasy rivaled by more popular fantasy games such as Warcraft and Warhammer. It has open GPL licensing, so any mods made are not tripped up by licensing or copyrights.
Cons: The factions are of limited length, but work is being done to make them longer. The game is realatively new, but there is already a large 1500+ member forum at glest.org/glest_board.
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