Tuesday, October 5, 2010

Demigod

Well this one was kinda disappointing. Demigod was one of the first stand-alone DotA-like games. It was released 2009, and had several problems, which are the reason it didn't really took off.
The graphics are okay and nice to watch, the setting is also alright (demigods [see what they did there?] are fighting, because one of the REAL gods died, and it is up to them to take his place), but damn, they did so much wrong :/
First of all, there are just like 8 heroes to choose from. 8. in words: eight.
WHAT WERE THEY THINKING?!
the maps are okay, but boring. what they did is this: they made the first half of a map and then copypasted it. well, no need to worry about the gameplay-balance then, i guess. another problem of the maps: there were just paths you could walk along to fight. ONLY the paths. no way to ambush the enemies, no way to surprise them in ANY WAY. Hell, alle the maps were FLAT. not even mountains. :/
the skills and purchasable items ingame were okay and nicely done. but who cares, if there are just eight heroes to fight with :/
all in all it really could have been a good game, but i think at some point during the development the developers where like "ah whatever, lets stop here, 8 should be enough for everyone. and if not, well, we can still tell em that we patch more heroes and maps into the game later!"

RATING: 5/10

40 comments:

  1. I didn't like the gameplay of Demigod at all....subpar at best.

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  2. looking forward to playing this game

    supporting and following

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  3. Concept and philosophy was good, game wasnt

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  4. nice reviev :) good spot on copypasting maps xD

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  5. That's unfortunate! It looked like it could be cool. I personally have never been a fan of playing DOTA-esque games.

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  6. please keep on posting :)
    a good review, as always
    I've loved all of your reviews so far

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  7. Cool blog, I love the Zelda graphics you use for the ratings... ^_^
    I'm gonna follow you.

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  8. Thanks for the heads up bro, guess I won't bother with this game!
    following~

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  9. i kept on playing dota when it was released

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  10. Anything DotA related puts me off straight up lol

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  11. ooooo

    I like how your blog looks
    aaaa
    <3

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  12. Wasn`t a game for me either. Glad I wasn`t the only one.

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  13. well, that is one less game on my "to play" list.
    tnx man.

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  14. never heard of that one, will do some research, ty

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  15. Sounds similar to ninety nine knights, but ninety nine knights was a bit better, I'd give it a 7

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  16. uh i have such a hard time finding good games as well

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  17. too bad looks like it had some protection

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  18. Hmm didn't really enjoy this game. But I enjoyed DotA, and the game is just a balanced version of that.

    http://quarterqwerty.blogspot.com/

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  19. I liked your perspective in this one... I'm going to have to agree with you

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  20. Ugh we had this on our computers at school, it wasn't fun at all. Worst game ever, seriously

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  21. Somehow I agree 100% with you on this one.

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  22. Thanks for the review, don't think I'll be playing this game now

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  23. Looking forward to more reviews.

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  24. nice review !

    following & supporting you
    take care

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  25. I liked what you said on my blog earlier today... GTL and blogging FTW!

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  26. that's what happens when developers have 1 month and 200$ to make a game to make some income :)

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  27. While i never got into DotA, I was gonna pick this up..

    unfortunately..

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  28. Wasn't a big fan of this one myself.

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  29. i remeber talk about this game. not more into it now.

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  30. this was reviewed on good game just before it came out, they reckoned it was pretty average aswell but it was more of an entry level dota

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  31. Never heard of this, I was expecting with your pic, you to have done commander keen

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