SpellForce 3

Very good mix of RTS and team RPG game. In comparison to SpellForce 2 the RTS part is much better. RPG part is very good. Skill trees and character development is not very complex, but still lets you play a bit with a build that fits you. I feel that developers reached a very good balance between RPG and RTS that allows to fully enjoy both parts.

I like the game play but I absolutely love sound and graphics design of this game. Music is soft and melancholic. World is beautifully drawn. It takes some time to explore new location because I have admire the views all the time.

Absolute banger.

I am flabbergasted by how good this game is.
The story, writing, voice acting are very high quality, but most importantly the gameplay is supper fun and well designed.
I can't believe this game is not more popular and I think many any future RTS games should take inspiration this title.
The campaign is amazing. It can be played in coop. There are other small gamemodes which are also very fun and can be played in coop.
The PVP gamemode looks also very interesting. I haven't played any of it by the of writing this review, but I have been watching some matches on youtube and it looked very interesting.
I highly recommend this game to anyone who is looking for a new and innovative spin on the RTS genre. I also recommend it to anyone who enjoys CRPGs to give it a chance as a potential entry to RTS.

This game is seriously the biggest hidden gem for RPG & RTS lovers combined!!! Its got a story that surprises and keeps you interested so so well written. The game is just beautiful its crazy. Its a a must play for fantasy lovers!! 10/10

I legitimately do not understand why this game is not better known. I bought it on a whim, and now just a couple hours in I am astounded at the quality of the writing, character creation and depth, and narration. What I was expecting was a throw-away experience, but I can say the RPG side of this is absolutely brilliant. If you liked playing the single player bits of StarCraft, WarCraft etc then this is FABULOUS. It's like taking Baldur's Gate and adding an Age of Empires RTS element. The default difficulty level is very forgiving, although if you want a challenge you can up it *substantially*.
So freaking fun.
8 hr update: character development is good, combat with heroes gets more fun as their util increases, and I'm enjoying leveling up the characters. RPG element is a good balance of flexibility vs. it's not taking me ages to decide each point distribution (don't *have* to min-max at normal difficulty).
43 hr update: really jiving with these characters, and the storyline has taken expected twists. In fact the writing overall is a level higher than I realized at first. The level of engagement is reminiscent of how I felt playing Baldur's Gate I and II. Game difficulty is spot-on for normal and I'm enjoying the RTS bits more as I've figured out the basics.
---{ Graphics }---
☐ You forget what reality is
☑ Beautiful
☑ Good
☐ Decent
☐ Bad
☐ Don‘t look too long at it
☐ MS-DOS
---{ Gameplay }---
☑ Very good
☐ Good
☐ It's just gameplay
☐ Mehh
☐ Watch paint dry instead
☐ Just don't
---{ Audio }---
☐ Eargasm
☑ Very good
☐ Good
☐ Not too bad
☐ Bad
☐ I'm now deaf
---{ Audience }---
☑ Kids
☑ Teens
☑ Adults
☑ Grandma
---{ PC Requirements }---
☐ Check if you can run paint
☐ Potato
☑ Decent
☐ Fast
☐ Rich boi
☐ Ask NASA if they have a spare computer
---{ Game Size }---
☐ Floppy Disk
☐ Old Fashioned
☑ Workable
☐ Big
☐ Will eat 10% of your 1TB hard drive
☐ You will want an entire hard drive to hold it
☐ You will need to invest in a black hole to hold all the data
---{ Difficulty }---
☐ Just press 'W'
☑ Easy
☐ Easy to learn / Hard to master
☐ Significant brain usage
☐ Difficult
☐ Dark Souls
---{ Grind }---
☐ Nothing to grind
☑ Only if u care about leaderboards/ranks
☑ Isn't necessary to progress
☐ Average grind level
☐ Too much grind
☐ You'll need a second life for grinding
---{ Story }---
☐ No Story
☐ Some lore
☐ Average
☐ Good
☐ Lovely
☑ It'll replace your life
---{ Game Time }---
☐ Long enough for a cup of coffee
☐ Short
☐ Average
☑ Long
☐ To infinity and beyond
---{ Price }---
☐ It's free!
☑ Worth the price
☐ If it's on sale
☐ If u have some spare money left
☐ Not recommended
☐ You could also just burn your money
---{ Bugs }---
☐ Never heard of
☑ Minor bugs
☐ Can get annoying
☐ ARK: Survival Evolved
☐ The game itself is a big terrarium for bugs
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At first, I believed I have discovered hidden gem of perfection, but after having finished everything, I would say the game recieves about the accurate amount of criticism.
So what is this game anyway?
Well, I would say CRPG lite combined with RTS segments. Now truth is, this is apparently what the older games are about, but I simply can not get behind the RTS segments. They are just way too drawn out and basically play out same no matter the map or scenario. You defend the node against endlessly spawning enemies, you make big enough army, you push a node of the oponent, which takes forever because of insane repair speed and infinitely spawning workers that repair, you fortify it, defend it a little, sometimes longer, because AI decides to rusk A instead of B, so you ought to shift your army elsewhere, and this basically repeats for an hour or so. Multiply it 10 to 20 times (I lost track) and you have overglorified shitfest that are the RTS sections. That comes from long term RTS vet.
One saving grace could be MP, here I could see the RTS mode working pretty well, but for the campaign, it is attrocious.
The party based segments are however pretty great overall. You get to discover beatiful environments with plenty quests and cool interactions, secrets, meaningful loot, interesting build choices for your party members and the game even has a central hub area which you expand over the course of the game.
The story is also solid, though it went from interesting to basically generic fantasy nonsense in the second half with expectable twists and revelations. Final bossfight and even final level is the exception to this rule, and reason why I would recommend finnishing the game, because the endgame mostly contains just the obtuse RTS sections and the story drags a lot-the game even has balls to basically reuse every single location once without introducing barelly any new ones.
Would I recommend it, yeah, but make sure you use the ability to change difficulty to easy any time RTS segment pops up, it will save you a lot of lifetime. Or not, but you have been warned! Cool game.

Amazing game and the voice acting is so good it makes it easy to get involved in what's happening.
- Story 10/10 (So good, fuck the Purity and bitch ass Lacaine)
- Game mechanics 8/10 (missile units can block thin spaces not letting other units pass and you can't make custom formations, eg. put melee up front and missiles at the back)
- Visuals 9/10 (although old, it stands up to current games and water or jungle are amazing visually. Also, enemies are very varied)
- Factions 8/10 (Very different to each other, all with different focuses, find your favorite and upgrade them to the max.)
Summary 8.75/10

I cannot give enough justice to the character writing. I've thousands of hours playing games with legendary narratives and this somehow beats them all. Its so peak I just can't. However depending on what appeals to you as a person, the game-play can be seen as an obstacle to phenomenal characterisation.