Glest

Glest is a free 3D real-time strategy game, where you control the armies of two different factions:Tech, which is mainly composed of warriors and mechanical devices, and Magic, that prefers mages and summoned creatures in the battlefield.

Glest is not just a game, but also an engine to make strategy games, based on XML and a set of tools. A few mods already exist.

Gameplay

The gameplay is similar to many other RTSs. You build a “town center” type building, collect resources, and build war units. In Glest, the two teams you have are humans and mages. Humans include soldiers and archers. The mages have a small variety of different wizards and witches, as well as a big tree golem with extremely slow movement. There are different types of buildings, but nothing else. No walls, no arrow-spraying castles. There are barely any maps so the game quickly turns to a boring one.

Graphics and Audio

The graphics are very good, everything 3D and nicely textured. If this game got further developed, it could become something great. The audio is satisfactory, with sound effects and interesting music. I really hope Glest gets more worked on, so that we can see more wonderful graphics.

Special Feature

The best part of Glest is, as I said, the graphics. They are very detailed, with nice-looking 3D trees, rocks, buildings, and everything else. Every once in a while you will see a couple of dead soldiers with giant sticks going through their torsos, keeping them in the air. Some of the other great touches include the water and the unit movement.

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