Alexander

List Price: $19.99 Discount Price: $1.99

Features:

• Travel to the ends of the Earth, facing four ancient forces - The Greek, Persian, Indian, and Egyptian armies
• Staggering on-screen battles -- up to 64,000 units on the battlefield at once
• The resources of a vast empire - Armies you can move on land&sea, 120 unique buildings, and unlimited natural resources
• Complete each objective, testing your cunning and leadership through a deep campaign
• Wide variety of multiplayer missions on random maps

Accessories:
PC Gamer (1-year)	Games for Windows: The Official Magazine

Customer Reviews:

Great RTS in the Tradition of Age of Empires! [Posted on 2006-11-11]
I actually think this is a splendid game. The graphics are very good, the levels and maps are designed wonderfully, and the gameplay is marvelously addicting. It probably reminds me most of Age of Empires 2, which was another great RTS.
Highly Reccomended!
PS
Also check out the Lords of the Realm series, my all time favorites.

Serious flaws kill fun [Posted on 2006-11-26]
I really like Alexander, while it works. Problem is at some point the the game crashes back to desktop. Go back in and the same, and since Ubisoft believes this game was a failure they won't patch it.

That's sad because at it's core Alexander happens to fun, and while it's not Rome: Total War, it does have pretend to be either. (BTW, RTW is far from perfect too, don't get me started on, people out running horses, Archers/Tebuchets firing on your own troops, or the giant trees that block your view.) Speaking of which there is an Alexander expansion for RTW.

Anyway Alexander is fun, until it crashes.

Pure Trash [Posted on 2006-12-16]
It Won't run
It Won't uninstall
They Won't support it

What more can I say?

DONT BUY IT [Posted on 2007-05-07]
Guys, Do not take this bait even if the game is sold for one cent !!! It's just not worthy to but it. The game is awefull and the worst RTS out there. i paid for it 19,99 and i regret i purchased it. They should stop producing this kinds of games and ban this from the shelves because it brings a shame upon good rts genre. The developers done such a poor job on it seems like they rushed and messed a good ideas into one terrible compound. Turns out Alexander the Great movie was laughed upon when this parody, a big joke was released patheticly designed, skillessly engineered and implemented, an underachiever amoung other rts titles.


First of all the specs of my PC are AMD Sempron 2.1GHz (code name Palermo), with 1024(gig)of RAM, and Ge Force 7600 GT 256 MB so i can run this game perfectly fine 1024 x 768 resolution. But this game, though as much as i would like to have fun and enojoy it( i love that time's period armor and hoplites, phalanxes, formations and structures ) is just impossible to play. The graphics are 2D like from 1994 and not 2004 when 3D becomes a standard. The camera is fixed so you cant zoom in and see any detailes of the armor, farms and buildings. The villigars are generic and small dots on the map. The voicovers, well there are none of them present, if you issue a command there is a silence and hardcore rts fans will be very disappointed. The combat sound is from Age of empires I and is so primitive just two voices groaning together in stone age manner. The animation is very bad !!!


The unit creation has to be constantly monitored and if you dont right click second time on the unit training icon at barracks or Town Center they will be produce infinitly draining all of your resources. The solution is good economy. Farmers ganerate food, miners extract gold and iron deposits, stone is collected from rocks but all this sounds good in theory. In practice flawed designed of the game doesn't show you how many gatherers are per structure. Its very hard to select needed amount of workers to put them in the mine. You have to expande the mines from original 5 villys allowed to speed up gathering.

The amount of buildings to build is overwhelming (18-20 in total), upgrading troops and economy just puts so much pressure onto plyaer that only hardcore rts fan will like this sado-masochism. Upgrads require a mix of resources and 5 resources make it very difficult to remember what proportions of which has to be used for immense amount of upgrades. The micromanagment is very hard beacuse peasants are slow to respond Remembering units cost is a chore because the price varies and combines 3 separate resources. The user interface is confusing, heavy, menues give poor information. Selecting a necessary number of peaseant, say, put into the mine is aggravating nerve torture.


In two words, plese STAY CLEAR of this monster game, its the worst example how the RTS game should be made. Avoid this game at all cost. You've been warned. One guys sad that this game is the same branch from the tree where Cossacks and American Conqueste are growing from. So take my advice, forget them because there time has passed. They are outdated and only attractive thing is their box art. Do not fall for it.

why is the game still on the market? [Posted on 2007-06-23]
This game is awful, that is why you still see it for sale. 2D graphics, They used the movie to sell the game.

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