Majesty

List Price: $39.99 Discount Price: $7.89

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Customer Reviews:

This game [stinks] [Posted on 2003-02-26]
This game [stinks]. ... Buy it if you want to occupy yourself for 1-2 days. It's basically doing the same thing over, trying to achieve new goals that each mission sets. Not much of an RPG, juz plain strategy with a medival theme.

Majesty Rocks!!! [Posted on 2004-07-15]
Very fun and exiting. Provides hours of entertainment! It kept my brother, cousins, and I occupied for the whole summer! It lets you controll you palace and medieval city, and lets you create Knights, Rouges, and other magical people! Conquer your enemy, or whatever feat you must occomplish, and reap your victory!

This is one of my favorite games! [Posted on 2005-07-04]
Majesty, The Fantasy Kingdom Sim is one of my favorite PC games. In this game, you take the role as king of the mythical land of Ardania. You have the responsibility of building a kingdom and recruiting heroes to protect your kingdom from enemies who may be trying to destroy you.

There are 19 epic quests for you to play. The quests vary in difficulty and can range from making money to pay off a debt, to killing off the ultimate enemy. Some of the quests are locked, and you have to unlock them by completing other quests. Or, you can create your own freestyle game and build the kingdom of your dreams.

Majesty includes over 30 building types, 16 different classes of heroes, and 32 types of enemies. Majesty features richly detailed graphics, a great musical score, and hilarious voiceovers. Although you won't have direct control over what happens in the game, you will have lots of fun building your kingdom and discovering new secrets.

Majesty fits into the same category as SimCity, Pharoh, Cleopatra, and Caesar III. But this game is a lot more fun to play. If you like both city-building and fantasy games, Majesty is the game for you!

Simple strategy. But good. [Posted on 2006-03-22]
Majesty is a very simplistic point and click game. Based in medievil times where knights, wizards and dragons roam the earth. You, the player, play the king of your kingdom. Situated in your castle, you fight off evil enemies ranging from trolls, minotaurs, vampires, triffids, zombies, skeletons, giant rats and rat men with your knights, archers and wizards. You start off slowly building your empire with guard towers, warrior's guilds, markets, blacksmiths and wizard towers. As you build your kingdom, you generate more money with the help of the tax collecter who happily visits every home and shop keep to collect tax for the construction of your kingdom. You then train knights and archers to protect the castle and its peasants.

With simple yet impressive graphics and colour, Majesty looks well. The gameplay is very simple (which isn't bad) and sometimes gets repetative (which is bad). Majesty reminds me of Dungeon Keeper (which is also a good game) with its humour and character movements.
Overall, this game is a pleasure to play, but lacks long life. The other bad thing that I can say about this game is that you can't controll any of your men. They just wonder around where ever they like until they stumble across a monster to fight. Good game but soon lacks over time.

Fun but lightweight RTS [Posted on 2008-03-16]
It's hard not to like Majesty when you first play. Graphics are pleasingly "garden gnome" cute, soundtrack is atmospheric and there are tounge in cheek humorous touches scattred throughout from the quotes your heroes say to the narrator who sounds not a touch unsimilar to Sean Connery, Your Majeshty. And like a good empire builder it's satisfying to watch your buildings be improved, heroes gain levels and workers go about their business. Probably the most intruiging aspect of the game are the various temple factions which you can choose from. Some are mutually exclusive, so you may concentrate on one aspect at the expense of another.

The main problem with Majesty is that it's simply not very deep. Usually you'll be able to construct just about everything and upgrade it, giving you few dilemnas. And you have no direct control over your heroes you can simply tempt them to battle mosters or explore by placing reward flags. The biggest flaw with strategy IMO is that the landscape really has very little effect on anything. Trees don't block movement there are no roads, no meaningful elevation changes etc. It's like it's all being played on a billiard table. You're unable to build any defensive structures like walls either.

Overall an entertaining game, but pretty lightweight. Might appeal to younger players, or those who like their fantasy CS Lewis wholesome.

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