Very late here, but I grew up with this game. Love it a ton. I wish that one day, someone would remake this campaign, but in a new game+ version. All tribes have the spells available, all buildings unlocked, and a difficulty that progressively gets harder instead of odd spikes for no reason. For example, level 8 and 6 would be fun as hell if your enemies have all tech available. Spies to throw you off, NPC's using volcanos in a stragatic way (ie; middle of own base with no casualties except builsings to give shaman a great high ground advanatge for defensive attacks). Also, fix these multi-tribe maps where tribes don't fight or are secretly allied to where they do attack. We need more like level 12 and 17 where AI go ham and battle each other. Looking at you level 23! That stuff would be great. C'mon! Blood for the Blood God! Skulls for the Skull Throne!
I know what you mean... Was so happy when I could launch a boat attack on the Matak with 100+ followers, but the Chumara took years to beat. Then I was stuck on 16 and 18 for who knows how long
I liked Continental Divide a lot because it seemed like it was based on the third level of the demo, and I played the crap out of the demo before I even got the full game. I guess it came with a bit of nostalgia as well. I also liked the mission Solo because you could technically get some followers with appropriate use of hypnotize.
Grew up playing this with my dad ! It's such a beautiful game and extremely challenging! We always tried to drag the levels out where possible and just build a army of preachers! Even the simple spells were quality 👌 swamp anyone ? Tornado was pretty hilarious 😂. Angel of death was rather my favourite... watching the dragon swoop down. Gold
I think middle ground is the best map on populous 3. As a child i loved the armageddon spell were all the tribes kill each other in an arena this was so funny for me (-:
Very professionally done! The map I have played above all else is Bloodlust, as you get so heavily attacked, and you and the enemy get all but AoD (but I think you can get it from an island?). I have also enjoyed Attacked From All Sides. As you get attacked early and harshly, but you can learn to completely conquer the enemy. So it's fun if you come from never having played it (and getting your ass kicked), to mastering it. And of course An Easy Target, purely for fun.
5. I am actually surprised on this one. I honestly hated this level, I always rushed to get through it since I can't stand the firewarrior advantage if you fight them fairly. Even with magic shield, if you don't win in that attack, you basically are doomed. This was the level that made me love firewarriors so much. 4. I 100% agree with this one. I moreso love the Aniversary version since the Chimura actually have an AI and fight back when they are able to. I was recently surprised when I went through the campaign again when I was attacking the Dakini from behind to see them launching an attack on the front of the base as well. I always was so used to them just existing on their hill that I didn't think they'd mount their own attack. Its actually scary since they don't mess around either. They double EQed and did 2 tornados and basically the front of the DAkini base was gone. 3. I am like everyone else on this level. It is my most played level. I love how you can play this level. You can do honestly endless things on this map. Be aggro, be defensive, be sneaky, a mix of any and so forth. My go to is often wall myself in with landbridges so I am left mostly to myself since they can't get in. But my personal favorite challenge with this level is trying to kill red or green before yellow dies and see what happens. I killed red first my latest time and the shocking thing is, if yellow is allowed to survive, they actually fully took over their island and even built into red a bit and were beating green up. It shocked me to see what is meant to be the first death in the level actually be strong enough to be the last tribe standing (Besides me of course) 2. I know you can do the previous levels in different orders, but if you do it in the correct order (Bloodlust, Middle ground, head hunter and then unlikely, and then Archipelago) This is a breath of fresh air vs a lot of the previous ones. Bloodlust is stressful as hell, HH is even worse due to fog. Middle can get nasty but is mostly a fun one and unlikely was mentioned already. Everyone knows Arch is an annoying ass level due to perma AoD spam crap and starting with no land. I am mostly indifferent to negative to this level. You have tons of land, you got a unique mechanic with the faults. You finally have everything in the game available with this level, with volcano you get here being the last, and its a 1 vs 1. While you get screwed over with natural events more then red does, I seen their stuff get hit by lightning a good bit too, so while I don't believe they get EQ, they still take damage from the land too. Not a bad level but more annoying imo. 1. All I can say on this one is the land itself looked pretty and the map felt nice, but since it was so early in the game, it went mostly unnoticed to me. I love the gimmick of this level but the fact you there is no extravagent bases or anything at this early a stage makes this level only so good. There is no fear of enemy attacks much since they will only have a couple warriors and preachers and Lightning is all the shamans have this early on. I feel this level could be much more fun if it was later in the game when it had all it already has, but when most of the spells were opened up already. Just imagine this level if green had the entire island built up and was sending armies of 50 or so at you or yellow and there was spells like EQ, Tornado and Firestorm under their belt? Vs....just lightning.
Unlikely allies could have been good if the ally wasn't completely useless. Instead of working together you got to babysit him all the time. He could at least rebuild his lost buildings like come on. He doesn't even attack, he's just kinda there, doing nothing.
My favorites: 1. An Easy Target 2. Bloodlust 3. Journey's End 4. Treacherous Souls (was stuck here for years) 5. A tie between Building Bridges and Middle Ground (aka the tower defense maps)
1.bloodlust. 2 middle ground.3 fractured earth, 4 an easy target, and 5 journey end (i kill Matak with Angel of death (i can summon 3 in a short time because I drop swamp on place when Matak comes to summon his own Angel of death), then play with Dakini and Chumara.
I have PTSD from failing building bridges over and over as a kid... But other than that, middle ground is great (me and my dad called it "race to the stone head" even though you can kill everyone anyway) continental divide and bloodlust are my favourites gameplay wise
Great video, for me it was always. 1. Middle Ground, 2. Bloodlust, 3. Journeys End, 4. Building Bridges, 5. Continental Divide. I loved CD so much after the demo, would always try and earthquake the hill in the demo to stop them getting to me. JE just because its the culmination of the adventure
Continental divide: Start to charge Landbridge asap and sneak the Vault of knowledge within the first 5 minutes of the game. They should have placed 2 warriors there.
I love this game so much. But for me there are 4 levels miles ahead of the rest: 1. Bloodlust 2. Middle Ground 3. Attacked From All Sides 4. An Easy Target Treacherous Souls, Building Bridges, Fire In The Mist & Continental Divide are also great levels but not quite in the same league as the other 4 levels IMO.
can you play the single player on high difficulty level again? there is a anniversary modpack on popre, that increases difficulty extremely and i cant manage to beat even building bridges,
Very late here, but I grew up with this game. Love it a ton. I wish that one day, someone would remake this campaign, but in a new game+ version. All tribes have the spells available, all buildings unlocked, and a difficulty that progressively gets harder instead of odd spikes for no reason. For example, level 8 and 6 would be fun as hell if your enemies have all tech available. Spies to throw you off, NPC's using volcanos in a stragatic way (ie; middle of own base with no casualties except builsings to give shaman a great high ground advanatge for defensive attacks). Also, fix these multi-tribe maps where tribes don't fight or are secretly allied to where they do attack. We need more like level 12 and 17 where AI go ham and battle each other. Looking at you level 23! That stuff would be great. C'mon! Blood for the Blood God! Skulls for the Skull Throne!
After not having played the game for 18 years or so, I still recall #5 #4 and #1 :) Great game
thank you so much for sharing this beautiful game with us for free!
An easy target is my number one of best levels. I was so glad when I passed level 11 for the first time - it was too tough for 8 years child.
I know what you mean... Was so happy when I could launch a boat attack on the Matak with 100+ followers, but the Chumara took years to beat. Then I was stuck on 16 and 18 for who knows how long
As a kid I would just hang out in Building Bridges after I'd won by building massive cities. Great game.
I did the same!
No "Middle ground"? o.O
For me this is THE Populous map. Peroid
Simple, dynamic and has (for me) the most replayability.
I have to agree, that's top 1
I liked Continental Divide a lot because it seemed like it was based on the third level of the demo, and I played the crap out of the demo before I even got the full game. I guess it came with a bit of nostalgia as well.
I also liked the mission Solo because you could technically get some followers with appropriate use of hypnotize.
Grew up playing this with my dad ! It's such a beautiful game and extremely challenging!
We always tried to drag the levels out where possible and just build a army of preachers!
Even the simple spells were quality 👌 swamp anyone ? Tornado was pretty hilarious 😂.
Angel of death was rather my favourite... watching the dragon swoop down. Gold
I think middle ground is the best map on populous 3. As a child i loved the armageddon spell were all the tribes kill each other in an arena this was so funny for me (-:
Very professionally done!
The map I have played above all else is Bloodlust, as you get so heavily attacked, and you and the enemy get all but AoD (but I think you can get it from an island?).
I have also enjoyed Attacked From All Sides. As you get attacked early and harshly, but you can learn to completely conquer the enemy. So it's fun if you come from never having played it (and getting your ass kicked), to mastering it.
And of course An Easy Target, purely for fun.
I really like Bloodlust. I think I just love the beach texture though?
5. I am actually surprised on this one. I honestly hated this level, I always rushed to get through it since I can't stand the firewarrior advantage if you fight them fairly. Even with magic shield, if you don't win in that attack, you basically are doomed. This was the level that made me love firewarriors so much.
4. I 100% agree with this one. I moreso love the Aniversary version since the Chimura actually have an AI and fight back when they are able to. I was recently surprised when I went through the campaign again when I was attacking the Dakini from behind to see them launching an attack on the front of the base as well. I always was so used to them just existing on their hill that I didn't think they'd mount their own attack. Its actually scary since they don't mess around either. They double EQed and did 2 tornados and basically the front of the DAkini base was gone.
3. I am like everyone else on this level. It is my most played level. I love how you can play this level. You can do honestly endless things on this map. Be aggro, be defensive, be sneaky, a mix of any and so forth. My go to is often wall myself in with landbridges so I am left mostly to myself since they can't get in. But my personal favorite challenge with this level is trying to kill red or green before yellow dies and see what happens. I killed red first my latest time and the shocking thing is, if yellow is allowed to survive, they actually fully took over their island and even built into red a bit and were beating green up. It shocked me to see what is meant to be the first death in the level actually be strong enough to be the last tribe standing (Besides me of course)
2. I know you can do the previous levels in different orders, but if you do it in the correct order (Bloodlust, Middle ground, head hunter and then unlikely, and then Archipelago) This is a breath of fresh air vs a lot of the previous ones. Bloodlust is stressful as hell, HH is even worse due to fog. Middle can get nasty but is mostly a fun one and unlikely was mentioned already. Everyone knows Arch is an annoying ass level due to perma AoD spam crap and starting with no land.
I am mostly indifferent to negative to this level. You have tons of land, you got a unique mechanic with the faults. You finally have everything in the game available with this level, with volcano you get here being the last, and its a 1 vs 1. While you get screwed over with natural events more then red does, I seen their stuff get hit by lightning a good bit too, so while I don't believe they get EQ, they still take damage from the land too. Not a bad level but more annoying imo.
1. All I can say on this one is the land itself looked pretty and the map felt nice, but since it was so early in the game, it went mostly unnoticed to me. I love the gimmick of this level but the fact you there is no extravagent bases or anything at this early a stage makes this level only so good. There is no fear of enemy attacks much since they will only have a couple warriors and preachers and Lightning is all the shamans have this early on. I feel this level could be much more fun if it was later in the game when it had all it already has, but when most of the spells were opened up already. Just imagine this level if green had the entire island built up and was sending armies of 50 or so at you or yellow and there was spells like EQ, Tornado and Firestorm under their belt? Vs....just lightning.
Unlikely allies could have been good if the ally wasn't completely useless. Instead of working together you got to babysit him all the time. He could at least rebuild his lost buildings like come on. He doesn't even attack, he's just kinda there, doing nothing.
Very interesting and good video on my favorite game! keep up the good work!
Thanks Lordo!
An easy target is defiantly my favorite level of all time!
My favorites:
1. An Easy Target
2. Bloodlust
3. Journey's End
4. Treacherous Souls (was stuck here for years)
5. A tie between Building Bridges and Middle Ground (aka the tower defense maps)
7:28 What Secret to unlock ? can someone explain to me ? pleeeeeease ~
unlocking spells from vaults of knowledge i guess
1.bloodlust. 2 middle ground.3 fractured earth, 4 an easy target, and 5 journey end (i kill Matak with Angel of death (i can summon 3 in a short time because I drop swamp on place when Matak comes to summon his own Angel of death), then play with Dakini and Chumara.
Middle ground 1, Bloodlust 2 , Building 3 Easy target 4 for me,
when i was replaying populous i was eager to get to middle ground lol
I have PTSD from failing building bridges over and over as a kid... But other than that, middle ground is great (me and my dad called it "race to the stone head" even though you can kill everyone anyway) continental divide and bloodlust are my favourites gameplay wise
Bloodlust is a great level!
Great video, for me it was always. 1. Middle Ground, 2. Bloodlust, 3. Journeys End, 4. Building Bridges, 5. Continental Divide.
I loved CD so much after the demo, would always try and earthquake the hill in the demo to stop them getting to me. JE just because its the culmination of the adventure
All these levels are even more beautiful in the anniversary (hard) version.
Continental divide: Start to charge Landbridge asap and sneak the Vault of knowledge within the first 5 minutes of the game. They should have placed 2 warriors there.
I love this game so much. But for me there are 4 levels miles ahead of the rest:
1. Bloodlust
2. Middle Ground
3. Attacked From All Sides
4. An Easy Target
Treacherous Souls, Building Bridges, Fire In The Mist & Continental Divide are also great levels but not quite in the same league as the other 4 levels IMO.
Bloodlust is a personal favourite of mine
can you download more singleplayer levels ? you know fan made campaigns?
My fav is UNLIKELY ALLIES and SOLO
can you play the single player on high difficulty level again? there is a anniversary modpack on popre, that increases difficulty extremely and i cant manage to beat even building bridges,
He has done that campaign already
billypie thanks
Yeah, I crushed it 🍆
I hear a moan in the background 07:56. lol
Woah, I did too. Paranormal???
My favorite map is attacked from all sides level 14
Masochist