Reviews - Starcryst1

Dominions 3 is quite literally the most interesting strategy game ever created in my humble opinion. If you are looking for a deep, complex, multiplayer strategy game with epic scope and almost endless variations of play, this is the game you've been looking for. The learning curve is tremendously high, but if you climb it you'll be rewarded with a game experience that surpasses the best that the Civilization series offered.

Be warned that the single player version is really just an extended tutorial for multiplayer and that the latter is played through a blind email based turn system similar to PBM / PBEM (play by mail / email) games. So if you are looking for RTS style game play, this may not be the game for you as you won't be starting and completing a match in a couple of hours - a typical game of Dom3 might take a couple of months to finish and you may wait 2 - 3 days between game turns.

But don't let that scare you off! If you truly get immersed in Dom3, you'll find that you are filling the hours and days between turns with out of game diplomacy with other players, planning and testing new strategies in single player mode and researching things like Communions, Thugs and Global Enchantments on the various Dom3 forums. You'll find yourself playing in half a dozen multiplayer games and spending all your "free" time thinking about new strategies before you know it.