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| From: Atari
Category: Video Games
List Price: $39.99
Buy Used: $1.15
You Save: $38.84 (97%)
Rating:  39 reviews
Sales Rank: 12685
Format: Cd-rom
Platforms: Windows 98, Windows Me, Windows 95
Genre: Strategy Games
ESRB: Everyone
Media: CD-ROM
Age: 5 - 20 years
Operating System: Windows 95
Shipping Weight (lbs): 2
Dimensions (in): 10 x 8 x 2
Model: 99335
UPC: 076930993354
EAN: 0076930993354
ASIN: B00004C8SI
Release Date: March 27, 2000
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
Shipping: Expedited shipping available
Condition: No booklet. Game is in good condition
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Product Description
Manage your resources and complete a variety of exciting noble quests. Each quest requires you to determine your own strategy, build your tax base, collect money, explore, and most importantly, vanquish your many enemies.
Amazon.com Review
Both the fantasy and the real-time strategy genres are so worn out that it is nearly impossible to think of a way to freshen things up, but that's exactly what developer Cyberlore Studios did with Majesty. More of a simulation game than anything else, Majesty lets you tinker with your own kingdom. Its main elements are in building a city and populating it with heroes recruited to expand and protect your kingdom's borders. You don't control characters and events in Majesty so much as you influence them. Players used to more conventional strategy games like Starcraft will be a little perplexed when they click on a hero, order him to move somewhere, and watch as their commands are ignored. Characters in Majesty have unique agendas and personalities and operate on their own in accordance with those characteristics. If you want the avaricious Greedheart Thistlebottom to slay that large green beast that's approaching the village, you'll have to put a price on the monster's head. When the job is finished you can watch the hero squander his reward on warm beer, cheap women, and newer weapons. The entire game plays out like a fantasy soap opera, with you as the director and your minions as the actors (with a lot of room for improvisation). The game's graphics and sound effects aren't too spectacular, but frankly they don't need to be. Majesty's unique and addictive gameplay overcomes any multimedia gripes we can level at it. Our bet is that fans of games like SimCity--as well as open-minded strategy aficionados--will agree. --T. Byrl Baker Pros: - Unique gameplay style
- Watching recruits become heroes and cowards is a treat
- Many missions and scenarios for hours of play
Cons: - Lack of direct control may not appeal to everyone
Amazon.com Product Description
Majesty is a unique sim, putting you in the crushed velvet hot seat of your own kingdom. With an epic quest before you, you make the decisions of where to build your settlement's guilds and temples. From these decisions, you recruit a varied cast of larger-than-life heroes. Each one has a mind of his own and must be enticed to meet your goals, via rewards you offer and spells you cast. Meanwhile, you must make sure that your treasury stays flush with cash to support these and other outlays necessary to maintain a thriving medieval town. The fact that you are being barraged by attacks from mythical beasts and fantastic creatures doesn't make your job any easier.Poor choices will leave your kingdom in ruin, but a wise ruler will complete his quests, fill his coffers, and create a kingdom that will be remembered in song and story.
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| Customer Reviews: Read 34 more reviews...
 Fun but lightweight RTS March 16, 2008
Jed (UK)
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
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.
Simple strategy. But good. March 22, 2006
Eugene Fenlon BA (A far away place.)
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
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.
 This is one of my favorite games! July 4, 2005
R. Futterman (California)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
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!
Majesty Rocks!!! July 15, 2004
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
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 game [stinks] February 25, 2003
Jinque (Garland, TX United States)
0 out of 7 found this review helpful
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.
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