| Amazons and Aliens | 
 enlarge | From: Pearson Software
Category: Video Games
List Price: $39.99
Buy New: $23.99
You Save: $16.00 (40%)
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Avg. Customer Rating:  6 reviews
Sales Rank: 21941
Format: Cd-rom
Platforms: Windows 98, Windows Me, Windows 95
ESRB: Teen
Media: CD-ROM
Age: 12 - 20 years
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.5
Dimensions (in): 9.4 x 7.9 x 2
Model: 743503899
UPC: 076714503892
EAN: 0076714503892
ASIN: B00004U8GH
Release Date: October 4, 2000
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
Condition: Comes brand new in sealed full retail box.
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Product Description
Direct the fate of your race as you nurture them from the Stone Age through metal and beyond. Command them to build houses, schools, taverns, and create laboratories to research new technologies. then lead them into war to destroy the other races or set up complex peace and trade relations.
Amazon.com Product Description
Three interplanetary storks are traveling through space with three baby species for three separate worlds. As they pass over a deserted planet, they decide to drop all three at once so they can have a few drinks at the Stork Club. Now these three life forms have to learn to live with one another and use the resources on the planet to survive, or kill each other and rule the planet alone. Players can play as one of three species: Pimmons (a race of blue aliens proficient in store work), Amazons (humanoid women), or the Sajikis (a ravenous insect race). Once players choose a species, they begin construction of a main building, eventually moving onto other buildings and houses later. Breeding begins and soon a colony is established. The player must train the inhabitants in school so they can become masons, woodcutters, researchers, etc. By using these skills, the player will grow the nation. Eventually, perhaps, the colony will be capable of engaging in combat against neighboring colonies.
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 better than gc November 20, 2004
0 out of 17 found this review helpful
gc is a bad system dont waste $100 on a stupid nintendo gamecube
 Very addictive, I don't know where all those hours went..... August 8, 2002
20 out of 20 found this review helpful
I accidentally stumbled onto this game, and thought it sounded like fun. I simply had no idea.
This is a 'strategy' game, so in order to accomplish your missions, you need to try to think ahead and determine what you need to meet your goals, and manage your resources effectively to reach those goals. There are three species or races living on the planet, the muscular, blue, Pims, the insectlike Sajiki, and the gorgeous, curvaceous Amazons.
You decide which race you will control, and by default you will interact with the other two. There are 10 missions or so for each race, plus the capability to play a 'neverending game', and multiplayer games.
Basically, you found a city, build a school to train workers in various skills, houses in which workers live, and other structures where they perform their jobs, or just go to relax, worship, etc.
Each race establishes their villages from the ground up, meaning that they must first build a school to train workers, who in turn chop wood, mine rocks or metal, to build structures. Workers also have to go to school to learn to grow crops. Each race grows their own food, if you don't have sufficient plantations your people will go hungry. The Pims grow mushrooms, Amazons grow cocoa, and Sajiki cultivate maggots.
These foods are also used to produce products for export to the other two nations, mushroom juice, chocolate cupcakes, and maggot lollipops.
From time to time, you need to defend your cities against attack, or attack other cities. Each race has it's own unique weapons to use in combat. One of the Pims greatest weapons is the Hammer Man, who weilds a mighty mallet.
The Sajiki are into genetic engineering, and breed nightmarish monsters which throw fireballs, etc.
The Amazons have, among their skills, the ability to become powerful sorceresses, creating explosive potions which destroy almost anything.
Maximum power of each army is roughly the same, so the winner in a given combat depends on how you deploy your troops.
In addition to a mighty offensive army, you can also build a network of defensive guard towers from which approaching enemies are shot before they can get near.
The game contains a limited opportunity for diplomacy, you can send diplomats to negotiate for peace, or to declare war.
Each race has unique costumes depending on their job, so an Amazon huntress dresses differently from either a Pim or a Sajiki hunter. Also, she uses a bow and arrow, while the Pim uses a spear, and the Sajiki uses a curved slashing tool. Similar differences exist, not only in costume, but in building styles, which helps keep the game from looking monotonous.
I played all the missions, and enjoyed the game very much.Ron
Great game June 26, 2001
4 out of 8 found this review helpful
Really good. If you like Starcraft and/or Alpha Centauri, then this is the game for you!
 Did Amazons Ans Aliens design this game? January 29, 2001
6 out of 16 found this review helpful
This game is a Real Time Strategy Game. You know, the basics. Build a town, gather food, gather gold and stone, buil an army, build alliances, fight wars. But it has a few flaws. If you like to just start out and blow the smithereens out of your opponents early on, you won't like this game. And if you don't like hard management of your town and armys, you won't like this game. Also a few flaws like workers don't automatically take time off getting stone for building. Also u need a lot of free not needed workers to "transport" the supplies to the building site. It is not like command and conquer where you just click where you want it and it pops up. Or where just one truck or person builds it. For a large building you need 20 workers. And with workers you need houses. But you need wokers to build houses.
Not that good December 31, 2000
3 out of 9 found this review helpful
I much preferred Settlers III. This game has the same idea, with scantilcy clad Amazons thrown into the mix.It's hard to figure out, and there is a distinct tendancy for you to get killed quickly, so I was not able to explore anything past the basic advances. You're better off giving this one a miss.
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