Glest is a free 3D real-time strategy game or RTS
You control the armies of two different factions: Tech, which is mainly composed of warriors and mechanical devices, and Magic, that prefers mages and summoned creatures in the battlefield.
Glest is not just a game, but also an engine to make strategy games, based on XML and a set of tools. A few mods already exist.
Released: 25 December 2004
Latest Version: 3.2.2 (Stable)
License: GPL
Developer: Glest Team
Set in a medieval fantasy world with two factions, named Magic and Tech, each with their own set of units, buildings and upgrades.
The Tech faction uses traditional human warriors and has medieval mechanical devices in its arsenal, and are strong in melee combat.
The Magic faction is designed for advanced players with most of their units morphed from or summoned by others.
It lacks the hand-to-hand combat strength of the Tech faction but features more versatile units.
Tilesets and maps are selected at the new game setup menu and determine the graphical nature of the Glest game world.
At the start of the game, you have a handful of units and one main building.
The magic faction starts with mage tower whilst the tech faction has a castle. This is where your basic units are created.
At the top of the screen is a bar at showing your resources available, gold, stone and wood, on the right is your faction management options.
It’s here where you get to build, upgrade and research.
The magic faction has some great effects when casting spells. Summoners can summon creatures to battle.
Instead of building factories build a summoner, he can the summon demons, Magic Armour and dragons.
The opposite of this for the Tech faction is to build a Blacksmith to produce fighters.
The mix is great and seems to be well balanced.
Because of the mod ability of the engine, Glest can play games from a variety of player-created mods.
These range from futuristic science fiction themes to dark, high fantasy settings.
Minimum System Requirements:
Processor: Pentium 4
Memory: 512 MB of RAM
Graphics: OpenGL 1.3, DirectX 9 Compatible Cards
Hard Drive: 250 MB Free Space
Glest Screenshots
Glest Videos
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QKEV3CJGypY
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Available for Windows PC and Linux
