![]() ![]() In theory, this is quite simply done using the game's mainly point-and-click controls. New advancements are made as you play and new areas are discovered by exploring the surrounding areas, which keeps things fresh, but the bread and butter – or raw meat and bone – of the game lies in keeping on top of your resources and ensuring everything is running smoothly. Throughout the game you're constantly trying to train up your people (by building them bigger and better weapons and making them practise to build up their stats) and also laying traps such as nets to better protect your village. As such, it follows convention – to construct buildings, for instance, you must first have gathered the necessary resources (such as stone and wood), whereas to keep your people alive you need to find, hunt and prepare food.Įven once you've set up a thriving community and have little cave children crawling about the place, sadly you can't just tuck into another sabre-toothed tiger rib and beat your chest a bit because those rival tribes keep invading and trying to trash your buildings.Īfter waves of attacks, buildings need repairing and – if enough people have been killed – the population needs to be built back up. So, this is a resource management game through and through – one that's very similar to a game like The Settlers, just presented in a more humorous way and set firmly during prehistoric times. Hey, Sone Age man was just as body conscious as the rest of us. Beginning with huts so they can rest and – whisper it – procreate, you create some more people before moving on to a kitchen, store room, armoury (to build weapons to use on those pesky cannibals) and even a gym. It's time to build a village for your tribe to live in. Prehistoric Tribes begins at the end of the ice age, with you emerging from your cave and discovering it's not so chilly outside any more. ![]() It almost makes getting upset when your neighbours play loud music after 11pm seem rather trivial. Indeed, your tribal neighbours appear to be rabidly vicious cannibals intent on smashing up your village and attacking your tribe. They do still have clubs, though – which you'll be thankful for seeing as not all homo sapiens back then were apparently very friendly. ![]() Stone Age man is always portrayed as being fairly backward, but he can't have been completely thick or surely he wouldn't have invented the foot-propelled car or worked out how to use woolly mammoths as tin-openers (source: The Flintstones).įurther proof comes from Prehistoric Tribes, which also recognises that cavemen weren't stupid, and so instead of portraying them as club-wielding wife-beaters, it paints them as quite a funny, amiable group of people. ![]()
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