SpellForce 3- Fallen God Review (Steam)

Command the Trolls and lead them on an epic journey across the wild continent of Urgath. As Chieftain of the Moonkin, a tribe driven from its home by tusk hunters and disease, their survival is in your hands.

Pros:

• Beautiful looking graphics.
• 29072 MB Download size.
• Steam achievements.
• Controller support.
• Link THQ account.
• Graphics-fullscreen, resolution, v-sync, resolution scale, display mode, graphics adapter, FXAA, Sao, depth of field, anisotropic filtering, world detail level, effect quality, texture quality, environment map quality, terrain quality, water reflection quality, global shadow resolution, terrain shadows, point light shadow resolution, grass simulation, rain ripple effects and cache assets.
• Standalone game.
• Four campaign difficulties-easy, normal, hard, and Circle Mage.
• RTS RPG gameplay.
• Twitch Integration.
• Disable/enable tutorials.
• Mod support.
• Two modes- Campaign and Skirmish.
• Skirmish-versus, custom, main match, and replays.
• Campaign-solo or co-op.
• Co-op is online and has a server browser to join games or even spectate. You can create private rooms and enable/disable the ability to pause.
• Strong voice work.
• Character creator-body, head, haircut, accessories, hair color, skin color, and then pick an ability tree and spend your 10 start points. You are creating a team of Trolls.
• Creator has a handy tooltip to say what needs to doing or is left to do.
• Can skip cutscenes.
• Tooltips and tutorial pop-ups show both keyboard and the controller icons.
• Camera control including the ability to snap back to the group or main character selected.
• Fog of war where the map/enemies/interactive points don’t show until you explore.
• Godstone-Revive dead heroes, respawn point, and fast travel point.
• Ability points-earned from leveling up, put points into a character’s ability tree to unlock new… Well, new abilities really.
• Quick access buttons and radials for team creation, using abilities.
• Can control the group together or individually.
• Very atmospheric.
• Naog-you recruit him and he’s unique to the rest whereby actions you take and interactions with Naog shape what skills he can use and can affect quest lines.
• Can click on the map/Minimap to order them around and look at the landscape.
• Dismantle unwanted gear and items for crafting materials.
• Bestiary fills in as you kill new creatures.
• The mouse can control your formation-by holding down the mouse button you can slide it around to set how your team forms up.
• Reward pop up windows.
• Full item and character management.
• Handy map icons along with icons over character’s heads.
• Multiple choice questioning.
• Dungeon instances.
• Handy quest tracker on the side.
• Excellent controls when using a mouse and keyboard.
• The camera follows button.
• Full crafting and recipes system in play.

Cons:

• You have to set up a THQ account otherwise you can’t level your profile up or earn achievements.
• Small text with no settings for it.
• The controller’s stick acts like a mouse which is not always ideal.
• The menus are not easy to navigate from a visual point of view as well as added stress using it with a controller.
• Hard to see items on the floor.
• No feedback on using the map to send orders.
• Pixel perfect button presses needed to on conversations.
• The camera control overall is not ideal and feels clunky and always two steps behind.