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2005 · Spiderweb Software · Indie · Role-playing

Geneforge 3

Geneforge 3 is the next, huge installment of the Geneforge saga. In this fantasy adventure, you can explore strange, hostile lands, choose which side you will fight for, and, as always, make your own horde of completely obedient mutant monsters.

Released: 28 March 2005
Platforms: Windows macOS
Genres: Indie Role-playing Strategy
Developers: Spiderweb Software
Publishers: Spiderweb Software
Series: Geneforge
Modes: Single-player
Perspective: Bird view / Isometric
Themes: Historical
Country: United States
Languages: English
Time to beat: 22hmain story75hcompletionist

About

Geneforge 3 is the third video game in the Geneforge series of role-playing video games created by Spiderweb Software.

›Story

You have been chosen. You are one of the precious few who will be allowed to become a Shaper. You will be given the power to create life and mold it to serve your own needs. The whole world fears and respects the Shapers. Your secrets are many, and your power is absolute.

But then, the disaster happened. Your school was attacked and destroyed. Rebels and monsters begin roaming the lands, challenging the rule of the Shapers, bringing fire and destruction with them. On your own, in a foreign land, you will have to attain power, find allies, and discover a way to defeat the rebels.

Or perhaps, you will join the rebels instead. Because, for some reason, they seem very eager to recruit you ..

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Gameplay

he games are played in a 45° axonometric view and feature turn-based combat. The lands are split up into small areas, which can be traveled through using a world map. During combat, each warrior gets a certain number of action points, which are spent moving, attacking, casting spells, and using items. At the beginning of the game, the player chooses a type of Shaper to be.

The three types are Shapers, Guardians, and Agents. Players gain a number of skill points by gaining a level, which can be spent on improving one or more of the character's abilities.

Story

The player begins as an apprentice learning the arts of Shaping. While attending school on Greenwood Isle the player character is awoken when the school is attacked. Luckily, two Shapers are ready to join the shaper and assist to survive in the world outside.

Alwan is a loyal Shaper Guardian who has only one skill, that of using his iron sword. He is trained as a Guardian, to obey without questioning. Due to there not being anyone he is able to obey, at first he is disoriented by the attack and does not know what to do. The player can get him to join only after obtaining permission from the servant mind in the school.