Populous: The Beginning Ships

Populous: The Beginning Ships is the story on November 17, 1998, and it is one of those late-1998 PC gaming updates that says exactly where the scene is right now. Bullfrog Productions, a subsidiary of Electronic Arts, the world's largest interactive entertainment software company, today announced the release of its highly anticipated strategy game, Populous: The Beginning. Populous casts the player as The Shaman, a mystical priestess who must use her divine powers to protect and lead her tribe of followers and ultimately become a god.

Populous lets players feel what it's like to have god-like control over a world-enabling them to shape the land, build mysterious cities, command armies, convert followers and wield a host of powerful spells. The business side keeps moving, and sometimes those deals decide what we actually get to play next year.