Sacrifice was a visionary strategy game, too great to be forgotten

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Sacrifice reminds me exactly how good, how imaginative, how brilliant it's possible for a videogame to be.

We're digging into the PC Gamer archives to publish pieces from years gone by. This article was originally published in PC Gamer issue 162, June 2006.

It's not much of a high-level strategy game, more about group tactics and chaotic melees. Going in with your army arrayed around you, trying to make a difference inside the scrum, summoning the right soldiers to best take down the opposition. Technologically speaking, this was the first time since Messiah that Shiny had managed to get their tessellation technology working, radically scaling the level of graphics detail according to distance. Absolutely standard now, but back then an innovation—and so well implemented that while it's obvious you're looking at ageing technology, on full whack it's still a highly acceptable visual experience.

Sacrifice reminds me exactly how good, how imaginative, how brilliant it's possible for a videogame to be

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