Geneforge is a fantasy role-playing game with a science fiction twist. In Geneforge, you are free to choose what your overall goal is, and you can seek after it with your own horde of deadly, mutant monsters.
You are a Shaper, a member of the most powerful and secretive of the magical guilds. You have the power to create life and mold it to serve your own needs. For millennia, your world feared and respected the Shapers above all others. Their creations could go everywhere, do anything, all according to the wishes of the Shapers and no others.
If you need a servant, you simply create it, and it will gladly die for you.
But now the secrets of your people are at risk. Someone dares to try to steal the power of the Shapers and take it for his own. He has committed the ultimate crime: he has captured you, and he will do anything to get you to surrender your secrets.
Fight with Drayk. He would use the power of the Shapers to remake the world. The question is a simple one. Will you fight him? Or join him?
Geneforge is a fantasy role-playing game for Windows and Macintosh. It features fully animated 16-bit graphics, the ability to create your own army of lethal, totally obedient creatures, and a cunning enemy AI with foes who can go on patrols, stalk you, and run for help. Geneforge has a huge and open storyline. You have the freedom to choose your own path and decide how the story will turn out. You can fight the evil overlord or you can join him. You can help the peasants or you can torment them. You can be the bold hero or you can just try to get away. No matter what you choose, Geneforge offers an enormous adventure with plenty of replay value.
Reviews
"I'd highly recommend Geneforge for old timers who miss the glory days of the classic role-playing games, or those curious to find out what they missed" RPGDot
"Low on special effects but high on charm, inventiveness, and depth." - PC Gamer, July, 2002
"A shareware game that the big boys could learn from." - Computer Gaming World
"Varied and intensely immersive gaming experience" - MacWorld
Player Reviews
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Geneforge
Posted: Submitted by sapper_astro on Mon, 2007-04-16 16:35.
Geneforge problem
Posted: Submitted by sapper_astro on Mon, 2007-04-16 16:35.Posts: 2
Newbie
Hello all,
I recently purchased Geneforge here at Manifesto, and have had a problem with it that is seriously hampering my enjoyment of the game.
First my specs.
AMD64 3400+
2.5gb of RAM
gforce 7600 256mb
soundblaster live.
All are up to date and working perfectly with all other games I own, old or new.
My problem is this: Slowdowns, bad slowdowns. It started at the beginning and has gotten no better. I can be walking around somewhere and then suddenly, bam, 2 frames a second. This happens in 'spots' Where the game does this slowdown. If I manage to escape from them the speed picks up again until the next spot. There doesn't need to be any monsters or people nearby for it to happen. It just happens. People who have had a similar problem over at Spiderweb (I have trawled through the forums) have been shrugged off, with nothing to fix the problem.
I have tried all the things listed at Spiderweb software, to no avail.
However, after looking at the people who have had similar problems, there seems to be a correlation between this problem and AMD64 CPU's.
Hopefully there is something to fix this problem soon.
