Sacrifice

The Holy War is over. The demons of Gologotha have been banished, yet the cost has been terribly high. The Creator, god of the Fyllid, has been defeated and the faith of the people has begun to wane. Petty…

60 5 November 2000

Real Time Strategy (RTS) Strategy Action Fantasy

Sacrifice is a real time strategy (rts) developed by MumboJumbo, released 5 November 2000 on Mac and PC (Microsoft Windows).

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What Sacrifice is

Sacrifice is a real time strategy (rts) game developed by MumboJumbo and released in 2000. It was published by Interplay Entertainment. It is available on Mac and PC (Microsoft Windows).

The premise, in the publisher's words

From the Sacrifice wikia: Sacrifice's campaign follows the story of a vagrant wizard known as Eldred. Five gods offer him a home, but Eldred must settle with only one. Early on in the campaign, the gods hear a prophecy that foretells their destruction by a traitor amongst them, a traitor that only a wanderer could defeat. As a result of this, their once harmless bickering transforms into all-out warfare, and Eldred must pick a side.

Description from the publisher · source

How it plays

It is played from a bird view / isometric perspective. Its themes are action and fantasy. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component. Available modes: Co-operative, Multiplayer and Single player.

How it was received

Sacrifice holds a critic score of 60 out of 100. That places it above 13% of the 612 rated real time strategy (rts) games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2000 averaged 72, so it scored 12 points below the year average.

What you need to run it

The minimum specification calls for Pentium 300Mhz, 64MB of RAM and DirectX. At 0GB of RAM, it will run on essentially any working PC — that is below what a budget laptop ships with today. Install size is roughly 1GB.

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What it launched against

Sacrifice launched on 5 November 2000, within three weeks of Command & Conquer: Red Alert 2, Unreal Tournament: Game of the Year Edition, Counter-Strike and Escape from Monkey Island. All of them reviewed better.

Released around the same time: Command & Conquer: Red Alert 2, Unreal Tournament: Game of the Year Edition, Counter-Strike, Escape from Monkey Island.

Cheats and codes

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Official trailer

Sourced from the publisher’s YouTube channel.

Screenshots

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Quick answers

Sacrifice — frequently asked questions

When did Sacrifice come out?

Sacrifice was released on 5 November 2000 for Mac and PC (Microsoft Windows).

What are the minimum PC requirements for Sacrifice?

At minimum, Sacrifice needs Pentium 300Mhz, 64MB of RAM, DirectX graphics, 650MB of storage.

How many GB is Sacrifice?

The PC version needs about 0.6 GB of storage, going by the storage line in the system requirements ("650MB"). Updates can add to that, and console versions have their own sizes, which are not listed here.

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