I think the game is great.   The game hasn't come out yet until tomorrow so we don't know how many people are online.  I'm guessing about 1,000 active online users.

I've just been playing single player, but even that has been great fun.  First time in a long while that a game hasn't left me disapointed after getting excited waiting for it. 

I can see myself still playing this 2-3+ months from now unlike most games, where I'm bored after a few weeks.

My first impressions are that it looks great, good sound, and it's plenty fun.  But medium to long term is going to be about whether multiplayer grabs me or not - the single player game looks like it'll get old really fast (in fairness, I find most RTS games do).

(Disclaimer: this really is first impressions - I wasn't in beta, didn't really pay attention to pre-release until a couple weeks ago, and I've just got 3 hours of gameplay (all today) under my belt at present)

My only issues are with your demigod's pathfinding when you click to attack/activate (ie. buildings, other demigods) something that is accoss the map. They tend to walk in a straigh line toward it and if something blocks their way they get stuck.

Girlyman.

I'm primarily a singleplayer kind of guy, so these are my impressions from that perspective.

I am enjoying the game as a quick 15-30 minute diversion in between study breaks. The action is fast and straight forward and it's dangerous playing a quick match since it tends to lead to "just one more quick match!" syndrome.

I will say though that the singleplayer Tournament mode is completely underwhelming. It is absolutely functional but I was expecting some sore of fancy tournament screen and presentation. Something at the very least like old school Mortal Kombat or using the fancy background hyroglyphics scheme from the intro as an interactive leaderboard. As it is now, it's pretty much a spread sheet. Rank 1-8, show the divinity score then start the next match. Nothing fancy. Just utterly simplistic. I am guessing GPG spent more time on last minute Demigod balancing than eye candy, but I'd like the tournament screen to be VASTLY improved at some point.

Great graphics, utterly smooth on my 4870 1gb at 1900x1200 max settings. Sound is good and very stable game.

I am suffering from the original cast fatigue of Demigods roster. I played since beta with all of them and really looking forward to new flavors. New comers should be very happy for a while but already I am sensing boredom with the OC.

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I tend not to buy games right off the bat, prefering to test them out (argh me hearties!) before deciding if they are worth my hard earned money. I didn't do that this time, probably because it was an amalgamation of Stardock and GPG and for once i havn't been disappointed.

The game keeps itself focused on what any game should be, quick fun. Its not the most taxing or complex game, but neither are legendary ones like Tetris. Being accessible and entertaining is the most important thing and it does it well.

There are of course area's which could do with some improvement most of which unsuprisingly focus around the demigods themselves.

Animations are somewhat one dimensional. In a game where you have a low unit count which invites close-up observations its important to make things look interesting. Watching Rook swat his hand across for the 400th time can become somewhat tedious. This is a problem more for the melee based characters than those that focus on spells/range.

Melee Demigods have a tendancy to stand and let anything ranged attack them as their engagement range seems to be extremely small. This could do with being increased (a floating value based upon whats attacking them perhaps) or a stance system introduced so you can have a fixed "stand ground/engage short range/agressive" choice.

Items seem a bit strange, why can i wear 5 helmets at once? Shouldn't the purpose of having different types be to force a person into making strategic decisions. Would be a very quick way to increase depth.

The very linear skills tree works, but i feel it could be made better by interlinking certain branches to force players to spread their points out, again adding a little more depth to proceedings.

The UI needs a small bit of work, trying to hover over one of the end skills in the skill tree is a nightmare.

These are all minor issues which for me would make this good game closer to a great game. Hopefully in the future we'll see increases in Maps (single digit maps is a real downer, luckily unlike DoW2 the gameplay covers for the lack of variety), Demigods (2-4 in an expansion, no need to go overboard) and any random bugs cleared up...which should all make for a long running game.

Honestly, when compared to the majority of refined AoS (that's Aeon of Strife, the map type on which the now more infamous DotA is based) maps available for Warcraft 3, Demigod brings little to the table. I can't think of a single game mechanic or skill that I haven't seen in a Warcraft 3 map.

So yeah, I'm disappointed. I was expecting more originality from a professional developer such as GPG. I was holding my tongue until the end of beta, hoping against hope that large changes would be made, but now it's gone gold and has been released.
But hey, that's just my two cents. I'm sure people that haven't been into WC3 maps as much as me will enjoy it more.

The updated from beta pretty much balanced the generals and assasins. You just need to give it some more practice and you will see.

If anthing, generals are better now

Amazing beautiful looks and presentation, a lot of fun action.

Much less room for strategy than in SupCom. The game is more about timing of clicks and team cooperation.

One aspect that demonstrates the above is the complete absence of need for scouting.

So, Loui, I'm guessing you won't dominate this game