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  <identifier>LP_Myth_The_Fallen_Lords</identifier>
  <title>Myth: The Fallen Lords</title>
  <creator>Johnny Law</creator>
  <mediatype>movies</mediatype>
  <collection>lets-play</collection>
  <description>Myth:TFL is a "real-time tactical" game released for Mac and PC in 1997 by Bungie Studios. In defiance of established RTS conventions, it has no base-building, resource-gathering, or tech tree. What it does have is a collection of unusual or groundbreaking features such as 3D terrain, ballistic and collision physics, squad formations, a free-rotating player POV, and hardware-accelerated graphics that (thanks to maintenance from the fanbase) are still easy on the eyes.

It also has the engaging storytelling and gameplay that go into making a classic. Jason Regier, a programmer from the Myth team, described their design document as consisting of two lists -- "Stuff that Rocks" and "Stuff that Sucks" -- but despite (or because of?) this origin story, the end product is not just an incoherent bag of toys. Instead it's one of the most complete and rewarding singleplayer/multiplayer games of its time.

It's on my personal shortlist for Best Ever. And although I played the heck out of it back in the day, I think it's time for a refresher course. I spent most of my Myth:TFL time in competitive multiplayer, or co-opping specific maps, so (like just about every game I've finished) I've only ever played the campaign from end-to-end once. It's about time for me to do it again yeah?

Original Archived Let's Play available &lt;a href="http://lparchive.org/LetsPlay/MythTFL/" rel="nofollow"&gt;at the Let's Play Archive&lt;/a&gt;</description>
  <date>2008</date>
  <year>2008</year>
  <subject>let's play; johnny law; myth: the fallen lords</subject>
  <publicdate>2010-05-05 12:34:57</publicdate>
  <addeddate>2010-05-05 12:34:57</addeddate>
  <uploader>baldurk@baldurk.org</uploader>
  <updater>baldurk</updater>
  <updatedate>2010-05-05 14:31:19</updatedate>
  <publisher>Let's Play Archive</publisher>
  <sound>sound</sound>
  <color>color</color>
  <contact>&lt;a href="http://www.letsplayarchive.com"&gt;Let's Play Archive&lt;/a&gt;</contact>
  <updatedate>2010-06-09 22:49:49</updatedate>
  <updater>baldurk</updater>
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