Ah, myth 2 What is a Dwarf? He's a Dwarf! What does he fight with? He fight's with a pack on his back and a row of bottles around his belt. Why? Because the bottles are grenades and the pack has three sacks of gunpowder in it Right, first of all Myth (TFL, not Myth 2) was better for only one reason ( apart from the fact that the last levels (get the head etc) where too hard,okay they where actually almost impossable).Myth 2 had better graphics and a better command system, the only difference being that the soldiers would get into formation then head over to where you told them to (in myth one they went there then got into formation but all of the complex command where there).The thing that made Myth 2 unplayable was the screen.It scrolled slower than in Myth 1, in fact so slowly that you couldn't give commands quickly enough and just got swamped by monsters and enemies because you're fellows where standing around with their thumbs up their rear ends doing not very much.It was that reason that made Myth 2 unplayable whereas Myth was commandable, but had the manouverability problems I mentioned.The best level in the original gave you just one Dwarf with a special mission- to get through a Goll infested area (Golls- Goblin like ape monsters that threw things and used scimitars,very fast),through a gateway (surrounded by javelin throwing undead)and then throw a special smoke grenade.At this signal about 12 more Dwarfs Parachuted(!) in and started to lob grenades at everything (then the mission objectives chaged to kill everything east of the gates).This was only made possable by the fact that the Dwarf in question had chugged a potion of invisibility firstThe monsters couldn't see him but they could hear him (the trick was to stand still whenever they approached and hope that they didn't bump into him).This was pretty damn close to single character multi player experience (it was hard) and might have inspired you're original question.Myth 2 would have been better if I had been able to issue commands at the same speed as in Myth 1 but it was just about playable
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