I was hooked from the first time I saw the game. Man was it cool to read about it in different gaming magazines before it's release, being a young teenager at that time.
I got the nice box where you could open up the front cover to see more from the game before playing it. It was too cool. I played the campaign in one sweep. meaning there were no other games for about one moth in between (as I was only allowed to play during weekends back than).
Some missions were very hard to beat as someone enjoying the look and feel way too much to build a solid army before exploring the map in mission 15. The timer killed me about four times before browsing the internet on how to beat this mission.
The campaign was so intriguing, I would really love to see my wife and children explore the lands of ParaWorld and see the same excitement and joy I felt back when I was a teen. (Probably would again, but time is spent best with the family instead of setting up a VM and make it work again. Still have the Box and working disc waiting to show me the glory of that world once again.)
Quite mentionable is also the tier system, allowing only a certain amount of troops in each tier. Since the ultimate dino of each tribe was only available in the two topmost tiers one had to balance the interest of where to upgrade the army. And did I mention that the heroes also occupied slots in the 'tier try'. Balancing awesome cool dinos vs. getting the nice tesla towers at tier four? Obviously there was only one slot at tier five, the highest tier. Always the hassle to choose a hero or the tribes most powerful dino!
I even made my friends played this game on LAN parties when most of them only focused on RTS.
Anyone else out there dying to play the campaign again, exploring the different tribes and the whole plot behind the operations of Jarvis Babbit and the SEAS?