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horde and warring with the opposing player clans. Through a top-down perspective user interference, each player begins with one clan shrine for every goblin clan under their command and only one Hall of Titans, the former for recruiting and upgrading goblins and the latter for special "titan" units and turrets. The clan shrines are in a fixed location and if destroyed will have to be rebuilt. There are two kinds of resources to gather for purchases and upgrades: gold and souls. Gold is found throughout the map by locating treasure chests and destroying structures, both the terrain and foe's. Souls are harvested through either defeating enemy units or capturing souls wells. Additional structures are located elsewhere on the world map and must also be captured for use. These include the
Observatory for a greater line of sight, revealing unexplored areas of the map and the Alchemist Shop for purchasing rune magic to be used for their own benefit or against other players.
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goblins but only just light range. They also have special goblins with their own ability such as the
Hellfire scout for line of sight and the Stonekrusher drummer for healing other goblins there is also a unit on the Stormbringers side who give units more defense and a unit for Plaguespitters who decreases the defense of enemy's. Additional units include a clan's unique titan that is large beast that have a variety of high damaging attacks but only one can be under player's control at a time. Turrets can be built across the map to automatically fire upon foes. Every time a goblin is recruited, it joins up with its clan's horde that is controlled as one unit, for example a player with three clans would have three hordes. Hordes can also be ordered follow other hordes and titans. The light action part of the gameplay involves players taking direct control of a horde or titan in a third person view and attack other enemies directly.
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Naxus sabotaged the machine to kill
Fraziel and take it for himself to create a world of chaos and darkness. With the help of all the clans, including a traitorous part of the Nighthorde clan, Grommel battles his way through the caves in order to stop Naxus from sending the bombs from the now active machine through the Moongates, ancient teleportation devices. When Grommel finally corners Naxus, he leaves through one of the Moongates, leaving one active bomb among the hundreds of others. Grommel, however, narrowly throws the bomb through the same Moongate at Naxus, where it explodes, presumably killing him. After defeating Naxus, all the clans rally around Grommel with the intention on finding purpose now that the Great Machine is destroyed.
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last cryptic word: "brother". Grommel then leads his clan out into Ogriss to attempt to know who or what killed his master, which was possibly one of his other four clan chieftain "brothers". In the forests, he first encounters Grax of the
Hellfire clan, who, along with the other goblin clans, believe Grommel to be responsible and becomes hostile. Through a series of battles, Grax is defeated and the Hellfire clan rally around Grommel. This process continues with the Stormbringers and Plaguespitters with their respective leaders being killed while the survivors join Grommel.
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under the white moon Froxx, to serve as miners in the deep caves. Second was Grax of the
Hellfire clan, under the red moon Heelinx, to harvest wood in the forest. Third was Faine of the Stormbringer clan, under the blue moon Trist, to channel lightning in the mountains. Fourth was Syst of the Plaguespitter clan, under the green moon Phoust, to farm in the marshes. Fifthly (and finally) was Naxus of the Nighthorde clan, under the purple moon Farthis, to scavenge ancient battlegrounds.
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Fraziel was making progress with the Great
Machine until it was sabotaged, causing it to explode, caving in the mines and causing Grommel and the Stonekrusher clan to flee to the forests. Moments after, Grommel finds Fraziel as he crawls out of the wreckage, where, just before he dies, he gives one
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1336:"Goblin Commander: Unleash the Horde for Xbox Reviews"
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836:. No. 129. GameStop. January 2004. p. 131.
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51:Jaleco Entertainment
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1391:Fantasy video games
1221:Nintendo of America
1018:on November 2, 2005
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102:Christopher Zirpoli
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286:real-time strategy
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108:Composer(s)
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258:video game
253:is a 2003
34:PAL region
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338:Reception
333:Reception
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92:Ken Klopp
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1078:Archived
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819:GameStop
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607:GameZone
520:GameSpot
296:Gameplay
274:GameCube
264:for the
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133:GameCube
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1171:June 9,
1144:June 9,
1115:June 9,
1084:June 9,
1053:June 9,
1022:June 9,
1012:GameSpy
991:June 9,
984:GameSpy
962:June 9,
932:June 9,
900:June 9,
885:GamePro
863:June 9,
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451:6.17/10
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445:6.17/10
282:fantasy
233:Mode(s)
139:Release
617:8.1/10
614:8.8/10
611:8.4/10
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525:6.7/10
383:70/100
380:68/100
377:71/100
290:action
223:Action
170:(Xbox)
647:4.2/5
398:Score
350:Score
316:Story
182:(PS2)
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716:8/10
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430:5/10
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272:and
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1369:at
1192:IGN
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713:N/A
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697:N/A
665:N/A
653:N/A
650:N/A
624:IGN
543:N/A
484:N/A
481:N/A
433:N/A
427:N/A
409:PS2
361:PS2
205:PAL
176:PAL
164:PAL
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