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ParaWorld is a real-time strategy PC game released on September 25, 2006. It was developed by the German company SEK (Spieleentwicklungskombinat), based in Berlin. The game features more than 50 prehistoric animals, especially dinosaurs and Pleistocenemammals. The game uses TAGES, and therefore installs a driver on the system for copy protection.

Paraworld is a real time strategy game with a unique setting and solid gameplay, that sadly failed in sales, but was saved by the fans. For any new players, or players who did not know there was still a fan base, you can download patches and the community expansion pack at Para-Welt.com!

1. ParaWorld Hands-On - Single-Player, Dinosaurs, and Armies. Sunflowers lets us look at its cool new real-time strategy game, which features dinosaurs, guns, and dinosaurs with guns!
2. ParaWorld takes you to a prehistoric world where creatures long extinct come to life. Experience the hostile environment as you fight more than 50 types of animals and enemy tribes. Over the course of the game, you can gain experience to help you acquire special moves, collect armor and objects, and become promoted to chief.

Gameplay[edit]

The game-concept is similar to 'Age of Empires', which is a real-time strategy game. ParaWorld features food, wood, and stone as resources. Food can be picked from bushes, hunted from animals, fished from the sea, or farmed. Stone is located in limited deposits, and wood, cut from trees, is generally scattered throughout a map. Battles can occur on both land and sea.

The story takes place in a parallel dimension, where prehistoric life thrives alongside diverse human civilizations that are not technologically advanced. As a result, dinosaurs take the place of traditional wildlife and livestock, though some of the dinosaurs in-game are highly stylized and not necessarily scientifically accurate. Wild-living dinosaurs can be hunted for food, though some are of dangerous and aggressive species and will attack any player unit that wanders too close. Other prehistoric creatures make an appearance as well, for example woolly mammoths are used where other games might feature elephants.

Players advance through epochs in order to unlock new technologies and upgrades.

Plot summary[edit]

ParaWorld ('parallel world') is an alternate universe where dinosaurs and ice age creatures never became extinct. A group of 19th-century scientists, the SEAS (the Society of Exact Alternative Science) led by scientific genius Jarvis Babbit, discovered the parallel world where dinosaurs and primitive human tribes coexist. When they subsequently learned that people don't age in this dimension and that the concept of electricity is inexistant, they decided to remain there to rule.Later, three young scientists are led to Jarvis Babbit: the Americangeologist Anthony Cole, Swedishbiologist Stina Holmlund, and Hungarian physics genius Béla András Benedek, all of whom having discovered elements in the 'real' world that point toward the existence of a parallel world. Jarvis Babbit decides to send the three scientists into 'Paraworld', seemingly for an expedition. However, when the three heroes discover the true intentions of the SEAS, they have to rally all the parallel world's warring inhabitants in order to defeat the SEAS.

The three scientists serve as the game's core 'hero' units. Their main goal is to return to their home world, but to do this they will need to enlist the aid of enlightened natives and battle against the hostile creatures, tribes, and ultimately the masterminds trying to stop them. Along the way they'll meet several characters who are seemingly based on classical scientists such as Nicola Tesla or Charles Darwin ('Nikolaj Taslow' and 'James Warden' in the game). They eventually discover that a man named David Leighton, who is one of Babbit's men, is orchestrating events on the parallel world, and pursue him. They also learn of a plot to permanently seal the world away by moving the planet out of orbit, which will also trigger a cataclysm.

In order to save the planet and secure their own escape from ParaWorld, they are forced to assault Babbit's fortifications. They manage to stop the countdown and Cole kills Leighton in battle. Babbit makes a last-ditch effort to stop the heroes by using a giant robot. Having failed, Babbit falls into lava and presumably dies. The heroes finally go back home. However, Cole is awakened in the middle of the night by a phone call of Béla telling him that the dinosaurs have come through as well. The chaos of ParaWorld now ensues on planet Earth.

Reception[edit]

Upon release the game was met with fair reviews with an average critic score of 72% at GameRankings. The developing company SEK shut down due to insufficient sales, and Sunflowers ended their partnership with it. The previously announced expansion pack was cancelled. A German-only Booster Pack for the game was released with Gold GOTY Editions of Paraworld, containing new maps, heroes, and missions, and was only compatible with German copies of the game. However, members of the ParaWorld gaming community 'Para-Welt' have created an unofficial downloadable version of the Booster Pack for all regions that incorporates updated community content (such as modifications enabling players to utilise the previously NPC 'SEAS' factions) alongside the official SEK Booster Pack content. According to German newspaper Die Welt, ParaWorld was commercially unsuccessful, with sales of around 100,000 units.^[6]

References[edit]

1. ^Luibl, Jörg (September 14, 2006). 'Test: ParaWorld (Taktik & Strategie)'. 4Players. Retrieved April 20, 2020.
2. ^Allen, Darren (November 13, 2006). 'ParaWorld: Stone aged'. Eurogamer. Retrieved April 20, 2020.
3. ^Ocampo, Jason (November 3, 2006). 'ParaWorld Review'. GameSpot. Retrieved April 20, 2020.
4. ^Adams, Dan (September 29, 2006). 'ParaWorld Review'. IGN. Retrieved April 20, 2020.
5. ^Superpanda (September 14, 2006). 'Test : Paraworld'. Jeuxvideo.com. Retrieved April 20, 2020.
6. ^https://web.archive.org/web/20181210201501/https://www.welt.de/wirtschaft/webwelt/article710868/Dinosaurier-bringen-PC-Spielestudio-zu-Fall.html

External links[edit]

I had not played Paraworld since I switched to Windows 7 (or Vista even) because I simply could not get the game to work. Years later I found a blog post explaining how to get it to run on Windows 7. However, the download link for the fix the blog provides is no longer working and the post only mentions Windows 7. People looking for solutions to get Paraworld to run on Windows 8 or Windows 10 probably will not find that post. Thus, I reuploaded the fix (which you can get here) and created this post so people can find it.

But how do I get the game to run?

Step 1: If you have ParaWorld installed (and it is not working), uninstall it.

Step 2: Install the game, but DO NOT use the default install path. Use something like C:/Games/Paraworld or similar and install the game into that folder. The default path seems to cause issues.

Step 3: If you have the German version of the game, but don’t have the Gold Edition, download and install the official booster pack.

Step 4: Download and install the fix.

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Done! You should now be able to launch and enjoy ParaWorld again.

Short disclaimer

I do not know where this fix came from, who wrote it or how it works. I have been using it for 2+ years now and have not had any issues with the game. However, your results may vary.

Source: http://blog.nn2k.de/2013/03/29/paraworld-unter-windows-7-spielen/

Something to watch while you are fixing your game install

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It looks like YouTube user Oliver Lugg had faced the same challenges with ParaWorld and newer versions of Windows. But he managed to get the game to run on Windows 10 using this post and posted a great review of this gem from 2006.