POPULOUS: The Beginning takes a slightly different approach to strategy and allows you to play as a Shaman, whose goal is to become a deity. Your must guide your people through the world on the way to ever-increasing power and domination. Of course, there are usually other people in the way who have the same goal in mind, so youll have to destroy the opposing forces and take control of religiously significant points, until you have complete mastery of the particular world you're battling over.