Populous: The Beginning

Another of Bullfrog's jewels.

Populous: the beginning is different from any other RTS's. You are a god and you control your shaman and your tribes. You build stuff for them but they carry on with their lives when you don't order them to do stuff. Your shaman has special powers that you can use to destroy your adversaries and sometimes to terraform the map.
Battles are interesting because the little men tend to roll when falling and it's kinda fun seeing how they get drown when rolling to water or go flying away when struck by your spells. Lighting up villages with thunder spells is fun too. Yes, yes, its cruel, but I dare you to do it and not have fun.

The game is an RTS, it has everything to be; but it is innovating in many mechanics as many of Bullfrog's games.