April showers a trickle of new strategy titles into the gutters of armchair generals and desktop gods.
April 4 – Frontline: Fields of Thunder (Paradox/Nival), The Sims 2: Celebration Stuff (EA/Maxis)
April 17 – UFO: Extraterrestrials (TriSynergy/Chaos Concept)
April 19 – Theatre of War (Battlefront/1C)
April 24 – Ancient Wars: Sparta (Eidos/Playlogic), Fairy Godmother Tycoon (EA/Pogo)
UFO and Ancient Wars: Sparta were delayed from earlier in the year; Sparta‘s been pushed a couple of times. They have to strike while the 300 fire is hot, and need to make some changes from the preview copy I was playing a month ago.
The big title for the month is Theatre of War, from the developers of super flight-sim Il-2 Sturmovik. I have a preview version somewhere on my desk. I loaded it up but it didn’t play well with my dual core (to be fair, I was warned that the preview copy wouldn’t). So I haven’t played much. It feels a lot like a prettier Combat Mission.
Please tell me that a game called Fairy Godmother Tycoon is an april fool’s joke… :D
I don’t believe in April Fool’s Day. So, yes, there is a game about being a fairy godmother and managing wishes. It’s already available via digitial download from Pogo games, but EA is now boxing it for the cash and carry crowd.
Neither do I (well, at least I haven’t pulled any on the web yet…), but that name almost makes me wish for it (not that I have anything against fairy godmothers, but if anything demonstrates the overflow of “Tycoon” titles, that must surely be it :) ).
OMFG what? I had to google that b/c I still didn’t believe you… wow, I’m in shock.