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Entries Tagged as 'Feature:Decade'

Decade Feature: 2002 – Soldiers of Anarchy

November 27th, 2010 · 13 Comments · Feature:Decade

What this is about. Back in the times when I was reviewing a lot of games, I also participated in a very secret web forum populated by game freelancers. We used to discuss all sorts of freelancer stuff, which mostly consisted of how there were fewer and fewer outlets and why was the pay so […]

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Decade Feature: 2002 – Emperor: Rise of the Middle Kingdom

March 3rd, 2010 · 14 Comments · City Builder, Feature:Decade

When we think about Roman history, we generally have an idea of what we are talking about and what a game would look like. Same with Greek and Egyptian and even American. A few centuries or milennia have been compressed into cultural shorthand for a population that has only the vaguest idea that the Golden […]

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Decade Feature – 2002: Age of Mythology

January 28th, 2010 · 11 Comments · Ensemble, Feature:Decade, RTS

What this is about. My father has always enjoyed the Age of Empires series, even though he’s quick to admit that he’s not skilled enough to really master them. He likes them because they will run on his laptops, unfold slowly, and reward him with lots of eye-candy. He loves all the moving parts: the […]

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Decade Feature – 2001: Rails Across America

December 30th, 2009 · 4 Comments · Feature:Decade

What this is about. How spooky is it to have to go back to your own strategy tips article to teach yourself how to play a game? When I pulled out my copy of Rails Across America for this article, that’s exactly what I did: after digging through a half-dozen old boxes of computer games, […]

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Decade Feature – 2001: Kohan Immortal Sovereigns

November 19th, 2009 · 13 Comments · Feature:Decade

What this is about. One of the great things about these feature series is that they give me license to reinstall games I hadn’t touched in a long time. I had to do some compatibility/patching nonsense to get Kohan: Immortal Sovereigns working (not quite perfectly, but functionally) and I’m glad that I did. But immediately […]

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Decade Feature – 2000: Combat Mission: Beyond Overlord

November 15th, 2009 · 10 Comments · Battlefront, Feature:Decade, Wargames

What this is about. When I was in grade school, I had a set of painted toy soldiers. While my friends had the anonymous green plastic bazooka guys that you could buy at that time, I had dozens of colorful Polish toy soldiers obtained on multiple family trips back to Poland, and each time we […]

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