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 [...]
Entries Tagged as 'Feature:Decade'
Decade Feature: 2002 – Emperor: Rise of the Middle Kingdom
March 3rd, 2010 · 13 Comments · City Builder, Feature:Decade
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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 31st, 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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Decade Feature – 2000: Sacrifice
October 31st, 2009 · 9 Comments · Feature:Decade, Retro
What this is about. The just shall live by faith and kill by hellmouths. Sacrifice is the very definition of a cult hit. Like so many other strategy games that have come and gone through the years, it attracted a small and devoted following but never really got the traction that the Starcrafts and Warcrafts [...]
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