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Cities XL Review

December 3rd, 2009 · No Comments · City Builder, Gameshark, Review

Cities XL is one of those great ideas that wasn’t fully thought out. There is a chance that this will be an excellent multiplayer experience in six month’s time. But it’s not there yet.
Read my review at Gameshark.

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Dawn of Discovery Review

July 27th, 2009 · No Comments · City Builder, Gameshark, Review, Ubisoft

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Sins of a Solar Empire: Entrenchment Q&A

February 25th, 2009 · 3 Comments · Gameshark, Ironclad

Gameshark has just published Bill Abner’s Q&A session with Ironclad’s Blair Fraser.
If everyone is moving to the console or releasing substandard PC ports that leaves a niche for us to fill. And it’s not really important to us how small that niche is relative to the console market. That’s just about bravado, not business. The [...]

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War Plan Pacific Review

February 18th, 2009 · 2 Comments · Gameshark, Shrapnel, WW2, Wargames

I like it. A lot.
There are certainly problems with the game, and it is far from being a perfect wargame. It suffers from the fact that, as a computer game, you can play it so many times that you learn what the AI is trying to do, spoiling the long term value of the scenarios.
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Mosby’s Confederacy Review

December 11th, 2008 · 3 Comments · Civil War, Gameshark, Review, Tilted Mill

I mostly liked it.
Like this fall’s Hinterland, there are some interface issues that can interfere with the immersion and there isn’t enough variety in terrain or missions. But this is a good game at a good price and the two titles both point to a reasonable secure future for Tilted Mill’s new mid-size games plan.
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Empire: Total War Q&A

December 5th, 2008 · 6 Comments · Creative Assembly, Gameshark

I sometimes flake on linking my Gameshark stuff, but here’s my recent Q&A with Creative Assembly about the upcoming Empire: Total War. This is the game highest on my radar for 2009.

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