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SimCity: Societies Preview

August 20th, 2007 · 6 Comments · City Builder, Electronic Arts, Gameshark, Preview, Tilted Mill

The fruit of my brief trip to EA Headquarters ten days ago can be found now on Gameshark. A lot of people will not like this game. Societies turns its back on so many SimCity assumptions that the hardcore city building audience will be astonished. Not that this is a bad thing. I agree with […]

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Space Force Review

August 3rd, 2007 · Comments Off on Space Force Review · Gameshark

You can find a rare action game review of mine over at Gameshark. Space Force: Rogue Universe is an uninspired space trading/alien killing game from Dreamcatcher. It’s more average than bad – the very model of a C-grade game. And the story based campaign is actually not bad since it adds structure to what would […]

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Europa Universalis III Again

March 18th, 2007 · 3 Comments · Gameshark, History, Paradox

Europa Universalis III is a good game. It isn’t the transcendant glory that its immediate predecessor was. It isn’t as deep as Hearts of Iron II and it’s not nearly as much fun as Crusader Kings. But it does have more going for it than the numerous complaints on the official forum would have you […]

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