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Three Moves Ahead Episode 195: Classic Game Analysis — Age of Mythology

November 20th, 2012 · Comments Off on Three Moves Ahead Episode 195: Classic Game Analysis — Age of Mythology · Podcast, RTS, Three Moves Ahead

Sometimes you find a topic you are, if not born for, but that if brought to you, you realize you need no serious research for because Age of Mythology is the kind of game that we could have talked about for hours. It’s one of my favorite games ever, and, I think, an object lesson […]

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Total War Battles – Shogun: Or, What the hell is this thing?

September 27th, 2012 · 6 Comments · RTS

On the podcast, we try not to get too bogged down on genre semantics, but we are generally pretty clear that Three Moves Ahead is about strategy games. Sure, every now and then we deviate just for fun, but we have a mission and it’s clear and that’s what the audience expects. We don’t have […]

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Three Moves Ahead Episode 170: Classic Game Analysis – Kohan

May 26th, 2012 · 20 Comments · Design, Podcast, RTS, Three Moves Ahead, Timegate

Tom Chick comes back to the show to join Rob and Troy for a look back at one of the great real time strategy series – Timegate’s Kohan games. What made Kohan unique and what games, if any, have followed on its original ideas? Is Kohan 2: Kings of War really an inferior sequel? Cities […]

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Wargame: Equipment Escalation

March 15th, 2012 · 13 Comments · RTS

We talk in detail about Wargame: European Escalation in this week’s podcast, and it’s a great show because Tom and Rob and Bruce have some great exchanges about why the game works. WEE is really a good game that shows that Eugen Systems understands real time strategy design as a studio at a level we […]

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Brilliance Encumbered

October 5th, 2011 · 4 Comments · RTS

Game of Thrones: Genesis from Cyanide sort of landed with a feather fall this week, which is weird considering how huge the HBO series was. Cyanide was lucky to pick up the game license for a song before anyone realized just how good and profitable the show would be, but still you would think this […]

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Anomaly: Warzone Earth

April 11th, 2011 · 4 Comments · Me, RTS

First, the disclaimer. Anomaly: Warzone Earth is represented by Evolve PR, my employer. If you think that means something, I can’t prevent you from thinking that. Other people, though, seem to be liking Anomaly just fine without the paycheque attached. Anomaly is a tower offense game. You guide a small squad of forces through a […]

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