First let’s get this out of the way. Defcon has as much to do with the Wargames movie as Redneck Rampage does with Deliverance. It takes the look of the of big battle screen in the movie and has many homages to the film, but this is not a message game. In spite of all […]

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The demo of one of the most highly anticipated strategy titles of the season is now available at the usual places. Fileplanet, Worthplaying, and probably a few other places before the day is out. My verdict? It’s very pretty, but the battle engine has always been pretty. And that’s what the demo is – a […]

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Computer Gaming World’s Ryan Scott is taking Sierra to task for its recent adventure game compilations. To summarize the sins: 1) The games aren’t XP compatible, 2) The packaging is unimpressive, 3) The compilations are far from complete, and 4) No special goodies beyond the games themselves. No “Making Of”; no interviews with Roberta Williams, […]

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To gear up for Caesar IV (which I haven’t gotten yet), I reinstalled Tilted Mill’s last game, Children of the Nile. I do this from time to time for both review and remembrance because it is a good way to get a handle on a developer’s feeling for the material and to refresh your memory […]

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Expansion packs for strategy games can be tough to evaluate. Most do little more than add a few new factions or units, maybe additional scenarios or maps. They, by definition, expand a core game – not reinvent it. Actually, the first expansion packs for the Civilization series, designed for Civ 2, were merely scenario packs, […]

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