“Luck” is a very useful attribute in Galactic Civilizations II. You never know when you’ll stumble upon something useful in those anomalies or on a planet. I always take Luck for my race, because it’s cheap. I’m in the middle of a campaign in the new GalCiv 2 expansion, Twilight of the Arnor. I’m in […]
Nobody Likes You When You’re Strange
May 2nd, 2008 · 8 Comments · Big Huge Games, Crispy Gamer, Design, RTS
RTS evangelist Tom Chick devoted his most recent column to a celebration of Rise of Legend‘s second anniversary. He talked to Big Huge Games head honcho Brian Reynolds about the game – why it worked and why it wasn’t the huge success it deserved to be. This exchange capsulizes the prevailing thinking on why the […]
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Developers On Notice
May 1st, 2008 · 10 Comments · Industry
There are 26 letters in the alphabet and ten numerals. So can you please stop using Os and zeroes in your registration codes? Or at least make it clear to me which is which? Use a font that puts a strike mark through the zero or makes the letter O really fat.
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No King But Caesar – An Epilogue
April 30th, 2008 · 20 Comments · Ancients, Design, Feature:Anc
I wish I had time to dwell on all the dud Roman themed games that have passed in front of me. The half finished Pax Romana and Great Invasions, the laughable Legions, the boring Hannibal: Master of the Beast, Haemimont’s Roman city builders, Haemimont’s RTSes. Most of these games aren’t very interesting as reflections on […]
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The Civil War – Again
April 29th, 2008 · 4 Comments · Civil War, Matrix, Preview
There’s been something of a resurgence in American Civil War strategy games lately, with AgeOD and Western Civ both delivering very different visions of the conflict in recent years. Now Gary Grigsby is turning his eyes to the War Between The States. Taking gamers back to the American Civil War, Gary Grigsby’s War Between the […]
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Rome: Total War (2004)
April 28th, 2008 · 17 Comments · Ancients, Creative Assembly, Feature:Anc, Retro, Review
It’s hard to believe that Rome: Total War is almost four years old, let alone that the Total War series is not new anymore. Shogun: Total War debuted in 2000, was an instant hit, and Creative Assembly has never really paused since. Aside from a couple of ill-advised forays into action gaming (Spartan: Total Warrior […]
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