Though his review is mostly a feature list, Matt Peckham’s enthusiasm for Lord of the Rings: Battle for Middle Earth II – Rise of the Witch King is contagious. Maybe even good enough, he suggests, to restore BfME2 to the top of the “Best RTS of 2006” poll. He’s absolutely right that this has been […]

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If you like complicated modern wargames, you can’t do much better than ProSim’s Air Assault Task Force series. They are foreboding to neophyte wargamers, and have neither the pageantry of pseudo-miniature games nor the leisurely pace of a turn-based hex map. But they reflect the importance of unit detection and mastering combined infantry/armor tactics better […]

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So far, only one reviewer has come out with the truth that Left Behind: Eternal Forces is one of the worst games of the year, even if you look at it purely as a technical exercise in game design. So here’s a tip of the hat to Duke Ferris at Game Revolution. I’ll let you […]

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Today’s Gamespot PC front page is a huge ad for the new Thundercats DVD set. The last thing I need to see when I’m drinking coffee is an anthropomorphic cat hero in a unitard.

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From Jonathan Trevisani’s CGOnline review of Medieval II: Total War: The Holy Roman Empire (also known as the Byzantine Empire) was the empire of my choice so I could teach all of these hooligan fiefdoms the glory that was Rome could once again rise. It’s stuff like this that gets me frustrated with the state […]

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