I just finished teaching about this stuff. Egypt is the first in a series a turn based grand strategy games with important economic and military aspects linked to the History TV channel series Engineering an Empire. You must engineer an empire from its roots to the height of its power. You take the role of […]
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Decade Feature – 2000: Shogun Total War
October 30th, 2009 · 11 Comments · Creative Assembly, Feature:Decade
What this is about Know the enemy, and know yourself It seems fitting that 2000 should have seen the release of Shogun: Total War, the inaugural entry in one of the decade’s defining strategy series. Combining turn based empire-building with spectacular tactical battles, Shogun was the game I had always wanted. Strategy and tactics were […]
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Tropico 3 Early Moments
October 16th, 2009 · 3 Comments · City Builder, Haemimont
I’m reviewing Tropico 3 for Crispy Gamer, but I thought I’d blog some early impressions. 1) It’s a good looking game – not very flashy and even a little blocky at times. But the colors and animations fit the cartoon Cold War they have on display. 2) The reliance on the almanac/ledger for basic information […]
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SimMars?
October 13th, 2009 · 4 Comments · Industry, Maxis
I love lost games. I’ve written before about a few of them – Pantheon, Dinosaurs, Zulu Wars… So the recent “discovery” of a SimMars being developed by Maxis around the time that The Sims became job one is very cool. The domination of The Sims as a franchise and cash cow has a real risk […]
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March to Baghdad
September 16th, 2009 · 2 Comments · ProSim, Wargames
Go to Armchair General for a free wargame from ProSim based on the AATF engine.
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Operation Babarossa Released
September 10th, 2009 · 10 Comments · Matrix, Wargames, WW2
Yet another war game I don’t have time for. Operation Barbarossa: The Struggle For Russia is probably as uncreative a name as you can imagine, but how many options are there? I like the range of campaigns, scenarios and tutorials they promise – including a tutorial specifically on the use of paratroops, something that is […]
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