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Sims 2: Free Time

March 8th, 2008 · 1 Comment · Electronic Arts, Gamesradar, Maxis, Review

My review of Sims 2: Free Time can be found on the new and improved Games Radar. It’s a decent expansion – nothing like the joy of Pets or openness of University. And most of the stuff it adds is covered in one way or another by other expansions; do we really need a hobby […]

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Ancients Wars: Sparta and the problem of scale

May 15th, 2007 · 3 Comments · Ancients, Gamesradar, RTS

My review of Ancient Wars: Sparta is now up at Gamesradar. It’s a run-of-the-mill RTS with not much going for it. It looks OK, but that’s all. Some gamers accuse reviewers of going easy on major franchises so we can pound away at the marginal titles. How, after all, are the three same-but-different races of […]

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Command and Conquer 3 Review

March 27th, 2007 · 5 Comments · Electronic Arts, Gamesradar, RTS

My review of Command & Conquer 3: Tiberium Wars is up at Gamesradar. I really like this game. The more I play it, the more I think I should have invested time in at least some of the other CnC games.

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Galactic Civilizations 2: Dark Avatar

January 3rd, 2007 · Comments Off on Galactic Civilizations 2: Dark Avatar · Gamesradar, Preview, Stardock

My preview is up at Games Radar. I really want to emphasize my opening paragraph there. When I started the preview, I hadn’t played GalCiv 2 in a while. I knew they’d been updating – Stardock always updates – and when the expansion is full of subtle changes, it can be hard to distinguish the […]

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