Labor Day has always had more significance to me than New Year’s Day since my life has been dictated by the rhythm of the schools for so long. So Happy New Year. We begin to see the number of strategy titles grow, too, as we march towards the holiday season. September 3 – Seven Kingdoms: […]
Entries Tagged as 'Preview'
PCGUK on Empire: Total War
August 28th, 2007 · 6 Comments · Creative Assembly, Preview
The PCGamer UK preview of the upcoming Empire: Total War is online, courtesy of Tim Edwards. Here are the highlights. Formations are the new rock-paper-scissors of warfare. It’s all about arranging men in such a way as to present the most possible muskets at the line of enemy advance. “A square of men beats a […]
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Empire Impressions at Gamespot
August 22nd, 2007 · 2 Comments · Creative Assembly, Napoleonics, Preview
Jason Ocampo has written an extended “first impressions” article on Empire: Total War. The highlights include a description of how the campaign scales in complexity as you move through it, giving you little to do and then more and then more. There will be a new engine and some new features, including garrisoning buildings and […]
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Empire: Total War
August 22nd, 2007 · 6 Comments · Creative Assembly, Napoleonics, Preview
Announcement and screens here. Now for the fisking. Empire: Total War is set in the 18th century, a turbulent era that is the most requested by Total War’s loyal fan base and a period alive with global conflict, revolutionary fervour and technological advances. With themes such as the Industrial Revolution, America’s struggle for independence, the […]
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Supreme Ruler 2020
August 20th, 2007 · 1 Comment · Preview, RTS
In my review of Battlegoat’s Supreme Ruler 2010, I called the game a “first draft of the future”, a reference not simply to the setting of the game but to Battlegoat’s promise as a designer. I could see lots of little things in the game that I found appealing. So it’s with a conflicted heart […]
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SimCity: Societies Preview
August 20th, 2007 · 6 Comments · City Builder, Electronic Arts, Gameshark, Preview, Tilted Mill
The fruit of my brief trip to EA Headquarters ten days ago can be found now on Gameshark. A lot of people will not like this game. Societies turns its back on so many SimCity assumptions that the hardcore city building audience will be astonished. Not that this is a bad thing. I agree with […]
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