First month of the new year, and not a lot to show for it strategy wise. January is sort of like December that way; most publishers have either fired their shot or are saving up for the spring rush. Looks like March and April will be full of good stuff.<\/p>\n
I am now going to include strategy games for consoles in these monthly previews. The reason for this should be obvious. I’m still overwhelmingly a PC gamer, and will probably never fully convert. But it would be crazy not to acknowledge the growing importance of the console market to strategy developers.<\/p>\n
So you’ll see DS<\/em><\/strong> or 360<\/strong><\/em> tags from time to time. If no platform is listed, it’s a PC title. It’s not like there will be that many console strategy games to acknowledge, but it’s worth keeping an eye out.<\/p>\n January 21<\/strong> – Pacific Storm: Allies<\/em> (Buka\/CDV\/Lesta), Advance Wars: Day of Ruin DS<\/strong><\/em> (Nintendo\/Intelligent Systems)<\/p>\n January 24<\/strong> – American Civil War: The Blue and the Gray<\/em> (CDV\/AGEod)<\/p>\n January 28<\/strong> – The Sims: Castaway Stories<\/em> (EA\/Maxis), SunAge<\/em> (Lighthouse Interactive\/Vertex 4)<\/p>\n I wasn’t a big fan of Pacific Storm<\/em>, so I have low expectations of the Allies<\/em> expansion. I love ACW, but I’ve been playing it for months now; I hope the CDV push garners it the attention it and AGEod deserve.<\/p>\n SunAge<\/em> is an interesting title. It’s one of those old-school RTS games developed by people who seem to think the genre peaked in 2000. The above release date (from Gamespot) must be for retail space, since you can buy through Gamers Gate and Total Gaming according to the official website<\/a>. It’s already on its sixth patch, which shows that they are learning something from the pros. Initial reviews haven’t been very positive, and it’s not on my radar at all. Anyone else want to take the bullet for me?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" First month of the new year, and not a lot to show for it strategy wise. January is sort of like December that way; most publishers have either fired their shot or are saving up for the spring rush. Looks like March and April will be full of good stuff. I am now going to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}},"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5GFeQ-dn","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/829"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=829"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/829\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=829"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=829"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=829"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}