By Chris Watters
Posted Oct 3, 2008 7:22 pm PT
Colonization is a more focused and linear Civilization experience that nevertheless offers the depth and rewards of the classic strategy series.
Civilization IV is a grand strategy game in which you build an empire that spans every epoch of human society. Civilization IV: Colonization takes a [...]
By Kevin VanOrd
Posted Oct 3, 2008 6:49 pm PT
Engaging player-versus-player combat makes this an online role-playing game to reckon with.
War, appropriately, is the focus in Warhammer Online: Age of Reckoning. Few persistent world, online role-playing game have focused so much on player-versus-player combat or done it this well. Fireballs fly, swords clash, and [...]
By Jon Miller
Posted Sep 29, 2008 6:30 pm PT
World War II has been done before and done better, but it’s never been done like this.
In World War II games, not all Germans are bad. As ubersoldier Karl Stolz in the appropriately named UberSoldier II, you lead the German underground resistance against a dying [...]
By Brett Todd
Posted Sep 29, 2008 5:47 pm PT
The Witcher: Enhanced Edition is what this role-playing game should have been when it made its debut a year ago.
The Witcher: Enhanced Edition is a great role-playing game. Developer CD Projekt has corrected almost all of the problems that made the original something of a [...]
By Luke Anderson
Posted Sep 26, 2008 4:09 pm PT
Multiwinia adds a multiplayer mode and even easier controls to the addictive gameplay and visually striking world of Darwinia.
Multiwinia is a multiplayer take on indie outfit Introversion’s break-out hit Darwinia. It’s a real-time strategy game in which you command armies of flat, 2D characters across [...]
By Kevin VanOrd
Posted Sep 23, 2008 7:50 pm PT
Glitches drag it down, but Clear Sky provides plenty of haunting ambience and challenging gameplay.
The Zone isn’t a friendly place, and if you played last year’s shooter/horror/role-playing hybrid S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Shadow of Chernobyl, this comes as no shock. Clear Sky offers a few improvements and a [...]
By Brett Todd
Posted Sep 22, 2008 6:52 pm PT
Mount & Blade has some innovative ideas, but still needs a lot of work.
If all you had to do was fight, Mount & Blade might have been a winner. TaleWorlds Entertainment has come up with one of the most innovative and user-friendly re-creations of combat [...]
By Brett Todd
Posted Sep 22, 2008 6:23 pm PT
A new campaign featuring orcs and dark elves is the only noteworthy addition in this expansion for Warhammer: Mark of Chaos.
Do you like orcs? That’s the main question you need to ask when contemplating a purchase of Warhammer: Mark of Chaos – Battle March, as [...]
By Kevin VanOrd
Posted Sep 17, 2008 6:03 pm PT
Warhead is a fantastic stand-alone expansion to a superb shooter, and should be played by anyone who likes games with guns.
All of the claims you may have heard that Crysis could only run on nuclear-powered supermachines were greatly exaggerated. But if for some reason you worry [...]
By Tom Mc Shea
Posted Sep 17, 2008 5:56 pm PT
In Line Rider 2: Unbound, you’ll experience a love-hate relationship with the Bezier curve.
The deceptively simple Line Rider started as a free Flash game. It was able to move beyond restrictions, such as not having a tangible goal or even the ability to save [...]
