If you want to rule the universe, you have no right expecting it to be simple. And Lost Empire: Immortals certainly doesn’t do anything to make it easier for you. Starting in the aftermath of an intergalactic war, your species has to rebuild itself and take over space using economic or military means (as if there’s any other kind) through turn-based resource hogging, world colonising, warfaring and talking to poor 3D models of …
Often, an unremarkable game can inspire the most conversation. Though a score of 8 was the height of our passion for Dawn of War: Soulstorm, we spent drunken, ranting hours discussing it. How, we asked, can an RTS come up with a truly satisfying metagame to link its single-player skirmishes together?Even if it’s got a bucket load of its own problems, MMORTS Saga is a fascinating answer to that question. …
Question: if Iron Man can fly, why has he stumbled into every pitfall of the superhero genre? His game is messy, confusing and, at best, about as good as Catwoman or Batman Begins. Which is not good at all.
In this game of the film of the comic, you are the titular Iron Man - disabled billionaire inventor Tony Stark - in his rocket-booted iron suit, out to thwart evildoers. At heart it’s a shoot-’em-up with a great deal of …
At the time of writing, Iron Lore, makers of Titan Quest, have just gone bust. A THQ Creative Director put the blame pretty firmly at the feet of software piracy.While it’s easy to sympathise - there’s nothing funny in hundreds of thousands of people playing a game for free while its makers run into financial difficulties - you can’t help but think if Iron Lore had actually displayed even a fraction of the imagination this …
You may feel like you’ve played Seven Kingdoms: Conquest before - except that you actually enjoyed it the first time. This relaunch of the Seven Kingdoms series tramples on the good name of the original franchise and poorly imitates games that came out 10 years ago. If you took the Civilization series, the Age of Empires games, and WarCraft III, rolled them into a ball and then dipped it in bile, you’d get this terrible, terrible …
Killer robots spouting disco lyrics, teenage rats with Tourette’s syndrome, the dark lord Satan reduced to an ineffectual middle manager - what’s amazing about the second season of Sam & Max’s adventures is its power to surprise and delight, long after you would expect the writers’ funny supplies to have dried up. Its finale, What’s New, Beelzebub?, also proves that they had planned out this season’s …
With the heyday of pinball simulations on the PC ping, ping, pinging in my noggin like it was the mid-90s all over again, I really wanted to love Dream Pinball 3D. Forget that its title still hypes the fact that it’s “3D” well over a decade after 3D cards became standard operating equipment. Forget that Future Pinball, a beautiful, well-made pinball sim and table designer, can be downloaded for free from …
If you want to rule the universe, you have no right expecting it to be simple. And Lost Empire: Immortals certainly doesn’t do anything to make it easier for you. Starting in the aftermath of an intergalactic war, your species has to rebuild itself and take over space using economic or military means (as if there’s any other kind) through turn-based resource hogging, world colonising, warfaring and talking to poor 3D models of …
Only available for download from www.koei.com, Warriors Orochi is a hack-and-slash successor to the Dynasty Warriors and Samurai Warriors franchises. This console port combines characters from both series in a new story line that involves an evil serpent king who fuses time to create a world where the Three Kingdoms era of China and the Warring States era of Japan exist side by side. If you’re still with me, try keeping up with the …
According to Spaceforce Captains, a new turn-based sci-fi strategy game from Croatian developer DreaMatrix, there’s a lot of debris in outer space. So much, in fact, that you can literally block an enemy spacecraft’s passage through the galaxy by parking your own ship in the narrow gap between two asteroid fields. See… he’s stuck! Got him cornered. …