The Oregon Trail Meets Undiscovered Mexico
Expeditions: Conquistador has planning and strategy like The Oregon Trail, but also hardcore turn-based combat. Combined into one great package, it’s a perfect adventure game.
Expeditions: Conquistador has planning and strategy like The Oregon Trail, but also hardcore turn-based combat. Combined into one great package, it’s a perfect adventure game.
Markus “Notch” Persson is best known for creating Minecraft. Not content to rest on his success and laurels we take an early look at his next game and find the same brilliance within.
Fire Emblem Awakening for the 3DS proves that Nintendo is anxious to both use new technology and return to its hardcore roots. It doesn’t get much better than this.
History Legends Of War: Patton follows the amazing general as he sweeps through France to strike at the heart of Nazi Germany. It’s a fine strategic masterpiece for PCs and consoles.
Great Big War Game takes the cartoon action strategy title so many people have been playing in the mobile space over to the PC. Great hilarity and combat ensues.
If anyone could have remade a classic like XCOM, it’s Firaxis. Their take on the series with XCOM: Enemy Unknown is nothing short of epic, making turn based strategy white hot again.
This week I get a little hot under the collar after spending some time with Radiant Defense and channeling my inner Todd.
Warlock: Master of the Arcane eliminates much of the drudgery of turn-based strategy games and replaces it with a simple interface that lets players concentrate on what they love: combat.
After years of waiting, Jagged Alliance: Back In Action is finally here. But a clumsy attempt to move JA to a real-time series, and more bugs than an Arulco hospital defeats this effort.
Fate of the World challenges players to solve realistic environmental and political catastrophes based on real world events. And saving the world for real is hard work.