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What can I say, who will ever dethrone World of Warcraft ? I suppose it will be Blizzards upcoming MMO itself, the king is dead, long live the king. Age of Conan was an ambitious attempts, focussing on lore, theme and atmosphere instead of casual playability (such as WOW and all the "free" online MMOs such as Dofus, Rappelz etc.) The lore was very well implemented, yet one must wonder who knows Robert E.Howard's…
The Personal computer has never been the Mecca for Jump N Run gamers. The Amiga did it before him with plenty of good and great jump n runs to choose from (Magic Pockets, Switchblade, Wolfchild, Assassin, the list goes on) and SNES stealing the show when it came to platformers. The rest is history. Back in the day, the PC was the system of the nerd (which was a rare breed back then, before the epidemic spread), the…
In the wake of X-Com, Abomination was another squad based game pitting a bunch of good guys against demented mutants (not aliens). The game lacks X-Com's oozing atmosphere and theme though, but is fun to play nonetheless. The game features a weird system of being half turn based and half real time, which cannot be explained and I have played the game and still do not really know what is going on sometimes.…
Like his other adventure games (5 Days a stranger, 6 days a sacrifice) Ben "Yahtzee" Crosshaw turns a weakness into a virtue by basing the game in a very claustrophbic setting. Even more than in the game from the series, the goal of "escaping" both the situation as well as literally escaping from the spaceship make this game hauntingly intense and scary. The story, again, slowly unfolds and unravels horrible…
I still think Anno 1602 is by far the best in the Anno series. The other games may have been more fleshed out but did not feel unique anymore with games such as Zeus, Caesar III and Immortal Cities around.<br /> <br /> In Anno, you take care over a small island (within an array of islands) building housing and workplaces for your citizens. It is a classic strategy game. The placement of your buildings is important,…
5 Days a stranger is as old school as it gets. A likeable hero of questionable reputation gets sucked in head first into a bizarre situation involving and old mansion and some giant knife wielding lunatic. The setting for the game follows the classic formula of a creepy mansion, complete with secret rooms, locked rooms and loads of items to be found and used with each other. They puzzles are equally challenging and…
