Archive for the ‘Game First Impressions’ Category

Star Ruler – A new 4x/RTS Hybrid by Blind Mind Studios

Tuesday, July 27th, 2010
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Star Ruler is a real-time 4x space strategy game being developed by the Blind Mind Studies where you control an interstellar empire in a hostile galaxy against a number of opponents. From Blind Mind Studios Staff: “It’s slightly more RTS than 4X; it is most certainly way more 4X than SoaSE (Sins of a Solar Empire).“ Continue reading | 1 Comment

Sid Meier’s Civilization V Preview

Friday, March 12th, 2010
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The Civilization series is probably one of the best that PC Gaming has ever known. Ask any strategy gamer about it and the odds are that he has played at least one of the Civilization titles during his gaming life time, or at least a Sid Meier’s title (Railroad Tycoon, Alpha Centauri, Colonization, Pirates and many more).

And really it is no big surprise because Civilization is really what strategy gaming is all about. Since the game starts till it finishes it is all about making decisions, some minor, others of tremendous importance, these last will dictate if your civilization will thrive or be left dead forever forgotten in the ages. Continue reading

Armada 2526 – New 4x space strategy game – First Impressions

Thursday, December 24th, 2009
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Armada 2526 is a new 4x space strategy game released last 24th of November. It was developed by Ntronium Games and published by Matrix Games.

The founder of Ntronium games is Bob Smith who was the project director and lead designer of Medieval 2 Total War, as for the other preceding Total War Games: Rome Total War, Shogun: Total War, and … Armada 2525, the preceding 1991 oldy).

The game is talked about as being Master of Orion meets Total War. Impressing combination right? Let’s see if words turn into facts. Continue reading | 7 Comments

Astro Empires – MMOG – First Impressions

Thursday, September 17th, 2009
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This is the first of future articles about first impressions when playing a space strategy game. Of course that this kind of analysis is not so deep as a thorough review so it may be subject to more criticism, but that is a risk I´m willing to take.

Astro Empires is already a well established free space strategy (the free mode has some limitations, but is fully playable) web-based game known by many players. The idea of this article is to give the reader a global overview of this game to make it easier for newcomers. Continue reading | 2 Comments