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DICE’s Battlefield 1943
By Joseph LusterBattlefield 1943, for all its back-to-the-shores World War II familiarity, is the type of online-only game that remains relevant well past its July debut. Read more
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Paradox Interactive’s East India Company
By Eric T. BakerNot every war is a hot one. East India Company for the PC from Paradox Interactive is a strategic trading game with tactical combat elements set during the high age of European sail and exploration. Read more
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Crown of Glory
By Eric T. BakerAlthough it covers the same time period, region of the world, and subject as the first Crown of Glory, Matrix Games’ new Crown of Glory: Emperor’s Edition for the PC is in fact such a complete overhaul of the original that it is basically a new game. Read more
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Men of War is not for the faint of heart.
By Eric T. BakerMen of War from 1C Company for the PC is a real-time strategy game set during World War II. Read more
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Empire Is As Close To Perfect As Computer Wargames Get
By Eric T. BakerCreative Assembly, and its publishers at Sega, have become the last, best hope of grognards who want triple A quality wargames on the PC. Read more
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WWII Pacific Theater has both mega- and mini-battles.
By Eric T. BakerThe third game in the Strategic Command series from Fury Software for the PC is Strategic Command: WWII Pacific Theater. Read more
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Two New Games For Civil War Buffs
By Eric T. BakerMosby’s Confederacy from Tilted Mill Entertainment for the PC and available on both Steam and Gamers Gate is a combined tactical and strategic level game about the mechanics of partisan warfare in the Civil War. Read more
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Axis & Allies celebrates Avalon Hill’s 50th anniversary.
By Eric T. BakerTo celebrate its 50th anniversary [we now pause for a second while we all feel old], Avalon Hill has released an anniversary edition of its most successful game: Axis and Allies. Read more
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Look down the barrel of a sniper’s gun and “hold breath.”
By Eric T. BakerWhen considering whether to buy Sniper Art of Victory from City Interactive for the PC, it is worth remembering that the game only costs $20.00. Read more
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Burut adds an online death match mode to Ubersoldier II.
By Eric T. BakerOne of the signs of how many games devoted to the first person portrayal of the in the trenches, down the rifle sight experience of combat in World War II there have been is that Ubisoft is now releasing Brother’s in Arms Hell’s Highway, a big-budget, multiplatform (PC, Xbox 360, PS3) game that recreates the Allies’ defeat by the Germans in Operation Market Garden. Read more
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Russians vs. Crusaders vs. Mongols in 3-D
By Eric T. BakerThe Golden Horde from WordForge for the PC is a real-time strategy game set during the 13th century, right after the death the Genghis Khan. Read more
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Revolution: “Just one more turn!”
By Eric T. BakerSid Meier’s Civilization Revolution, from Firaxis for the Xbox 360, PS3, and DS, is not a traditional war simulation. Read more
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Get three games in one with Pacific Storm: Allies.
By Eric T. BakerSome games take a small part of WWII and try to model it very closely. Some games take the whole of the war and try to model it very broadly. Read more
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Shoot your way through World War II in three new games.
By Eric T. BakerIf you have children, there is a good chance that you also have a Wii. And if you have a Wii, you’ve probably played tennis on it, and maybe even gone fishing, but you probably have not played a war game on the console, or if you have, it may have been Medal of Honor Vanguard, previously the best war game available on the Wii. Read more
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Queen Boudicca exacts her revenge against the Romans in a new Rome at War game.
By Eric T. BakerThe Roman conquest of Briton in ad 43 is modeled in the new board game from Avalanche Press, Rome at War: Queen of the Celts. Read more
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Player’s choice: What was versus what could have been…
By Eric T. BakerThis issue’s column looks at two strategic, turn-based computer games that model the European Theater in World War II. Read more
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Experience modern warfare on the ground and in the air in three new games.
By Eric T. BakerA new entry in the Call of Duty series of games usually gets reviewed in WWII History, but this time Infinity Ward and Activison have changed the time period of their popular franchise. Read more
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SMERSH takes on the Germans.
By Eric T. BakerThe Soviet counterintelligence agency known as SMERSH is so famous for its role in Ian Flemming’s James Bond novels, that its real, historical role is comparatively unknown. Read more
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Glory Days 2 is real-time strategy game for the Nintendo DS.
By Eric T. BakerNintendo’s DS has never been a platform that wargamers buy specifically for wargames. It is a system that has a lot of good games, but it doesn’t have any “killer application” wargames that would force a military hobbyist to pick one up. Read more
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Three new games simulate modern-day helicopter combat.
By Eric T. BakerEnemy Engaged 2, from G2 Games for the PC, is a sequel that was seven years in the coming. Read more
