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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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Sid 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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Some 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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If 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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The 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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This 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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A 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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The 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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Nintendo’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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Enemy Engaged 2, from G2 Games for the PC, is a sequel that was seven years in the coming. Read more
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Much more of an arcade feel this issue as we don’t have any hardcore sims on hand. Read more
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One of the odd joys of the 21st century is being able to see ourselves as others see us via the games they make about us. Read more
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Going in chronological order this time, things begin with Torsten (The Settlers) Hess’s new game, Ancient Wars: Sparta for the PC from Playlogic and Eidos Interactive. Read more
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Early last year, Nintendo released a new game console with the unlikely name of Wii. Anyone reading this column has probably heard of it. Read more
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It seem unlikely that there is a fan of tactical ancients or medieval combat who owns a computer who hasn’t yet tried at least one of the games in Sega’s Total War franchise. Read more
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New for the PC is Battlefront Games’ real-time squad-level strategy game, Theatre of War. Four years in the making and vetted by three historians, ToW is one of the most accurate portrayals of squad-level combat ever done in a fully 3-D computer game. Read more
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One of the new classics in war-themed board games is Wallenstein by German designer Dirk Henn from Queen Games. Read more
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Battlefront is a new battalion-level strategy game for the PC from SSG and Matrix Games. The game engine owes a lot to SSG’s Decisive Battles engine, and Battlefront has the look of a frame that a series of games will be built on. Read more
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Sid Meier’s Civilization IV is the preeminent strategy video game in the world. It optimizes all of the best features of the previous incarnations of the game and weds them to gameplay that was designed from the beginning to include multiplayer options. Read more
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This month starts with a “What if?” board game. Island of Death: the Invasion of Malta, 1942 from Avalanche Press is only $20.00 and takes four hours at most to model one of the great “never happened” battles of World War II. Read more
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Ancients is a terrific wargame genre, but it is hard to hold it to the same standards of historical accuracy as genres set in more recent historical times. Read more