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WWII Pacific Theater has both mega- and mini-battles.

By Eric T. Baker

The 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. Baker

Mosby’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. Baker

To 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. Baker

When 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. Baker

One 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. Baker

The 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. Baker

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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Get three games in one with Pacific Storm: Allies.

By Eric T. Baker

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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Shoot your way through World War II in three new games.

By Eric T. Baker

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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Queen Boudicca exacts her revenge against the Romans in a new Rome at War game.

By Eric T. Baker

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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Player’s choice: What was versus what could have been…

By Eric T. Baker

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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Experience modern warfare on the ground and in the air in three new games.

By Eric T. Baker

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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SMERSH takes on the Germans.

By Eric T. Baker

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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Glory Days 2 is real-time strategy game for the Nintendo DS.

By Eric T. Baker

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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Three new games simulate modern-day helicopter combat.

By Eric T. Baker

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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Three new games feature arcade-style warfare.

By Eric T. Baker

Much more of an arcade feel this issue as we don’t have any hardcore sims on hand. Read more

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G5 Software brings a Russian viewpoint to the Vietnam War.

By Eric T. Baker

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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Go to battle for Sparta, Persia, or Egypt in Ancient Wars: Sparta.

By Eric T. Baker

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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Refight the major battles of WWII on the Wii.

By Eric T. Baker

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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Medieval III: Total War does “real” better.

By Eric T. Baker

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