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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
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Three new games feature arcade-style warfare.
By Eric T. BakerMuch 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. BakerOne 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. BakerGoing 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. BakerEarly 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. BakerIt 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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Realistic versus Cinematic Game Play
By Eric T. BakerNew 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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Shogun has cool, innovative mechanics.
By Eric T. BakerOne 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, Silent Heroes, and The Burning Blue
By Eric BakerBattlefront 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
