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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
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Civilization IV: Warlords adds spice to combat.
By Eric T. BakerSid 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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Island of Death, World War II Combat: Iwo Jima, and First Battalion
By Eric BakerThis 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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Rise and Fall, Cossacks II, The Star and Crescent
By Eric T. BakerAncients 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
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Commandos Strike Force, Ubersoldier, and Blazing Angels
By Eric BakerCommandos Strike Force from Eidos Interactive for the PS2, Xbox, Xbox 360, and PC is a first person action game set behind the lines in Europe in 1942. Read more
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Battleground Europe, Rush for Berlin, Strategic Command 2: Blitzkrieg
By Eric BakerThere are a variety of multi-player games that are refighting World War II twenty-four hours a day, seven days a week, but none of them are quite like Battleground Europe: World War II Online from Cornered Rat Software and newly distributed by Matrix games for the PC and the Mac. Read more
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Ten Hammers, Battlefield 2, and Tank Command 2
By Eric T. BakerAt first glance, it would be easy to confuse Full Spectrum Warrior: Ten Hammers (FSW:TH) by Pandemic Studios and from THQ for the PC, PS2, and Xbox 360 with one of the modern combat shooting games currently on the market, such as something from the Ghost Recon series. Read more
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Ghost Recon Advanced Warfighter, Four Lost Battles, and Birth of America
By Eric T. BakerThe latest game in the Ghost Recon franchise is called Tom Clancy’s Ghost Recon Advanced Warfighter, and is out on the PC, PS2, Xbox, and Xbox 360. Read more
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Book Reviews
Cutting through the layers of myth and legend surrounding Custer’s battle at the Little Bighorn.
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