Games Guide

Saturday, January 26, 2008

Sudden Strike 3: Arms for Victory

There will be four campaigns; two of them are on the Pacific Islands, and two of them in Europe. The player will be able to play for the American or Japanese armies in the Pacific, and for the Allies or Germans in Europe. This will be the first RTS engine to render accurate vast marine and land battlefields.

Features

* Fully interactive landscape (all objects can be destroyed, all buildings and pillboxes can be used as shelter)
* Massive operations on big maps, strategic scale of the maps (front line can be a few kilometres long)
* Thousands of units fighting in the real time
* More than 300 tanks, ships, soldiers, guns and planes with original weapons built to scale
* Great sounds, 5.1 supported, nations speak native languages
* New feature - advanced Micro AI-behaviour allows to your troops to act exactly as you plan
* Joint naval and ground operations, air raids, artillery strikes etc.
* State-of-the-art technology to render 3D landscape, realistic lines of sight and fire
* Spectacular visual & lighting effects
* Multiplayer mode: up to 8 players, GameSpy® supported
* Five campaigns playable for American, British, German, Japanese and Soviet sides

Hardware Requirements

Processor: Pentium 2,4 Ghz or better
RAM: 512 MB or better
Graphics card should support shaders version 2.0. I.e. it will play with NVidia GeForce 5200 or ATI Radeon 9500. Of course it is better to run the game with a Radeon 9800 or GeForce 6600
OS: Win 98/ME/2000/XP

All Downloads ( Demo, Patchs, videos)

Sudden Strike 3 Screenshots

Sudden Strike 3 Trailer

Release Date: 10 March 2008
Genre: Strategy

Labels: Mar 08, Strategy

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Spaceforce: Captains

Control the fate of the galaxy in the classic turn-based strategy game Captains that invites you to explore and conquer an entirely new space. Ultimately lead your fleets and captains to victory. The game features several distinct forms of game play, including gathering resources, role-playing, and strategy. The basic elements of the game involve developing a space station (space building structures that produce resources, captains or ships) and conquering the space with a captain leading a large fleet and using technology. You develop fleets composed of the squadron commander - Captain and space ship squadrons. When you take a space base, you can buy any of its buyable ships.

* 3 campaign with 24 missions and five space station types, each with six ship types, each with upgraded and un-upgraded forms, and a lot of another type of ships
* experience the finest blend of adventure, strategy, tactics, management and role play ever brewed
* The different kind of resources can be found mostly in asteroid mines and are gathered once a earth day. They are used to build up your captains and their fleets.
* Each fleet is led by a captain. More than 120 individual captains with biography. Each captain has unique characteristic
* Each specific space station can only raise the type of space ships appropriate to specific civilization
* develop cutting-edge technology and upgrade your fleet
* 3D animated world with crisp graphics, and storyline with side quests
* unique features of each race will make your game experience more variously • addictive RPG elements
* choose from over 200 technologies
* Battles occur when your fleet comes face to face with an opposing fleet or a band of pirates. Combat, which can occur either in open space or in space station backyards, against both neutral and enemy fleets, is the meat of the game. A new close-up of the battlefield then appears, placing your squadrons across from the approaching enemy. You select a specific target and attack for each squadron of your fleet.
* cunning battle strategies, or simply exploring open space
* complete and flexible strategy experience reinvented for the next generation of gamers
* multiplayer and map editor provided

Official Game Website

Spaceforce: Captains Screenshots

Spaceforce: Captains Trailer

Release Date: 05 February 2008
Genre: Strategy

Labels: Feb 08, Strategy

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Turok

Turok is an epic, story-driven first-person shooter set on a dark, mysterious planet in the near future. Players take on the role of Joseph Turok, a former Black Ops commando, now part of an elite Special Forces squad on a mission to take down a war criminal on a genetically-altered planet. After the ship is shot down while approaching the planet, Joseph Turok must use his instincts and elite military training to elude an army of well-trained soldiers, and the ravenous, unpredictable creatures that populate the dangerous environment. Joseph Turok’s mission? Survive at all costs.

Turok Screenshots

Turok Trailer

Release Date: 05 February 2008
Genre: Action

Labels: action, Feb 08

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King's Bounty: The Legend

King's Bounty: The Legend is a Real-time / Turn-based Strategy with RPG elements. In a fairy tale fantasy world of fearless knights, evil mages, wise kings and beautiful princesses the player controls a hero. Leading their character through the game world, exploring it, commanding armies in battle and accomplishing various quests can mean great reward or huge defeats.

Gameplay is divided into two major sections: adventure mode and battle mode. While playing in adventure mode the gamer controls their character in real-time. With several classes available at the start of a new game, the player moves through the adventure map seeking various treasures, fighting monsters and accomplishing quests tasked to him by the local stewards. Once in battle mode the gamer assumes the role of a war chief, leading his troops in tactical turn-based combat. Battles take place on land or sea, in dungeons or castles or even in some items! The hero himself doesn't participate in the combat, but can assist his troops by casting spells or summoning different creatures.

Features:

* Classic real-time (adventure) meets turn-based (battles) gameplay
* Rich fantasy setting, storyline with a lot of twists and an unexpected ending
* Three types of characters to choose from -- Warrior, Paladin and Mage. Each of them with unique characteristics and abilities
* Huge game world with dozens locations and battlefields -- both on the surface and in the dungeons
* The game world isn't static - enemies don't just sit and wait for the hero to arrive, they pursue their own aims and try to get into the player's way

System Requirements

Minimal:
Windows 2000/XP/Vista
Processor: 2.0 GHz
RAM: 1.0 Gb
Video card of nVidea GeForce 5700 128 Mb class
DirectX compatible audio card
HDD: 10 Gb
DirectX 9.0c

Recomended:
Windows 2000/XP/Vista
Processor: Intel Core Duo
RAM: 2.0 Gb
Video card of nVidea GeForce 8800 256 Mb class
DirectX compatible audio card
HDD: 10 Gb
DirectX 9.0c
Pedals, steering wheel.

King's Bounty Screenshots

King's Bounty Trailer

Release Date: 01 February 2008
Genre: Strategy

Labels: Feb 08, Strategy

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Monday, January 21, 2008

Stranger

Become a stranger in the magical world, lead armies of mysterious creatures, and fight for your immortal soul. Every fantasy world has its epic story; Stranger's is of no exception. But it is not just the usual conflict between light and darkness, there are much more nuances to explore. Choose your side, gain experience to extend your abilities, unravel secrets of magic world, and crush your enemies either by skills or by using brute force, if you have any. Some of the best heroes are at your service, hordes of land and underground creatures want you to lead them to victory. Proper battle tactics and planning strategy, using of diplomacy, gaining benefits of trading, using of magic - all of these components will help you to win in just one case: you should find out what the goal is.

Features

* RTS with tactics and RPG elements
* 3 main heroes team
* Over 100 cool monsters and bosses
* Tricky Magic
* Tons of Equipment
* Single player campaign
* Multiplayer (up to 8 players)
* Stunning graphics and FX

Hardware Requirements

Processor: Pentium 2,0 Ghz or better
RAM: 512 MB or better
GeForce 4400 or ATI Radeon 9500 or any better video cards
Win 2000/XP

Official Game Website

Stranger Demo