Games Guide

Saturday, January 26, 2008

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

Imperium Romanum

Set in the time-honoured Roman Empire players will marvel at the incredible attention to detail, as they construct fortifications, build towers, gates and bridges, and pay for them with the new currency which has been implemented into the game for a challenging, enjoyable, and authentic quest to rule the World.

"Imperium Romanum" boasts a variety of new features to enhance the game-play and complete the historical strategy gaming experience. These include a sophisticated graphics engine, a mass of authentic historical buildings such as the world famous Circus Maximus and Gladiator schools, an improved battle system where the player commands their armies and an interactive mission mode which allows the player to control the activation of goals.

Imperium Romanum Screenshots

Imperium Romanum Trailer

Release Date: 28 February 2008
Genre: Strategy

Labels: Feb 08, Strategy

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Tuesday, January 1, 2008

Rhem 3: The Secret Library

RHEM3: The Secret Library continues the story from its two predecessors Rhem and Rhem 2: The Cave. Your task is to once again help the brothers Kales and Zetais to discover a new part of their fascinating world. After you have found a letter from Zetais with instructions you start the journey to Rhem once again...

On your arrival you meet Kales who has discovered that a mysterious artefact, a black gem, is hidden somewhere on Rhem. Because the doorway must be opened by two persons but remains open just long enough for only one person to slip through, you are the only one accessing this new part of the island. Again, on your own you must uncover these new secrets of Rhem.

Rhem 3: The Secret Library sets you into a huge, fantastic world full of strange vehicles and buildings, unknown mechanisms and machines, secret passages and doorways. Adventuresomeness, logic, attentivness and the ability to solve engimas will help the player to slowly but surely unveil the mystery of this new adventure on Rhem.

Features

* A fascinating world full of mindbending mysteries and puzzles
* Many hidden rooms and secret passages are waiting for you
* Atmospheric sound and music with stereo environment sound
* Non violent, non linear gameplay

Minimum Requirements

Windows 2000 / XP / Vista
500MHz Pentium III, AMD Athlon or equivalent
256MB RAM
700MB HDD Space
16MB Graphics Card (800x600x32-bit colour)
CD-ROM Drive
Mouse and keyboard

Official Game Website

RHEM 3: The Secret Library Demo