You must let Riven become your world - before an entire world is lost. Age of Empires is an epic real-time strategy game spanning 10, years, in which players are the guiding spirit in the evolution of small stone age tribes. Starting with minimal resources, players are challenged to build their tribes into great civilizations.
Gamers can choose from one of several ways to win the game, including: world domination by conquering enemy civilizations, exploration of the known world and economic victory through the accumulation of wealth. Age of Empires was developed by Ensemble Studios and features the expertise of Bruce Shelley, co-designer of the hit strategy game "Civilization.
You'll battle cultists, gargoyles, zombies, hellhounds, and an unholy host of other terrors in your quest to stop Tchernobog. You must not only defeat the Cabal--you must scour its dread name from human memory.
If that means eradicating everyone and everything the Cabal has ever tainted, so be it. Of course, you'll first have to make your way through fortresses, castles, mines, mansions, and estates guarded and kept by Tchernobog's malevolent servants.
Fortunately, it is wits that make the hero, and although you're in serious danger of losing yours, you've got enough left to improvise some pretty effective tools of destruction. Aerosol hairspray can be frightening enough on its own, but apply it to a lighter flame and you've got an instant flamethrower kids, don't try this at home!
Likewise, a flare gun can brighten your prospects considerably against even the grimmest odds, which is to say nothing for shotguns, Tommy guns, and dynamite. Who knows, you may even find that there are some spirits on your side when you find yourself clutching a voodoo doll.
Assume the role of Robert Cath, an American who recieves a mysterious dispatch from a friend to meet him on the Orient Express. However, once you get there you discover that things aren't quite as they should be! The game is set during the run up to World War 1. It has a very impressive recreation of the Orient Express and features a historically accurate background.
Plunge into a shadowy conspiracy world where the schemes of a mad drug kingpin and the prophesied return of an ancient Mayan god clash in what could be the end of all mankind. Race around the globe with George as he frantically attempts to free Nico, his investigaative reporter girlfriend, from othe clutches of Karzac's crime cartel.
Guide Nico and George as they unravel the dark mysteries that lead them closer and closer to an ancient horror best left buried in the steamy jumgles of Central America. Gather clues and make friends, but be aware - a smiling face can hide a deadly obstacle in your quest to sop the return of "he who devours the sun and consumes the flesh of all mankind," the Mayan God Tezcatlipoca.
User Score: 6. Coming Soon. Essential Links. Highs and Lows. Highest of the Month. Lowest of the Month. Sid Meier's Gettysburg! This latest entry in the post-nuclear "Fallout" series is not the third chronological installment, but rather a spin-off that takes place between the first two episodes and which shifts the focus of the series from its original RPG, story-based roots in favor of strategic, tactical, squad-based combat.
After seven years of exile, Kenji returns to his war-torn homeland. Will he rise above his bitterness and liberate the land under the Dragon Clan flag, or will he give in to his darker side and conquer it as his father's Serpent Clan did so many years ago? Regardless of Kenji's choice, his actions will force him into conflict with the sinister Lotus Clan, the noble Wolf Clan and a mysterious foe from the past. War has decimated the land, Orc Hordes are invading human territory and the king of the land needs a lot of ore to forge enough weapons for his army to stand against this threat.
Prisoners from all over the empire are imprisoned in a large magical sphere where they have to work in the mines for the king. You are thrown into the sphere to give a letter to the high mages, this letter may be the turning point on the war against the Orcs.
Populated with elves, orcs, humans, dwarves, gnomes, and halflings, Arcanum, a Tolkienesque fantasy world, exists in an unsteady equilibrium between the emergence of industrialized cities and the decline of magic. This debut RPG from the core "Fallout" team finds the player "on vacation" when he becomes responsible for the fate of this world. Set in medieval Europe, players establish settlements, build and manage castles and engage in siege warfare.
The game incorporates much more building and "community managing" than a traditional RTS, yet allows for a more intense combat experience than city builders have featured in the past.
A game of railroad empires in North America, covering the period from to the near future. It is a real-time strategy with a "sim" flavor. Rails allows hundreds of tracks with thousands of trains crossing the continent. Players must focus on where to expand, where to compete, and when to call in favors from government officials, union leaders, and other powerful figures. Choose any point in time and establish a civilization to transcend the ages and dominate the earth.
Take command of the Ghosts through a series of missions that range from demolitions, to search and rescue, to all-out firefights for survival. Features squad-based tactical combat with next-generation military action in stunning 3D environments and a mission-driven storyline with 15 different singleplayer maps as big as m x m , and 6 dedicated multiplayer maps. Master the technology and tactics of three clashing races as you control strategic wormholes, maintain precious supply lines, and forge an empire from hundreds of unique units to attain total control of the galaxy in this fleet-based real-time strategy game.
The land of Dereth, a massively multiplayer world brimming with constantly evolving stories, real life comrades, and strange and fearsome monsters.
It is to this world that the great Empyrean mage Asheron has "called" you. Explore the rich history of Dereth, revel in its wonders, and discover your destiny! Winning design, powerful artificial intelligence, and a great sense of humor make The Corporate Machine one of the best strategy games so far this year.
User Score: 6. Take control of an entire company of the most fearsome military machines in history: BattleMechs!
Ever see Stallone's "Demolition Man? Engage in high stakes racing from Monaco to Monza and take on the most intelligent and daring racers to hit the Formula One circuit. A stand-alone prequel to "Immortal Sovereigns," this RTS features you as one of the Kohan, an ancient race devastated by a cycle of world-breaking cataclysms. Now, as your strength grows and your destiny unfolds, you have to seize the reins of power and take your place in the war between the Creator and the Shadow.
Based on the universe created in the Frank Herbert novels and in David Lynch's movie, this long-awaited sequel to the early '90s game "Dune II" -- the granddaddy of the real-time strategy genre -- puts you in command of a military faction fighting for control of the desert planet Arrakis and its critical resources.
A real-time combat flight simulation depicting the Luftwaffe's raids over British skies. With over square miles of sky and over 1, attacking aircraft, gamers finally have the chance to experience the amazing scope of one of the largest air raids ever.
User Score: tbd. Team up with others to actually "re-create" a universe with all that such an enterprise entails. Interact with squadron members and wayward travelers, struggle to stay on course in the face of solar storms, and battle mysterious adversaries both human and alien. Engage opponents in frenzied tactical struggles. Unite with allies to contest enemy nations' territorial claims.
Customize your units with equipment best suited for your objectives. Achieve promotions for yourself and new upgrades for your war machines. Research new technologies to devastate the opposition. You're back on Kentares IV, and this time, you don't have to play nice.
Enlist in the notorious Black Knight Legion, climb aboard any one of five new 'Mechs, and deliver some payback for all the injustices you've been dealt. Put your mercenary skills to the ultimate test in a world ravaged by civil war.
Use the new Black Market feature to get the equipment and weapons you need, when you need it. Taking over command of one of the eight star empires from the original game, you choose between fighting against the Orion Pirates or joining forces with them to conquer the universe.
During game play, players will control various ships and all of its systems while taking it into combat against enemy vessels. The dominant hoops franchise returns live, delivering high-flyin', fast-paced NBA action plus a whole lot more.
With all-new player reactions and bench sequences, redesigned commentary, and crowd animations, NBA Live comes alive, bringing more emotion and atmosphere to the court than ever before. This first-person shooter features Geo-Mod? Wage war through 20 diverse levels with 15 weapons of mass destruction. Hijack 5 fully armed land, sea and air vehicles. Volition's first RPG, a truly 3-D RPG played from a third-person perspective which was praised as a launch title on the PS2, features Joseph, a young summoner who learns to use and control his powers while attempting to overthrow the evil tyranny that has beset his world.
Lead Cooper and his gang through 25 levels of this character-based real-time strategy game in which you're hired to find the banditos responsible for a train robbery in the old American frontier.
Select your sorcerer hero from among four powerful races, and summon an army of monsters who clash for control of the world. Upgrade and enhance your magic arsenal, choosing from over available spells.
Features over 20 levels. FIFA ? Pass the ball into space, utilize through-balls and one-two? Direct your teammates on strategic runs thru the defense. The new system is enjoyable for players of all levels, creating a deeply satisfying football experience.
Theory has it Anachronox was once home to millions of quarantined aliens who died of some horrible plague Anachronox literally means "poison from a previous time" , leaving this city to fall to ruins, to be taken over by the refuse of the galaxy as the center of their nefarious dealings.
Here our story begins. Raziel returns to various eras of Nosgoth's dark past in his relentless pursuit of Kain. Encounter new enemies as you unearth the mysteries of Nosgoth's ancient races, and expose the schemes behind the corruption of the Pillars, and the vampire genocide. A real-time trading simulation featuring elements of construction and the historical background of maritime trade in the North European area between London and Novgorod during the 's.
As a citizen of a medieval town, the aim of the game is to rise from the status of a simple trader to that of a big businessman and perhaps to the head of the Hanseatic League. As outstanding as the core elements of High Heat undoubtedly are, it's hard to emerge from an extended session of gameplay without some serious misgivings.
To defeat your enemies, you must cast spells, gain experience, collect items, and build ancient devices. Stunning, richly detailed fantasy world. Real-ime lighting casts eerie and terrifying shadows. Unrivaled blood and gore combat. Hack off an enemy's limb, then thrash him with it. Learn devastatingly fluid combo attacks and use them to slice your enemies to pieces.
Galactic Battlegrounds lets you lead the armies of Star Wars to victory in intense, real-time strategy clashes. It is , one of the darkest years in the history of mankind. While the Lunar Corporation, Eurasian Dynasty, and the United Civilized States battle it out to the bitter end on the home planet, a secret research project is underway on the moon. Only the project code name is known -- "Project SunLight.
Run through "House of the Dead 2," but instead of firing a light-gun you type a word that is displayed onscreen in front of the creature attacking you. The faster and more accurately you type the words, the faster you'll kill the zombies and the higher you're score will be. SimCoaster dismisses the elegant design of its predecessor, and instead favors the often-overwhelming amount of management found in the original Theme Park. High tech computer crime and industrial espionage on the Internet of You play an Uplink Agent who makes a living by performing jobs for major corporations.
Your tasks involve hacking into rival computer systems, stealing research data, sabotaging other companies, laundering money, erasing evidence, or framing innocent people. You use the money you earn to upgrade your computer systems, and to buy new software and tools.
As your experience level increases you find more dangerous and profitable missions become available. You can speculate on a fully working stock market and even influence its outcome. You can modify peoples academic or criminal records. You can divert money from bank transfers into your own accounts. You can even take part in the construction of the most deadly computer virus ever designed. A young archeologist searches for the existence of a metropolis built, according to myth and legend, by the ancient Egyptians A fast-paced action game that moves at mph with you at the controls of a Comanche helicopter.
Fly the U. Fire a 20mm cannon, 70mm rockets, Stinger heat-seeking and Hellfire laser-guided missiles. Clear a path to help the carrier arrive safely. Tons of vehicles are at your disposal. Leave nothing standing or the adventure will end in an earth-shattering explosion! Find the hidden technicians to ensure a safe detonation. Strap on your seat belt, it's going to be a bumpy ride. Set in the aftermath of a world-wide nuclear war, Fallout will challenge you to survive in an unknown and dangerous world.
You will take the role of a Vault-dweller, a person who has grown up in a secluded, underground survival Vault. Circumstances arise that force you to go Outside -- to a strange world 80 years after the end of the modern civilization. A world of mutants, radiation, gangs and violence. Your immediate task is to find a replacement for the broken water purification controller chip.
Without that chip, your fellow Vault dwellers are doomed to dehydration or be forced to leave the safety of the Vault for the Outside. Quick - what has dozens of monkeys, ghost pirates galore and more insults than a cranky parrot? Why, The Curse of Monkey Island, of course! In this highly anticipated third installment to LucasArts' popular Monkey Island series of graphic adventures, Guybrush Threepwood once again takes up dull blade and rapier wit against the nefarious demon-pirate LeChuck.
In Curse, Guybrush must save his one true love, Elaine Marley, from being turned into the evil pirate's zombie bride. But, hoping to marry Elaine himself, Guybrush unknowingly slips a cursed ring onto her finger that transforms her into a gold statue. He must then find a way to change Elaine back to her beautiful self and stop LeChuck from carrying out his sinister plans. Aye, 'tis a rollicking piratey adventure that's sure to challenge the mind and shiver a few timbers! Timber the Tiger's parents picked a fine time to go on vacation.
When they come back, they're going to be faced with an island trashed by the spiteful space bully Wizpig - unless the local animals can do something about it! So join Diddy Kong as he teams up with Timber the Tiger, Pipsy the Mouse and Taj the Genie in an epic racing adventure unlike anything you've ever experienced before!
The Lylat system has been invaded! Travel to many different 3-D worlds. Battle the enemy in the air and on the ground and listen in as Fox McCloud interacts with a cast of characters.
Long ago, the galaxy had known peace. Paradise was ruled with the hand of science, and the hand was that of the galactic governing body known as the Core.
Ironically, it was the Core's ultimate victory, the victory over death itself, that brought about the downfall of its paradise and started the war that would decimate a million worlds.
The immortality process, known as "patterning," involved the electronic duplication of brain matrices, allowing the transfer of consciousness into durable machines. Effectively it meant immortality, and the Core decreed the process mandatory for all citizens in order to ensure their safety.
However, there were many citizens unwilling to toss aside their bodies so casually, many indeed who regarded patterning as an atrocity. They fled to the outer edges of the galaxy, forming a resistance movement that became known as the Arm. War began, though it was never officially declared by either side. The Arm developed high-powered combat suits for its armies, while the Core transferred the minds of its soldiers directly into similarly deadly machines. The Core duplicated its finest warriors thousands of times over.
The Arm countered with a massive cloning program. The war raged on for more than 4, years, consuming the resources of an entire galaxy and leaving it a scorched wasteland. Plagued by strange visions, the Dreamwalker Alundra is summoned to a troubled village where great evil lies in wait.
Explore huge dungeons, find deadly weapons, solve challenging puzzles and fight the cast of foul creatures out to stop you in your tracks. This vast, enthralling adventure will keep you wide awake to the very end. In a lush of diabolical danger where everyone wants to eat you, you're the skinny guy with no weapons.
Run, jump, hide, scramble and talk your way past the ugliest bunch of carnivorous crustaceans ever created. Unlock Abe's special powers then figure out your foes, and you might save your race. Don't, and you're dinner! Enter Oddworld's surreal, sensory overload of pure gaming and claim your destiny.
The mantle has been passed. You've become Protector of the Earth. You are now Turok Dinosaur Hunter. Plunge into real world battles across vast 3D environments that you can run, slice and tear through. Sword matches become unbelievably real where one critical blow is the mean difference between death and victory.
Enter a deceptively beautiful world torn apart by age-old conflicts You must search. You must explore. You must summon every spark of intellect and intuition. Only then will you learn the truth and this troubled land and its inhabitants. You must let Riven become your world - before an entire world is lost. Age of Empires is an epic real-time strategy game spanning 10, years, in which players are the guiding spirit in the evolution of small stone age tribes.
Starting with minimal resources, players are challenged to build their tribes into great civilizations. Gamers can choose from one of several ways to win the game, including: world domination by conquering enemy civilizations, exploration of the known world and economic victory through the accumulation of wealth.
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