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Posts Tagged ‘rts’
Revisited: Starcraft 2
Review by Jason Dobry
Starcraft 2: Wings of Liberty
Developer Blizzard
Publisher Activision/Blizzard
Released June 27, 2010
Available for PC (version played), Macintosh
Time Played Finished (single player) – about 30 hours
Verdict: 
3/5 Middlin’
“In the end, I liked the game, but I doubt I will ever play it again or buy the expansions or mini-sequels or whatever the hell they’re doing with it. In a way, it makes me sad, like in the way one tunes into an old favorite show from childhood, only to find it’s an abomination. I returned to Starcraft and found some of those abominations, but their creative approach to mission design kept me playing all the way to the final insipid line of dialogue.”
Empire: Total War
Review by Jason Dobry
Empire: Total War
Developer The Creative Assembly
Publisher SEGA
Released March 1, 2009
Available for Windows XP/Vista
Verdict 
3/5 Middlin’
“Fans (like myself) of prior TW titles will appreciate the massive improvements to the turn-based campaign, but may be disappointed by the sleepytime AI in both the real-time and turn-based portions of the game, the infuriating pathfinding, and poor unit diversity.”
The Russians are Coming!
Ubisoft slurped up Massive Entertainment a while back, when that studio became a casualty of the Activision/Blizzard merger. World in Conflict, its critically-hailed and bongo-selling masterpiece of RTS design, was apparently not bongo-selling enough to fit in Activision CEO and super-genius Neanderthal retard Bobby Kotick’s new business model of annual franchise brutal rape exploitation. Thus World in Conflict: Soviet Assault, the upcoming standalone expansion, was in limbo for a while, until Ubi came to the rescue. Now, O frabjuous day, callooh, callay, we hear tell that Soviet Assault will be with us in March of 2009 – just what we all need to bridge the post-holiday draught. While you wait, enjoy the trailer!
On the Perils of Over Anticipation
The Nature of the Challenge
Starfeld: Not Starfield
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