Topics: Windows games, Vintage computer games, Action games, Game remakes. As Lt. Mike Powell, you're a member of the OSS, the premier spy agency in the world.
You'll be sent into some of the most dangerous situations possible like disguising yourself as a Nazi and strolling through a German encampment. Be aware of the enemy troops, the lark on every corner. Just when you thought it was safe to eat chicken again, the chickens have returned with an organized invasion to take over the entire solar system! Journey to each planet and fight your way through to save the world again! In the first chapter of the Chicken Invaders saga, you defended earth against an invasion of intergalactic chickens seeking revenge for the oppression of their earthly brethren.
However, as you were clearing out the last of the chicken invaders and were looking forward to a Unreal Tournament is - hands down - the most feature - filled game of its kind to come along. There are more bells and whistles here than in all of the Rhineland's cuckoo clock shops. Let's put it this way: if you want it, Unreal Tournament probably provides it or least provides an option for it. Uncover the tuner underground in a massive, free-roaming metropolis.
Get behind the wheel in one of 30 of the hottest cars and own the streets from dusk 'til dawn. Explore the city, encountering underground races, hidden hideouts, secret shops, and unexpected challengers With comprehensive performance tuning options, all-new game modes, and the most sought-after cars on the circuit, Need for Speed Underground 2 delivers the most authentic tuner experience ever.
This is the official demo of the In Sonic's most exciting adventure yet, you maneuver a team of three Sonic characters through massive levels to overcome the ultimate evil. Eggman is on the loose once again, but this time he'll have to take on three powerful characters at once. Whether he's trying to outrun Sonic or dodge Knuckles punches, he'll have plenty to contend with. All 12 characters have unique strengths that you'll take full advantage of to get your team through the course at full speed.
This is the PC demo of Blip and Blop have a violent mission. They must help the innocent and retaliate on the evil beings that bully them. Firstly they must rescue Gargamel who has been threatened by the evil smurfs. As you enter his house a gruesome vision awaits you and you must seek out the evildoing blue men. They come in numbers trying to outmaneuver you, throwing gift-bombs, and kisses at you.
Those bastards. You must grab any chance to eliminate them, stopping their reign of terror from spreading wider. From Ensemble Studios, the creators of Age of Empires and Age of Kings, comes Age of Mythology, a game that transports players to a time when heroes did battle with monsters of legend and the gods intervened in the affairs of mortal men.
Taking on the role of one of nine ancient civilizations, players guide their people to greatness by commanding all aspects of their empire: gathering resources, raising massive armies, waging war against enemies, establishing profitable trade routes, building Drive the world's most exotic cars of all time, at breakneck speeds, on some of the fastest roads and tracks. Beautiful high-resolution graphics, accurate physics models of car performance making even the crashes super realistic will leave you panting for more.
Bent on Humankind's extermination, a powerful fellowship of alien races known as the Covenant is wiping out Earth's fledgling interstellar empire. You and the other surviving defenders of a devastated colony-world make a desperate attempt to lure the alien fleet away from Earth. Shot down and marooned on the ancient ring-world Halo, you begin a guerrilla-war against the Covenant.
Fight for humanity against an alien onslaught as you race to uncover the mysteries of Halo. A new dimension to playing God The gods are at war.
From your celestial home, cast your all-seeing eye down upon this 3-D globe, spinning it until you find the perfect spot to begin your glorious new religion. Summon your shaman, and have him teach wild men to kneel down and worship you. Invoke Acts of God and reshape your world.
All with the mere touch of a finger. But now, evil creeped into heart of the Empire, and the Golden Axe was stolen. The council of Defensors was tricked and misguided. The four best warriors of the whole realm are already on pursuit of the enemy.
The council gave them the power of Elemental Magick, since great are the dangers they'll have to face. They know no fear or doubt. In their hearts and minds there's only the sacred This archive is a collection of all shareware games found in The DOS Collection released between and What is this? We wanted to finally put DOS in the same state of organization So is Super Collapse! With a classic puzzle style in mind, Super Collapse!
II asks you to form a group of three of more tiles. When you collect a group, that group disappears and the blocks above collapse down to fill the empty space. The game features four modes of play, including Strategy Mode which adds one row of tiles after each group of blocks is cleared.
The series famous for relentless intensity is bigger, better-looking, and more frantic than ever. Sam Stone is back to rescue the universe one bullet at a time against overwhelming hordes of time-traveling enemies in Serious Sam 2. Built from the ground up with a completely new engine, Serious Sam 2 will be a shot of adrenaline to the hearts of first-person-shooter fans across the world.
This second demo for Serious Sam II includes the updates from the latest patch as well as an additional Three years back a young NYPD cop, Max Payne, came home one night to find his family senselessly slaughtered by a gang of drug-crazed junkies, high on a previously unknown synthetic drug. Max's boss and best friend, the only one who knew Missions are based on key historical battles. And, as war rages, squads must battle as a unit to achieve victory. Exceeding even their own legendary high standardss, id have created a unique masterwork of mesmeric brilliance - Quake.
Amazing gameplay, gorgeous graphics, the greatest, slickest multiplayer scheme ever developed and amazing sound effects combine to provide the ultimate, indispensible gaming experience. Experience the Quake phenomenon at first hand - you will not be disappointed. Enter the realm of a retired assassin, forced back into action by treason. You may be a hired killer but you still have a sense of loyalty and justice.
Visit the dark recesses of a world corrupted by crime, greed, degradation and dishonor. And a past that catches up with you. Trust no one. If the price is right, the finger of your most trusted ally will be on the trigger. Your targets may hide in the most 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.
Prolonged exposure to this dual-mode delight turns are optional , and its siblings Red Thunder and Fortress Italy, may spoil your enjoyment of other, less rigorous WWII wargames. Battlefront approaches realism the way a bomb disposal engineer approaches a UXB. Weapon capabilities, armour thicknesses, force compositions Fortunately, they work rather well as games too.
Some fans still miss the randomly generated battlegrounds, bulging unit rosters and unscripted AI of the original trio, but progress in a visuals, spotting rules, infantry and artillery simulation make the shortcomings easy to bear. One day CM will get a strat layer, and grognards the world over will pinch themselves silly. Most wargames cast us as incorporeal control freaks—lunatic leaders determined to spell out every order and nursemaid every unit.
The turn-free Command Ops is different. Australian AI master-craftsmen Panther Games provide a working command chain. Should the original scheme prove impractical, HQs are smart enough to re-plan on the fly. Just about the only veterans still around and still making serious jet and helo diversions are Muscovites Eagle Dynamics. Lately, ED have broadened their artificial horizons, becoming impresarios as well as artisans. Skies in the free DCS World now glitter with excellent third-party payware creations.
Anyone interested in superlative cockpit recreations, achingly authentic avionics, and top-notch flight models will find much to love here. The history of this staggeringly ambitious F sim is as long and wiggly as the Norwegian coast. Patches, politics, leaks, relaunches Where Falcon 4. There are no carefully arranged sortie sequences, no glib victory conditions or token representations of land war. Pilots participate in vast unscripted conflicts, swarming with potential prey and threats.
Link: Official site. Like a faithful multi-role combat aircraft that stays in service long after its planned withdrawal date, EECH is simply too useful to retire. Fifteen years on from release, it still offers a peerless combination of realism, playability and campaign unpredictability.
Yet, in , it all looked so, so good. The first game to bring true 3D to strategy gaming. Homeworld was challenging and immensely fun. When it was released in , it seemed like the dawn of a new era of strategy gaming. It had absolutely breathtaking graphics, a story that seemed destined for the big screen, and gameplay that revolutionized the genre forever.
It was truly 3D: You had to worry about not just length and breadth, but also depth! In the wide expanse of space, units could attack not just from front, behind, left and right, but also from top and bottom.
It was difficult, but the steep learning curve also led to some incredibly rewarding experiences. You controlled an omnipotent God-being whose main task was to compel his followers to worship him.
To do this, you could perform acts of wonder, curse a village with blight and disease, or rain down fury on a hapless town. Or you could use a giant Creature to the same effect.
The Creature was the most innovative element of the game. The Creature would imbibe whatever values you taught it. Perform acts of evil, and your creature will show strains of evil as well. Be good, and your Creature will follow-on. It was remarkably advanced for its time and asked some very deep questions about the nature of good and evil, black, and white. It would be a sin to not include StarCraft on any list of old school strategy games.
I know I would be skinned by fanboys all over the world if I dared to not include StarCraft on this list. This massive hit from Blizzard has become a cultural phenomenon and still finds millions of active players in Korea, more than a decade after its release. One internet commentator compared it to the original Star Wars.
You can mock its aesthetic appeal today, but you can't deny that it is a seminal achievement in the history of strategy gaming. But still, credit ought to be given where credit is due. The original sim game was the first PC game for many of us.
Ah, the bold and the old Sim City that laid the foundation for much of strategy gaming. Will Wright's biggest hit was the first game many PC owners played, including this one. While most bought it with the excuse of "learning city planning," they really just wanted to build up a thriving metropolis only to see it destroyed in an alien attack. I could've easily chosen the successor, Sim City , for this position instead, but the original remains a seminal piece in the RTS education of this author!
You are probably too young to have played the true "original" simcity. So instead of , you should have placed the true original on the list. Finally, the last one, and the reason it makes this list, is the adventures of General George S.
Patton during World War II. This also includes a scenario editor in which players can create new battle scenarios using these different soldiers. This allows for an expansive selection of battles to choose from. Darkest Hour is a strategy game that focuses on small, contained scenarios rather than these huge campaigns. The year and event is outlined in the selection screen and you can participate during the events of those time, like the invasion of Poland or the start to World War I.
You then take control of the country of your choice, whichever group would be significant for the time period chosen, and play out the events that unfold. It does not focus on the battles themselves in any great detail, instead taking an approach more similar to Risk.
You move your army to the land you want to take and you do a quick battle to represent conquering the nation. The more interesting aspects of the game come from the diplomacy and intrigue.
You set your policies and govern the way your nation is going to go. Rather than fighting every battle on a battlefield, sometimes the choice is offered to send in spies and sabotage your enemies from the inside. It adds more levels of strategy than the simplistic way most games just have you march your armies across enemy land.
As the spiritual successor to the Panzer General series, this turn-based strategy game that places you in the role of the Nazis. Placed as the general of the Axis army, the player is tasked with fighting for the glory of Germany across 26 scenarios.
The army the player leads can upgrade itself as they successfully complete these scenarios, earning themselves better weaponry. Not only that, the core faction within your military is made up of units of your choice.
With over units to use, there are a lot of possibilities for you to explore. There is also a multiplayer offered, allowing you to battle it out in historical battles or balanced scenarios with other players. The game supports cross-platform gameplay, allowing players on PC to play with players who have the iPad version.
For one of the biggest wars in history, some major strategic action should be required in any strategy game centered around that war. In Hearts of Iron IV , the story follows the player taking the role of any of the great leaders, such as Winston Churchill or Joseph Stalin, and leading their nation to battle against either the Axis or the Allies.
This game takes into account not only the topography of the war, spanning across both Europe and Asia, but also the various significant events that would hinder or assist armies. Weather plays a large role. For instance, a defending army might have the advantage over an invader marching through the dead of winter. Each nation also has its own unique edge during the war, the technology tree changing depending on the nation controlled. The gameplay itself features a Risk-like board across the entirety of Europe and Asia, allowing the player to position troops and move them from their territory into enemy territory.
The player moves their troops in the direction they wish, whether it is to transport troops or invade the neighboring lands. Taking into account weather and terrain, the player is able to better make these choices.
Along with that, should the player be up against overwhelming odds, diplomacy becomes an option as well, allowing the player to rewrite history to develop their own victory. Given the era, this also allows for battle on any frontier, whether it land, sea, or air.
Another entry that focuses on World War I, Valiant Hearts has a charming comic book style to it that is not seen often in this genre. The game takes more of a focus on puzzles rather than the battles themselves, creating a narrative through its campaign. You play as four strangers who cross paths during the events of the war and, together, try to retain their humanity during these terrible times in the trenches.
The focus remains on the puzzles, using various means to make your way through the campaign, often trying to avoid enemies rather than outright fighting against them. This is hands down one of the most charming depictions of this time period, focusing on the human side to the soldiers that would risk their lives to defend their homeland.
This game focuses on the naval warfare that occurred during the Battle of the Atlantic. You can play as either the Allies or the German Navy, the Kriegsmarine. There is a campaign, allowing for 50 missions between the two factions as you battle it out for control of the Atlantic channels. Ranging from protecting convoys to hunting the enemy ships with submarines, there are a lot of options in the way your missions can go. While this is mostly naval warfare, there are a number of aircrafts that can also be used, attacking from the sky to give your army the edge.
If the campaign isn't quite your style, there is also PVP styled matches, allowing for up to ten ships on both sides of the conflict. This allows for some major battles between fleets as you battle for the Atlantic. Skip to main content.
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