Strategy Informer  

When I saw Sid Meyer's Fireaxis new XCOM project I feared they would have ruined one of the most beautyfull games ever. But Sid's Microprose (long live the Microprose!) made the first one and they know how to preserve its legend.
This remake of UFO:Enemy... Read More

Simple as that. This game is what the good old master of Magic was: a fantasy version of Civilization. Unfortunatly they picked the wrost Civilization ever to build the game. All the faults of Civilization 5 are present in this game and the result is... Read More

Another masterpiece from Bethesda! No words can explain the immersive environment of Skyrim. All is almost perfect. Musics, animations, playability, graphics, all masterfully balanced to keep the player entertained. This game is pure art.

No kidding on this one! Hundreds of parameters to keep track, the might of burocracy to move even for the smallest action and an entire nation destiny at stake. A truly complex game, maybe too complex. Personally I prefer the Supreme Ruler serie, a better... Read More

Dungeon Siege (DS) is a Diablo-like game that allows the player to command a group of characters into an epic adventure to defeat an evil lord.
While the story is trivial, technically this game is far better than the Blizzard's game.
First, you command... Read More

What's this? The quality of GTA serie games has been incresing since its creation. Now They decided to return to the origins and pump them up with a new, unoptimized, graphic. Here we are, in a city only map, without the RPG elements of San Andreas, stucked... Read More

This is my opinion. XCOM Apocalypse was somewhat an experiment, mostly for the AI.
Sounds are simple, little and poor musics, no dark and fearful battelzones, strange ('60s?) color palette.
But the AI... this is the only game (well, perhaps Dungeon... Read More

Yes, someone may think this is a mod (in 1995 they were called data disks) of XCOM, but, even if the game structure and graphic are the same, this is completly new game! Bigger, more difficult, more insidious, darker, frightnening (damned awesome terror... Read More

I do not how they made it, but this game is even better than Vice City! Incredible landscapes, it makes me wish to jump on a (stolen) motorbike and travel through California and Nevada. Well... almost.
Good story, excellent musics, sounds, high longevity... Read More

Better that GTA 3! Incredible!
The story reminds the movie "Scarface" a little too close, but the game is really great! Vice City has many innovative and new features, the longevity is high as well as musics and sounds.
PLAY IT!

I was a good idea indeed, but the game lacks of any deep or realistic factor. It's only a medium quality RTS with some sci-fi additions (IS-2 tanks with radars to increase accuracy?!) to the unit database. I hoped it would be a new and more realistic... Read More

A Dungeon Keeper game set in a James Bond world! This is truly original! A wonderful idea and perfectly realized! The evil mastermind player must build his evil (everything needs to be "evil") and high tech lair where he can store the fruits of his evil... Read More

Pro and cons fight over this title. Yes, you are again in a totally desert area. Yes, you start as noob even if you walked all the way from California to Nevada. Yes, after reaching the 15 level you can easily defeat all enemies (with the proper tactic... Read More

Basically Operation Arrowhead is ArmA2 with some features of the ACE2 mod included in a desert environment. It may appear this is a small achievment, but, trust me, it isn't.
The game is gorgeous! Even more realistic, more assimilating, more complex... Read More

SOF2 is a very immersive game with a wonderful story! The player has to travel all the world around to the final showdown in a ever increasing explosive background. From the jungles of America to the (ever) freezing Russia, down the city fights in Honk... Read More

Yes, Sid Meyer is the master, but this game was made by guys that learned his lessons very well! And, they are even better than Sid in some areas!
This is a great CIV game with hundreds of units, buildings, technologies and a sea of options available... Read More

Reviewing Starcraft now is not easy. You have to research, think about what was the game envirorment in the 1998. Obviosly you cannot compare this game to present one, it will be a mere shadow, nothing, not even worth to be played on mobile phones.
But... Read More

Personally I think that only the good old Empire Earth is better than this game!!
The originaò game was already wonderful, but this Resurrection Project ROCKS!!!! ALl new game modes are available: more units, more weapons, new buildings! All in... Read More

A WAY better than most RTS' out today, especially those strangely ultra-famous ones from a certain company named after a very cold wind tempest.. ehmm... you know.
Anyway, this game has 4 very different races (and the aliens are really different from... Read More

Like the previous Battlezone this is an unique game. A good mix of two genres that make it a first person real time strategy!
You will find yourself protecting the resource collecting vehicles for real or lead a base assault from inside a walker just... Read More

This game is the best fantasy RPG! Everything is nearly perfect! Huge map to be explored, hundreds of quests, spells, weapons... all!
The replayability factor is off scale and this not counting the tons of mods and addons that STILL are coming out from... Read More

Too much simplified, awful interface (cities and units lists are useless!), poor musics, this is not CIV! It isn't Panzer General either. It's an orrible mix of them!
And city production is WAY TOO SLOW! Come on, 6 turns to build a warrior in an average... Read More

Great game! The Vietnam experience is almost real, you can feel the heat and dampness of the air, the sounds of the jungle with its shadows hiding the malicious vietcong soldiers. Excellent musics and sound effects, great choice of weapons (you will learn... Read More

Compared to the classic space strategy games (you know, hex maps, tons of options, detailed planetary managment...) this game is quite simple. Only one resource count: money. The tech tree is not enormous, but, interesting innovation, changes at every... Read More

This is, by far, the best of the Mechwarrior serie! Maybe the story is not so deep, you are only the leader of a mercenary company trying to make money out of the war betweeen the feudal houses of the battletech universe, but, heck, everything else is... Read More

Damn, what a ridicolous mix of bad implemented bullets and explosive! OK, ok, perhaps I played Operation Flashpoint and its sequels too much, but this is too much! Too much arcade, irrealistic, poorly innovative. Even the single player campign has a ridicolous... Read More

Bioware makes excellent RPG, this is sure! After Knight Of The Old Republic here is a similar game with a brand new, exciting setting! The story is great with many surprises along the way, the game itself seems most like a movie and a great one with wise... Read More

This is a really good simulation game! Since the pubblishing of 688i I dreamed of a game that could allow the player to "pilot" other sub platforms. Now we have the possibility to play with many different ASW (anti-submarines warfare) platforms and all... Read More

It may be a scaled-down version of Operation Flashpoint, more arcade and simplier, but this may an actual advantage.
Like Starsiege tribes, the good old father of this type of games, BF1942 can be played by many people from the war-sim fanatics that... Read More

This second chapter of UFO serie still is based on facts on Earth after the Alien attack, the story is quite good with some surprises.
The managing section of the game is very good, with the player that must navigate in the new world diplomacy to obtain... Read More

hey this is a new game genre! I never saw an RPG with tactical solutions to combat (Fallout Tactics style )AND strategic managment of the resources found in battle (UFO style)!! Well, maybe is all very similar to UFO, but this is an adventure.
Too bad... Read More

I said it! When Rome TW was out I said it! Creative Assembly will end their TW serie with a Napoleon TW game. In that moment, years ago, I thought We will be able to command musket armed troops from 1600 to 1870 (american civil war was fought with smooth... Read More

What is this game? What is compared to SH3? It goes from 1939 to 1943 and only offer command of Type VII submarines. Why? To greedly try to sell an expansion pack in the near future, just like Empire & Napoleon TW? Are the sofware houses so stupid? To... Read More

Exactly as Empire Earth 2. This RTS make the same mistakes. It is smaller (much smaller), dumber, easier (too much), a mere shadow of SUPCOM. Oh, GPG team succeeded to make a RTS that will run smoothly on most PC, but they did it by limiting the game... Read More

Ok, you have to be trustwhorty. Trustworthy that Bohemia will correct the impressive number of bugs and driver issues that plague this title. The did it with Operation Flashpoint adn Armed Assault, they will do the same with ArmA2, I hope.
So let's start... Read More

I played the old Topico: Paradise Island for quite a long time. It was a great game then. Now we have Tropico 3, what's new?
Since graphic is irrelevant... let me think... the soundtracks (WONDERFUL AS ALWAYS) and some minor options (the speeches from... Read More

This could have been a great game.. if it had been released 8 years ago. Unfortunatly Bohemia's Operation Flashpoint was released in the 2001 and this game shares only the title with it.
Due to the fact the consoles have few keys or buttons, programmers... Read More

No doubts, the TOTAL WAR series are among the best strategic games ever. I played all of them and this last is not the exception. All units and politic enviroment are historically reconstructed. Naval combat is wonderful! The introducion of a research... Read More

This game is all like its predecessor, X2 with new graphic and few additions. It is great onlt thanks to those fans that edited great scripts that expand the X-universe and make the player really able to build fleets of ships and stations (and manage... Read More

This game is wonderful. Bethesda has successfully taken all the original Fallout background into an Oblivion-like game (a very good game indeed)!
The radioactive wastes of DC are frightnening and the background sounds and dark musics makes the playing... Read More

This game is truly identical to the old Colonization (that had better musics, If I may say this), point.
The only innovation are the exploration, military, commerce and religion points used to "acquire" the most useful congress members before other colonies... Read More

This game is great! The FPS world must look at it to see how things are to be done! Great story, excellent audio, unique setting (I do not remember any other game taking place in an african local conflict, great idea!), deep interaction with the environment... Read More

THIS IS UFO! Also known as "UFO: Enemy Unknown" (wow, even the title is awe inspiring!), this is THE tactical game!
From accurate base managment to your favourite soldier taking cover from enemy fire, you can control everything!
No one of other UFO... Read More

Good creature creator, bad game. even at the most diffulct level, only the space phase, at the end of the game, has some challenge to offer. Anyway the game remain simple and straight forwarding, you can simply not lose. your race will never risk extinction... Read More

Every lover of space strategy will appreciate the huge maps of LOST EMPIRE, but It seems this is the only relevant aspect of the game.
- only 6 races to choose from, no customization.
- non detailed planet management (it's strange, in a turn based... Read More

The interface is user-friendly, the research tree adequatly long and complicated, fair sounds and good graphic. It's a good compromise between the fast-play of an RTS and the complexity of a good old-style turn-based strategy game. Not bad, but I havre... Read More

This game reminds me of the mighty BALANCE OF POWER (1984 for Windows 1.0!). It is a good geo-political simulator where the AI react in a fairly realistic way to player's actions. And the player surely can take many form of actions! From global market... Read More

I loved all the previous two SOF games, I hoped this will match their high quality standards, but I am disappointed.
Other than a good graphic, that is irrelevant, the game gas nothing to offer. Poor sounds, no music, ridicolous story, even the weapons... Read More

Exactly like the other Call of Duty games this one is truly a cinematographic experience. You will feel yourself being part of great movies like "Blackhawk Down". The action is frenetic, screams, bulletfire and explosions are everywhere to put the player... Read More

This game is HUGE, just like Supreme Commander it requires an awesome PC to work, but it is worth of it! The game pace is faster than in SUPCOM, units are less expensive and take less time to build, moreover, they're faster! Battles everywhere on the... Read More

This serie of games rocks! Amazing story, 3 different factions, realistic but not demanding graphic (big nukes!), good research tree, costomizable units, multi-level maps (air, surface, undersea and subterrain!) for infinite tactical options, high level... Read More

This game has almost all things other games don't imagine even now! Large maps, custom civilizations, good sounds, impressive number of well reproduced historical and fictional units, magic (I don't like it much though) and mass destruction weapons.
... Read More

If you like the Alien movies, you MUST play at this game! It has everything! Scared, but awesome equipped, colonial marines, lurking predators and, most of all, tons and tons of aliens! Music and sound effects are directly taken from the movies, dark... Read More

The good, old time of the '80s Cold War are very well recreated in the Mr. Harpoon (ak. Larry Bond) game. Soviets are everywhere shooting and chopping USA to shreds, great! The action is lightning quick and the devastation you can call as support make... Read More

This game is awesome. A true sequel of the mighty Operation Flashpoint. With its predecessor it shares highly accurate ballistic, physics, sounds (bullets are faster than sound!), tactical sense. But it improves graphic (not needed really), weapons handling... Read More

Compared to Frontier, Freelancer and X2.

Few ships available to buy. No factory buyable. No real planet landing. Squadron limited to 3 ships. Fixed prices for goods.
No innovations.

This game has everything a good strategy game should have: many units, good interface, side customization, tactical combat, research...
It is since the old wonderful Master Of Magic that I can't see a game like this.
Excellet the idea of the mages'... Read More

This game is the only one I tried that really needs dual or quad core processors with top performance video cards supporting them. IT'S HUGE! THOUSANDS OF UNITS BATTLING OVER GIGANTIC MAPS WITH SHELLS AND EXPLOSIONS EVERYWHERE! It's the only RTS that... Read More

A mix of first person shooter and a RPG. The main character starts with few skills (but his 10 years in the French Foreign Legion?) and few money. Many missions must be completed to gain the experience and the money to equip Meyers to deal with the main... Read More

No incredible graphic with light sourcing, bump mapping, antialiasing, vertex lightning and all those useless craps that makes games slow and players dumb.
Here we are with an old school, hex map, turn based, space strategy game and a wonderful game... Read More

One of the best RPG ever! Incredible settings, excellent story, near perfect character management, good musics.
Find it and buy!

This game has a very good graphic, nothing more. Unfortunatly, graphic is irrelevant.

This russian game is truly the one of the most advanced and immersive military flight simulator today. Excellent graphic, good sounds, an incredibly detailed flight model makes this game a must. Its realism is unmatched by any other game, consider that... Read More

GRAPHIC IS IRRELEVANT! This game is the proof! Defcon is a small (60MB!) game that allows the player to nuke the rest of the world in a "Wargames" type geoscape. The player needs to position all his forces first, then the defcon countdown begin and when... Read More

No other words. Are you looking for a modern infantry combat simulator? You found it!
This game will live forever, there is a new, great addon coming every 4 hours!

I still have to get used to the 8GB of space needed to this monster, but luckly it is worth of it.
The Total War Series are all great games, graphic is still irrelevant, but with such a good base it's the only thing that can be improved.

This game has everything! Frredom, real physisc for flying in space and orbital mechanics, transathmosferic flight, high ship customization, story development, ecc.
No other game can beat it and I'm writing 10 years after its pubblication!
This is one... Read More

It's the right evolution of Warhammer 40000, a game too fast to let players make any strategic decision. In this game you must consider very carefully how to move your squads and the advance can't be too fast. The player have to master terrain cover,... Read More

It's the beautyful CIV3 made simplier and with good working multiplayer! The research tree is less complicated as it is the whole game (units don't have an ATTACK and DEFENSE value, but only a POWER value).
There are many new features, like unit's promotions... Read More