3rd June 2004, 2004 UFO: Extraterrestrials
UFO: ET is a strategy turn based game. The player controls a squad of soldiers, light and heavy support combat vehicles, robots and air units located in a base on the planet Esperanza that had been colonized by the spaceship Magalhaes in the year 2023. This squad was brought together by the Esperanza government to face a threat that comes from...
Genre: Strategy Our score: 7.2
3rd June 2004, 2004 Kingdom Under Fire: The Crusaders (xbox)
Phantagram's fantasy-themed real-time strategy game originally appeared on the PC; now it's headed for the Xbox.
Genre: Strategy
3rd June 2004, 2004 America's Army
At best, it can be an unusually intense game that in many ways rivals or surpasses the top commercial tactical shooters.
Genre: Shooter
3rd June 2004, 2004 The Witcher
"The Witcher" combines spectacular and visually stunning action with deep and intriguing storyline. The game is set in a world created by best-selling Polish author Andrzej Sapkowski. The world shares many common features with other fantasy lands, but there are also some distinguishing elements setting it apart from others. The game features...
Genre: RPG Our score: 7.7
3rd June 2004, 2004 Rapid Gunner
Rapid Gunner is a simulator of shooting at targets with pistols. Every mission represents a range where players can practice their aim, perception and tactics. The game is presented in 3D first-person view. The player can freely walk around 8 levels where the task is to hit all targets as fast as possible. The player can gradually improve his...
Genre: Shooter
2nd June 2004, 2004 Operation: Matriarchy
A planet-wide epidemic caused by an extraterrestrial virus totally changed all women of the planet of Velian. Their bodies transformed to become parts of collective intelligence, presumably controlled by some non-humanoid creatures. The Velian men proved to be resistant to the virus, but they lost their status of free intelligent beings and only...
Genre: Shooter
1st June 2004, 2004 Culdcept (ps2)
The well-designed mechanics, combined with its sheer amount of content, make Culdcept easily recommendable to fans of strategy games and even to fans of role-playing games.
Genre: Strategy
1st June 2004, 2004 The Sims Bustin' Out (ps2)
The Sims Bustin' Out makes good, solid improvements over its predecessor and stands on its own as a great version of The Sims for consoles.
Genre: Strategy
1st June 2004, 2004 Front Mission 4 (ps2)
Front Mission 4 is set six years after the original release. There are two main characters in the game, Daryl and Elza, and each is based in a different location. The storyline follows each of them--separately--until an incident causes their paths to cross.
Genre: Strategy
1st June 2004, 2004 Romance of the Three Kingdoms IX (ps2)
Romance IX is more of what you already love--that is, assuming you loved it to begin with.
Genre: Strategy
1st June 2004, 2004 Wrath Unleashed (xbox)
Wrath Unleashed should provide an entertaining experience and pretty good replay value for those who enjoy equal parts methodical strategy and button-mashing mayhem.
Genre: Strategy
1st June 2004, 2004 Goblin Commander: Unleash the Horde (xbox)
Console owners starved for a real-time strategy game should find Goblin Commander to be a worthwhile experience.
Genre: Strategy
1st June 2004, 2004 Worms 3D (ps2)
Worms 3D is a pretty good strategy game, but taking the game into full 3D seems to have actually detracted from some of the depth found in the 2D games.
Genre: Strategy
1st June 2004, 2004 Black & White: Next-Generation (xbox)
A new control system and interface are among the changes planned for the console version of Black & White.
Genre: Strategy
1st June 2004, 2004 The Urbz: Sims in the City (xbox)
This urban Sims-style life simulation sees players attempting to become the biggest "player" in a large city--where reputation is everything.
Genre: Strategy
1st June 2004, 2004 Dynasty Tactics 2 (ps2)
It's an excellent strategy game that fans of the original will enjoy and that gives new players a chance to experience this highly original, entertaining, and complex style of gameplay.
Genre: Strategy
1st June 2004, 2004 Soldner: Secret Wars
After half a century of military interventions major countries like the United States of America or Russia are weary of their role as "World Police". The consequences of their military actions for their economy, national security, and internal ethnic conflicts let to the conclusion to tune down their military campaigns.
Due to that...
Genre: Shooter
31st May 2004, 2004 Strength & Honour
Strength & Honour is a game of empire building and battlefield warfare set in the ancient world (circa 220 BC).
Genre: Strategy
31st May 2004, 2004 Civilization III: Conquests
This expansion pack for Civilization III will re-create eight monumental conflicts of world history.
Genre: Strategy Our score: 9.0
31st May 2004, 2004 Victoria: Empire Under the Sun
This strategy game will see players assuming the role of a monarch in the 19th century.
Genre: Strategy Our score: 8.7
31st May 2004, 2004 Beyond The Law: The Third Wave
A squad-based, strategy shooter, in Beyond the Law: The Third Wave the player commands a covert team of specialists to stop a renegade criminal element intent on destroying the United States of America. In this world corruption is rampant, the police have been bought, and terror reigns - an elite force with authority beyond the law becomes the...
Genre: Strategy Our score: 5.2
31st May 2004, 2004 Universal Combat
Universal Combat brings the greatest components of war together in a single game. Conceived in late 2001 as Battlecruiser Generations, the fifth in the Battlecruiser series, the game has grown into much more than a massive space simulation.
Genre: Shooter Our score: 6.3
31st May 2004, 2004 Thief: Deadly Shadows
n Thief: Deadly Shadows, gamers once again take on the role of Garrett, a master thief. Garrett is rarely seen, never caught and capable of breaking into the most ingeniously secured places. Garrett steals from the wealthy and gives to himself, making his living in the dark and foreboding City. Preferring to be left alone to ply his trade,...
Genre: Shooter
28th May 2004, 2004 Fahrenheit
Fahrenheit, a spectacular psycho thriller, set in New-York, gives gamers the unique chance to play both hunter and hunted, which in turn leads them to speak, explore, interact, fight and confront unknown dark forces. For no apparent reason, ordinary people are randomly killing total strangers. Although there is no link between the murderers,...
Genre: Shooter
26th May 2004, 2004 Singles
This life simulation game will challenge players to turn two complete strangers sharing an apartment into a happy couple.
Genre: Strategy
26th May 2004, 2004 Halo 2
Master Chief and Cortana will be returning as will the evil Covenant, and that Master Chief will be called on to save the greatest prize in the Human colonies - Earth itself. The sequel will include many of the features players have been begging for, including all-new graphics, new environments and locations, new weapons, vehicles and full...
Genre: Shooter
25th May 2004, 2004 Warlords Battlecry III
Warlords Battlecry III's many playable factions, persistent heroes, and dynamic campaign are innovative elements on top of a solid real-time strategy game.
Genre: Strategy Our score: 7.2
25th May 2004, 2004 Ground Control II: Operation Exodus
Ground Control II: Operation Exodus takes place during the year 2741 AD, roughly 300 years after the events in the original game. The democratic and freedom caring Northern Star Alliance (NSA) is being hard pressed by the warmongering Terran Empire. The war has recently entered a new stage; a brutal and deadly ground war, as the Empire has...
Genre: Shooter
25th May 2004, 2004 Dark Ore
A new ore discovered in space allows the manufacture of computer chips that run at speeds never thought possible. Long-time space mining operations that were once struggling financially are now scrambling for ways to meet demand. You are the owner of a space mining company that has developed a revolutionary new drilling system which increases...
Genre: Shooter
12th May 2004, 2004 ER
In the ER computer game, the player joins the cast of the TV show as a newly hired intern and handles a steady flow of patients with health issues ranging from minor cuts and bruises to serious injuries sustained from accidents and violence. Through it all, the player will have to navigate goals, dodge sticky politics, deal with gut-wrenching...
Genre: Strategy
11th May 2004, 2004 Splinter Cell 3
The year is 2008. Information Warfare has evolved into the most dangerous threat to global stability. You are Sam Fisher, Third Echelon's most skilled Splinter CellŪ operative. You are assigned to execute a hazardous series of operations to investigate and eliminate a new source of information attacks, originating in North Korea. To succeed, you...
Genre: Shooter
8th May 2004, 2004 Midway
Midway is a real-time 3D tactical/strategy game that adapts the naval battles of the Second World War. It introduces how the naval warfare changed during WW2 - from the dreadnaughts protecting the memory of Battle of Jutland to the forerunners of modern carriers. The player may control different vessels in real or hypothetical naval battles. The...
Genre: Strategy
6th May 2004, 2004 UFO: Aftershock
After the alien invasion, the Council of Earth successfully fought the Reticulans and moreover discovered their secret plan: to cover the Earth with "Biomass", a network of alien organic tissue that, the Reticulans hoped, would become conscious and endowed with immense psychic powers. The Reticulans who invaded the Earth are not true...
Genre: Strategy Our score: 6.3
5th May 2004, 2004 Space Rangers 2: Dominators
Space Rangers 2 is a mix of intense space RPG laced with 3D RTS action planetside. 200 years after the first chapter of Space Rangers, a new, even more dangerous threat arises in the galaxy. A key planet in producing war androids has become self-aware with their own intellect and force of will, bent on conquering the galaxy one planet at a time....
Genre: Strategy Our score: 8.2
27th April 2004, 2004 Kuma: War
This wargame will be constantly updated to mirror unfolding events in the real world.
Genre: Shooter
27th April 2004, 2004 You Are Empty
Leading Soviet scientists have been conducting experiments that alter human physiology and mental abilities in hopes of creating a race of "superhumans" to better build a bright future for communism all over the world. The scientists' creations have other ideas, though, and after escaping from their creators, they go on a rampage through the...
Genre: Shooter
27th April 2004, 2004 Dead Man's Hand
We called ourselves "The Nine", and we shook the pillars of heaven when we rode... We took what we wanted, cutting a path of blood and destruction across the territory. Neither God nor laws of men stood in our way. My head was filled with visions of fame and gold, but the rest of the gang liked the money and loved the killing. They thrived...
Genre: Shooter
27th April 2004, 2004 Breed
'Breed' is the first project to be developed utilizing the 'Mercury' engine. Breed is an action based game set both in Earth orbit and on its surface. From the orbiting USC Darwin the player launches attacks against the Breed, the aggressive biomechanical race infesting Earth. Once the Darwin is discovered the Breed will launch waves of attacks...
Genre: Shooter
27th April 2004, 2004 Serious Sam 2
The series famous for relentless intensity is returning bigger, better looking and more frantic than ever before. 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...
Genre: Shooter Our score: 7.2
26th April 2004, 2004 Desert Law
Desert Law is a new spin on the traditional real-time strategy that immerses players into a post-apocalyptic world where gasoline is the new world currency. Players can have anything if they have gas to pay for it, or gamers can loose everything with one tactical mistake. Mankind is rebuilding civilization off the scattered remains of...
Genre: Strategy
