23rd March 2005, 2005 Land of Legends
A world of magic. A world of mighty fortresses and even mightier warriors. A world where armies clash, where battles are decided by fire and steel, by tooth and claw. A world where the forces of good, once proud people now wracked by hubris and jealousy of one another, must unite together to vanquish the ultimate Evil.
Genre: Strategy Our score: 6.5
22nd March 2005, 2005 SpellForce II - Shadow Wars
In SpellForce II the player takes over both roles - he is Commander of his troops and also a front fighting hero, solving quests and overcoming obstacles as in classical RPGs, but also leads armies as in an RTS. The Players character is supported by up to 5 heroes who can be summoned at special monuments - these will become available in...
Genre: Strategy
18th March 2005, 2005 Diplomacy
Based on the popular board game of the same name, the game will feature classic gameplay from the tabletop version as well as enhanced game features to give the title a modern feel.
Genre: Strategy Our score: 7.7
16th March 2005, 2005 Panzer Campaigns France '40
Smaller scenario lets players re-fight battles such as Sedan (1940), The Gembloux Gap, Dinant, Stonne, and Arras. This was a time when tank tactics were in their inception, and players can use their armor to gain the decision. Campaign optional setups allow for either free Allied play from 10 May or Allied commitment to deploy historically in...
Genre: Strategy
13th March 2005, 2005 Chaos League: Sudden Death
Chaos League is a sport in which the rules are simple: there are none. The object of the game is to score as many goals as possible – through whatever means necessary: hand-to-hand – or feet to face – violence, magic or weapons. Whilst the original game's premise remains: train and manage a team of nine assorted characters into the leanest,...
Genre: Strategy
12th March 2005, 2005 Officers
Officers puts you in command of the Allied forces in the largest conflict of our time. Take control of the U.S and British Commonwealth armies in order to strike back and defeat the Axis menace in Europe along the Western Front.
With over 1500 units on maps up to 10 square miles, Officers is the first WWII RTS to let you fight on a...
Genre: Strategy
11th March 2005, 2005 Supremacy: Four Paths To Power
Supremacy offers an addictive sci-fi turn based strategy experience like none other as you battle for universal supremacy on land and in space! The path to Supremacy is a puzzle with many pieces, from espionage and economic growth to planetary invasions and fleet battles. Play as one of four unique commanders, each with distinctive starships,...
Genre: Strategy
4th March 2005, 2005 Darwinia
Combining fast paced action with strategic battle planning, Darwinia features a novel and intuitive control mechanism, a graphical style ripped from 80's retro classics, and a story concerning a tribe of video game sprites trapped in a modern 3D game world.
Genre: Strategy Our score: 8.5
4th March 2005, 2005 Reach for the Stars
Reach for the Stars is noted to have been one of, if not the first, 4X Space Strategy game. 4X Strategy refers to the four activities you perform, Explore, Expand, Exploit, and Exterminate. The overall game will remain the same as the 2000 release of Reach for the Stars, but with fixes for previous issues reported since then.
Genre: Strategy
4th March 2005, 2005 Tactica Online
Tactica is a turn-based online tactical RPG. Played entirely online in a persistent world, Tactica focuses on "thinking combat" where your tactical skills are the difference between winning and losing. Tactica is set in Europe during the Renaissance. The Inquisition is suppressing the development of the New Sciences, magic and science mean...
Genre: Strategy
3rd March 2005, 2005 Brigade E5: New Jagged Union
The title is described as a tactical strategy title that incorporates the advantages of both real-time and turn-based games using an innovative smart pause mode (SPM). The game is set in the fictional country of Palinero in the tropics, where players will be required to assemble a band of mercenaries in order to survive the imminent civil war.
Genre: Strategy
3rd March 2005, 2005 Will of Steel
As a young Marine officer, William Steel, the son of the highly decorated USMC General Thomas Steel, you will be thrown into your first combat experience while leading your men in and out of battles. The lessons and theory from the Naval Academy will be tested in the hell of war. Your decisions will make the difference between life and death,...
Genre: Strategy
2nd March 2005, 2005 1944: Battle of the Bulge
What began with PC real-time tactical Desert Rats vs. Afrika Korps, and continued with D-Day, is to be concluded with 1944: Battle of the Bulge. This third in the series uses Digital Reality's acclaimed RTS engine, which has consistently delivered explosive gameplay coupled with historical accuracy. 1944: Battle of the Bulge covers 20 new...
Genre: Strategy
1st March 2005, 2005 Stronghold 2
This sequel continues the siege-warfare and castle building gameplay of previous installments, with the benefit of a fully 3D engine and all new campaigns.
Genre: Strategy
28th February 2005, 2005 Hidden Stroke II
Players of Hidden Stroke II can look forward to challenging and exciting missions guaranteed to keep the hobby strategist engaged for hours. British, French and Italian forces are equipped for combat. Four new landscapes to battle across, players can engage in close-city combat, countryside engagements and across arid desert wastelands. Each...
Genre: Strategy
28th February 2005, 2005 Gary Grigsby’s World at War
The game takes place during the turbulent years of 1940 through 1946. You can control any of the five world powers (or more than one). There are Japan, Germany (which includes Italy), Russia, China, and the “Western Allies” (UK and the US). It’s a little disappointing to see that the US and the UK are controlled as one, but it...
Genre: Strategy Our score: 8.5
25th February 2005, 2005 The Day After
Cuba, 1962. The United States have increased their intelligence activity in Cuba, due to which the Soviet and Cuban counterintelligence started exposing more American spies and saboteurs. The American U-2 planes carried out continuous photo reconnaissance of the Cuban territory, and the data supplied by there hi-altitude recon planes, was truly...
Genre: Strategy
24th February 2005, 2005 Empire Earth 2
Empire Earth 2 will build upon the success of its predecessor by adding unique units, powers, leaders, and inherent bonuses to all of the game's 14 different civilizations. Cities, territories, and borders in Empire Earth 2, often treated as "eye candy" in other real-time strategy games, will factor into game play and be treated as tradable...
Genre: Strategy
22nd February 2005, 2005 Pax Galaxia
Pax Galaxia is an addictive strategy game of interstellar conquest. Set up your supply lines to send your ships into battle. Surround your enemies and conquer the pieces. Only one star empire will control the galaxy! Pax includes over forty different maps, an easy-to-use interface, strategic computer AI players, and much more.
Genre: Strategy
22nd February 2005, 2005 LUX
Lux is a game of strategy and domination inspired by the board game Risk. Control your armies to conquer and hold strategic countries on the map. The object of the game is simple: Take over the entire world! Easy Network Play Joining an online multiplayer game is as easy as 2 clicks - no need to muck about with IP addresses. Hosting an...
Genre: Strategy
21st February 2005, 2005 Domination
Domination features a renewed global conflict between the Free Nations Union and the Phantom League on distant planets, including sci-fi land, sea and air warfare at a grand-strategy level. The game inherits all of the remarkable features of the original game and deepens the Massive Assault player experience through increased gameplay options...
Genre: Strategy
20th February 2005, 2005 The Settlers V: Heritage of Kings
The fifth game in the long-running Settlers series sees players attempting to reclaim a medieval kingdom from an evil tyrant.
Genre: Strategy
18th February 2005, 2005 Nexus: the Jupiter Incident
This real-time strategy game lets you build colonies on distant planets, gather your forces, and try to win back Earth from alien control.
Genre: Strategy
18th February 2005, 2005 Paraworld
Combining for the first time ever a setting never seen before with personalized unit management, it brings new life to the real-time strategy genre. Modern elements blend with primeval conditions in a long forgotten, beautiful prehistoric world.
Genre: Strategy
18th February 2005, 2005 Rise & Fall: Civilizations at War
a new historical, real-time strategy game that is scheduled to ship in winter 2005. The game is a detailed real-time strategy that lets players completely command one of the four mightiest empires of the ancient world: Greece, Rome, Egypt, and Persia.
Genre: Strategy Our score: 7.0
18th February 2005, 2005 Ascension to the Throne
A turn-based strategy game with RPG elements, Ascension to the Throne places players in a fantasy environment in which they must make new allies and fight enemies to take their place as ruler.
Genre: Strategy
16th February 2005, 2005 Codename: Panzers Phase Two
The WWII real-time strategy game will offer dozens of new missions, three factions (Anglo-American Allies, German-Italian Axis and the Yugoslavian resistance), 20 new combat units, hundreds of fully destructible objects, new battlefield environments and a selection of new heroes to lead armies on the battlefield. The mission editor will allow...
Genre: Strategy
16th February 2005, 2005 Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War - Winter Assault
Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War - Winter Assault will include a brand new, fifth race, The Imperial Guard, an expansion pack Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War.
Genre: Strategy
14th February 2005, 2005 Night Watch
Join the Night Watch and step out to protect the case of Light using all your magic power! Get ready to step into thrilling magic battles in two parallel realities - in real locations of modern Moscow and in the Dusk, the Other layer of reality filled with magic. As you gain experience your power will grow - and you will choose a type of Other...
Genre: Strategy Our score: 5.8
12th February 2005, 2005 Star Chamber
Star Chamber combines elegance, interesting gameplay choices, and the attraction of card-collecting in what has to be one of the very best pure game designs of the year.
Genre: Strategy
12th February 2005, 2005 Sparta: Ancient Wars
High quality real time strategy based on historical events and timelines, and not to feature myths or legends.
Genre: Strategy Our score: 4.8
9th February 2005, 2005 Salvo!
Travel back in time to an era when battles for the supremacy of the sea lanes was decided by brave men commanding massive fortresses of floating wood and cloth. No radar lock- ons, just the Mark I eyeball, and no guided missiles, just heavy orbs of iron. Battle would be joined so close together that you could practically see what your enemy had...
Genre: Strategy
5th February 2005, 2005 Nebula Realm
An addon fo The Settlers: Heritage of Kings will offer new maps for both single and multiplayer modes, new heroes, new units, new buildings and landscapes types, and a map editor.
Genre: Strategy
3rd February 2005, 2005 Fall of Rome
Fall of Rome is an online turn-based strategy game that combines the elements of RPG and war games with strategy set at the dawn of the Dark Ages. Match your skill and cunning in the online turn-based strategy game against eleven human rivals from around the planet. Only one will ultimately triumph in his quest to become The Rex – sole ruler –...
Genre: Strategy Our score: 8.8
2nd February 2005, 2005 Legion Arena
Legion Arena is a Role Playing Strategy game on a massive scale.Take control of a small band of warriors and train them to be the mightiest army in the world!
Genre: Strategy Our score: 6.8
30th January 2005, 2005 Heroes of Annihilated Empires
Creating the Heroes of Annihilated Empires, far from making a game, we build a bridge to the world of imagination living deep inside in each of us. A world that has become an arena for six great races that are ready to engage in the conflict, never seen by these lands before. While leading heroes and mighty armies to victory, bringing your...
Genre: Strategy
30th January 2005, 2005 ANNO 1701
The third episode of the ANNO series takes up where its two predecessors left off: in an age of exploration and sea trade you set out to discover and explore new islands - islands which will soon be home to huge cities. Immerse yourself in a gaming world bursting with life! Thanks to its new 3D graphics, ANNO 1701 presents you with an...
Genre: Strategy Our score: 8.8
30th January 2005, 2005 War Leaders: WW2
War Leaders: WW2's aim is to provide a high quality, unique, state-of-the-art strategy game set in the Second World War, with two clearly differentiated game-play parts. In one part - the manager part - you will control all the high level decisions made during the course of war. In the other part - the RTS part - you will have real time...
Genre: Strategy
28th January 2005, 2005 Seven Kingdoms: Conquest
"Seven Kingdoms: Conquest" offers strategy fans the choice to play as human or demon in epic battles spanning 6,000 years on Earth. Starting in ancient Egypt in 3000 B.C. and ending in a final battle on a futuristic Earth, players will have to have their fingers on the pulse of their civilization as the two races clash every 1,000 years.
Genre: Strategy
27th January 2005, 2005 Black & White II
In Black & White you left the world behind because it was exactly how you wanted it to be. The whole world believed in you. As a god, your job was done. But since you've been away, things have changed. The tribes have discovered technology and are embracing the power it brings with a zeal bordering on the religious. And with new technology comes...
Genre: Strategy Our score: 6.5
