Cossacks: Back to War
I still remember when I got the game, it was an accident…
My friend gave me a demo cd with a bunch of games on it and cossacks: back to war was one of em.
I kept play that one demo mission again and again…
I think STILL this is the best strategy game of all time, it amazes me how you can control thousands, big cities and navy fleets.
And it takes hundreds of hours to finish the game because there is so much missions in it and of course an editor too.
And this strategy game is unique because the game mechanics are so different than most of the other strategy games, you dont have to rush for resources, there is always a few mine places around you where you can get the resources from.
– Real player with 260.2 hrs in game
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12 years ago, I had an interesting 2v2 battle (online PVP).
It lasted 9 hours.
9 FRICKING HOURS.
Had to call in sick just to finish the game.
–– EDITED + CONTINUATION STORY, 10 Sept 2019 —-
So what happened?
Well, in that particular PVP match, my friend and I had lost a large-scale engagement after a mis-timed assault, resulting in me losing most of my infantry, mercenaries, and cavalry.
Sensing the end the match, our opponents gleefully taunted us (in-game text chat) and relentlessly fobbed themselves over an easy victory.
– Real player with 184.5 hrs in game
Blitzkrieg 2 Anthology
Found this game and it is a diamond in the rough. The second i started the tutorials i realised that brute force and overwhelming numbers don’t work. You have to use strategy, such as an artillery bombardment before your charge, or hitting the enemy in the rear and making there defences useless. The reinforcements system forces you to think about what the attack will cost you, it affects you in the long run. They feature that cought me off gaurd is the ammo system, your tanks and soldiers RUN OUT of ammo, when this happens you need to have a supply truck resuply them, and they have a limited supply, making ware houses (infinit supplies) something to defend as well as your supply routs to the front lines. Further more unlike some games that just copy paste units, every side (even the NPCS) have thier own unique rooster of units giving them an advantage in thier field. Germans: Tanks Soviets: Rocket artillery Americans: Jack of all trades. The graphics arn’t master pieces but they are pretty good for 2005. As the campaigns go on, you steadily start being assigned larger and more important missions, which makes it feel as if you are rising through the ranks from some leutenant commanding a few squads of infantry and a hand full of tanks to a general commanding an army to glory. Over all it is a very realistic RTS, gameplay wise, and it will apeal to those who like a realistic RTS.
– Real player with 166.7 hrs in game
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No problems on my win 7 laptop. The game does without the core units of the previous game. Instead, you end up leveling up “classes of units”, which gets you slight to very good improvements. Some of the missions deploy you in a bad spot, so it makes it hard to achieve no losses for a particular class. I miss have the sniper as my spotter. I basically used my disposaple infantry as spotter and cannon fodder. The AI still attacks the nearest units, so my entrenched infantry were being attacked instead of my anti-tank guns or tanks. The AI still doesn’t move when being attacked by an unseen force. You are restricted as to what units you can deploy as reinforcements, but you are given a good amount if you just want to zerg across the map. My prefered method of attack would be ground air planes as spotter. mobile artillery so I can move it out of the way of enemy counter artillery, and heavy armor for their sligthly better defense. However, I usually had to use infantry as spotter and medium armor to attack.
– Real player with 105.0 hrs in game
Codename: Panzers, Phase One
This is an old but fun game, it’s the first WW2 RTS that I’ve ever played where you start of the beginning of the war (1/09/1939) and playing as the German side, it is also good that you have the different factions to play as and of course you can choose which order you play them in, but I think playing them in the order presented (1, 2, 3) is best. While this game is fun there are some flaws.
First the Pros
You can capture enemy vehicles and use them on their former masters
Flamethrower troops are great enmasse for heating up tanks till the enemy crew are forced to bail out and you can use your own tank crew to capture and use that vehicle (great if its a better tank than you have).
– Real player with 419.9 hrs in game
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buen juejo graficamente es bastante sinple pero funciona cosa que la segunda parte por lo menos a mi no me funciono para nada no lo compreis en pack yo lo hice y chasco …pero el juego es entretenido y con trucos bastante mas facil aunque yo lo tuve antes para win…xp y funcionaba mucho mejor en esta version que han sacado va sin mas la entrada original ( o video de presentacion a mi no me iba el juego si y segunda parte …panzers 2 ni de coña eso si no pedais una reclamacion de dimero que pasada dos horas del juego no te devuelven el dinero … ) para mi el panzers un 8 eso si se puede mejorar y mucho personalmente no recomiendo el pack que an sacado aqui…..
– Real player with 92.3 hrs in game
Hogs of War
To put it simply, this game is my childhood nanny!
I absolutely loved this game on the PS1 when it came out!
This game is very similar to that but with a few alterations that might throw off the player; A.I. not moving, music bugging out every now and then. However I play the PC and PS1 ports regardless and I enjoy comparing the two as I play them.
And I think that if you enjoyed modern turn based tactic games like Worms Clan Wars then I reckon you’ll have a great time with this!
I like to play as Team Lard (the purple team),which can be accessed by typing in Mardy Pigs in the rename team option both in single and multiplayer. When I play as this team I like to discover what secrets await when going through the single player campaign.
– Real player with 5228.8 hrs in game
IN-DEPTH REVIEW!
If I have time, I will also write guides on how to beat the game and some extra tips and tricks to help you along the way.
The game must be exited via the in-game menu. Do not Alt+Tab or Alt+F4 as this will cause your computer to crash.
WARNING: This game does contain stereotypes which may be considered racist. If you are angered by this then I recommend not buying this game because there is a fair bit of it. (To me, they are pretty tame but I’d prefer just to warn you guys. Like, even the British and Americans have the mickey take out of them so…)
– Real player with 8.6 hrs in game
Rise of Nations: Extended Edition
I am nominating Rise of Nations – Extended Edition {RoN-EE} for the 2020 “Labor of Love” award.
RoN-EE is the 2014 update of the “old” RTS from 2003,
when it won several GOTY awards for Big HUGE Games.
Despite its age, RoN has held up well, especially when I am in the mood for a quick Strategic War. A full-scale 1 v 3-or-4 game typically will run 60 minutes {game-time} or less.
Using ** pause /pause **can effectively make RoN-EE a TBS.
– Real player with 4981.4 hrs in game
Rise of Nations: Extended Edition
The game from my childhood and the only strategy that I love to play even now. This is a remastered version of the game from 2003 and one of the most popular strategic games. Extended Edition contains the full contents with the addition of Thrones and Patriots. Rise of Nations offers a lot of nice campaign where our goal is to lead our nation to dominate the world. During the game you have to take care not to be destroyed by other nations but also develop a number of aspects such as economy, science, technology, diplomacy and military power. Each of these aspects will give you the opportunity to develop troops, build new buildings and to develop new opportunities in old buildings, but also move to a new era. With each progression of the game is changing the look and statistics buildings, military units and other things. Each nation has its own unique army as long as the nation still exists. In the game to expand, we have to use wood, stone, food, science, and oil at a later stage of the game, not forgetting that each of these resources can run out of. There is also an advanced diplomacy through which you can contain very beneficial agreement with other nation. In the game you can also play scenarios and multiplayer, but only with friends because no one plays. The game in terms of gameplay has hardly changed, improved graphics and added more resolution size. I like this production and do not regret a single hour spent at the game. Great soundtrack, an old but still nice graphics and a lot of things to do while playing the game. In my opinion this is the best strategy game I’ve ever played, many hours of fun for me. The game I am able to recommend, however, the game also has a bug that irritated me at first because I could not change my resolution because the game was crashing. However, it was manageable change in a text file.
– Real player with 371.5 hrs in game
1812: Napoleon Wars
An exciting and interesting tower defense strategy game. Probably my favorite kind of game in childhood. Beautiful interface, without too much trash.
I bought it only yesterday, but already tightened it to the fullest) It carries a certain nostalgia of those years. I advise you to buy this game and just feel the game, because it is made with the soul
It’s just possible to teach a story :)))
– Real player with 7.2 hrs in game
_An uncomplicated strategy for an evening or two, if you do not stay too long
Quite interesting gameplay, I liked that there is a link to the history, amused by the view of Red Square
I advise fans of this genre, the performance of the game is good_
– Real player with 3.9 hrs in game
Praetorians
Praetorians is a game I’ve been playing a lot lately, going through the single player campaign on hard. While the story in the campaign isn’t incredibly memorable (most of the missions are different points in roman history I believe) the gameplay itself as well as the challenge is just incredibly addicting and fun. The scenarios (especially the later ones) are challenging but fair, requiring you to think, take good positions, scout when possible. It’s a very tactical squad based rts with no worrying about gathering resources nor worrying about building up bases. It’s a game where hills and forests can either be your best friends, or worst enemies (as units that are on or in these things can’t be seen by enemy units that are not on or in these things).
– Real player with 26.1 hrs in game
I played this game growing up as a boy who loved to emerse myself in the idea of Romans, mainly due to the two nostalgic titles of The settlers IV and Rome total war. So when my Dad brought this game home I found it hard not to fall in love as the game portrays what Romans are remembered for in many little and major aspects of the game.
This game will seem overwelming at first and the fact that it is old and pretty harsh graphics to look at won’t help, especially if your new to the RTS genre. The personel management of troops is the main feature of this game as well as supplying new troops from villages that have either a barbarian or eastern theme. This works well but could be seriously expanded on. For example the only way to select troops is a drag box method. This is also fine but gets annoying when troops move indepedantly due to any stimuli. For example the troops will move out the way for a catapult and when I return to them they are somewhere else and have alerted the enemy. So some polish and rethink of coding and game aspects is needed.
– Real player with 4.5 hrs in game
Call of Duty®
Buy this game. Play it. Beat it. Though this franchise has become a good example of why triple A games are garbage, the original Call Of Duty from 2003 is an outstanding accomplishment for the FPS genre. The graphics are dated by today’s standards, but look great even for a game this old.
The multiplayer lobbies are dead, sure, but the campaign is where the action’s at. This game is from a lost time back when Call Of Duty wasn’t about no-scoping some noobs but instead was all about the glorified single player. It also isn’t scared to show off as many swastikas as possible (seriously, count those flags in the Alps Chateau mission) unlike 2017’s wimpy excuse of a historical war game, Call Of Duty WWII.
– Real player with 27.2 hrs in game
I might have some nostalgic bias towards this particular installment in the franchise as it was one of the very first PC-games I got my hands on back in 2003. But in comparison to other first-person shooters released around the same time, this title holds up supringly well after all these years.
I feel like many of these early 2000’s first-person shooters have not aged particulary well, primairly when it comes down to the core gameplay loop, even if there is of course exceptions. And Call of Duty being one of them. Apart from the obvious graphical age, the game does feel very smooth in its general gunplay and movement. Although the AI is not the best, it does it’s job for the most part.
– Real player with 23.4 hrs in game
Command & Conquer™ Remastered Collection
Great game. Brings back memories.
– Real player with 82.9 hrs in game
It slaps with nostalgia :D
– Real player with 82.5 hrs in game
Men of Valor
OMG! I’d been hoping to see Men of Valor (MOV) released on Steam for years. I even wrote to Valve several years ago when they started to include classic games from years ago in the Steam store, asking for it to be included because IMO it has a superb set of multiplayer maps that cover large open maps, temples, Jungle, Sniping, indoor and outdoor CQB, Urban, Industrial, Hillside and Valley maps. It’s now 15 11 years old (as of 2019), so as you’d expect, some aspects are a little dated, but the actual maps are excellent and despite its age it still looks great. The original add-on map pack, that included an extra five multiplayer maps has been included with this Steam version expanding the original maps to 21 multiplayer maps (see below for a full list, plus a brief explanation of each map). Every major battle from the American involvement in the Vietnam war is represented in these maps. I do hope we see some servers coming online regularly. Sadly over the last several years, when I have found a server running you’d only see ta few players at any one time, so some of the bigger maps were never included in the map rotations and most of the ones that were felt empty and when joining, you spent more time looking for players to shoot, lol. There were exceptions such as Charlieville and the two temple ruins i.e. Cambodian and Jungle Ruins, all three being small CQB maps, with some sniping.
– Real player with 99.8 hrs in game
I actually remembered playing this game on the original Xbox back when it came out in late 2004 and as I am writing down this review, I still have my physical copy of the Xbox version right here in front of me. I absolutely love this game as I played the campaign over and over again that I lost count. You may be wondering: What’s so special about this game? Well, I am going to tell you.
Men of Valor is a 2004 PC (and original Xbox) first-person military shooter that takes place in the earlier stages of the Vietnam War (1965-1968). You play as Dean Shepard, an African-American soldier who took part in the conflict alongside with his squadmates: Greaser, Smooth, Zook, Hodges, and all other characters (Oh my goodness, I even remembered those characters from long ago). The game does not have a legitimate plot but what I love about this game is the presentation. Men of Valor provides a great historical perspective and experience, placing the player to know what is like in that conflict. The campaign is divided into four different areas of the war in 1965-1968: Da Nang Outskirts (rooting out the Vietcong from Da Nang, taking part in Operation Starlite), Iron Triangle (eliminate the Vietcong stronghold that resides in northern Saigon and being part of the joint US-ARVN Offensive), Khe Sanh Hill (push the North Vietnamese Army away from U.S hilltops firebases in 1967), and the Tet Offensive (terminate the North Vietnamese positions out of Hue and breaking the Siege of Khe Sanh).
– Real player with 74.7 hrs in game