MissionForce: CyberStorm

Some games are forgotten by time because they’re awful, weird, or just don’t work right. As much as I appreciate quirkier, experimental games, mainstream game-consumers usually had some credible reason not to play them. Most of the games I write about for this blog are in that vein, even perennial favorites and beloved underdogs like The Journeyman Project.

I say this to underscore how seriously I believe that MissionForce: CyberStorm is one of the best turn-based strategy games ever released, an absolute milestone for the genre that deserves a place on the same pedestal as X-COM. Nevermind that it’s the spinoff to a clunky mech combat game. Few games past or present show this kind of visionary disregard for rules, taste, difficulty, fairness, and genre conventions. Read more »

Posted on December 31st, 2011 by Shadsy

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Dinosaur Predators

If you were a child who didn’t like dinosaurs, please raise your hand. Then, stop lying. Every kid who ever existed loved dinosaurs.

The folks at Alive Software probably had a keen sense of this when they made Dinosaur Predators, the second installment in their educational strategy game series. A turn-based strategy game driven by encyclopedic data is a tough sell. But the same game with dinosaurs? Sign me up! Read more »

Posted on September 29th, 2011 by Shadsy

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