Essentially crazy, Arctic Stud Poker Run asks you to drive around icy courses on a snowmobile collecting floating cards in order to get the best poker hand by the end of the race. You can also ram and fire rockets at your opponents to knock them off course and get hold of the best cards. Single-player is enjoyable, but the real action is in the hectic multiplayer. High production values and the weird idea make this is a fun but forgettable oddity. Arctic Stud Poker Run can be downloaded here
ArmA II is a military simulator set in the fictional Eastern European state of Chernarus, now a dynamic battlefield in which insurgents and peacekeeping forces take AI-controlled pot-shots at one another; a wide-ranging contingent of land, sea and air vehicles patrol dynamically from base to base; and civilians and wildlife try to get on with their lives without catching bullets between the eyes.
As it’s set in the fictional country of Takistan, Operation Arrowhead features the racial slur “Taki”, making this fiction feel too authentic for comfort. This isn’t a criticism as for all its problems. ArmA II delivers a fierce, palpable impression of real warfare. War’s uncomfortable. People are going to be racist sometimes...
Combat Operations is a soldier sim. We see a boatload every year, but this one is special. This is the follow-up to Operation Flashpoint, the game that was so realistic it became a professional military simulator. The raw facts about ArmA tell one hell of a story: 400 square kilometers of island to explore, 30 different weapons, 30 controllable vehicles, accurately modeled bullet ballistics, a full weather system, accurate tides and constellations, pesky insects...
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Jan 8, 2008
Vladimir Kost, our ablest general, was assassinated 12 turns ago. Since his death, Kosts Kommandos, the ragtag collection of men and mecha that single-handedly saw off the Xenopod menace, has suffered defeat after defeat. Now they wait for the Mutant assault that will finish them. Things look hopeless; we shouldnt be smiling, yet we are. Were smiling because this is one of the best strategy games weve played in ages. Oh, were also smiling because Valentine, our favourite saboteur,
Oct 29, 2007
YouTube has already shown us that four people in a Halo level is enough to craft a sitcom. So why cant developers tell a decent war story in a wargame?
Royal Flush, one of two single-player campaigns included in this first expansion for Armed Assault, opens with one of the most painful exercises in Cutscene Theatre ever committed to disc. The horrifying creepiness of immobile models spouting misogynistic HUR HUR GUNS dialogue, like Barbie for NRA members, is all the more bemusing
The best point-and-click adventure games combine striking artwork and clever brainteasers with engaging story lines and (when applicable) A-list voice acting. Sadly, Art of Murder: FBI Confidential - a new release from Polish developer/publisher City Interactive - only connects on about half of these points. The game follows a young FBI agent named Nicole Bonnet as she investigates a series of grisly ritualistic murders in New York
You can all thank Atari for doing nothing to raise the bar for the doomed genre that is the game-based-on-movie. Although to be honest, you could hardly blame them in this case, considering the childrens book-turned-abysmal-film Arthur and the Invisibles is their source
Asterix never takes itself seriously, featuring a near constant stream of meta-observations. In a world where everyone’s name ends in ‘ix’, Getafix has a friend called Watchadivvix. Sublime. Even the plot revolves around Brutus opening portals between dimensions. He’s planning to take control of them all, causing real-life human characters to start appearing in the world of Asterix, while Getafix has been turned into
Attack on Pearl Harbor isnt about simulating a famous battle, but about effortlessly flying super-zippy airplanes and shooting other ones out of the sky. Its pure arcade, with barely a dial to worry about.
You get about 40 missions, playing sometimes as the Japanese and sometimes as the US, with a variety of planes to choose from depending on the mission type. But if youre sitting up excited to learn which types, settle back down. Yes, you can fly an A6M1 Zero or a BSN1 Kate, but the
