Blizzard announced the next release to its popular game catalog, Starcraft II, in Seoul today.
The prequel, Starcraft, is a massively popular Real-time Strategy game, which is part of the World Cyber Games competition.
If you have been visiting Blizzard official websites, you will notice that they are lining up their previous games in a time line. Today on the front page, of the web site, you see “Hell, it’s about time”. We have been waiting for the sequel to Starcraft, and here it is!
Starcraft II featured the 3 original races from Starcraft, the Zerg, Protoss and Terran. It will feature a new graphics engine, but possibly better than World of Warcraft and Warcraft III. It also featured Battle.net for online multiplayer games and not forgetting the World Editor which makes custom maps.
Well, this game will take months to release. At least we have something to look forward to. Cheers!
Yes! The long await game from Blizzard is coming. There are several discussi0ns on the net about this upcoming game. Speculations about this new game are hot in gaming forums and game sites. People are thinking whether it is a new MMO, or a RTS. No to FPS, after the failure to launch Starcraft:Ghost by Blizzard.
Projected titles include Diablo III (RPG), Starcraft II (RTS), World of Starcraft (MMORPG), World of Diablo (MMORPG).
As Blizzard has been posting on their website on job vacancy for next-gen MMO, this upcoming game may be a MMO, to compete with the popular World of Warcraft.
Well, we have to wait till 19 May for Blizzard to announce the game. Till then.
The popular series, Command and Conquer, the sequel, Tiberium Wars is due to release on March 26, that’s 3 weeks from now. If you enjoy the Command and Conquer series, this will be a must-buy for you. It has been years since EA releases the sequel or games from the C&C series, so this new game will feature attractive graphics as well as gameplay.
This new games features new race, the Alien. Yes, Alien. This is the first time Alien is featured in the C&C series, playing alongside with Brotherhood of the NOD and GDI. The new graphics engine will stun you too.
EA has released the demo for this upcoming new real-time strategy game.
You can download the demo from the following locations:
Supreme Commander, designed by Chris Taylor, creator of a very popular strategy game decade ago, Total Annihilation. This new real time strategy game is set to release on 20 February. For those who can’t wait to touch on the game, you can download the demo from the link below.
Download the demo here. The file is 1.05GB in size, so it may takes some time to download it.
Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War – Dark Crusade has released! Reviews are available in major gaming community websites such as IGN and Gamespot. This game is developed by the same company which make Company of Heroes, one of the best Real-time Strategy game around this year.
This game is rated as a “very good” game. Read the reviews and decide on your own.
The month of October seems to be a good month for the gaming community, with quite a few good games coming out this month. Leading the pack will be the Final Fantasy sequel, Final Fantasy XII, followed by Battlefield 2142. \
Here is the list of games releasing in the month of October.
Final Fantasy XII – 31 October
Battlefield 2142 – 17 October
Neverwinter Nights 2 – 31 October
Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War – Dark Crusade – 09 October
Guild Wars Nightfall – 26 October
Need For Speed Carbon – 31 October
The Sims 2 Pets – 17 October
FIFA 07 -03 October
Wow! This is a filling month… Especially at the end of the month. Keep your wallet for them.
Halo, the popular Xbox FPS (first person shooting) series, is now on RTS (real time strategy) mode! The RTS form of Halo is called Halo Wars.
Announced by Microsoft at X06, Halo Wars, will be developed under Ensemble Studio, famous for its RTS games, such as the Age of Empires series. Currently, Halo Wars will be developed for Xbox 360 only. PC fans will have something missing in their collection.
Here is the trailer, enjoy!
You can read the full preview by IGN and Gamespot for Halo Wars introduction in X06.
I have tried out the new strategy game, Company of Heroes. This game is definitely worth your bucks!
The gameplay of Company of Heroes revolutionises the controlling of units in the game. In Company of Heroes, if you are controlling infantry units, such as Riflemen, Machine Gunners, Mortars Team or Paratroopers, you do not control individual one of them, you control a squad. Unlike strategy games like Warcraft III : Frozen Throne, Starcraft, Command and Conquer, which requires you to perform precision control of every unit if you want to, this is called micro.
The graphics of the game is also superior, my GeForce 6600 GT can only survive with medium setting. It is recommended to have a 3.0 Ghz Pentium IV or equivalent (I guess at least a AMD Althon64 3000+), 1GB of RAM (I think if you have 2GB, it does help) and a 256MB nVidia Geforce 6800 series or better (for ATi, I think should be a Radeon X800). This requirement will allow a high detail setting for your Company of Heroes.
The campaign is a must try section of the game. The missions are challenging, and you need a clear mind when you are playing the game, distraction will lead you to defeat. Company of Heroes requires you to multitask aggressively. You will get to play and plan like a battalion / company commanders in the army. You cannot afford to slacken down your effort any moment. You need to take over territories, build your troops and vehicles, defend your command posts, scout for enemies movements, fulfill mission objectives all at a time.
Every troops are important to the mission, paratroopers may be the elites infantry units, but mortar teams and MG gunners are important support and defend troops that you will need no matter what. Rangers are gungho infantry units that can perform quick attack on enemies’ units. Tanks and armoured vehicles are important for bashing through enemies forifications with their add-on supports, such as the missiles and MGs. Using the respective units special abilities allows you to take on enemies more easily. For example, you can use riflemen’s sticky bombs to take down a tank.
Coordinatiing the troops movements to the precision will definitely lead to an eventual vistory. Combinations of different units will help to increase the firepowers greatly.
The in game camera view is also one of the superb part of the game. You can pan and zoom in and out of the battlefield to any view. You can even view the battle from the soldier’s prespective, experiencing the battle in the eyes of the soldiers. The sounds of the game is great too, the sounds of the explosions, firing of machines guns, radios signal by the soldiers add to the realism of the game as a whole. When your troops garrsion any buildings, you can see them opening up the windows and shoot from the windows. When mortars penetrates through the building, you can see the roofs collapses. Explosions in any form, whether it is a grenade or a tank shot, you can see it sends soldiers flying, bloods every where.
The realism of the game has given us a better look to the history of World War II. War is never a sight that people likes. If it happens in a PC games, well, it’s ok. This game does the effect of movies like Saving Private Ryan and Band of Brothers.
GameSpot has given this game a 9.0 out of 10 in their review. IGN gave 9.4 out of 10. GameBlog will highly recommend this Real Time Strategy to any RTS game fans. For this we, give a 9.8 for Company of Heroes.
The newly released Company of Heroes, has a patch already. This Real Time Strategy game is a highly rated game, Gamespot rated 9.0 out of 10. Cool, isn’t it?
Here is the patch details:
Various connection problems fixed
SLI performance bug fixed
Fixed exploit with Allied HMG Crew’s Armor Piercing Rounds ability, where ability would remain active after squad was garrisoned or retreated back to HQ
