For those of you that have never played a Civilization game, you truly do not know what you have been missing. The whole idea of the Civilization franchise is you start off with a single settler and with that one person you develop your own civilization to rule the world. You can do this in several ways. For example, you can start off by crushing all other empires with your military might, or you can go about it with your brains and become one of the smartest empires in the world. Those are my (the reviews) favorite two. You can also win with culture or even by just becoming extremely rich. The key thing is you build your civilization your way, not the way the computer tells you. You tell your people what you want them to make, develop, learn, build–everything is up to you. It's that point that has made the Civilization franchise what it is, they give you the tools and knowledge and it's up to you to decide what you want to do with it.
Dorkly: "History is written by the winners, and that applies to games, too. While we hold up our post-apocalyptic wasteland adventures, period piece assassinations and Liberty City crime sprees on a pedestal, we would do well to remember the little guys. These underseen, criminally underplayed games didn't do well critically or commercially, but they were still wonderful experiences. Here's a small list of recommendations of unsung heroes of the PS3/Xbox 360/Wii era."
Alpha Protocol has some fantastic ideas in its conversation and story progression due to choices. I really enjoyed my time with it.
A spy rpg can be done with amazing results if handled correctly.
God Hand
Partly because I just recently discovered it and its insane.
What a gold nugget.
XMNR: 2K Games and Firaxis Games officially unveiled “Civilization: Beyond Earth” at a PAX East, which ended Sunday. The storied franchise heads for the stars for the second time in its twenty-three year history but the history of Sid Meier’s just-one-more-turn creation is as interesting as the games themselves.
March was a good month for bagging yourself a bargain! Hopefully we'll be able to find a few more good deals this month too. Here are a few of the bargains that FantasyMeister managed to bag himself in the month just gone.
It was a pretty solid demo for a pc to console watershed game. Ps3 seems to be struggling here, though. The xbox 360 version is, once again, far superior with deeper colors and smoother edges and sharper textures.