Just before World War II kicked off, a statue of Chopin was put up in the upper part of Warsaw’s Łazienki Park and to this day piano recitals are performed beneath it to commemorate Chopin’s compositions. The stylized tree over Chopin’s figure echoes a pianist’s hand and fingers, which seems like a fitting tribute to […]
I love flight sims, especially ones featuring modern aircraft. Over the past few months or so I’ve been watching the development of Ubi Soft’s Lock-on Modern Air Combat with real interest, the weekly movies and developer reports gave us a decent insight into this new title, and boy was it looking good. With my anticipation […]
It’s undeniably appealing to storm into a motel room and gun down three chatting hoodlums, especially in slow motion. When you’re flanked by a giant goon and a weasel-faced knife-wielder, and the slo-mo makes everybody’s yells sound deep and drawn-out, the effect is funny as well as fun. This kernel of action is at the […]
It seems like only yesterday that Generals was released. With a little more than seven months gone the boys at EA managed to crank out the first expansion pack, Zero Hour. With thirty new units, a mini-campaign, and a new gameplay mode, Zero Hour makes up in gameplay for what it lacks in depth.The story […]
The fourth installment of Comanche is now upon us and it’s like greeting an old buddy you haven’t seen in a while. The original Comanche was my first experience of a flight sim title on my trusty 486SX- in the days when 3D accelerators were things of the future and Novalogic’s Voxel technology blew you […]
It’s finally here, the much talked about RTS title Battle Realms from Liquid Entertainment. As the game has just hit European shelves we thought we’d pull on our armour, grab our spears, swords, bows and arrows and put the game through it’s paces.Battle Realms follows the story of Kenji , second son of the Serpent […]
Red Alert is back! Westwood’s long running Red Alert series has just got a new addition to the family in Yuri’s Revenge, the new expansion pack for their well received Red Alert sequel.Yuri’ Revenge continues the story where Red Alert2 left off but with a bit of twist. Yuri, the evil mind controlling fiend from […]
Out of the blue a CD pops through the door from Take 2. Thinking “hmm wonder what this could be”, the packet was ravaged open. Inside was a CD for a game called Airport Inc. The name rang a bell but couldn’t pin-point where I had seen it. It then dawned on me that this […]
