Friday Foxer #214

Every Friday, Tally-Ho Corner’s cleverest clogs come together to solve a ‘foxer’ handcrafted by my sadistic chum and colleague, Roman. A complete ‘defoxing’ sometimes takes several days and usually involves the little grey cells of many readers.

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Review Reprise: Agricultural Simulator – Historical Farming

I’ve written hundreds of reviews, previews, and retrospectives during my twenty-odd years as a games inspector. As many of these appeared in the British version of PC Gamer magazine and nowhere else, now and again something from my archive may appear as one of THC’s daily posts. Below the jump you’ll find a short caveat emptor aimed at prospective purchasers of Agricultural Simulator: Historical Farming, a 2012 tractor sim heavily caked in nostalgia.

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Luck is important and Hougoumont is MIA in RBM Studio’s Waterloo

Where have Hougoumont, La Haye Saint, and La Belle Alliance got to? The hexagoned bit of Belgium you fight over in this new low cost, low complexity wargame, may disorientate at first. Because developer, Hexes of War, has decided to truncate the name of the 2019 board game it’s ported, some bedroom Bonapartes may purchase expecting a cosy battle sim when, in fact, this is something much broader.

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V2Z

V is for Vertical slice by the end of Feb. Red Orchestra-style multiplayer FPS ’83 should be sample-able by the end of next month. A project from the team that created Rising Storm and Rising Storm 2, this Cold War shooter has been nudged closer to the finish line by a new investor with a passion for tactical shooters.

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