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 an approbatory appraisal of Steel Armor: Blaze of War, a 2011 tank sim that bypassed the beaten track.
The title of this Doomy demo-equipped Spanish Civil War FPS is great but not strictly true. Franco’s pixelated minions can also be stopped with bayonet, rifle grenade, flamethrower, and bundled dynamite.
If there’s a more contented species of gamer around at present than the Lesser Spotted Train Simmer, then please point them out to me.
Using the following clues (the map above is purely decorative) in combination with Street View, work out my location.
In my part of the world, roe deer are the undisputed contour kings. They know their territories intimately, and when surprised in open country invariably dash for the nearest hollow, or retreat behind the closest LoS-breaking rise or hillock. To prevail in my last Armored Brigade 2 ‘random skirmish’ I had to think like a nervous Capreolus capreolus.
This week’s handmade co-op puzzle won’t defox itself. If you’re a dab hand at quizzes, lateral thinking, and search engine sleuthing, why not help out.
If a game makes it into the Corner’s end-of-the-pier amusement arcade, you can be sure of four things. The entertainment in question will riff on a classic from the 70s or 80s, require quick reflexes, be cheap or free, and be so diverting there’s zero chance you’ll quit after your first GAME OVER.
Typical. The day after I send Slitherine a slew of questions, I think of another I really should have asked: “Now you own Battlefront, why not put together a small team and start releasing new CMx1 instalments?”. How many nostalgic PC wargamers with precious memories of Beyond Overlord, Barbarossa to Berlin, and Afrika Korps, would pay medium dollar to fight in the Pacific, Korea, or Spain using the same engine? A fair number, I reckon.