Bash the fash in Only Lead Can Stop Them
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.
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Isometric MP gaming: The Parliament of Hell 1796 demo is devilishly good
I’d love for the ‘Funded by UK Government’ claim on the Parliament of Hell demo title screen to be true. If some of my tax quids are going to be spent financing video game development then the games in question…
Drone Perspective’s demo reveals strengths and failings
Imagine if the next Brothers in Arms game was set in contemporary Ukraine and forbade the use of first- and third-person views. You’ve just pictured Drone Perspective, a low-headcount military RTT with a demo, a ‘coming soon’ ETA, and a…
Myopic MBTs and MIA basics: thoughts on the Battlefield Commander WWII demo
Is Battlefield Commander WWII destined to be the latest in a long line of RTTs that tries and fails to combine Close Combat’s realism, accessibility, and gift for drama, with 3D graphics and a lithe camera? After two hours with…
Eleventeen reasons why the Commandos 2 demo tops the Commandos: Origins demo
The Commandos: Origins demo is reassuringly reverential, great fun, and très jolie, but while guiding Tiny and Fins to the mission objective – a coastal radar station in need of demolition – I couldn’t shake the feeling that I’d played…
The Status One demo is tough but moreish
Imagine Door Kickers and SWAT 4 colliding in a gloomy tenement hallway, and after realising that their tac vests were hopelessly entangled, pressing on regardless. Imagine a sad fox playing a violin while drifting towards the lip of a waterfall…
63 Days, innumerable corpses
If plotting the demise of distractible Deutschlanders floats your Schwimmwagen, an already great year is about to get even better. In a couple of hour’s time, 63 Days, the Warsaw Uprising-themed sequel to War Mongrels, sidles onto Steam.
A missile-tipped military miscellany
MicroProse’s last ocean-going release was a bit of a stinker. Their next, however, looks awesome.
“You can’t throw all of life’s problems through windows”
It looks like Tom ‘Gunpoint’ Francis may have another smash hit on his hands. Most of the big games sites have heaped praise on the out-today Tactical Breach Wizards, and having just spent an hour with its demo, their enthusiasm…
Biggin Hell: Sadly the Ground of Aces demo isn’t grounded in reality
Released yesterday, the Ground of Aces demo lasted approximately ten minutes on the THC toe warmer. One viewing of the tutorial video (posted below) was sufficient to convince me that Blindflug Studios’ idea of a WW2 airbase management game and…
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A is for Alphabetised wargame and sim news. Now and again, assuming I can persuade Austerity’s Blackburn Cirrus Bombardier engine to perform the miracle of internal combustion, I spend a few days scouring Simulatia and Grognardia for stories with the…
A2Z
A is for Alphabetised wargame, sim, and site news. Now and again, assuming I can persuade Austerity’s Blackburn Cirrus Bombardier engine to perform the miracle of internal combustion, I spend a few days scouring Simulatia and Grognardia for stories with…