Posts tagged Real-timeStrategy

Metareview - LOTR: The Battle for Middle-earth II (Xbox 360) [update 1]

by Christopher Grant (Jul 6th 2006 11:25AM)

The PC game already debuted in March to decent reviews so, instead of recapping what's right and wrong with the game as a whole, let's get right down to the issue we're all wondering about: the controls. EA's Los Angeles studio contains the venerable Westwood Studios, well known as RTS pioneers for ...

Lost Magic preview raises some questions

by Ludwig Kietzmann (Apr 17th 2006 1:55PM)

1up is running a preview of Lost Magic, a game which promises to bring role-playing and real-time strategy together in wedded bliss. The superb Warcraft III certainly pulled that off with aplomb, though this game's take on that genre juxtaposition is somewhat different. For one thing, casting spells ...

Homebrew RTS hits DS

by Ludwig Kietzmann (Jan 5th 2006 2:58PM)

For those of you into the homebrew scene - and don't think we haven't seen you mulling about in those suspicious trenchcoats - here's an intriguing little RTS that an armchair dictator developed as a proof-of-concept. It clearly has a long way to go before competing with the likes of StarCraft, but ...