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Anno 1503: The New World. Max Design (2003) PC

Posted on August 19, 2019 by Van Rockingham — Leave a comment

(Released in Germany 2002) Anno 1602 was a sedate game, but on the whole I enjoyed it, so when I was bored and looking for games on Good Old Games I thought i’d give the sequel a try. And yes,…

Tagged with: 2003, Anno 1503, Anno 1503: The New World, Max Design, PC, Real Time Strategy, Retro Gaming, Review, Trading Game
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Warcraft II: Tides of Darkness. Blizzard Entertainment (1996) PC

Posted on May 20, 2019 by Van Rockingham — Leave a comment

I first played Warcraft II around 1998 having borrowed the disc off a friend and installed it on my dads work laptop. It was one of the chunky laptop with a rubber mouse dot built into the keyboard, a Hard…

Tagged with: 1996, Azeroth, Beyond the Dark Portal, Blizzard, Blizzard Entertainment, Dark Portal, First Orc War, Gul'Dan, Lordearon, Orgrim Doomhammer, Real Time Strategy, Retro Gaming, Review, Second Orc War, The Alliance, The Horde, Tides of Darkness, Tomb of Sargera, Warcraft 2, Warcraft II, Warcraft II: Tides of Darkness
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Warcraft: Orcs and Humans. Blizzard Entertainment (1995) PC

Posted on May 13, 2019 by Van Rockingham — 11 Comments

Released in 1994 in North America. Like Diablo I never played the original version of Warcraft at release but spent a significant amount of time playing the sequels. So picking this up on Good Old Games I was looking forward…

Tagged with: 1995, Azeroth, Blizzard, Blizzard Entertainment, Draenor, High Fantasy, Real Time Strategy, Retro Gaming, Review, the Dark Portal, Warcraft, Warcraft: Orcs and Humans
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Total War: Warhammer. Creative Assembly (2016) PC

Posted on April 1, 2019 by Van Rockingham — 7 Comments

Officailly known as Total War: Warhammer the cool kids simply refer to it as Total Warhammer. We all know that Total Warhammer is a 10056% better name. Now you may have noticed I am on a bit of a strategy…

Tagged with: 2016, Archeon, Bretonnian, Creative Assembly, Gaming, Orcs and Goblins, PC, Real Time Strategy, Review, Sigvald the Magnificient, Skarsnik King of the Eight Peaks, Thorgrim Grudgebearer, Total War, Total War: Warhammer, Total Warhammer, Turn based Strategy, Vampires Counts
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Command & Conquer: Red Alert 2. Westwood Studios (2000) PC

Posted on March 25, 2019 by Van Rockingham — 9 Comments

I bloody love this game… I really do and I love most things Command & Conquer, sure there are ups and downs. Even my beloved Resident Evil has a few ups and downs but during the glorious Westwood years, Red…

Tagged with: 2000, Aleksander Romanov, Allies, Command & Conquer, Command & Conquer: Red Alert 2, Real Time Strategy, Red Alert, Red Alert 2, Retro Gaming, Review, Soviet Union, Tanya Adams, Westwood Studios, Yuri, Yuri's Revenge
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Command & Conquer: Red Alert. Westwood Studios (1996) PC

Posted on March 4, 2019 by Van Rockingham — 7 Comments

It was fairly inevitable I would play Red Alert immediately after playing Command & Conquer as these games were some of the highlights of my gaming yoof. I remember going round to a dudes house with a mate to…

Tagged with: 1996, Aftermath, Albert Einstein, Alllies, CHA-CHING, Chronosphere, Command & Conquer, Command & Conquer: Red Alert, Command and Conquer, Command and Conquer: Red Alert, Counterstrike, Hell March, Iron Curtain, Joseph Kucan, Kane, PlayStation, Real Time Strategy, Red Alert, Retaliation, Retro Gaming, Review, RTS, Soviet, Soviet Union, Stalin, Tanya, Tanya Adams, Westwood Studios
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Command & Conquer. Westwood Studios (1995) PC

Posted on February 18, 2019 by Van Rockingham — 15 Comments

GDI DISC DETECTED. Wait, that only happened on the PlayStation version!!! Immediate 10 point reduction for the PC version off the bat. I did a short Twitter Poll of people’s favourite defunct Developers of the 90s and our good friend…

Tagged with: 1995, Brotherhood of Nod, Command & Conquer, Command and Conquer, Eye-laser Tower of Death, GDI, Global Defence Initiative, Ion Cannon, Joseph Kucan, Kane, Nod, PC, PlayStation, Real Time Strategy, Retro Gaming, Review, Tiberium, Westwood Studios
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Anno 1602: Creation of a New World. Max Design (1998) PC

Posted on April 23, 2018 by Van Rockingham — 2 Comments

This is one of those strange games for me. I first played it at my then girlfriends house in circa 1998/99 thinking this was an “old game”. What I guess that means is that even in circa 1999 Anno 1602…

Tagged with: 1998, Anno 1602, Anno 1602 A.D, Anno 1602 AD, Anno 1602 Creation of a new world, Colony Building, Max Design, Real Time Strategy, Retro Gaming, Review, Trading Game
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UFO: Afterlife. Altar Games (2007) PC

Posted on December 31, 2016 by Van Rockingham — Leave a comment

Phew that was exhausting! About 100 hours has been poured into UFO: Aftermath, Aftershock and Afterlife. The series is a little mixed, and with a 3rd game trying the UFO: Apocalypse route going into the game I am skeptical.

Tagged with: 2007, Altar Games, Beastmen, Laputa, PC, Real Time Strategy, Reticulan, Retro Gaming, Review, RPG, Squad Tactics game, terraforming, Turn based Strategy, UFO Series, UFO: Afterlife
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UFO: Aftershock. Altar Games (2005) PC

Posted on December 27, 2016 by Van Rockingham — 2 Comments

UFO: Aftershock is the sequel to UFO: Aftermath, and is not officially related to UFO: Enemy Unknown (X-Com: UFO Defense). Interestingly, the 3rd game in the series, Afterlight, is not a sequel to Aftershock in terms of the story. Of all…