Homeworld Cataclysm Review

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(More customer reviews)If you enjoyed Homeworld this sequel is an absolute must! If you haven'tplayed Homeworld and enjoy real-time 3D strategy games you might want tocheck it out.
I've been playing games for a long time and have becomesomewhat jaded and difficult to impress. However the original Homeworldjust blew me way! Stellar graphics, an immersive story, great music and adream of an interface that smoothly integrated tactical and strategiccontrol.
Homeworld Cataclysm builds upon this base very well. Rather thanjust reusing the original "Mothership" and it's fleet of craft,the developers have created an entirely new fleet and set of technologiesfor you to explore.Years have passed in the Homeworld Universe and manynew technologies have been acquired beyond the original cloaking andgravity well generators. EMP vessels, holographic projections, covertdrones and much more add an even greater level of sophistication to thegameplay.
Of course the 3D battles are staggering. Full visual effects,coordinated sound and a high frame rate brings space battles, I imagined asa kid, to life. It makes me wish I had a Video Out on my graphic card totape to share the visuals.
The user interface has been polished to nearperfection. The control of a large and complex fleet is a pleasure, asopposed to the pain, compared to many simulation games. The few areas ofthe original Homeworld interface that were weak, such as selecting adistant location in three dimensions, have been greatly improved.
Thesound is still "realistic" and informative. The music isonly"good" this time around. The haunting and highly emotive music ofthe original is missing.
This game is far less buggy than mostsimulations I've played. But I did come across a small number that didn'tcrash the game, but an end of mission condition wasn't recognized. This canbe solved by a game restart an then reloading your last saved game ofrestarting the particular mission.
I've completed the single player gameand am taking a brief break before I go on-line and play multiuser. Withthe game's new fleet technologies, great visuals and smooth interface I'llactually enjoy experiencing the new ways I'll get my butt kicked by kidshalf my age.

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Real War: Rogue States Review

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(More customer reviews)Real War enthusiasts will enjoy the latest in the series Rogue States, a Real War upgrade offering logic improvments and new weaponary on both sides.One caveat on this review is that I am basing it on only several "skirmish" episodes and not using online play or running any campaign scenarios
What is there to like...the new weapons, improved graphics, pre-orders for units being built, advanced defense logic for units, movement and attack logic are a definite improvment.All of these make Rogue States a good buy if you want to upgrade from Real War.
What still needs improvment...the movment logic is still a bit off...I tried to send a convoy of tanks at a target and half of them ended up getting stuck trying to cross a river.This has improved quite a bit, this should continue to be improved.I also would like to see Rogue states better integrated with the old Real War...it would be cool to go back and run the old campaign with new weapons.As far as I know this isn't the case.Lastly, there are still issues with forces causing extensive collateral damage...the new weapons are quite effective at takibng out most of your own forces as well as the enemies...I wish there was a bit better intelligence here to prevent this from happening on such a wide scale
What is bad...I am all for new weapons but the ILA (terrorist
group) but the use of experimental weapons gives them a big advantage.A laser cannon that liquidates ground forces instantly seems a bit unfair and unrealistic.The notion of this weapon having a weakness that can be exploited doen't appear obvious in this case.The U.S. doesn't appear to have a similar weapon that is that deadly.The fact that this weapon is super accurate makes ground attacks very frustrating.Combine the Rail Gun with the Super Cannon and Fixed GTA and the ILA base is pretty much impossible to assault...or shall I say your little skirmish you thought would only last 45 minutes will take 4-5 hours of game time.
Those things aside, I would say Rogue States is worth the price.The new weaponary and improved logic will give Real War addics a new opportunity to develop their tactics.Keep in mind too that ReaL War is NOT a pre-requisite for installing Rogue States.

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World in Conflict Collectors Edition Review

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(More customer reviews)First of all, as I am reviewing the Collector's Edition of the game I would like to illustrate how the extra goodies weigh in comparison to what we usually expect from a limited or collector edition of a game.

Unlike most so-called collector's editions which contain merely a second disk with throwaway content that most of the time isn't worth watching, or a few extra maps or units, this collector's edition is among the very few such as Bioshock which include substantial additions to your purchase.

This is a two-part box, with a clothe-style coating and the name of the game written in Russian on the Soviet-flag section, and written in English on the American flag bottom.Inside is a History Channel DVD covering the Berlin Wall, a DVD including making of featurettes and trailers, a disk including a buddy key for a 14 day MP trial you can give to a friend, and a small chunk of what remains of the Berlin Wall, complete with certificate of authenticity written in German.

In all - worth the $10.00 extra you will spend, though the box won't fit on your shelf the same as your normal games.

Gameplay, especially multi-play, is addictive.The single player campaign has a solid story, though it feels a bit short.Like Clancy's Red Storm Rising, the Soviet Union on the verge of collapse takes a gambit to save itself from dissolution in a power grab for resources.First invading Europe, and then sneak-attacking the United States, the Soviets kick off World War III in record time - and it couldn't be more beautiful.Visuals in the game are excellent, as screenshots of mushroom clouds and daisy cutters can attest.If you have the rig to handle it, you can view real-time reflections in the water, shadows from clouds being rendered, and great use of lighting all around.The sound follows the same quality - and close-in visuals and sounds remind me of Company of Heroes, which is a good thing, though this game isn't quite as detailed close-up.Which brings me to my next point - this isn't a close up game.You have free reign of the map with your camera, so you can view anything which your team can see from anywhere, and give orders based on what you see on the ground.

Multiplayer matches are the heart of this game, 8 vs 8, and can run from 5 to 15 minutes, are fast-paced, and when the match ends the next match isn't long in coming.This keeps you occupied for hours as there is always one more strategy I want to try to see if I can turn a battle differently, or counteract the enemy in a different way.When my team took heavy losses from a mainly Air team who swooped across the map, I enjoyed building kill-groups of AA units the next game and stashing them across the map, negating the other team's free reign of the map and watching their helicopters crashing everywhere.

In closing, absent Starcraft 2 being release this year, I believe this is the RTS game of the year and definitely worth the purchase.I could go on for a lot longer about the game, but then that would delay your purchase while reading my review.Go get it!

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"The World in Conflict Collector's Edition offers gamers the chance to grab a piece of history - an authentic piece of the Berlin Wall, a monument that once divided the Cold War superpowers right through the heart of Europe," said Al Simone, senior vice president of marketing, Sierra Entertainment. "In World in Conflict, the Berlin Wall isn't dismantled in the name of global peace, it is obliterated by the collateral damage of the opening salvos of World War III. We are excited to offer gamers this exclusive opportunity to grab this piece of history as well as the other amazing added content in the Collector's Edition version." This exclusive special-edition package includes: ESRB Rated T for Teen

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What Did I Do to Deserve This, My Lord!? 2 Review

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(More customer reviews)I haven't used my PSP in a long time, but after reading about this game I decided to take a chance.I ordered the game, plugged in my PSP to charge and waited for Amazon's next day delivery.When the time came I was blown away!The graphics take me back to late 80's and early 90's, the game play keeps me glued to the PSP, and the game's humor takes the cake! The game is like tower defense and a mini life simulator rolled into one.Now these two genres alone are worn out, but with both combined with this kind of style and humor, this game is a winner.

You are an evil god summoned to build a dungeon and create the evil monsters that inhabit the dungeon.What makes this fun is the way the game mechanics work.You smash the blocks to build the rooms and halls and by hitting certain blocks you release the lower forms of the food chain, they combine and multiply and spread out to "infect" other blocks that allow you to create the next tier of the food chain.The next tier feeds off the tier below it and they multiply and so on.However, you can't just start destroying blocks willy nilly, you have to plan out the design and keep the wide open spaces to a minimum.There is a monster almanac in the game that keeps up with what monsters you have created along with little stories and humorous bits.As you are building out the dungeon waves of heroes come in and try to wipe out your minions and capture the head honcho "Badman", the guy that you work for.There are training scenarios, challenge levels, and a story mode.

PLUS, you get both the first and second game all on one disk if you buy the UMD, they are sold separately if you download the game via Sony's store.The first game can be accessed by pressing L then R five times at the main screen. L,R,L,R,L,R,L,R,L,R.If you play through the first game before starting the second you unlock extra levels in the second version.

Bottom line, if you like old Dungeon Keeper game, tower defense, life simulators, nostalgic graphics, and snarky "I don't take myself too seriously" humor from a game, you will absolutely LOVE this game.I cannot put it down!

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What Did I Do to Deserve This, My Lord!? 2 is the single player strategy game for PlayStation Portable that drops players in the unlikely position of both monster farmer and dungeon creator. Protect Overlord Badman from the hordes of heroes that are compelled to attack as you excavate dungeons filled with monsters, grown, mutated and arranged to create maximum problems for pesky heroes and the traps they bring with them.

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Age of Empires III: The War Chiefs Expansion Pack Review

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(More customer reviews)I've been playing this game since it was first released and added the expansion pack as quickly as it came out. I just don't get tired of it. I highly recommend it.

The newest release builds on the past two with all of the fantastic strategy included in the earlier games. The new improvements are vast and I'm sure that other users and reviews will be able to expand on them more directly. However, if you've played AoE games in the past, this one will not disappoint. They've dropped some of the more esoteric and mundane steps (like villagers constantly returning to town center) and have added simplifying features but haven't sacrificed any of the strategy. I think version three finally brings it all together.

There are a few features which are lacking, however, the scenario game play is a little weak in AoE III and I didn't see any addition in the expansion pack. Also, the scenario creator has so much potential for active users to build situations that others might like to play but requires so much time and effort as to be useless.

On the whole, I certainly recommend this game and the expansion pack to anyone who is interested in strategy games.

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MODEL- MS-CD25988WI VENDOR- MICROSOFT

FEATURES- Age of Empires III: The Warchiefs
Try the new expansion pack for the best-selling real-time strategy
title of 2005--Age of Empires III from Ensemble Studios and
Microsoft Game Studios.
Microsoft Age of Empires III: The WarChiefs--the new expansion pack
for Age of Empires III--will engage gamers of all ages and types in
epic warfare in the Americas where they will lead the proud native
civilizations to expand their empire and fight for control of the
Americas.
* Playable Native American civilizations
Lead one of three proud Native American civilizations. Each civilization
has its own unique units buildings and a distinct approach to their
Home City feature.
* Gripping new single-player campaign
Play through 15 new missions with a rich story and a cast of characters
that interact with real historic figures and events.
* Enhancements to European civilizations
The expansion pack will also provide exciting additions to existing
European civilizations with new Home City content new units and new
ways to look at your card deck.
* Extended gameplay
Experience more of everything including new random maps in unique
locations in the Americas additional native allies and units more
statistics tracking and new ways to play.

REQUIREMENTS- 1.4 GHz or faster processor
256 MB of RAM
2 GB of available hard-disk space
Windows XP MANUFACTURER WARRANTY:90 DAYS

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Evil Genius Review

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(More customer reviews)If you liked Dungeon Keeper, you will probably like this particular game.Having objectives rather than just getting a bigger and bigger lair means you can actually have an end to the game----world domination.The difficulty level goes from very easy to fast and furious from the first level to the second, so if you like slow progression, you might be overwhelmed.Real-time strategy has never been my personal forte and when you have to have your fingers in several pies at once, it can become frustrating---putting out fires, both literally and figuratively.On the plus side, the concept is funny, the characters are interesting, and the music is cool.

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Blitzkrieg Strategy Pack Review

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(More customer reviews)fun game, lots of action and great 3d animation. hours of fun and strategy. real world war 2 action.

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The Blitzkrieg 2 Strategy Pack takes everything gamers loved about the original game and kicks it up to a whole new level. Players take on the role of modeled after their real-world counterparts , while a powerful mission editor allows gamers to create custom missions and maps.

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Homeworld Review

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(More customer reviews)Homeworld is more than a technical and gaming masterpiece, but an absolute work of art. If you don't have the hardware to run it at maximum detail, it's time to upgrade. After one good firefight with an armada of ships, you'll be glad you did. The soundtrack is also exemplary- far better than most of the genre. The game is very stable, has remarkably few bugs for such a complex piece of software, and has a remarkably intuitive control system. If you've ever played a real time strategy game, it shouldn't take you more than a half hour to master the controls.
Aside from its technical excellence, the game has a compelling background and storyline. The single play missions are excellent, and the plot really draws you in. They are also quite challenging and- unlike any other RTS I've played- cumulative. That is to say, your fleet carries over into the next mission, so it's in your best interest to not go suicidal just to pass one. Despite the fact that the single play plot is linear, it is still far more engrossing than any other single-play RTS I've gone through.
More than the typical strategy game, this is really one of those titles that has a dominant tactical aspect. Just because you can build tons of units doesn't mean you'll win. For example, you could have a hundred strike craft, but if your enemy has invested in a gravity well generator or missile destroyer, an attack would be suicide. Resource gathering is also far more difficult than in most other RTS titles, and if you don't protect your gathering operations you WILL be dead. Between protecting your gatherers and your mothership, you'll have plenty to worry about. Despite this, the game doesn't force you to micromanage things. You can assign tactics to your units and have them do the thinking, which leaves you to sit back and watch the fireworks. It's the deployment and distribution of your forces that will decide the outcome.
On the aforementioned graphical aspect- it is amazing. The level of detail is on par with Freespace, but you'll see much more of the action and many more units engaging in combat. There are many detailed ships and objects in both fleets, and even more in single play. While the opposing Kushan and Taiidan fleets are nearly identical in capabilities and armaments, their ships look radically different. It's fun to change sides from time to time, just to look at the different vessels.
So, if you haven't tried this out yet, now's your chance. Even if you don't like sci-fi or strategy, you should take a look. Homeworld is bound to impress.

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Age of Empires III: The Asian Dynasties Expansion Pack Review

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(More customer reviews)This is a solid expansion to the AGE OF EMPIRES III, the one you will play for hours at end. Although the 3rd installment of AoE was the weakest of the series (I personally enjoyed much more AGE OF EMPIRES II), I have to admit that I was really pleased by this expansion - and cannot complain but about minor things.

After the lukewarm WARCHIEFS, which introduced Native American civilizations, this expansion introduces three major Asian civilizations (Japanese, Chinese, and Indian) - with their corresponding campaigns.
The Japanese campaign takes place during the Shogunate civil wars. The Chinese campaign (trying to avoid any...political shoals) is on the fictional discovery of the New World by the Chinese (I would have preferred it to be about the unification of China under the Qin dynasty - but, then again, that would make it quite similar to the Japanese campaign). Finally, the Indian campaign is centered on the uprooting of the British East-India Trading Company.
All three campaigns follow a scenario that will surprise you at many points (and frustrate you in some others). Nevertheless, keep in mind that this is an RTS game - so don't expect a JAMES CLAVELL novel plot twists.

The graphics are just a notch better than WARCHIEFS, the interface has received only minor retouching strokes and one can rely on finding, once more, the known exceptional gameplay. Not only are the new units carefully balanced, they can be seamlessly incorporated with the previous AGE OF EMPIRES III units. Stacking Samurai infantry against Highlanders anyone? (yes, only one can survive in the end...)

My only complain is the music: AoE's are of the games that are played for endless hours. So music is important not to be tiresome. This being the ASIAN DYNASTIES expansion, I felt that the game developers missed the chance of introducing some new and distinctly Japanese, Chinese and Indian tunes. Well, one can always bring his own music I guess...

One of the best expansions this year.

RECOMMENDED.

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MicrosoftAge of Empires III:Asian Dynasties Expansion Pack Win32 .Rule powerful and exotic Japanese, Chinese and Indian civilications of the East; battle with Samurai, Chinese Banner Armies and devastating war elephant troops; build powerful wonders such as the Great Wall and TajMahal to advance in Age.

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Zoo Tycoon 2 Extinct Animals Expansion Pack Review

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(More customer reviews)As a huge fan of all things zoo and animal, I took a gamble on this game in hopes of reigniting my childhood passions.I was pleasantly surprised to find Zoo Tycoon 2: Extinct Animals was actually a lot of fun for a kids game.At my age it isn't really a challenge at all, but the fanciful nature of the gaming system and antics of the animals are fun to watch and unfold as you build your dream zoo.I was impressed to notice that both male and female animals have different looks, and some of the dinosaurs even have feathers.Someone was doing their research at Microsoft.I'd definitely recommend this game for younger kids who want to learn more about extinct animals and anyone else who just loves animals.

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MicrosoftZoo Tycoon 2: Extinct Animals Expansion Pack brings to life animals that once roamed the planet! Experience the largest Zoo Expansion ever, with a whole new prehistoric world, 34 extinct animals. New activiites like Dino Rampage and Sonar Fossil Find. And tons of new characters and objects sure to change the face of your zoo.

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Patrician IV Review

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(More customer reviews)The Patrician was the head of the European trading organization called the Hanseatic League, which came to power during the Middle Ages in Northern Europe, yielding as much might as royalty or religious leaders of the era. In the game you can defy destiny by starting out as a small stall trader and, if you are savvy in the laws of economic and trade, rise to the head of the most powerful merchant organization of its time. Manage your fleet, buy goods low and sell them high, optimize your trade routes, defy greedy royalty and opportunistic pirates, as you try to etch out a profitable living. This game, while not casual to play by any stretch, features a very realistic economy and should appeal to anyone that has enjoyed the Settlers, Anno or even earlier Patrician titles.

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Based on the franchise that has sold more than two million copies and won the hearts of gamers worldwide, Patrician IV will challenge players to rise up the merchant ranks to become the leader of a burgeoning shipping empire during the late Middle Age in Northern Europe - a time where success in trade could be as rewarding and influential as the power bestowed by noble birth, religious position or political clout. Patrician IV's authentic supply and demand-based trading system allows players to grow their business and head out to the high seas to form trading routes with other Hanseatic cities negotiating better prices for the buying and selling of goods. Sea battles keep the pace action-backed, as players combat pirates and enemy players.

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World In Conflict Review

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(More customer reviews)I played this on a dual-core 2.13ghz pentium, 2gb ram with a Nvidia 8600 GTS on Vista 32-bit.

First, the Single-Player campaign...

The biggest selling point for me was not having to build 30 straw huts in order to build the Omega Man Destroyer units which dominate everything else on the battlefield.The Single Player campaign is setup in a series of scenarios linked to a story driven Campaign where the actors did a phenomenal job and the animated characters move very life-like.Alec Baldwin narrates a general telling of events that happen where you will use your units to achieve a variety of objectives.

Your units are broken into four main categories: Armor, Infantry, Support and Air.Just like any other tactical war game you need a combined arms approach, so you can look at each category as four legs on a table, if you don't have one of those you are going to fall.Now...above and beyond your units that occupy territory and duke it out with the opposing soviet forces you also have tactical aids which give you the "yippie!" factor.It allows you to call in Air Strikes, Artillery Barrages and a wide variety of support elements to aid you in battle.

Each scenario is very different from all the others with the mission objectives having a big enough variety not to get too tedious.Also, your objectives change around a lot to reflect the chaotic nature of the battlefield. For example, if you are told to hold a bridge and you get all your units setup the way you want to the rough-and-tough commanding officer of yours will inform you an artillery barrage is incoming, and if you don't listen to him (which I did at first!) then blammo you just lost all your units, so in that respect the battlefield is very dynamic.

I would equate the gameplay to a modern total war type of battlefield where you do have some room to manuever and it doesn't feel claustrophobic like in Star Wars: Empire at War. Beyond that as you might have seen in the trailers, the graphics and sound are great..yada yada.

The Single Player was fun to play through giving you about 10-15ish hours of gameplay but, the real gem is in the Multi-Player;

Okay, right off the bat let me just mention I'm not a huge Multi-player fan. I believe the only thing multi-player I ever got into was Call of Duty 2. That being said I really enjoyed the Multi-Player because you don't have to be twitchy or even a stellar connection to play. It's much like the Single Player campaign except you choose your role to play (Armor, Infantry, Support or Air) and work in tandem with your 7 other teammates to fight 8 other folks. More than any other Multi-player you depend on your team quite a bit as you are only one leg of the table.Even as fun as fast as it is to have helos if you run into mobile anti-air units...you are toast.I found myself sticking with other players and working out unspoken tactics like leading helos into anti-air traps...very fun. Of course, your tactical aids are there so your big kill players have some neat toys including tactical nukes which...wow, they are fun. However, you can't hug your children with nuclear arms *tips hat to Family Guy*.

Without getting too much more verbose, let me just say it was a decent single-player campaign and at 50 bucks that's not much of a value, but throw in the multi-player and I think it is justified. Bottomline, don't just buy it for the Single-Player, if you have no desire to play multi-player then I'd wait to pick it up for cheaper.

Pros:
- Great graphics
- Very good tutorial (never even looked at the manual)
- Simplified controls
- Voice acting and Sound
- Fun gameplay!
- No bugs encountered
- Literally, thousands of people to play online with.

Cons:
- Might be too pricy for someone just looking for a Single-Player game
- Loving multi-player, but wish single-player campaign was longer.

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24 The Game Review

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(More customer reviews)If you've got a PS2 or PS3 and love the TV series 24 with Keifer Sutherland, the 24 game is worth taking a look at. Just know that the game isn't perfect.

First, I'll admit that I am both a big fan of the 24 series and also of Keifer Sutherland. We were too busy to watch the first seasons live, but instead we waited for each one to end and then rented the DVDs for a full-out marathon of watching them. It really helped not to have to wait through commercials or for the next week to come to see what happened. So I'm probably the ideal target audience for a game like this.

I also love shooting games and Bond-style games, so I really was looking forward to playing this. It has the real voices of Keifer and other cast members, and unfolds based on the time between Season 2 and Season 3. It uses the time music style and intro 24 addicts know and love. Your game is broken into "hour long segments" which in reality probably take you 15 minutes or so to play through, depending on your gaming skill.

Unfortunately, gameplay just did not live up to the expectations. The camera was *awful* - there were numerous problems that made the game very frustrating, very quickly. At times you're running along in various terrorist areas, crouching behind cover, jumping over boxes, peering around doors. You might have a few fellow CTU units with you who do basic operations like blowing open doors, but they're rarely any help in a firefight.

The enemies don't show great AI either. It also gets frustrating that an enemy might suddenly decide to surrender while you're in the middle of shooting him - and by the time you've pulled your finger from the trigger, he's already killed by the bullets that were in the air when he surrendered. So you get penalized for his death.

There are also little decoding style puzzles, car driving missions and so on tossed in to keep variety interesting. It figures that none of them are either challenging or fun to play. With all of the thousands of games on the market that nail each of these areas, I wasn't asking for spectacular here - just reasonable. It just wasn't.

It almost seems that they raced this game out quickly in order to get sales and nothing got quite done properly. Which is a real shame, because the series is well loved by millions of people who buy the DVD sets, watch the shows repeatedly and who would LOVE to get this game and replay it to immerse themselves in the world. There is certainly great potential for replayability here, to keep going through a mission over and over to nail the top rating. If the missions were fun, I know I would gladly do that to hear Jack's voice and to be in that world. But with the way things were designed, I'm going to have to wait for a sequel to come out that hopefully spends more time in development.

As a side note, this game does play fine on the PS3.

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24: The Game takes you into the world of intense action that you see on the hit TV series, 24. You'll go on a deadly mission set between the second and third seasons of 24. Who was really behind the assassination attempt on President Palmer? How did Kim Bauer get a job in the L.A. CTU? How did Jack Bauer and Chase Edmunds first start working together? These and other questions are answered as you franctically race to complete solo and team-based missions.

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Command & Conquer 3: Kane's Wrath Review

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(More customer reviews)I generally do not like expansions. They used to be additions only very successful games got to have. Nowadays they are mostly the...other half of the game the publisher withheld when selling us half the original for $50! C&C:KANE's WRATH is a rare exception that brings new dimensions to an already great game!

Story-wise, although an expansion, this is somewhat of a prequel to C&C3-TIBERIUM WARS, as it is set on the history of NOD, starting off just after the 2nd Tiberium War and continuing well past the 3rd.
There is a big campaign comprising of 13 single player missions, new units and upgrades and a new (a la RISE OF NATIONS) Global Conquest mode, that can turn C&C3 into a Turn-Based game! What make this REALLY interesting are the six subfactions, each with its special units, strengths and weaknesses. Not to worry, all GDI, NOD and Scrin get their own off-shooting factions.
On the opposite ends of the spectrum, there is Reaper-17 (a Scrin sub-faction): with hard-hitting and powerful offensive options; and then there is Traveler-59 (also a Scrin offshoot): a much more devious faction that relies on mind control of humans (remember how much fun Yuri's Revenge? was). In between, GDI's (retro) Steel Talons and (futuristic) ZoCom and NOD's (mind-benders) Black Hand and (cyborgs galore) Mark of Kane.

Production of the new epic-units can tip the battlefield scales dramatically. Most are not only devastating but are pretty hard to take down too. GDI gets the MARV [Mammoth Armed Reclamation Vehicle], a souped-up triple-barreled tank; NOD gets the Redeemer, an augmented killer avatar; whereas, Scrin get the Eradicator Hexapod, a impressive six-legged mech.
Revamped units, such as the Shard Walker or the Reaper Tripod, or back-to-the-drawing-board units, such as the Prodigy or the Ravager all add to a renewed experience. Moreover, as a long-time C&C fan, I particularly enjoyed the reappearance of good-ol' units such as Titans and Wolverines on the side of GDI!

The graphics are beautiful, the physics detailed and the explosions and beam-weapons spectacular! Don't forget to turn on the volume on those speakers, because this is a total immersion experience.

As with the original: it misses the 5th star for fun because one cannot hold a battle formation while moving. As most units move at different paces (and although the AI has improved they keep bumping on each other), this results in the more agile, yet vulnerable, units having to face the enemy first - a short-lived sight... May be the next C&C (say, RED ALERT 3) could have some TOTAL WAR infused into it, with battle formations options.

If you are boycotting SecuROM you should know that it is the copy-protection used (nevertheless, it is the usual version used in the original C&C3-TW as well, coming nowhere near the BIOSHOCK RootKit madness!). I usually withhold at least one rating star because of such security inconveniences. However, I enjoyed the game so much that I was willing to overlook it. On the other hand, since it is important for a great number of Amazon customers, I have to mention it for the sake of a well informed decision.

Finally, be advised that this is an expansion and, yes, you do need the original C&C3: TIBERIUM WARS to play it. If you do not have it, take note that there is a pack available, including both original game and expansion (the prices fluctuate so make sure to get the best deal).

HIGHLY RECOMMENDED!!!

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In the name of Kane! The Command & Conquer™ series continues to thrive with Command & Conquer™ 3: Kane's Wrath. As the expansion pack to the critically-acclaimed and fan favorite, Command & Conquer 3 Tiberium Wars™, this Real-time Strategy (RTS) game returns to the Tiberium Universe with Kane at the center of an epic new single player campaign spanning 20 years - from the rebirth of the Brotherhood of Nod after the Second Tiberium War through the dramatic events of the Third Tiberium War and beyond. This story will be told through a new set of high-definition, live action video sequences starring a celebrity cast including Joe Kucan, playing the megalomaniac leader of the Brotherhood of Nod, alongside new talent Natasha Henstridge and Carl Lumbly. With your help, Commander, the Dark Messiah may rise again!

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