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American Conquest

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American Conquest is a realtime-strategy game with masses of enemies and allies – you have to conquer (as the game-title suggests) and defend the American continent. The game features the wars and struggles from 1492 to 1813, a multiplayer-mode, up to 16.000 units, 12 nations you can play (from Hispanics to Sioux) and a 3D graphics-engine…

American Conquest combines realtime strategy with complex tactics features. You have to control huge armies, find the best formation and build up strong companies and find the best blend of long and short range units. There are 100 different units and 106 buildings.

The game features 8 campaigns with 42 missions such as Pizarro’s Expedition, the War of Tecumseh, the Seven Years War and the American War of Independence.

GSC Gameworld also built in a diplomacy system, and something resembling a moral system. Wins and defeats influence your army’s strength.

Also, you can play six historical battles in the multiplayer-mode. And nine solo-missions that aren’t part of a campaign. …

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American Conquest – Fight Back

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American Conquest: Fight Back is the successor to American Conquest. The game features eight campaigns set between 1517 and 1804: during the 25 missions the player tackles missions like finding El Dorado with Germany or conquering Alaska with the Russians at the expense of the Haida. There are overall five new nations and 50 new units to play with, in addition to the mentioned Portugal and the Netherlands.

The gameplay is exactly the same as in American Conquest, meaning that the player constructs a base, gathers resources and builds up his army. The fighting morale is very important and can be influenced by either victory, defeat, food supplies or the equipment your units are carrying. Ten new battlefield maps are designed to offer quick combat between two armies. …

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American Conquest – Divided Nation

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American Conquest: Divided Nation is the sequel to Real Time Strategy Game American Conquest. While the first game focused on the conquest of America by the Europeans from the natives. In this game the focus is on the Civil War. The game features nine historical campaigns and various lose scenarios to replay this time of conflict.

The game plays like a traditional RTS game. You gather resources (wood, grain, coal and gold), construct a base and create units to fight your opponent who is trying to do the same. In the campaign missions the resource gathering and base building is sometimes left out in favour of maps that are purely focused on a battlefield. In these missions it is possible to build a base tent camp with a canteen and head quarters, but you have to make do with the soldiers you are given at the start of the map.

There are four playable nations: the Confederacy, the Union, Mexico and Texas. Each nation has some specific units, but they are mostly the similar. Available are infantry, cavalry, artillery and maritime units. …

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Antz Extreme Racing

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In Antz Extreme Racing, the characters of the movie Antz are bored and start a racing championship. Each character has eight individual courses and challenges they must take on; besides the initial two the rest has to be unlocked by finishing the game with another character. Like in most arcade racers there are various power ups to collect, e.g. rockets or protective shields. The game features four basic race types: driving the backs of larger bugs, running, flying on the backs of bugs, or surfing on a leaf.

The game also can be played in four-player split-screen multiplayer. …

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Athens 2004

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The official game of the Games of the XXVIII Olympiad held in Athens in August 2004, Athens 2004 features 25 events spread around 8 sports, the real stadiums and arenas such as the state of the art Olympic Stadium built for the competition and the Panathinaiko, venue of the first modern Olympics, and 64 nations from all around the world.

While new developers Eurocom (following two games from ATD) kept most of the gameplay still inspired by the old button-mashers of the early 80s, some events feature interesting twists. While sprinting events don’t need introductions, there are two middle distance events (800m and 1500m) that require the player to control their pace in order to reach the final curve fresh enough to have a second wind and sprint towards the finish. Other innovations are on field events, such as the high jump requiring the player to alternate buttons not as fast as possible, but time them as well as possible to the athlete’s steps as possible, and the discus has the player circling the analogue knobs to build up power, among others.

All four swimming events are played in the same fashion as sprinting events, except the athlete must breathe as quickly as possible in intervals, or risks losing precious speed over a section of the race. …

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Atlanta 1996

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An officially licensed product of the Atlanta Committee for the Olympic Games, Inc.

This was the first true 3D multi-event sports game with 15 sporting events (100 meters, 400 meters, 100M crawl, Javelin, Hammer, Discus, Long Jump, Triple Jump, High Jump, Pole Vault, Fencing, Rapid Fire Pistol, Weight Lifting, Archery, Skeet Shooting) that mirrored those in the actual Atlanta ’96 games.

The game supported up to 8 players, competing in arcade-style games and Olympic-style tournaments.

The in-game commentary was by BBC Radio 5’s Alan Green. …

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Alone in the Dark & Jack

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Jeremy Hartwood has committed suicide in his Louisiana mansion, Derceto. You take the role of either Edward Carnby, a private investigator, or Emily Hartwood, Jeremy’s niece, and investigate the suspicious death. The three-floor mansion is reputed to be haunted by its eccentric past owner. Very quickly, you realise that it is. Warped rats, zombies, and giant worms are among the foes who are after you, and you must somehow escape.

Alone in the Dark is an action-adventure survival horror game. The action is displayed from a number of fixed viewpoints. The backgrounds are 2D painted images, while the player character, all items, and monsters are rendered as 3D models.

To escape the mansion, you’ll have to solve a number of puzzles. They usually involve finding an item and using it in a proper place. Apart from items necessary for the puzzles, you can also find books and documents that can be read, healing items which can be consumed to restore hit points, and weapons. …

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