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Commandos 3 – Destination Berlin

Description

In the continuation of the tactical combat series, take your commandos on their deadliest mission yet venturing into enemy territory across 3 campaigns, from Stalingrad through to Central Europe and the beaches of Normandy.

You control 6 commandos, each with unique skills, to accomplish your goal and finish the task at hand. The environment is both indoors and outdoors, and adjusts to your actions in unique ways which must be accounted for in the heat of the moment.

Deathmatch multiplayer is included for the first time in the series, allowing up to 12 friends (or enemies) to take each other on. …

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Command & Conquer – Generals

Description

A new chapter in the Command & Conquer universe, set somewhere in the 2020s, pits three sides for global domination: the United States of America, the People’s Republic of China and the Global Liberation Army (GLA).

Generals features real world (renamed or slightly altered) weapons combined with quasi-high-tech ones, new control schemes and a fast-paced multiplayer. Generals is the first game in the Command & Conquer series not to include FMV or pre-rendered cutscenes between missions, and was also the first C&C game without the Westwood Studios label (although the development studio was initially called Westwood Pacific before being merged into EA Pacific). It uses a full 3D environment powered by the SAGE engine, a modified version of the W3D engine previously seen in C&C: Renegade. …

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Command & Conquer – Tiberian Sun

Description

Command & Conquer: Tiberian Sun is a real-time strategy game and the direct sequel to the original Command & Conquer, set in the year 2030.

The Earth is now heavily contaminated with the alien crystalline substance known as Tiberium and is becoming less habitable with time, while new life forms have formed in areas of serious contamination. While the Global Defense Initiative (GDI) still has a technologically advanced arsenal, it is also tasked with Tiberium research and abatement. The Brotherhood of Nod suddenly re-emerges from hiding, and its leader Kane, believed to have been dead since the assault on Sarajevo in the First Tiberium War, unveils himself to General Solomon on GDI’s orbital station Philadelphia. As Nod’s sneak attacks start scourging the world like decades prior, GDI prepares for self-defense. Meanwhile, survivors of Tiberium mutation who call themselves The Forgotten live separated from society, but are about to become relevant for both GDI and Nod efforts.

Tiberian Sun debuted an isometric engine which combines the use of 2D sprites with 3D voxels (short for volume elements). There are even larger differences between the two playable sides in terms of gameplay styles and visual design – GDI prefers brute force while Nod specializes in hit-and-run tactics and the element of surprise. Some of the technologically advanced units include hovercrafts, subterranean flame tanks (aptly named “Devil’s Tongues”), mechanized walkers, etc. Each side now also has multiple support powers at their disposal, and some of the special technologies have direct counters – stealth units can be discovered by mobile sensor arrays, while subterranean units can be directed further from sensitive areas with concrete pavement. The campaigns, similar to those in preceding titles, have side missions which can aid in resolving main missions (e.g. destroying a nearby outpost will reduce the size of the enemy army in the main mission). …

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Yu-Gi-Oh! Power of Chaos – Joey the Passion

Description

The Power of Chaos series continues with Joey the Passion. This game brings hundreds more cards to the series, a new computer opponent to battle, and a new 2-player LAN mode. There is also a new duelist level ranking to show how good you are.

Joey the Passion lets you play using the 350 cards from this game, as well as the ability to use cards from the other games in the series that you have won if you have those games. So, if you have a great deck from one or both of the other games in the series, you can bring that over to Joey the Passion and improve it with cards from this game. Cards are not backwards compatible, however. So you won’t be able to use Joey the Passion cards in the other games.

Although advertising a brand-new interface, you will find that everything is really the same, but with new graphical features, just like the differences between Yugi the Destiny and Kaiba the Revenge. This game has a street feel to it rather than the Egyptian feel of Yugi and the futuristic feel of Kaiba. …

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Yu-Gi-Oh! Power of Chaos – Kaiba the Revenge

Description

This standalone expansion to Yu-Gi-Oh! Power of Chaos: Yugi the Destiny brings you over 300 new cards and allows you to battle Kaiba instead of Yugi.

The gameplay is the same as in the first game. However, Kaiba is much smarter in his strategies and moves and will give a much greater challenge to you. The new cards also add a very different feel to the game. With upgrade spells, it is very possible to put a monster’s attack over 10000 in this game!

The expansion automatically imports your deck from the first game if you have one. If not, you can still play with the starter deck that is given to you. Set up your deck with 40-80 cards and prepare yourself for battle.

As in Yugi the Destiny, this game has a tutorial to help you get started if you are new to the game. Battles are also the same in that you can play a single battle, or a match battle where you play best 2 out of 3. In the match battle, you have access to your side deck to make changes in your deck between rounds. If you manage to win a match battle, you win 3 cards instead of the 1 card you win in single battle mode. This can allow you to win 3 cards in only two battles if you’re good (lucky). …

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Yu-Gi-Oh! Power of Chaos – Yugi the Destiny

Description

Yu-Gi-Oh! comes to the PC in Yu-Gi-Oh! Power of Chaos: Yugi the Destiny. The game is set up as a card battling game without any extra genres added in such as RPG elements or adventure elements that are part of other Yu-Gi-Oh! games.

You have one person to battle in this game – Yugi. You start the game with a deck of 40 cards and no extras and must win battles against Yugi in order to get new cards to improve your deck.

The game’s battles are set up as either a single battle, or a match battle. The match battles take much longer as you have to win (or lose) more than once before you end the match. In the single battle, you either win or lose once and then you can play another battle if you want. With the match battle, however, you can use a side deck to trade cards in and out of your deck (if you have some) in order to improve your deck based on what you see your opponent has for cards. …

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Dune

Description

Based on the legendary Frank Herbert novel of the same name and visually inspired by the 1984 David Lynch movie, Dune is a strategy-adventure hybrid where the player takes the role of young Paul Atreides, the son of Duke Leto. The Emperor Shaddam Corrino IV has given the Atreides House the rights to manage the extraction of the most precious substance in the entire universe – the Melange, commonly known as Spice in the desolate desert planet Arrakis (Dune), the only place in the universe capable of producing the substance. While everything indicates the offer is a trap orchestrated by their enemies the Harkonnen, the Atreides family agrees on moving, as he who controls the spice, controls the universe.

The player arrives in Arrakis with the mission of contacting and convincing the Fremen tribes residing in sietches (desert settlements) near the Atreides palace to harvest the spice. Harvesting is the most important part of the game, required to purchase equipment from the smugglers and appease the emperor. To speed up the process of harvesting, the player can equip the tribes with harvesters to increase production and ornis to protect them from the gigantic protectors of the planet: Shai-Hulud – the sandworms. …

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