It all began in the playground where eager children would buy their latest add-on packs of cards to take on their friends in a duel of wits, magic, spells and monsters. With such a subject matter ...

Not so long ago we reviewed CDV's Sudden Strike 2 and as luck would have it for you war strategy buffs, the masters of the WWII-based RTS game are back with another salvo. Blitzkrieg has been ...

Playing God is rather fun - chucking out a plague of locusts here and there, maybe whipping up a massive hurricane, or perhaps smiting a particularly odious individual with a well-aimed lightning bolt. It's the sort ...

"Suddenly... I'm not half the man I used to be... A hand grenade went off right next to me... Oh I believe, in yesterday." War is, of course, something that's much better simulated than actually partaken ...

In days past this writer was known as the "Tank" in games of Command and Conquer, due to his propensity for producing large quantities of two-tracked behemoths faster than any other player in the game (actually ...

Aliens. Tsk. Who needs them? If the film industry, game industry, folklore and rabid rantings of naked rednecks who were plucked from their pickups in the middle of nowhere to be dumped back to earth covered ...

Like the first MechCommander game, this new title from Microsoft plays heavily on the MechWarrior franchise. If you don't know about MechWarrior (and we'd be very surprised if not, since it's been around for donkeys' years ...

Sir Thomas More dared to dream of a utopia - but a Startopia is a more fantastic concept. What is it? A space station housing many different alien races, who all get along together famously... in ...

There's only one thing stopping you from playing Gangsters 2 and that's your middle name. If it's Mark, John or - heaven forbid - Brian, you can forget it. It needs to be something like "the ...

It's tough being a deity. You might think it's all little fluffy clouds, pearly gates and angels singing your praises from dawn to dusk, but the reality is far removed from these idealistic images. Have you ...

The Civilization series of games is one of the most famous ever to grace the PC. Engineered by that strategy genius Sid Meier, it has gone through a few incarnations. When he left, it switched its ...

Sheep is a unique game of strategy and cunning. But before this review goes any further, we would like to apologise for any gratuitous use of sheep puns. It was just irresistible... The plot begins millions ...

Perhaps you feel that you haven't tortured and traumatised your little citizens enough? Or maybe you'd like to construct great sprawling metropolises... metropili'... erm, cities in the style of classical European or Asian influenced architecture? These ...

Aliens. They're everywhere. Whether they're humanoids with Cornish pasties Sellotaped to their foreheads, pointy ears or ridiculously bulging Mekon-style heads. Or your more difficult to read gelatinous blob multi-pod type of creature. Whom or whatever, as ...

You may remember Earth 2140. Then again you may not. It wasn't exactly the biggest hit of the last century, granted, being at best a fairly mediocre real-time strategy game. Maybe that's why the developer, TopWare, ...

Well it had to happen eventually. We've had Sim City (three instalments thereof, in fact), and everything from Sim Copter to Sim Ant. The gamut has been well and truly run. There was only one thing ...

Tanks for the memory. It's getting on for sixty years since the end of the war, but the fascination continues, and war makes an excellent subject for a strategy game such as this. The 'IV' in ...

Where Sid Meyer's Civilization led, many other God games have followed. Some have been impressive, others have died a deservedly quiet death in the backwaters of the PC strategy game market. Some have been based in ...

The title is a bit of a give-away. This strategy game is set some time around 1200AD, when Anglo-Saxons were still beating each other over the head with lumps of wood. Unfortunately, the game itself is ...

God games. Don't you just love 'em? It's the one style of game that gives you, a lowly human, total control over life, death and the mushy bits in between. Doubtless you'll have heard of the ...