Classic pc game reviews

Dark Fantasy The classic dungeon-crawling tabletop adventure is very comfortable in its new digital home. Shuffle knight Doesn't play its cards right. Like a boss Football Manager ensures that heavy is the head that wears the crown. Cruise Control More of the same, and that's OK. Party lines Falls just short of shred heaven. Space Anomaly Guardians of the Galaxy is charming, heartwarming, and beset by technical issues.

The Bends Bad news, sim racing rigs—Circuit Superstars has arrived. Slay the Squirrel A twisted card game from the creator of Pony Island. Anyone interested in superlative cockpit recreations, achingly authentic avionics, and top-notch flight models will find much to love here. The history of this staggeringly ambitious F sim is as long and wiggly as the Norwegian coast.

Patches, politics, leaks, relaunches Where Falcon 4. There are no carefully arranged sortie sequences, no glib victory conditions or token representations of land war. Pilots participate in vast unscripted conflicts, swarming with potential prey and threats. Link: Official site. Like a faithful multi-role combat aircraft that stays in service long after its planned withdrawal date, EECH is simply too useful to retire.

Fifteen years on from release, it still offers a peerless combination of realism, playability and campaign unpredictability. Yes, the dynamic campaign engine serves up a fairly simplistic ground war. But what other title lets you leap into the 3D cockpit of a Comanche or Hokum thanks to modders, Apaches, Hinds, Black Sharks, Havocs, Vipers and Kiowas are also available perform a quick cold-start, and go hunt AFVs, or reconnoitre or blitz an enemy base? Failed to combat electronic warfare attacks and protect your HQ units?

Pea-soupy fog-of-war and debilitating order delays add to the delicious chaos. Enemies are sharp too. Capable of speculative counter-battery fire, canny pontoon bridge building and cunning flanking manoeuvres, they ensure victories rarely come cheap. The most impressive war machine to come out of Ukraine since the T, Graviteam Tactics is an Eastern Front RTS with a realism fixation and a campaign system to die for.

One of its weirdest pleasures is wandering the battlefield after a engagement, studying the colour-coded impact arrows that sprout from wrecked AFVs. Campaigns are as predictable as swirling snowflakes thanks to the turn-based strategy layer that triggers battles.

All GTOS veterans have stories to tell of chaotic night skirmishes and enemy tanks arriving from unexpected directions. Other campaigns can feel awfully stilted in comparison. Bored of Overlord? Try a landing in Tanga, German East Africa, in It does so without technical issues of sorts, and brings in the deep variety of customization options PC users love to play with.

The Flyers have been struggling as …. Ohio State …. More FTW. The Latest. When GOG. It was me. I did a little dance. Modern perspective: Install some graphics mods. Make the game really shine the way it should. System Shock 2 is beloved enough that you have some great options on modern systems. Sometimes punishing. Good luck. Modern perspective: Some of the puzzles are asinine, so be prepared to consult a walkthrough.

With a recent Kickstarter campaign to bring back the Ultima Underworld series , now would be a perfect time for you to re visit the mother of all CRPGs. Playing all of the Ultima games would take forever though, so you might as well start with the best—either Ultima 7 or Ultima Underworld 2. Set aside dozens of hours for these adventures. Civilization II , to be exact.