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Assassins Creed


Assassins Creed


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Encore Assassins Creed Jc Jc


Encore Assassins Creed Jc Jc


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Encore Assassins Creed Jc Jc

Assassins Creed Latex Short Sword


Assassins Creed Latex Short Sword


$60


Halloween is your chance to show your fun side. Let it shine through for everyone to see with the Assassin’s Creed Short Sword. Don’t forget to check out our Halloween shop for all the accessories, props, outfits, and decorations you’ll need for a hauntingly fun Halloween. Includes 1 latex sword. The Assassin Creed Short Sword has a sweeping design with a sleek positive grip and decorative blade. Please note: This is not a metal weapon; it is a quality latex weapon for LARP and other forms of action play.

Assassins Creed Altair Majestic Sword


Assassins Creed Altair Majestic Sword


$44.99


*Overall length 31 inches long with 24 inch blade*Made from 440 stainless steel,double edged,sharp*3.67mm blade thickness*6 inch handle,detailed black and silver*Accurate look and fully finished*Includes stunning belt sheath*Great for cosplay or display*Brand newGreat for fans of Assasins Creed. This is a serious weapon, with significant power, and ideal for display. This 440 stainless steel replica has beautiful black and silver detail: Winged-shape blade guard and goblin head pommel.

Assassins Creed 2 for Xbox 360


Assassins Creed 2 for Xbox 360


$19.99


Assassin’s Creed 2 is the follow-up to the title that became the fastest-selling new IP in video game history. The highly anticipated title features a new hero Ezio Auditore da Firenze, a young Italian noble, and a new era, the Renaissance. Assassin’s Creed 2 retains the core gameplay experience that made the first opus a resounding success and features new experiences that will surprise and challenge players. Assassin’s Creed 2 is an epic story of family, vengeance and conspiracy set in the pristine, yet brutal backdrop of a Renaissance Italy. Ezio befriends Leonardo da Vinci, takes on Florence’s most powerful families, and ventures throughout the canals of Venice where he learns to become a master assassin. Perfect your skills and brandish new weapons, learn to disarm enemies and then use their weapons against them, and assassinate enemies using both hidden blades.

Assassins Creed Sword of Altair Replica


Assassins Creed Sword of Altair Replica


$179.99


Based on designs from the hit video game! Highly detailed! Add to your collection! From the hit game Assassin’s Creed , this sleek weapon of the assassin has a high carbon steel blade with eagle-headed pommel and winged crossguard. Suede wrapped handle and wooden scabbard covered in brown suede. Bring home this incredible replica today!

The Hidden Assassins - Robert Wilson - Paperback


The Hidden Assassins – Robert Wilson – Paperback


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The Hidden Assassins

Assassins Creed 2 for PlayStation 3


Assassins Creed 2 for PlayStation 3


$19.99


Assassin’s Creed 2 is the follow-up to the title that became the fastest-selling new IP in video game history. The highly anticipated title features a new hero Ezio Auditore da Firenze, a young Italian noble, and a new era, the Renaissance. Assassin’s Creed 2 retains the core gameplay experience that made the first opus a resounding success and features new experiences that will surprise and challenge players. Assassin’s Creed 2 is an epic story of family, vengeance and conspiracy set in the pristine, yet brutal backdrop of a Renaissance Italy. Ezio befriends Leonardo da Vinci, takes on Florence’s most powerful families, and ventures throughout the canals of Venice where he learns to become a master assassin. Perfect your skills and brandish new weapons, learn to disarm enemies and then use their weapons against them, and assassinate enemies using both hidden blades. You’ll be able to perform missions when you want and how you want in this open-ended world that adds elements such as swimming and even flying to the adventure.

Assassins Creed: Brotherhood for PlayStation 3


Assassins Creed: Brotherhood for PlayStation 3


$39.99


As Ezio, a legendary Master Assassin, experience over 15 hours of single-player game play set in the living, breathing, unpredictable city of Rome. Defeating the corrupt tyrants entrenched there will require not only strength, but leadership, as Ezio commands an entire Brotherhood who will rally to his side, working together to defeat their mortal enemies and prevent the extinction of their Order. And for the first time, play in a never-before-seen multiplayer layer that allows you to choose from a wide range of Assassin characters and match your skills against other Assassins from around the world. Recruit and train promising young Assassins and then deploy them across the city as you see fit. Collaborate with real historical characters such as Leonardo da Vinci, Niccolo Machiavelli and Caterina Sforza. Devastate your enemies with poison darts, parachutes, double hidden blades, hidden guns, and an advanced flying machine. Choose from multiple authentic character classes, each with their own signature weapons and killing moves.

Assassins Creed A Metal Keychains


Assassins Creed A Metal Keychains


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Assassins Creed A Keychain This is an officially licensed Assassins Creed Keychain made out of durable pewter and features a Assassins Creed image. *** This item can only be sold in North America and should not be ordered by our International Customers. Sorry for any inconvenience.

Assassins Creed Assassin Fighting Knife Replica


Assassins Creed Assassin Fighting Knife Replica


$129.99


Based on designs from the hit video game! Highly detailed! Add to your collection! From the hit game Assassin’s Creed , the Assassin Fighting Knife & Belt has a sweeping design with a sleek positive grip and decorative, high carbon steel blade. Full chest assembly (suede and metal) for covert carrying. Bring home this incredible replica today!

Hidden Assassins


Hidden Assassins


$9.19


As Inspector Jefe Javier Falcn investigates the case of a faceless, mutilated corpse, the beautiful city of Seville is rocked by a massive explosion. The discovery of a mosque in the basement of a devastated apartment building confirms everybody’s fears of terrorism. Panic sweeps the city and the region goes on red alert. As more bodies are dragged from the rubble, the media interest and political pressure intensify and Falcn suspects that all is not what it appears to be. Just as he comes close to cracking the conspiracy, he makes the most terrifying discovery of all and the race is on to prevent a catastrophe far beyond Spain’s borders. A masterful thriller, The Hidden Assassins is fiction of the highest order.

The Hidden Assassins


The Hidden Assassins


$8.69


As Inspector Jefe Javier Falc-n investigates the case of a faceless mutilated corpse the beautiful city of Seville is rocked by a massive explosion. The discovery of a mosque in the basement of a devastated apartment building confirms everybody’s fears of terrorism. Panic sweeps the city and the region goes on red alert. As more bodies are dragged from the rubble the media interest and political pressure intensify and Falc-n suspects that all is not what it appears to be. Just as he comes close to cracking the conspiracy he makes the most terrifying discovery of all and the race is on to prevent a catastrophe far beyond Spain’s borders. A masterful thriller The Hidden Assassins is fiction of the highest order.

Assassins Creed Logo  Baby Doll Tee


Assassins Creed Logo Baby Doll Tee


$19.88


Assassins Creed Logo Baby Tee This is an officially licensed Assassins Creed Baby Tee in which this girls shirt has been screen printed with a Assassins Creed design on the front of this cotton junior fitted babydoll tee shirt. These Assassins Creed Baby Tee shirts are usually made from a softer 5oz. stretchy cotton baby doll tee shirts. These Assassins Creed Baby Tees are designed to be fitted babydoll style shirts for someone who likes to wear form fitted style of a shirt.

Assassins Creed By Bowden, Oliver


Assassins Creed By Bowden, Oliver


$16.24


Master Assassin Ezio Auditore travels to Constantinople to find the lost library of AltaFir and the secrets it hides before the Templars use this knowledge to destabilize the Ottoman Empire and control the world. Author: Bowden, Oliver Series Title: Assassins Creed Subtitle: Revelations Publication Date: 2011/11/29 Number of Pages: 504 Binding Type: Paperback Language: English Depth: 0.75 Width: 4.50 Height: 7.50

Assassins Creed: Bloodlines for PSP


Assassins Creed: Bloodlines for PSP


$19.99


Assassin’s Creed: Bloodlines is the first Assassin’s Creed game on the PSP. It follows the story of Altair right after the events of Assassin’s Creed as Altair tracks down the last Templars who fled the Holy Land and retreated to the Island of Cyprus. Environments are beautifully rendered to maximize the PSP system’s visual capabilities, and Altair on the PSP system reacts to the terrain fluidly, diving through holes and climbing ledges with on the creative application of the Free Run button. Collect Templar coins and treasures on the PSP system and then connect to your PS3 system and share across both games. Additionally, as you unlock Health and Weapons upgrades in Assassin’s Creed 2 for the PS3, the same upgrade will be unlocked in Assassin’s Creed: Bloodlines.

Assassins Creed for PC


Assassins Creed for PC


$19.99


Assassin’s Creed is the next-gen game developed by Ubisoft Montreal that will redefine the action genre. While other games claim to be next-gen with impressive graphics and physics, Assassin’s Creed merges technology, game design, theme, and emotions into a world where you instigate chaos and become a vulnerable, yet powerful, agent of change. The setting is 1191 AD. The Third Crusade is tearing the Holy Land apart. You, Altair, intend to stop the hostilities by suppressing both sides of the conflict. You are an Assassin, a warrior shrouded in secrecy and feared for your ruthlessness. Your actions can throw your immediate environment into chaos, and your existence will shape events during this pivotal moment in history.

Assassins Creed: Revelations for PC


Assassins Creed: Revelations for PC


$39.99


In Assassin’s Creed Revelations, master assassin Ezio Auditore walks in the footsteps of his legendary mentor, Altair, on a journey of discovery and revelation. It is a perilous path – one that will take Ezio to Constantinople, the heart of the Ottoman Empire, where a growing army of Templars threatens to destabilize the region. In addition to Ezio’s award-winning story, the acclaimed online multiplayer experience returns, refined and expanded, with more modes, more maps and more characters that allow players to test their assassin skills against others from around the world. The latest chapter in the Assassin’s Creed saga also includes revolutionary game play, allowing players to manipulate the construct of Desmond’s memories and the Animus to decipher the mysteries of his past and gain insight into the future.

Assassins Creed: Revelations for Xbox 360


Assassins Creed: Revelations for Xbox 360


$39.99


In Assassin’s Creed Revelations, master assassin Ezio Auditore walks in the footsteps of his legendary mentor, Altair, on a journey of discovery and revelation. It is a perilous path – one that will take Ezio to Constantinople, the heart of the Ottoman Empire, where a growing army of Templars threatens to destabilize the region. In addition to Ezio’s award-winning story, the acclaimed online multiplayer experience returns, refined and expanded, with more modes, more maps and more characters that allow players to test their assassin skills against others from around the world. The latest chapter in the Assassin’s Creed saga also includes revolutionary gameplay, allowing players to manipulate the construct of Desmond’s memories and the Animus to decipher the mysteries of his past and gain insight into the future.

Assassins Creed Lineage


Assassins Creed Lineage


$6.85


Rated: NASynopsis: When the Duke of Milan is brutally murdered, the Assassin Giovanni Auditore is dispatched to investigate. What he uncovers implicates Italy’s most powerful families reaching all the way back to the Vatican itself. As Giovanni draws closer to the truth, he becomes hunted himself. He must expose the conspirators before he joins their ever-growing list of victims.

Creed


Creed


$11.11


Lee Robinson writes poems of immense clarity and conviction. Her generously grounded voice in CREED honors and illuminates richly described encounters and scenes – many gifts for the lucky reader. Naomi Shihab Nye, poet, author of 19 Varieties of Gazelle: Poems of the Middle East, A Maze Me, Red Suitcase, Field Trip and Fuel Lee Robinson is a seer. She not only sees the fireflies and the deer, but also the cow patties and the flood waters. She sees the intimate truths involved in loving the people in her world, both the hard going and the pure delight. Whatever she sees enters her poems full-blown – rendered in rich lyrical language and honed by an honesty and wisdom that is by turns forthright, delicate, and transformative. Robinson writes, "The sun, before it goes, tastes every tree on the hill, / lingering as if it will never have its fill." In whatever light, readers will want to linger long over CREED, finding and re-finding discoveries that will shimmer anew with each return. Barbara Ras, author of One Hidden Stuff

Assassins


Assassins


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Assassins

Assassins Creed: Revelations for PlayStation 3


Assassins Creed: Revelations for PlayStation 3


$39.99


In Assassin’s Creed Revelations, master assassin Ezio Auditore walks in the footsteps of his legendary mentor, Altaïr, on a journey of discovery and revelation. It is a perilous path – one that will take Ezio to Constantinople, the heart of the Ottoman Empire, where a growing army of Templars threatens to destabilize the region. In addition to Ezio’s award-winning story, the acclaimed online multiplayer experience returns, refined and expanded, with more modes, more maps and more characters that allow players to test their assassin skills against others from around the world. The latest chapter in the Assassin’s Creed saga also includes revolutionary gameplay, allowing players to manipulate the construct of Desmond’s memories and the Animus to decipher the mysteries of his past and gain insight into the future.

Assassin's Creed Logo Flexible Keychain


Assassin’s Creed Logo Flexible Keychain


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Assassins Creed Logo Keychain This is an officially licensed flexible Assassins Creed keychain made out of durable pvc plastic featuring an official Assassins Creed image. Check back often for some of our new Assassins Creed clothing and other Assassins Creed merchandise at great prices only at – www.StylinOnline.com .

Assassin's Creed Name Flexible Keychain


Assassin’s Creed Name Flexible Keychain


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Assassins Creed Name Keychain This is an officially licensed flexible Assassins Creed keychain made out of durable pvc plastic featuring an official Assassins Creed image. Check back often for some of our new Assassins Creed clothing and other Assassins Creed merchandise at great prices only at – www.StylinOnline.com .

Assassin's Creed 2 Digital Deluxe Edition (Mac)


Assassin’s Creed 2 Digital Deluxe Edition (Mac)


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Includes Assassins Creed 2 and Sequence 12 and 13!

Assassin's Creed Knife and Sheath Replica


Assassin’s Creed Knife and Sheath Replica


$36.99


Start your own brotherhood of assassins! Based on designs from the hit video game. Heavy-duty, high-carbon steel. It’s perfect for your Assassin’s costume! Start your own brotherhood of assassins! From the hit video game Assassin’s Creed, the Assassin’s Throwing Knife and Sheath comes with a handy clip to attach it to your belt. This splendid weapon replica features a heavy-duty, high-carbon steel blade with a suede scabbard. Overall, the knife measures 10 1/2-inches long, with the blade measuring 5 1/2-inches long x 1 1/2-inches wide x 7/32-inch thick. It’s perfect for your Assassin’s costume or as a gift for any trained killers in your circle of friends! Note: This item includes one knife with sheath.

Assassins Creed Altair 7 Action Figure


Assassins Creed Altair 7 Action Figure


$16.99


From the highly anticipated video game, Assassin’s Creed, comes the highly detailed Altair action figure. Altair comes armed to the teeth with an arsenal of swords, knives, throwing daggers, as well

Classic Gaming

PC gaming is doomed. No, really, it’s going to I cop it any day now. In fact, it may even have expired by the time you read this introduction. After all, people have been predicting its demise for 20 years now – it’s all piracy this, expensive hardware that, niche appeal this, compatibility problems that… Oh, shuddup. PC gaming isn’t going anywhere.

 

The platform’s infinitely adaptable, it’s hand-in-hand with the rise of casual, ad-supported and subscription-based games, and it’s got a back catalogue several hundred orders of magnitude huger than any other gaming system. In terms of that incredible back catalogue, the PC’s currently undergoing two very important changes that may rescue it from the impotence of dusty floppy disks and pop-up-infected abandonware sites.

 

First, PC gamers’ values are changing – the audience is moving away from graphics-hungry teenagers and into a breed that’s more prepared to judge a game on its less superficial merits. In short, a game consisting of 320×240 pixels, each the size of a baby’s fist, no longer causes quite so many people to scoff dismissively at it. Secondly, digital distribution services – notably Valve’s Steam and the great-in-the-States-but-crap-over-here Gametap – are gradually adding classic games to their online stores – legal, free from floppy disks, and dirt-cheap. A slight spot of whimsy and a few dollars is all it takes to enjoy yesterday’s finest.

 

While it’s early days for this, things can only get better. On Steam alone, the last few months have seen the rediscovery of ancient treasures such as the earliest Wolfenstein, Unreal, Doom and GTA games. The past is indeed another country – but, when it comes to old PC games, lately we’re talking more Isle of Man than North Korea.

 

Until these electro-stores are fully stocked, plenty of options remain to locate your desired fragment of yesterday – eBay, second-hand stores, free fan remakes and (mumble) bittorrent (mumble) abandonware (mumble), for instance. Somewhat sadly, old PC games don’t seem to retain much value, even for mint-condition boxes. I’d be lucky to get a hundred bucks for one of my proudest possessions, my still-sealed copy of Dungeon Keeper.

 

Still, that’s great news for buyers. But where to start? Over 20 years of PC gaming is an impossibly large subject, so how we’re going to approach it is by breaking it into key genres (albeit composited ones) and looking at the games which defined them, or alternatively took it to interesting places that have been sadly left unexplored since. The obvious names – yer Dooms and C&Cs – will go unspoken in favor of games you’re less likely to have played. For the sake of argument, history began in 1987 – a year that saw, among other epochal events, the dawn of VGA and its wondrous 640×480, 256-color pixels, LucasArts defined point’n'click adventure games with Manioc Mansion and the first real-time 3D RPG, Dungeon Master.

 

To start at the most obvious – but, in some ways, least interesting – point, let’s talk action games. The earliest first-person-shooter was 1973′s Maze War, but it was id software’s 1991 fantasy shooter Catacomb 3D that really birthed the form as we know it. Until then, we didn’t even get an onscreen hand reinforcing the sense that the player was the game’s character. From that came Wolfenstein 3D and Doom and – well, you know the rest. Its the point between then and now that contains lost wonders.

 

Hidden Treasure

 

1994′s Marathon is a fine example. One of the earliest games by future Halo creator Bungle, though this didn’t prove a runaway success on PC, it was one of the first post-Doom FPS games to introduce elements beyond repeatedly shooting monsters in the face. Friendly Al characters, alternate fire modes, co-op play, swimming and, particularly, a strong layered plot (which was a major inspiration for System Shock and Halo, among others) made it an altogether more grown-up affair than other Doom-a-likes. Though its superior sequel Durandol was the only Marathon game to see an official Windows release, Bungee now offers free versions of all three instalments’ Mac versions, which fans duly ported to PC. Download links and a setup guide lurk at www.calormen.com/mwd.htm.

 

Skip ahead to the second half of the 1990s and 3D-accelerated gaming is in full swing. There were a great many ways to kill pretend things – including expertly-adapted licensed fare such as 1999′s Aliens versus Predator and 1997′s Star Wars: Jedi Knight 1998′s Thief The Dark Project, from the dearly-missed Looking Glass Studios (the key members of which went on to form Ion Storm, the developer behind Deus Ex), was a revelation in such violent climes. Essentially, the design document for the subsequent decade of stealth games – count Splinter Cell, Hitman and Assassin’s Creed among its followers – murder took a distinct backseat to using the environment to create your own non-linear path through the game.

 

Playing a character poorly suited to direct combat, using shadow and sound to avoid beef cake enemies, and emphasizing the need for patience and attentiveness over reflex gives Thief a pounding tension few games have touched. On top of that, it’s about unified design and atmosphere to create a sense of place and menace, whereas so many of its peers contented themselves with a jumble-sale muddle of second-hand sci-fi ideas. If you’re spitting like a bucktoothed viper at the idea of 1998 polgyons, direct your ocular organs to modetwo.net/darkmod/, where there’s an ongoing project to remake Thief in the shadowtastic Doom 3 engine – they released a demo version not long ago.

 

One of the most interesting areas of PC gaming is the crossover point from FPS into other genres. System Shock 2 and Deus Ex are the best-known examples of introducing roleplaying elements – tailoring the character to your own tastes, managing inventories, handing choice of action and path to the player – into a real-time action environment, but point your mind earlier than that. Another Looking Glass effort, the 1992′s Ultima Underworld, offered a genuine 3D world (an early build of which was id’s ‘inspiration’ for Wolfenstein 3D) and first-person-perspective monster-stabbing augmented by RPG trappings and non-linear exploration.

 

Most recently, the likes of Oblivion and S.T.A.L.K.E.R owe a great debt to UU and its sole sequel, but fans feel it’s never been done better. Make your own mind up with one of the various remakes at tinyurl.com/3yzvz8.

 

Genre Splicing

 

Two years later, the first System Shock was doing things with environmental interaction – stacking boxes to form a ladder to higher places, for instance – that most games don’t offer even now. While you’ll need to have your own moral dilemma about whether or not you should download the so-called ‘abandonware’ version of Shock, it is worth mentioning that there’s a near-complete fan project that makes it run happily under modern Windowses and with improved graphics at tinyurl.com/2sc5n9. Or, if you want an absurdly violent, foul-mouthed alternative to these more cerebral FPS+ wonders, 1999′s Quake 2-powered Kingpin: Life Of Crime sported branching dialogue, the buying and selling of weapons and recruitable NPC companions alongside its granny-baiting blood ‘n’ maiming.

 

For RPGs themselves, well, there’s a wealth. No platform has ever done roleplaying as well as the PC. With Fallout3 due later this year from the makers of Oblivion, now’s the time to play the first two post-apocalyptic open-worlders. They’re turn-based, which makes combat a tactical matter of how you’ve developed your character’s abilities and the best way to approach a situation, rather than how fast you can click fire. Most of all, it offers choice – how your character behaves, who his allies and enemies are, and the reputation he has with the game’s populace. It’s also vicious, funny and still the aesthetic benchmark for any game set on a scorched Earth.

 

More traditional fantasy roleplaying is best served by Ultima VII, the best of the long-running series that earned Richard Garriot his name, and one with which Looking Glass/Ion Storm big fish Warren Spector was heavily involved. As with the Fallout games, there’s little need to stick to the straight and narrow here – this is roleplaying that encompasses morality, not simply whether you fight with a sword or a bow. It’s also a world in which you can interact with almost anything in the game – whether it’s to craft your own food or weapons, or just strumming away on an unclaimed lute. The presentation may be crude, but modern RPGs generally lag far behind it in most other respects. It’s another game whose fans are battling to keep it alive – while you’ll need to track down the original game files yourself, the Exult engine (exult.sourceforge.net) will make ‘em run tickety-boo on your new-fangled modern operating system.

 

Another semi-free-form RPG milestone is 1993′s Betrayal at Krone/or (whose creators later went on to create the Tribes series), which blends first-person exploration with third-person fighting – and handily it’s available for free from www.alt-tab.net

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While it doesn’t offer the freedom of a Fallout or Ultimo VII, arguably the aged RPG to play if you haven’t is 1999′s Planescape: Torment. A beautifully-written tale of guilt, identity and atonement that’ll tear your heart out, stamp on it repeatedly then roughly shove it back inside your shattered ribcage, this is a game about words more than deeds. Around 800,000 of ‘em. There’s nothing else quite like Planescape, and it’s the staple of any discussion about gaming narrative.

 

Stepping sideways into strategy, again you’ve got Battlezone combining FPS, RTS and military sim, or the absolutely, awe-inspiringly unique Sacrifice (example spell:’bovine intervention’) boldly mixing action, roleplaying, comedy and a thousand new ideas-a-minute in alongside more familiar real-time strategy tropes. Both threw down experimental gauntlets no-one else dared to pick up. On the more tactical side of the coin is Syndicate, from gone-but-not-forgotten British uber-developer Bullfrog – a still gloriously immoral real-time squad tactics game that makes GTA look like Theme Park.

 

Peter Molyneux’s been muttering about reviving Syndicate’s satirical dystopia of corporate oppression and violence, but until (if ever) that happens, there’s a fan remake in the works, which the first level now complete, at freesynd.sourceforge.net.

 

Strat Attack

 

More conventional RTS nostalgia is perhaps best served by Starcraft – still the template for ultra-balanced multiplayer strategizing with distinct playable races, not just differently-colored clones of each other – and Dune 2, the father of commanding and conquering, and even today surprisingly way ahead in terms of offering a convincing narrative explanation for resource-collection and perma-war. There’s an impressive free remake of the latter at d2tm.duneii.com. Another one to look up is 2000′s Ground Control, one of very few RTS games to ditch resource management in favor of using your cunning to blow up tanks with a fixed retinue. Its sequel was miserably generic, but did have one thing going for it – the original game was released for free to promote it. Grab it from tinyurl.com/38wt7.

 

It would be remiss of us to mention turn-based strategy without bringing up Sid Meier, but frankly the recent Civilization 4′s good enough, or you can dabble with FreeCiv (freeciv.wikia.com), for a less accessible but simpler game more in keeping with the original Civ. But what you should really do is play 1994′s Colonization, a Civ sequel that centers solely on conquest of the New World. While Civ tries to encompass everything, and logic is gradually eroded over time even as complexity snowballs, Colonization is utterly focused. You’ve a single goal – win independence from your mother nation, and the journey to that is a fascinating arc of scrabbling out a few pennies from trade or conquest, building up to self-sufficiency and finally to all-out war. Why Sid hasn’t revisited Colonization is a mystery.

 

The curious no-man’s land between strategy and management gaming is occupied by Dungeon Keeper, another Bullfrog game. The central gimmick-you play the bad guy, an unseen lord of the underworld raising a bestial army to fend off do-gooder heroes – is a little too panto to pay off, but what it’s really got going for it is that you’re trying to impose order onto chaos. Your monsters either don’t want or are too stupid to be managed, underground cave systems aren’t suited to logical architecture, and your most powerful unit, the Horned Reaper, will just as happily slay your own troops as he will the enemy’s. It’s a juggling act, only the balls are on fire, someone keeps throwing rocks at you and you’ve only got one hand.

 

A thousand dusty treats go unmentioned. For adventure gaming, eschew the more obvious Monkey Island/Sam 6- Max fare and nose at the branching options of Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis, the heartstring-tugging of The Longest Journey, the fiendish puzzles and oh-so-French wit of Gobliins 2, or the artful grimness and wealth of choices of Blade Runner. Less earthly pursuits, meanwhile, are best exemplified by TIE Fighter’s coolly wicked space simming, Privateer’s open-universe exploring ‘n’ fighting VT trading or Stunt Island’s fusion of set piece dare devilling and proto-movie-editing.

 

If there’s one undisputed must-play from the annals of PC gaming though, X-COM is it. First game UFO: Enemy Unknown remains the best of the series, but sterling sequel Terror From The Deep can be had for a few dollars from Steam. Famed for its artful juggling of global strategizing (building and upgrading bases to track alien invasions, and research new weapons to defeat ‘em), astoundingly tense turn-based squad combat and gentle roleplaying, nothing’s come close to X-COM, though many have tried.

 

It’s the nexus of all PC gaming, a super-smart meeting point of action, strategy, RPG, management that promised a future of constant creativity, but instead we saw one that splintered into feature-creep variations on each of those single themes. Only now, with the new surge of indie gaming exploring places big-budget studios fear to tread, are we seeing a return to the inventiveness of early 1990s PC gaming. Go remind yourself quite how incredible a time it was.

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