ArmA: Queen’s Gambit
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Blitzkrieg 2: Liberation
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Decide what missions to fight accumulate and call in any type of reinforcements capture train stations or airfields to receive more troops by rail or secure air supremacy during the entire operation. Accomplish tactical objectives and missions to support your war efforts at a strategic level and ensure your combat efficiency in the decisive battles. Promote and assign commanders to combat units to expand your tactical advantage with over 50 unique skills and real-life abilities. Order engineers to plant TNT charges and blast passing enemy units use linked grenades for extra damage suppress infantry with flak fire and master other new combat techniques introduced in Blitzkrieg II. Key Features Plan your actions strategically choose what missions to fight what reinforcements to secure. Control of over 250 authentic WWII units and 60 types of infantry. Open new tactics and abilities as units grow in experience. Use structures and terrain for cover destroy everything in your path fight day and night under any climatic conditions on the ground sea and in the air! Experience intense WWII battles in a stunning full 3D interactive environment thanks to the advanced Enigma Engine with true Line Of Sight and Line of Fire systems. Step if you dare into the fury of multiplayer action with match-making and auto-rating support at the special dedicated server. Create war the way you want it with the versatile Map and Mod editor
The Orange Box
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The Orange Box from Valve is a real bargain for anyone yet to be sucked into the Half-Lifestyle erm style. Maybe that should be Half-Life lifestyle? Whatever The Orange Box - The most complete HL collection yet - should not be passed up. What do you get for your money? Let’s see… The headline game is HL2: Episode Two at the time of this pack’s release the latest offering in the series. Earth is being picked to the bone by an alien infestation. Resources are depleted and the population dwindling. As bespectacled hero Gordon Freeman you’re thrust into the unenviable role of rescuing the world from the wrong you unleashed back at the Black Mesa Research Facility. Along the way you’ll be joined by members of the resistance survivors in a desperate battle against the totalitarian alien menace of the Combine. Portal is an experimental training course sponsored by Aperture Science Laboratories. Throughout the experiment you are asked to perform various tasks. Listen carefully to all instructions and you will most likely not be injured. When - or if - you complete the initial course advanced training will become available from the main menu. Team Fortress 2 is a team-based multiplayer experience and the sequel to the game that put class-based multiplayer team warfare on the map. The game packs a wide variety of classes which provide a broad range of tactical abilities and personalities and lend themselves to a variety of player skills. The Orange Box also includes Half-Life 2 and Episode One.
Hellgate: London
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Set twenty-five years in the future Hellgate: London introduces a world devastated by a demon invasion and a desolate city scorched by hellfire where mankind has gone underground to survive. Among them are the Templar an archaic and secret society that foresaw this demonic apocalypse centuries ago. Followers of arcane rites the Templar combine futuristic technology with ancient artifacts to forge powerful weapons and armor. The mystic sanctuary of the Underground system provides players safe conduct throughout the sprawling metropolis of London as they seek to preserve the bloodline of man and gain a foothold against the minions of darkness. Hellgate: London combines the depth of role-playing games and action of first-person titles while offering infinite playability with randomly created levels items and events. The player creates a heroic character completes quests and battles through innumerable hordes of demons to advance through experience levels and branching skill paths. A robust flexible skill and spell system highly customizable appearances and a massive variety of randomly generated equipment allow players to create their own unique hero.
Stranger
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First up Stranger is not if you were wondering a game based on the existentialist novel by French writer Albert Camus. So that’s that cleared up. The game stars Kagar Steiger and Mordlock - three very different characters wrongfully cast out of their world for use of magic. They find themselves thrown into an unknown and hostile world and a battle to save their immortal souls. They might be enemies but all three realise that if they’re going to survive and exact revenge on those that wronged them they’ll need to stick together Stranger combines elements of both RPG and real time strategy gameplay. Players will be able to combine magic and weapons into unique items in their quest as well as befriend and recruit allies from tribes to aid them. The range of items and gear along with distinctive level design are aimed at maximising the tactical options given to players. Fireglow Games the title’s developer boasts of more than 30 hours of gameplay in the single-player campaign bolstered by a multiplayer mode that allows up to eight players to get involved.
Sudden Strike 3: Arms For Victory
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Sudden Strike III: Arms for Victory is a Real Time Strategy based on the battles of World War II. The third in the RTS series Sudden Strike featuring a new Sudden Strike Next7 graphics engine for large-scale air and naval battles and large numbers of units. This edition also features new units fully redone AI and pathfinding an improved interface and more complex multiplayer modes across four campaigns — two in the Pacific Islands and two in Europe. The game simulates joint operation of ground naval and air forces on vast areas. Gameplay includes land and sea operations with aviation acting as a support force for both. Sea forces are also supported by submarines that can for example hunt down an enemy supply convoy. Carrier-based aviation will support both naval and land operation when possible. Harbours and airfields play an important role in the game as gates for transports providing supplies and reinforcement. Land operations cover vast areas making reconnaissance an essential part of gameplay.
Sudden Strike 3: Arms For Victory
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Sudden Strike 3: Arms for Victory is the latest instalment in the award winning critically acclaimed and hugely popular Sudden Strike series. It features historically authentic models built to scale fully interactive giant maps and full 3-D state-of-the-art graphics in the popular Sudden Strike style. Only Sudden Strike plays like the ‘real thing’. WW2 gaming at its best: on land at sea and in the air!
Alvin and the Chipmunks
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Everyone needs a singing chipmunk in their life and PC owners get theirs with the Alvin and the Chipmunks video game a timely arrival on shop shelves while the film release is fresh in the mind. The Alvin and the Chipmunks video game follows cheeky group leader Alvin Simon (the quiet one) and Theodore the ingenuous drummer on their latest mission to play during the battle of the bands event Rockathonapalooza. As the Chipmunks perform in each of the video game’s musical levels-from school proms to Burning Man to Forest Arenas to the ultimate Rockathonapalooza - players are challenged to keep in rhythm with the music. The combination of fun gameplay a groovy soundtrack and everyone’s favourite Chipmunks (are there any other contenders?) facilitates another way for fans of Alvin and the fellas new and old (they’ve been around since the 1960s you know) to enjoy and expand on the film experience.
The Golden Compass
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Beautiful witches armoured bears zeppelins your own personal daemon… sounds like a lark eh? This is the world of The Golden Compass (or Northern Lights to us Brits). Based on the film of the first book in Philip Pullman’s ‘His Dark Materials’ trilogy The Golden Compass takes players to an alternate reality where they’ll join Lyra as she goes in search of her friend Roger on a journey that takes her from the comfort of Oxford to the frozen wastes of the far north. To help her she’ll have the company of her daemon Pan and Iorek Byrnison king of the armoured bears along with the mysterious alethiometer (the device for which the game is named). Switching between the three characters players will utilise each of their strengths. Iorek will come in handy for combat being a bear and all. Pan with his shape-shifting abilities will be useful for manoeuvring around obstacles and hazards that cross your path. Lyra meanwhile can be used for cracking puzzles thanks to the alethiometer. SEGA has taken great pains to ensure the game is as close to the film world as possible. The company has been down at the set taking footage and passing it back to the development team to ensure authenticity and the game even expands on areas barely seen in the film using content from the book.