 The Lord of the Rings, The Battle for Middle-earth II, The Rise of the Witch-King Hands-On
This upcoming expansion to The Battle for Middle-earth II will let you battle as an evil faction centuries before Frodo, Aragorn, and all the rest.
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 Medieval 2: Total War Exclusive Hands-on - Conquering Europe One Territory at a Time
Over the course of three Total War games, developer Creative Assembly has managed to bring the historical world to life in a very unique way. Total War games differ from your traditional real-time strategy game as they blend a turn-based strategic layer with epic real-time battles that make you feel like a rea...
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 Command & Conquer 3 Tiberium Wars Designer Diary #3 - Introducing the New Interface
If you had to name one franchise responsible for establishing the successful real-time strategy formula, you can make a very strong argument for Command & Conquer.
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 Supreme Commander Updated Q&A - Progress Report
Even though it's not due out until the first part of 2007, strategy fans everywhere are eagerly looking forward to Supreme Commander, the epic-scale real-time strategy game from Gas Powered Games and THQ. Billed as the spiritual heir to Total Annihilation, one of the most popular RTS games ever, Supreme Commander is set in a far-off future wh...
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 Star Wars: Empire at War: Forces of Corruption Designer Diary #5 - The Sounds of Corruption
It's safe to say that you know what Darth Vader sounds like, though the challenge for Petroglyph audio director Frank Klepacki is to re-create that sound, as well as to create many new ones for Star Wars:
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 The Sims 2: Pets Review
The Sims 2 remains a popular and difficult-to-describe strategy game that lets you control the lives of little computer people in the house you build for them, as they love, grow old, have families, chase their dreams, and occasionally use the potty.
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 Sid Meier's Railroads! Review
Sid Meier's Railroads! might not have "tycoon" in its name, but it's still a very addictive economic strategy game that just about anyone can enjoy. Regardless of your affinity for trains, Railroads! is an engaging and surprisingly deep game that lets you do much more than lay track and watch miniature trains chug across the map.
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 When Age of Empires III arrived last year, it updated the famed real-time strategy series with gorgeous new visuals, though the sequel played it safe and offered only evolutionary improvements to the series' proven formula. You could take control of one of the great colonial powers during the Age of Discovery,
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