Lego Battles Nintendo DS Review
Bothersome control issues won’t keep you from enjoying this charming strategy game.
Score: 7.0 / good
Jagged Alliance Nintendo DS Review
Swords and Soldiers Nintendo WiiWare Review
Swords and Soldiers is an engaging, goofy romp that takes out the complexity of other real-time strategy games but leaves in all the fun.
Score: 8.0 / great
Swords and Soldiers Nintendo WiiWare Hands-On Preview
We grabbed our Wii Remote for a look at the upcoming side-scrolling real-time strategy game Swords and Soldiers, from the brains behind de Blob.
While you may not have heard of developer Ronimo Games, chances are you do know about de Blob, the game the company’s founders created at university. While studying in Utrecht in the Netherlands, the original team created de Blob for an independent games festival. It caught the eye of THQ, who took it on and developed it into a full-blown Wii title. Now those same students are back, complete with their own company and a new game, the side-scrolling 2D real-time strategy game Swords and Soldiers.
The action can get pretty hectic, but it’s all worth it for a big chilli.
Dawn of Discovery DS Hands-On Preview
We set sail in search of new land in Ubisoft’s upcoming strategy game.
Strategic city-building games have always had a home on the PC, but the Nintendo DS and Wii and their touch screen and pointer capabilities make managing a budding civilization just as easy. Ubisoft is bringing Dawn of Discovery–originally called Anno 1404–to both systems. It’s an easy-to-play strategy game that guides you through the process of exploring and cultivating new lands. We played through the first few chapters of the game to get a feel for the controls, and we liked what we saw. It’s virtually stress-free, which might be considered less challenging to some players, but there’s always a more efficient way of building an empire than just slapping down some huts and dairy farms and hoping that everything takes off.
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