Rome: Total War
This game is the latest installment of the Total War series, games that pack high amounts of RTS and your local high school history courses into a single game. Starting with Shogun, about medieval Japan, and then continuing with Medievel it's self, with the Viking Invasion expansion pack, this time it's all about the Roman Empire. You start off by playing a prologue campaign that teaches you how to play the game. Then you can either play the Imperial Campaign as one of three Roman Royal families starting from central Italy, and conquer all surronding land one by one, which, looking on the map, there are some 75 or so provinces to conquer in order to win the game, which would take you quite a while, even with cheat codes, which BTW for some reason you are allowed only to enter a single code once for the duration of the entire game. New features that differs from the last game include senate missions with rewards if you pull them off successfully, such as conquering cities, and blockading ports, etc. On the battlefield, things are much more realistic, much better graphics, voices, including a pep talk by your general at the start of a battle, battle horns and yells when your men charge, etc. The only thing I find unrelastic is how high some of the men fly when they are whacked by the tusks of a war elephant. Then you can also either play a historical battle, or create a custom battle, which the one I just did I pitted 100 war elephants against 4,000 peasents, and I lost not a single elephant when the slaughter finally ceased. All in all a great game, definitly better than the two previous games.
Burnout 3:
Awesome racing game where the object of the game is to either win your races, wreck your opponents, or create massive pileups. Reminds me a lot of the Carmageddon series, only much more improved. You get all kinds of cars, starting out from compacts, and winning others including Muscle cars, racing cars, specialty cars, coupes, etc. You can either go on the world tour, or do single races, plus play up to two player on a single station, or go head to head with four others on live. On single player, winning races in certain times and places earns you cars, in road rage, wrecking your opponents earns you points, espically if you do it in style, while crash is where you hit traffic high and hard to do as much damage as possible, which if you exceed the game designers expectations, it will earn you lots of cash. The bigger types of vehicles you crash into, the more it helps you. Hit enough vehicles, and you can self-detonate your car, creating bigger chaos. Typically, if you cause 500,000$ of damage, you can call it a pretty good wreck. Also, you can get score multipliers as well, 2x and 4x. All around a worth successor to the carmageddon series and a very fun racing car game.
This game is the latest installment of the Total War series, games that pack high amounts of RTS and your local high school history courses into a single game. Starting with Shogun, about medieval Japan, and then continuing with Medievel it's self, with the Viking Invasion expansion pack, this time it's all about the Roman Empire. You start off by playing a prologue campaign that teaches you how to play the game. Then you can either play the Imperial Campaign as one of three Roman Royal families starting from central Italy, and conquer all surronding land one by one, which, looking on the map, there are some 75 or so provinces to conquer in order to win the game, which would take you quite a while, even with cheat codes, which BTW for some reason you are allowed only to enter a single code once for the duration of the entire game. New features that differs from the last game include senate missions with rewards if you pull them off successfully, such as conquering cities, and blockading ports, etc. On the battlefield, things are much more realistic, much better graphics, voices, including a pep talk by your general at the start of a battle, battle horns and yells when your men charge, etc. The only thing I find unrelastic is how high some of the men fly when they are whacked by the tusks of a war elephant. Then you can also either play a historical battle, or create a custom battle, which the one I just did I pitted 100 war elephants against 4,000 peasents, and I lost not a single elephant when the slaughter finally ceased. All in all a great game, definitly better than the two previous games.
Burnout 3:
Awesome racing game where the object of the game is to either win your races, wreck your opponents, or create massive pileups. Reminds me a lot of the Carmageddon series, only much more improved. You get all kinds of cars, starting out from compacts, and winning others including Muscle cars, racing cars, specialty cars, coupes, etc. You can either go on the world tour, or do single races, plus play up to two player on a single station, or go head to head with four others on live. On single player, winning races in certain times and places earns you cars, in road rage, wrecking your opponents earns you points, espically if you do it in style, while crash is where you hit traffic high and hard to do as much damage as possible, which if you exceed the game designers expectations, it will earn you lots of cash. The bigger types of vehicles you crash into, the more it helps you. Hit enough vehicles, and you can self-detonate your car, creating bigger chaos. Typically, if you cause 500,000$ of damage, you can call it a pretty good wreck. Also, you can get score multipliers as well, 2x and 4x. All around a worth successor to the carmageddon series and a very fun racing car game.
