The Blog for the Sports Gamer Three guys who love Sports Gaming rant and rave about various stuff.

A strategy moment

As some of you know, I play a lot of sports games.

I also play a lot of strategy games -- both turn-based and real-time.

I also play a lot of role-playing games, but that's a story for another time. (Baldur's Gate 2 is a Bill Top 10 all time game. I think it comes in at number 4, actually.)

I recently finished a review for Mage Knight which should be online soon at GameSpy. What a train wreck that turned out to be. Really, really, bad. So bad that it scares me about Namco's other strategy game, Warhammer Mark of Chaos. I'm a huge Warhammer geek...so if that ends up reeking, well, I'll be sad. It's not even the same developer, but wow--Mage Knight is not good. See those Metacritic scores? Mine will fall right in line. When PC Gameworld says, "A fine game with no glaring flaws..." I'd agree with that. If I was insane.

I am playing a near final build of Medieval 2 Total War, which thus far looks a lot like Rome Total War...but Medieval. Lotta fun, though.

Bill Harris has been playing Paraworld, which I still need to get for review. Looked good at E3. It has dinosaurs.

But right now, the strategy world is ruled by Relic Entertainment. Both Warhammer 40K Dawn of War: Dark Crusade and Company of Heroes are two of the best RTS games I have ever played and both are made by Relic and THQ. Dark Crusade bumps up the 40K race total to 7, and remember--Warhammer geek---I'm happy. Necrons! Tau! A Risk-like campaign map! Woo hoo! My review will be in CGM soon. Not that you need it. It's a great game.

Company of Heroes might be the better game, though. Anything that can breathe new life into World War 2 gaming is a special game, and CoH is a very special game.

Some have asked why I am not on the 360 much of late -- well, there you go.