Revolutions generally involve much unpleasantness and brutal devices that tend to start with the letter G, like gibbets and guillotines. Sid Meier's latest revolution is, however, a far more palatable prospect that doesn't utilise anything so ...

If at first glance you get a strange sense of déjà vu when you look at the box cover for this game, then don't be spooked. Developers World Forge recently released Ancient Wars: Sparta, an RTS ...

It's becoming harder to find a period in history that hasn't been plundered for the latest real-time strategy game, and thankfully developers World Forge shied away from obvious targets like WWII and the Roman Empire. Instead ...

Cities are instruments of torture in many ways; the pavements packed with pushy pedestrians, the air choked with smog and the shopping malls assaulting your ears with the direst strains of elevator music. Matters are possibly ...

Building a deserved and growing reputation for intelligent, home-grown software, Positech Games' latest once again challenges you to take control of a country (all fictional this time), sort out its problems and earn yourself re-election. And, ...

Certain noises are terrifying. The shattering crash of a downstairs window being put through, late at night when you're tucked up in bed. The squeal of car brakes locking up on black ice. But none are ...

There can be few games that have spawned so many offspring in such different formats as the Warhammer series. Whether you're playing on massive table tops in your local Games Workshop, collecting the cards or fighting ...

Given that the majority of output coming from EA with 'Sim' in the title refers to the tedium of the virtual soap opera that The Sims (and its 385,329,532 add-on packs) has become, it's often overlooked ...

In the eighties, the Cold War blizzard was still blowing its particularly frosty brand of paranoia across the United States. Every right-minded American feared that the Reds under the bed might rise up in the middle ...

As the name suggests, this package of extra-terrestrial goodness contains three games from the classic UFO series. These are UFO: Aftermath, UFO: Aftershock and UFO: Afterlight (we're still waiting for UFO: Aftershave, where the aliens hover ...

The sheer wealth of games with the word 'Tycoon' in the title often can blind you to the point where a half-decent one sneaks in and is easily missed. Because if you can forgive the rampant ...

If you were an eighties gamer then the mention of the very name “Defender of the Crown” will probably send nostalgic shivers down your spine. This Commodore 64 classic (later ported to the Amiga) was one ...

Who would have thought that a vet sim would work? In fact, scratch that: who would have thought that a pair of vet sims would work? For, in spite of a few grievances, Focus's double bill ...

A quick bit of history. Kudos was a game from Positech Games, or more to the point, from the brain of Cliff Harris. It was a fascinating, if slightly flawed, pseudo-strategy version of The Sims, where ...

The word 'Tycoon' has been attached to so many games now that it's like branding: you always know what you're going to get. Nearly always set in a sizable institution or large company (hotels, railways, pizza ...

There's nothing like a good, Apocalyptic view of the future to fuel the storyline for a decent FPS or strategy game. Unfortunately nowadays you have to come up with something out of the ordinary to gain ...

Thank goodness for WWII, or companies like Nival Interactive wouldn't have found such a fertile creative source for their games. The Russian developers have earned a respected niche in the RTS wargame market with their Blitzkrieg ...

After the gritty, earthy and intense double bill of Supreme Commander and Company of Heroes, the two excellent real-time strategy games that PC owners have been satisfying themselves with over the past six months or so, ...

For our latest round-up of budget titles, we figured we should make ourselves some cold, hard cash. Since the days of Transport Tycoon, Railroad Tycoon and - yes! - even Pizza Tycoon, turning computer gamers into ...

This is the long-awaited real-time strategy game from Chris Taylor, the architect of Total Annihilation all those years ago. And as such we installed it with bated breath, or we would have done had we known ...