Baten Kaitos Origins

Authors: Natalia Odintsova
Source: Country Games № March 2007	05.05.2007

Ctrast to flights taken hold people back in ancient times. Trying to soar into the sky like birds, they were making his artificial wings, though paying for unsuccessful experiments often had their own lives.

Microsoft Flight Simulator X

Authors: Vadim Bobrov
	03.12.2006

Platform: PC Genre: simulator Publisher: Microsoft Developer: Microsoft Game Studious Number of players: 32 Released: October 17, 2006 Over the last quarter century, Microsoft every two or three years, released the next version of Microsoft Flight Simulator. During this time the product has evolved from an ordinary game into an available tool of mass training of pilots, enthusiasts, and many professionals speak about it positively. At the same time for the people "without the propeller in the head» MSFS too boring. If you're not a fan of aeronautics, is hardly interested in flying hours for no particular purpose, and plot motivation, to the same gun here and around the state are not entitled. Realizing, finally, this shortcoming, Microsoft honored to release a civilian flight simulator, able to interest the broad masses of people playing.

Defcon

Author: Ashot Hakhverdyan
Source: Country Games № 22 2006	16.11.2006

World catastrophe has never looked so stylish and fascinating. Blurred colored spots on the map - are civilians. Neat lines of the trajectories of ballistic missiles stopped by the elegant radiation trefoils goals. On the red diamond mega huge white flowers bloom nuclear explosions. Gentlemen, "gardeners" obsessed with equipping our small planet, and the threat of overpopulation forever sink into oblivion.

Joint Task Force

author: Ilia Chentsov
Source: Country Games № 20 2006	17.10.2006

However much we may speak ironically about the ambiguous U.S. foreign policy, we will still not surpass policymakers Joint Task Force. The game starts with this scene: the hero, Major O'Connell, flying over the African landscape, thinking: "Not so long ago I was involved in organizing the guerrilla movement in this country, plunging it into chaos and devastation of war to gain control over natural resources. But now I have a chance to restore the status quo, overthrowing an evil warlord, whom I myself helped to seize power. " Quote inaccurate, but the meaning transmitted without distortion.

The Lord of the Rings Online: Shadows of Angmar

Author: Alexei Barsukov
Source: Country Games № September 2007	03.05.2007

Poor, poor Tolkien! There is no greater curse for the book than turn into a popular brand name and expensive licenses. For Hollywood cliches is difficult to discern the same "English epic", which created a professor of philology. Aragorn and Elrond by sales beat Mickey Mouse and Donald Duck. Movies, toys, cartoons, comics, computer, board, card and video games ... And then there's and MMORPG. It is terrible to imagine that had to do with Middle-earth, there to feel comfortable "WoWarizirovannye" teenagers. Imagine a crowd of players, who with cries of "lol, nyub!" Burst into Hobbitaniyu, "keel" Frodo "spire" Orcs ...

Broken Sword: The Angel of Death

Author: VP
Source: Country Games № 20 2006	18.10.2006

During the half year are responsible for promotion of The Angel of Death showed the public of questionable content outline and a couple of obscure screenshots. Main schemer Charles Cecil has long kept silent, was entangled in the testimony, ran from the press as the fire, and then suddenly a month or two before the release began giving interviews left and right and still can not stop. But if we try to bring together all pieces of the puzzle interview Cecil, the film won incomplete: there are obvious gaps are visible in some places inaccurate - all this produced a lot of rumors and gossip. Well, the product is ready - and now we have an excellent opportunity to learn how many of the truth in the words of Charles.

Tarr Chronicles: The Haunting of stars

Author: Ashot Hakhverdyan
Source: Country Games № March 2007	04.05.2007

Click on the gas - to hell with this Newtonian physics! If you can not drown the pedal to the floor, then why would all need this spaceship? You can do a rocking-chair and vitamin drinks in a glass room temperature, so as not to get sick, the climate, without pressure drops, a crystal coffin. "Sir, I see you!" - "Similar".

80 Days: Around the World Adventure

Author: Marina Petrashko
Source: Country Games № May 2006	13.10.2006

There are bad games, games are good. Sometimes the score is placed as if by itself - all smooth, clean, uniquely ... In this project - all at nine, but that - at three, and all is clear. And there are crafts (otherwise you will not name), which, like the snake puzzle, then so be rolled, the commercials: a little white on one side, the other black. Maybe not all of them are okay, but watch interesting.

World War II: Normandy

Author: Andrew «Morgul» Okushko
Source: Country Games № June 2008	15.03.2008

A long time since we have not picked up sticks "- thought somehow in 1C and created based on the engine of IL-2" strategy "Second World". Alas, a pancake out a lump: an attempt to please both the mass users, and fans vargeymov ended like chasing two hares. The game did not like neither the one nor the other, and the developers, like the knight, were at a crossroads. Although the choice, in fact, they have not appeared. Go straight (leaving everything as it is), it was impossible. On the left corner (for bright colors, nice special effects and ease) formed tube. Had the right path to a strict accounting of tactical and technical characteristics and the increased complexity. The road was thorny, but the second edition of becoming a hardcore vargeymom, did not disappoint the fans. Behind him came out add-on «Normandy.

Warhammer Online: Age of Reckoning - Meat Kaleidoscope

Author: Dmitry Banov
Source: PC GAMES number in January 2009	10.02.2009

Now it is safe to say that Warhammer Online - one of the biggest gaming events of the past year. By and large otherwise could not have been - over the game worked real masters of their craft, in its based on perhaps the most vivid and rich in impressive detail of the fantasy universe (if you do not understand all the subtleties of the relationship of orcs and dwarves, see our special material next door), and game mechanics was to absorb the principles and philosophy as much desktop Warhammer - the most successful vargeyma in the world. On the other hand, and purpose of the creators of the WAR itself, was not some, but "to beat World of Warcraft». For all the impossibility of obtaining an objective result of this match (WoW already "veteran" and in any event expire before the modern rivals, but WAR, by contrast, has just come out and as with any online game, will be adjusted and presented in a state of combat effective no earlier than year) now we can still determine what is really new could bring Warhammer Online to our with you favorite genre, but at the same time figure out whether it solved a few problems a year later, that is, Will we end up a perfect game, as promised to the sorcerers of Mythic.

Supreme Commander

Author: Oleg Charzynski
Source: Country Games № July 2007	25.04.2007

This game is impossible to love. Her cold, dead landscapes are unsuitable for life. In the treetops not Noise wind. Local forest - just a raw material for immediate processing of mass forces commander or engineers. Hills and rocky peaks - no more than the details of the relief that should be used to achieve tactical superiority. Here there can be no personal life. Transparent waves of the ocean without any sense to wash the sand of the beach - one after another ten million years. Nobody will come to this beach. Soon there will be a giant two-legged robot resembling a child's plastic toy, and another ten minutes - three factories, blocks of power generators and mass fabricators, air defense systems, radar, shield generator, and hundreds of thousands of pieces of equipment. Another five minutes of them leaving only the black charred skeletons - Waste, the future mass. What's happening? Do not try to ask this question the writers, they had nothing to do with it, they were asked.

MySims

Author: Ilia Chentsov
Source: Country Games № March 2009	01.03.2009

When visitors arrived, I was busy in the studio and could only hear * how they are whispering: "Let's build a house like yours." When you have finished repairing the statue, I went into the garden. At one of the free sites flaunted pink architectural ensemble of the tower with a dome and two smaller round extensions in which easily identifiable one of the key parts of the male anatomy.

Cossacks II: Battle for Europe

Author: Denis Gusev
Source: Country Games № 16 2006	20.08.2006

Two years ago I was first able to visit the Moscow tournament for "The Cossacks." Even on those old "Cossacks", from which still smokes sweet smoke of the fatherland, the train of pleasant youthful memories. Participants then gathered colorful: already fully mature men who know the judge of first-rate strategy is not worse than in the five star of Armenian brandy. Party, the other in his Cossacks could replace the bullet of preference or a friendly trip to the football. And almost a year later, I attended the other tournament, is on new, but still not really "run-" "Cossacks II», and young people among its participants was much larger. And just at that time in a friendly army of fans of The Cossacks had a split: "old men" are not accepted in a favorite game of alien impregnation of the combat system against the "young" who came to love novelty more than the ossified "counter" or "Kwaku". Pungent buckshot innovations released by GSC, mistakenly touched proven fighters, and their men, to this strict regime is kept, noticeably thinned. Young began to emphasize.

AIM: Race for survival

Author: VP
Source: Country Games № July 2007	01.04.2007

The golden age of high-speed arcade racing in the past. The brightest representative of the genre was Mega Race, the brainchild of Cryo Interactive, created for the PC, Sega CD, and Panasonic 3DO (unfortunately, failed only the first part of the series). Other companies were not long in coming, and in the wake of the success of Mega Race quick release similar projects. Luck smiled on Hi-Octane, Wipeout and POD - game turned out decent.