Strategy Games

The two best PC strategy games are the medieval total war 2 and the civilization 4. I'll try to explain why are they having so much sympathy of mine. Firstly “the total war” is having two dimension of game, the global strategy - like moving the armies, priests and diplomats; creating cities and managing them and the war strategy – after your troops enter some or the other hostile city or come over with the hostile army, you will have the attack menu where you can actually be the part of the fight, place and move the troops, order them to attack and so on. The last one is more graphic sphere of the game and is quite different from the global strategy.

Civilization 4 only contains global strategy dimension but the crucial point is here the cities, their religions, their cultural dependence or influence. You can develop one or the other sides of the cities influence (religion, culture, science) over hostile or neutral cities, it makes their conquest much easier. The development of the places you own are just like in medieval total war – not much depended on each other. You create settler in one city and create another town on the other place. Place should be chosen wisely, it will impact the economy of the city and the country through the whole game. The quotes that are going through the game appearing after the research or other development or the event (for example if is born or something important has been built or some religion or ideology has been created).

The diplomatic area in Civilization 4 is well developed. If you act wisely you could make other countries change their ideology (for example from socialism to communism) and there is quite a gap of anarchy between those two. If you are ready, it is a good strategic time to conquer their cities. The end is quite happy, the UN is created and some decisions are to be taken mutually. If you keep a peace and good relations with the other countries you are having a chance to be the UN main representative, than your mission becomes to make everything as peaceful as possible. Be careful of Armageddon ))

Sim city 4 is an amazing strategy game where you don’t actually have a war, you are a major of the city and you try to build it up, don’t have a lot of loans, keep the budget income rate upper than the outcome and take care of the electricity and water supply of the city. The police forces and prisons are quite important, just like education and health. I think it is in some sense very realistic game unlike the last two. It is more about the right decisions than the personal feelings or ideology. It’s not your greenness or socialism that decides if you will have a highly paid atomic bomb testing facility in the city, or not. It’s the financial situation of the city that actually forces you to do some or the other things. Be careful of the disasters like fire or tornado et.c. You will need a lot of fire trucks mate. I highly recommend this game to you all.

Empire Earth is one of my top 5s. What makes it different is the development from the Stone Age to the robotic. It’s a long like (for the first time it took 12 hours for me to get to the Modernity). There are quite a good wars but the war is not the main point of this game before it doesn’t come to the atomic era or if those are not the ships (unlike for example Cossacks or Eldorado where the number of troops you can produce is 4000 and over). It is more about your creativeness, because you have to use our own methods to defeat the hostile nations, you should be quite wise and overprotective. It is less about diplomacy or religions or cultures. It is just having one dimension – the life.

Cossacks and Eldorado are in some way same type of games. One is going on in Europe and the other one in America. Both are in the beginning of the industrial era and you cannot go further but the amount of troops that you can produce makes those games pretty crazy to play. There is a big amount of your adrenaline on those CDs in the game stores waiting for you to be produced properly. It is more about old Mongolian attitude towards the other games that makes it absolutely intense. You should produce a lot of fucking troops and fuck them up!

I hope this post helped you with figuring out some issues about strategy games. If you are interested in any of them, go for it. If you got questions use comments options below. Cheerz