While Empire introduced a lot of new gameplay and concepts and brought the Total War series into a new era, it also had some issues, most notably with its AI. Next up: Napoleon: Total War, a project that started off as an expansion for Empire: Total War and ended up becoming its own stand-alone game. Recent Preview Coverage: Impressions - First Look Projected release date: February 23, 2010 (Speaking of which, S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Call of Pripyat is also scheduled for release this year.) Metro 2033 will be released.sometime this year and will also have a console version. The brief demonstration of the game shown earlier this year suggests it will be just as atmospheric as the games that arguably inspired it. and bring it to the next logical step: a postapocalyptic society, where survivors hole up in underground settlements and try to scrape out a living beneath a world ruined by nuclear fallout. Metro 2033 looks like it will take the ragtag scavenger lifestyle of S.T.A.L.K.E.R. games-the original postapocalyptic Russian shooter. If that sounds familiar, it's probably because several of the creative staffers at developer 4a-Games apparently worked on the S.T.A.L.K.E.R. Metro 2033 will be a new postapocalyptic shooter that takes place in post-nuclear-cataclysm Russia.
Recent Preview Coverage: Hands-On Impressionsįrom part of the team that brought you S.T.A.L.K.E.R.
Speaking of scaling down, the game will also be on consoles. It will also apparently scale better to older computers, which is not a bad thing for those of us running an older rig.
The upcoming sequel to Gas Powered Games' massive successor to Total Annihilation will have all the massive scale of the original game, plus smarter gameplay enhancements that will make starter units continually useful throughout a match, and new additions, like a unit cannon that fires actual units across the battlefield, to help jumpstart the action, as mentioned in our recent interview with GPG frontman Chris Taylor. Supreme Commander 2: bigger and smarter than the original?įirst up: Supreme Commander 2.
Recent Preview Coverage: Updated Q&A - Gameplay, Units, Technology, and More Those of us who play PC games should already be aware of most, if not all, of these games, but I'm putting this out there, in no particular order, just in case. On an unrelated note, there are plenty of promising new PC games coming out this year.