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Rage of Mages
Real-time strategy game with major RPG component. The game is set in a fantasy universe where the land is beset by civil war. Your character is sent by his emperor to the land of Uimoir in search of a magical weapon that will the end the war. Other members will join your party and you'll be given many mini-quests as the game progresses. You have a limited control over the creation of your character and must choose between warrior or mage classes. The game is played on an overhead-viewed landscape. The gameplay primarily consists of exploration, interaction with NPCs and combat. Good cutscenes help to develop the strong plot. Combat is real-time and you can control each of the members of your party, although they do demonstrate limited AI. The control system is effective. A reasonable selection of equipment and spell-types are incorporated into the game. Alongside the single-player game, is a multi-player mode for up to 16 players for on-line games. The graphics are adequate.
Developer: Nival Entertainment
, Publisher: Monolith Productions
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Rage of Mages 2: Necromancer
Strategy game with RPG element.
Developer: Nival Entertainment
, Publisher: Monolith Productions
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Railroad Fantasy
Publisher: Buka Entertainment
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Railroad Tycoon
Business sim and strategy game. You choose from the selection of pre-set scenarios or an open-ended game. There is also a multi-player mode. The game features six distinctive locations in the US, South America, Europe and Africa. You decide how your railroad expands, creating new routes, and deciding what trains you have for carrying various types of cargo. The aim is to maximize your profits by creating trains and routes that will carry the most cargo. Competition comes in the form of rival companies. In all, over 30 types of trains are incorporated. The game is played through an easy-to-use interface and a landscape screen. You company's progress can be tracked by the performance of their shares on the stock market. As might be expected, the game now looks a bit dated.
Developer: MicroProse
, Publisher: MicroProse
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Railroad Tycoon 2
Business sim/strategy game. The game's setting spans the 19th Century into the 1920s. The game features distinctive locations from around the world (the US, the UK, South America, Europe and Asia and Africa). The aim of the game is to maxims profits and squeeze out rival companies. The game is employs an easy-to-use interface and an isometric landscape that displays your progress. It is possible to zoom in and out and to rotate the landscape. The game employs good 3D animated units.
Developer: Poptop Software
, Publisher: Gathering Of Developers
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Railroad Tycoon 2 Gold
Developer: Poptop Software
, Publisher: Gathering Of Developers
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Railroad Tycoon 2 Platinum
Developer: Poptop Software
, Publisher: Gathering Of Developers
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Railroad Tycoon 2: The Second Century
Add-on pack for Railroad Tycoon 2. This pack expands the main game to cover the period from 1930 to beyond 2030. There are three distinct periods; World War 2, the post-war period and a futuristic period called 'Geocore'.
Developer: Poptop Software
, Publisher: Gathering Of Developers
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Railroad Tycoon 3
Developer: Poptop Software
, Publisher: Take 2 Interactive
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Rails Across America
RTS currently in development. You'll control a burgeoning railway company in the US from 1830 to beyond the present. You'll be able to build up a network to transport passengers and freight. Lot of railway components and trains will be available. Over a thousand locomotive types will feature. As you progress new technologies and business opportunities will become available, for instance you'll be able to take over other railway companies. The game will consist of a series of challenging scenarios. Success will be based not just on making money but also on the prestige of your company. There will also be a strong multi-player mode (over LAN or online). The game promises to deliver good graphics and gameplay with lots of depth.
Developer: Flying Lab Software
, Publisher: Strategy First
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Rainbow Six
Acclaimed military sim based on the novels of Tom Clancy with strategy and first-person shoot 'em up game elements. Set in the near future you are in charge of a special anti-terrorist force, the Rainbow unit. You control up to eight men (or less on some platforms) that you deploy in a series of 18 well-designed missions(or less on some platforms).
Developer: Red Storm Entertainment
, Publisher: Red Storm Entertainment
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Rainbow Six Mission Pack: Eagle Watch
Mission pack for the acclaimed strategy/action game, Rainbow Six. It contains five new mission maps and a few new weapons and characters. As before, the single player game consists of a mission briefing, followed by the selection of team members and equipment and the planning phase. The detailed planning phase allows you to develop a strategy for your team's assault. The multi-player option allows for competitive and cooperative games for up to 16 players.
Developer: Red Storm Entertainment
, Publisher: Red Storm Entertainment
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Rainbow Six: Lone Wolf
Developer: Ubi Soft Canada
, Publisher: Ubi Soft Entertainment
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Rainbow Six: Raven Shield
Developer: Ubi Soft Canada
, Publisher: Ubi Soft Entertainment
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Rainbow Six: Rogue Spear
Military sim with major strategy component. It combines team tactics and first-person shoot 'em up elements. Based on the novels of Tom Clancy, it is the sequel to the acclaimed Rainbow Six. You play the commander of a special anti-terrorist force, the Rainbow unit. Rogue Spear is the name of a nuclear bomb, which has been stolen. The game consists of 18 challenging missions in 16 authentic locations around the world. These include the Prague Opera House and the Metropolitan Museum of Art. You control teams of up to eight men.
Developer: Red Storm Entertainment
, Publisher: Red Storm Entertainment
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Rainbow Six: Rogue Spear Platinum
Developer: Red Storm Entertainment
, Publisher: Red Storm Entertainment
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Rainbow Six: Rogue Spear: Black Thorn
Developer: Red Storm Entertainment
, Publisher: Ubi Soft Entertainment
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Rainbow Six: Rogue Spear: Urban Operations
Add-on for the popular squad-based action/strategy game. The game provides some patches for the original game, a set of all-new missions and six of the missions from the first game, Rainbow Six, for play using the improved game engine. There are also new multi-player levels for games over LAN or Net. The new missions have real-life, urban settings, making for even more challenging gameplay as you must avoid involving the many civilians who mill about. Among the new environments is a London tube station. The difficulty level of the game is generally pretty high. This mission pack offers the same excellent graphics, AI and gameplay of Rogue Spear.
Developer: Rebellion Studios
, Publisher: Take 2 Interactive
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Reach for the Stars
Updated version of this classic turn-based strategy game. It combines good 3D graphics with many other additions to the original, including a multi-player mode. Set in the future, the game's premise is that humans and alien races are competing for domination of the galaxy. Sixteen distinctive races feature in all.
Developer: Strategic Studies Group
, Publisher: Mattel Interactive
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Real War
Real-time strategy game currently in development by makers of simulations used by the US military. The game will have a fictitious setting involving a terrorist attack against the US and the subsequent retaliation. The game will feature two campaigns with a total of 24 scenarios and around 40 unit types. It promises a lot of depth and good design. The multi-player mode will able four players to participate.
Developer: OC Inc.
, Publisher: Simon & Schuster Interactive
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Real War: Rogue States
Developer: Rival Interactive
, Publisher: Simon & Schuster Interactive
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Red Storm: Europe
Developer: Matrix Games
, Publisher: Matrix Games
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Red Thunder: Victory in The East
Historically-based wargame set during WW2, this game covers the action on the Eastern Front in Summer 1944. You play either the Russians or the Germans. The game offers a selection of scenarios allowing you to play out alternative strategies. The game is played on hex-based maps and numerous types of authentic units are incorporated. The game employs effective interface and control systems. It boasts good AI and attempts to reproduce many of the factors which effect a force's performance.
Developer: EdenSoft Corporation
, Publisher: EdenSoft Corporation
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Remote Assault
Real-time strategy/war game. The game is set in the future during a second American civil war fought by robotic units. Both land and air units feature. You play the southerners, called the Alliance and there are campaigns of linked scenarios. Objectives include defend or take and hold an area. There is also a two-player mode for games over LAN or online. The game is played on an isometric landscape and the graphics and interface are effective.
Developer: One Games
, Publisher: Shrapnel Games
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Republic: The Revolution
Strategy game with RPG elements due for release at the end of 2000. Set in a fictional Eastern European republic called Novistrana, you'll be able to choose from fifteen factions with the aim of taking control of the country. There will be five main ways to the top; political, business, military, religious or criminal. The gameplay will consist of recruiting and the deploying various types of people such as assassins, spies, union leaders and authors who'll support your cause. You can use these supporters in many subtle ways to manipulate events to garner extra support from the masses. A notable feature of the game will be the large gameworld, numerous villages and cities will feature and you'll be able to visit any of them and watch over a million inhabitants going about their lives. You'll have a fully zoomable view. The game promises advanced graphics and AI.
Developer: Elixir Studios Ltd.
, Publisher: Eidos Interactive
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Return Fire 2
Combat/strategy game featuring a selection of military vehicles. You control these vehicles, including a tank, PT boat and helicopter, one at a time on capture-the-flag missions whilst blasting a variety of enemy units and protecting your own bases. Major improvements have been made over the original, it boasts better graphics, improved gameplay and a new selection of multi-player options. New vehicles and weapons have been added. The single-player game consists of 30 well-designed battle scenarios and there are three multi-player game types, allowing for both competitive and cooperative action. Two people can play on the same PC or up to 16 people via modem connection, LAN or Net. The game incorporates a good diversity of terrain from deserts to the arctic. The control system is simple and effective.
Developer: Silent Software
, Publisher: Ripcord Games LLC
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RIM - Battle Planets
Publisher: Fishtank Interactive
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Ring of Red
Strategy game featuring giant robotic war machines called Armored Fighting Walkers. The game combines high-quality graphics and gameplay with considerable depth. The game is set in an alternative history, in a Japan of the 1960s that is partitioned between US and Russian forces. They use the AFWs to patrol their areas. You take the role of a pilot called Masami Von Weizegger who gets embroiled in a new conflict. The game is divided into a series of varied missions. The gameplay combines turn-based movement and real-time combat. The combat takes place in fully 3D battlefields. The interface and control system is effective.
Developer: Konami Computer Entertainment Studios, Inc.
, Publisher: Konami
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Rise of Nations
Developer: Big Huge Games, Inc.
, Publisher: Microsoft Games
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Rising Sun
Part of the successful Campaign series of war games set during the Second World War (this is the follow-up to East Front and West Front). This game deals with the war with Japan and incorporates many new unit and terrain types. There are 30 pre-set scenarios to work through together with four linked campaigns. The a multi-player option provides for games via LAN to Net. The game is played on a good map of the battlefield. Viewed from an overhead perspective, units and other features are rendered in 3D. There are many video clips included and these add a degree of realism to the game. The game's interface and menus system are effective.
Developer: Talonsoft
, Publisher: Talonsoft
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Rising Sun: Imperial Strike
Add-on for the WW2 war game, Rising Sun. Like the main game, it focuses on the pacific theater. It features two new scenarios and ten new missions. Among the locations featured are Burma and the Philippines. No significant changes have been made to the gameplay, interface or graphics. As before, you can play against the computer or another player.
Developer: Talonsoft
, Publisher: Talonsoft
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Risk
Version of the classic strategy board game. The game is turn-based and is played on a stylized map. The aim of the game is world conquest or the satisfaction of other victory criteria, depending on the game variant chosen. You must position your units carefully and make alliances where appropriate. As well as classic Risk, this computer version also includes 'Ultimate Risk' which offers greatly expanded gameplay.
Developer: Hasbro Interactive, Inc.
, Publisher: Hasbro Interactive, Inc.
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Risk 2
Second update of the classic strategy board game currently under development. The major additions include expanded game play and then opportunity for more real-time-style combat.
Developer: Deep Red Games Ltd.
, Publisher: Hasbro Interactive, Inc.
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Road to Moscow
Historically-accurate strategy/war game due for release in mid-2000. The game will recreate the conflict in Eastern Europe and Russia during WW2. A notable feature of the game is that it will feature real-time, rather than turn-based, combat. You'll assume high-level command and will be responsible for the way all your side's forces are deployed. You'll have to organize supply lines and develop a unified strategy. The game promises advanced graphics and AI. There will be single-player campaigns and stand-alone scenarios, together with a multi-player mode for up to seven players (over LAN or on-line).
Developer: Interactive Entertainment
, Publisher: Interactive Magic
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Robert E. Lee: Civil War General
Turn-based strategy/war game set during the American Civil War. You'll take the role of General Lee, one of the most successful commanders in the Confederacy, in recreations of his famous encounters. Many video clips are included adding atmosphere to the game. There is a choice of full campaign or stand-alone missions. A tutorial is incorporated to help you get the hang of the game. Three difficulty settings add replayability value to the game. A good feature is the historical database that provides detailed background information on many aspects of the Civil War. The game is played on map screens and you must organise and keep your troops supplied. The game's graphics and interface are affective. It offers a lot of depth and takes into account many factors in the unfolding battles, including troop morale.
Developer: Sierra
, Publisher: Sierra
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Robin Hood: Defender of the Crown
Updated follow-up to the mid-eighties classic RPG/adventure game, Defender of the Crown. Due for release in 2002, the game will place players in the role of Robin Hood. Using his range of kills and with the help of his Merry Men Robin will have to defeat the forces of Prince John and restore King Richard to the throne. Strategy will be an important element of the gameplay. The game's graphics and design promise to be good.
Developer: Cinemaware, Inc.
, Publisher: Cinemaware, Inc.
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Robin Hood: The Legend of Sherwood
Developer: Spellbound Software
, Publisher: Strategy First
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Robo Rumble
Space based real-time strategy game. The game's premise is that earth scout ships have discovered a weapon on Mars that threatens the Earth and two corporations are competing for the contract to destroy the weapon. In order to decide the winner a series of trials have been organized in which each company's robotic fighters will be tested before the victor takes on the main mission. You can take control of either side's robots through a single-player campaign consisting of 16 challenging missions. There is also a multi-player mode for up to four players (via LAN or Net). The gameplay consists of deciding which configuration of robots to produce, defining chassis-type and weapon. Success in-mission earns cash for more or better robots. A good selection of high-powered weapons, including missiles, shockwaves and lasers, are incorporated. You then take your units into maps on a variety of maps covering a range of terrain and including a variety of obstacles that shape battle strategy. The game employs good 3D graphics and the control system is effective. A range of sound effects and beat-driven tunes accompany play.
Developer: Metropolis Software House
, Publisher: Interactive Magic
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Rock Manager
Developer: Monsterland AB
, Publisher: DreamCatcher Interactive
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RollerCoaster Tycoon
Theme park management and design game. You must develop a park whilst managing the budget. The game features 5 opening scenarios with 16 more to be unlocked. Each scenario has victory criteria, such as getting a particular number of guests and set park rating (another measure of appeal). Time limits apply.
Developer: MicroProse
, Publisher: Hasbro Interactive, Inc.
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RollerCoaster Tycoon 2
Publisher: Infogrames
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RollerCoaster Tycoon: Added Attractions
Add-on for the successful theme park management sim. This is the UK name for the game released in the US as 'Rollercoaster Tycoon: Corksrew Follies'.
Developer: MicroProse
, Publisher: Hasbro Interactive, Inc.
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Romance of the Three Kingdoms 4
Developer: Koei
, Publisher: Koei
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Romance of the Three Kingdoms 6
Historically-based strategy/resource management game due for release in Spring 2000. Set in ancient China you'll take control of a local leader with the aim of building up your powerbase, defeating opponents, until you rule the whole country. Alongside the single-player game, will be a multi-player game for up to eight players. The game promises improvements over the last game in the series with new unit types and better graphics.
Developer: Game Arts
, Publisher: Sensible Software
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Romance of the Three Kingdoms 7
Developer: Koei
, Publisher: Koei
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Romance of the Three Kingdoms 8
Developer: Koei
, Publisher: Koei
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Rowan's Battle of Britain
Developer: Talonsoft
, Publisher: Talonsoft
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