showing 32 games

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Panzer General II  SSI (SSI Special Projects Group)1997Called [i]Panzer General IIID[/i] in Germany because [game=Allied General]Allied General[/game] was called [i]Panzer General II[/i] there. labelminimizeminimize
The 7th Guest Virgin (Trilobyte)1997 labelimageminimize
Railroad Tycoon II  Take 2 Interactive;Gathering of Developers (PopTop Software)1998 labelminimizeminimize
The Operational Art Of War Empire (Talonsoft)1998 labelimageminimize
Fighting Steel SSI1999 labelminimizeminimize
Railroad Tycoon II: The Second Century Gathering of Developers;Take-Two Interactive (PopTop Software)1999 labelimageminimize
Kingpin: Life of Crime Interplay Entertainment (Xatrix Entertainment)19992002 by SoldOut Software
2009-08-19 on Steam, by Interplay (lang: eng, fre)***Currency (buying and selling crap), talking to NPCs in two different ways (taunting or agreeing), weapon mods, your own little mob, scavenging bodies for crap (usually few extra dollars), etc. These things were rather unusual at the time.

The game was apparently a mishmash of modern tech with 1930s outlook, so the tagging is somewhat inaccurate.***[b]Minimum requirements:[/b]
* 233 MHz CPU
* 64 MB RAM
* OpenGL graphics card

For the squeamish, the game installer gives the option to disable blood&gore and explicit language.
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Crimson Skies Microsoft (Zipper Interactive)2000 labelimageminimize
Mafia Gathering of Developers;Take 2 Interactive (Illusion Softworks)2002This third-person 3-D action game takes place in a fictional city named Lost Heaven - a cross between New York and Chicago - and is about the daily life of a gangster from the '30s. More than 60 vehicles are available to drive through the 12 miles of environment; stop your car and get out whenever and wherever your want. Use weapons such as a Tommy gun, a Smith & Wesson model 27 Magnum, a pump-action shotgun, a baseball bat, or Molotov cocktails.***Mafia brings the 1930's underworld to life in this 3rd person 3D action game. Rise from the lowly but well-dressed footsoldier to the envied and feared Made Man in an era of big bands, zoot suits and Model T's. Take on the role of a hitman, enforcer, getaway driver and more in your struggle for respect, money and power within the Salieri Family. labelimagesubject
Hearts of Iron Strategy First (Paradox Development Studio)2002From oficial site:

"Hearts of Iron is the first ever World War II PC game of true Grand Strategic scope. The game map spans the entire world and allows players to take the War to any new front of their choosing. Any nation in the world is playable, but the game focuses on the epic struggle between the great alliances of the new world orders Fascism, Communism and Democracy.

Hearts of Iron is developed by the team behind the awardwinning sales success Europa Universalis I and II and brings the same superdetail to a modern day gaming experience.

Hearts of Iron aims to be no less than the definitive World War II strategic experience."
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Impossible Creatures Microsoft Game Studios (Relic Entertainment)2002creature designing - quite limited***It's 1937. The world has been through a devastating depression and sits on the brink of the greatest war humanity has ever known. Meanwhile, on a small chain of islands in the South Pacific a great scientist toils over his discovery: a technology 30 years in the making known only as the Sigma Technology. Dr. Erik Chanikov has discovered a method to combine two normal animals you'd find in nature into new creatures that have the strengths of both, and the weaknesses of neither. This is only the first and simplest step towards Dr. Chanikov's final goal: combining genetic material at the molecular level to overcome the flaws that make us vulnerable to age, suffering, and disease in order to improve the quality and length of life for all humanity. Little does he know that the very people who claim to be his allies will be the ones to circumvent his work.

Upton Julius, a wealthy American industrialist, has been the sole backer of Dr. Chanikov's work, as well as his friend through the long years it has taken to develop the Sigma Technology. Being a great believer in philanthropy, Upton has always been a source of support and friendship to Dr. Chanikov. But in recent years his goals have changed, and his once kind manner has begun to fade. For reasons only known to his most trusted allies he's begun to look at Sigma not as an opportunity for knowledge and the betterment of humanity, but as a source of power. Unnoticed by the obsessed Dr. Chanikov, Upton has begun to collect a motley crew around him to enforce his will: The brutish whaler, Whitey Hooten, the sinister ornithologist, Velika La Pette, and the deranged veterinarian, Dr. Otis Ganglion. Together they are formulating a plan to use Sigma to take over the world, but they're still missing one key element.

Upton's misdealing has not gone unnoticed, though. Dr. Lucy Willing, Chanikov's assistant and a brilliant scientist in her own right has heard the whispers in the wind. She suspects that Upton is up to something; she's just not sure what, and why. Never one to be caught off guard she has jury-rigged a mobile laboratory capable of hiding out almost anywhere within the vast island chain, but she only intends to use it as a last resort. If the worst happens it wil keep both her and Dr. Chanikov safe, but until then she plans on covertly monitoring Upton's operation, and learning everything she can about his plans.

Every bomb has a fuse, which in this case is one Rex Chance, freelance war correspondent and adventurer down on his luck. A desperate letter and a call from the past will drop him smack into the middle of the struggle over the Sigma Technology, setting in motion events that could lead to the end of the world as we know it. Will Upton Julius find the key to unlocking the power of the Sigma technology? Not if Rex Chance has anything to say about it!

FEATURES

Thousands of Units
Impossible Creatures has more than 50 animals that can be combined to create a vast number of mutant creatures, the results of which are limited only by players' creativity.

Strategies as Boundless as your Imagination
By building these creatures into powerful and effective armies, players can define their strategy and how they want to tackle their opponents.

Explore Rich 3D Worlds
The highly detailed, fully 3-D dynamic world allows players to battle in four richly detailed environments, each with special flora and fauna.

Compelling Single-player Campaigns
Players command dozens of creatures and henchmen in 15 missions across 14 distinct islands.

Unprecedented Replayability
Impossible Creatures offers boundless creature combinations, armies, and strategies as well as online play and an easy-to-use mission editor that provides limitless play options.

Unique Multiplayer Options
Multiple players can engage in unprecedented, intense gameplay. Fast and ferocious multiplayer games bring a fresh RTS experience by focusing on furious, combat-driven action.
[Relic]***Minimum requirements:
* Windows 98, ME, 2000 or XP
* 500 MHz CPU
* 128 MB RAM
* 1.5 GB free HD space
* 4X CD-ROM drive
* 16 MB VRAM***There was a free downloadable extension by the name of Insect Invasion, which can be obtained at least from Microsoft's website.

Working title: Sigma (May 2000)
Working title: Sigma: The Adventures of Rex Chance (May 2001)

Notes:
* The thing they use for creating those hybrid animals is called Sigma technology.
* Rex Chance is the protagonist.
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BloodRayne Majesco (Terminal Reality)2003Censored having the Third Reich symbolism removed. labelimageminimize
Agatha Christie: And then there were none Dreamcatcher;The Adventure Company (AWE Games)2005 labelimageminimize
Silent Hunter III  Ubisoft;1C Company;S.A.D. Software Vertriebs- und Produktions (Ubisoft Romania)2005 labelimageminimize
Dark Apes - The Fate of Devolution ? (Wolf Group)2005 labelimageminimize
Agatha Christie: Murder on the Orient Express Dreamcatcher;The Adventure Company (AWE Games)2006 labelimageminimize
Theatre of War  1C Publishing (1C Company)2007Theatre of War developed by 1C Company (creators of the award-winning IL-2 Sturmovik series and Pacific Fighters) is a real-time tactical strategy title depicting the most significant battles of World War II during 1939-1945.

Players will command a special task force composed of different kinds of units, including tanks, APCs, field guns, mortars, various infantry regiments and will also have an opportunity to call for artillery and air support. With a focus on unit detail and combat realism, would-be generals are faced with authentic battle scenarios, taken straight from actual World War II records and maps.

Key Features:

* Unequalled level of realism
* Over 40 historically accurate missions
* Human Resources Management
* RPG elements: soldiers gain experience and skills, system of promotions and decorations
* Detailed Unit Micromanagement: hundreds of units including infantry regiments, tanks, artillery and aircraft from all major nations involved in WWII; all units are based on real data from military sources
* Top class character animation
* 5 campaigns Soviet, German, French and Polish
* Over 30 maps designed according to historical land maps
* Over 150 vehicles, about 200 uniform types, over 100 small-arms types
[1C]
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Aggression: Europe 1914  Buka Entertainment;Playlogic (Lesta Studio)2007RU 2008-?? by Buga
Int 2008-?? by Playlogic ("excluding CIS and Baltic states where it's published by Buka" -[url=http://www.buka.com/int_sales.news_archive.7754.aspx]ref[/url])***"Aggression" is a real time strategy game with role-playing elements, in which the player may take the role of the leader of one of the four nations: Russia, Great Britain, France or Germany, and take active part in the critical point events of European history – the age of Total Wars 1914-1945.

Gameplay of Aggression is built on two levels – strategic and tactical. At the strategic level, the player governs the chosen country, mobilizes armed forces, moves armies and historical figures. When war breaks out, the player plans the course of attacks and organizes defenses; when the two sides meet in battle, the player is transported to a tactical map where he takes control of the army involved in the encounter, as he would in a classical RTS game.

The alternative course of historic events is an important gameplay element: for example, the player can create a Communist or a Nazi government in Great Britain, or, when playing as Russians, unite with Germany against the west.
The objective of the game is to capture all the cities on the strategic map or be the first to develop atomic weapons (historically, it is the atomic bomb that put an end to the age of Total Wars). As soon as any other country, besides the player, develops the bomb, this signals the beginning of cold war and ends the game.
The distinctive trait of the gameplay process of "Aggression" is that the player gets to make all the decisions when running a country. The player has access to politics, economics, technologies, army maneuvers and really feels like a leader of a nation. Despite all the possibilities, running a nation in Aggression remains simple and easy to learn – most controls have flexible settings, which allow the player to set their own level of control on any parameters, or to set up an automatic mode.

Main Features of the Game

• Historical strategy game in a time period of 1910-1950.
• Completely 3D graphics in tactical and strategic mode, detailed map of Europe.
• Total freedom of player's choices in strategy of own nation, capability to make an alternative history of Europe.
• Four playable nations: Russia, Great Britain, Germany, France.
• Historical campaigns for each key nation, during which the player may fulfill several hundred quests and experience the entire age of Total Wars, participate in both World Wars.
• 3D strategic map of Europe, with dozens of active historical figures.
• More than 150 types of combat units (infantry, cavalry, artillery, tanks and armored vehicles, aviation), modeled accurately from historical references.
• Political, economic and combat systems, which realistically convey the peculiarities of European politics and wars in 20th century.
• More than 200 real historical figures: politicians, generals, public figures who lived and made a difference in this time period.
• Large scale battles on 92 tactical maps, all in 3D.
• Battles at sea, land and air, battle planning, development of new arms and technologies (from a machine gun to the atomic bomb), political alliances and espionage.
• State of the art level of graphics, realistic physics, a wide choice of special effects, which create a unique, cinematic gameplay experience.
[Buka]
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TimeShift Vivendi Games;Activision (Saber Interactive)20072009-07-23 on Steam, by Activision (lang: eng)***[b]Overview:[/b]
Dr. Aiden Krone is a former professor of Applied Physics at MIT, notorious for his unrivaled brilliance and obsession with Thermodynamics, Advanced Propulsion, and Quantum Electrodynamics (QED). Despite his increasing tendencies to demand control and secrecy, he became the Founder and Lead Physicist of a classified Time Travel research program.

Over a decade later, Krone's program had successfully developed the world's first time-travelling suit technology. However, as the program's equally secretive decsision-makers demanded this technology be adapted for military applications, Krone's feelings of self-entitlement and anger grew. He secretly desired a new existence, a new world where his scientific endeavors could be shaped and experienced without outside interference.

The combination of Krone's mind and his suit technology gave him the ability to create and control another existence - an existence where a man of science could finally operate without restrictions and do so within a place where science itself was properly respected regardless of the effects on humanity.

It is now up to you to trace Krone's last known appearances and stop his tyrannical rule over Alpha District. In a twisted world where scientific accomplishments reign, its up to you to don the Beta Suit and Master Time to Become the Ultimate Weapon.

[b]Features:[/b]
* Harness time as the Ultimate Weapon: Slow, stop and reverse the flow of time to destroy your enemies
* Unleash a powerful arsenal of weapons and vehicles in 24 combat missions
* Up to 16-player multiplayer, featuring the use of time grenades in 14 different maps, allowing for unique style of stop, slow and reversal of time
* Completely customize your multiplayer experience with 40 different features to fit your style of gameplay
[Saber Interactive]***Latest version: 1.2 (as of ?)
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Talvisota: Icy Hell  Nival Interactive (Blitzfront Game Studio)2008 labelimageminimize
Time of Wrath  Wastelands Interactive;Matrix Games (Wastelands Interactive)2009 labelimageminimize
Hearts of Iron III  Paradox Interactive (Paradox Development Studio)2009Play as any nation from 1936 to1948 with more than 150 countries to choose from. More than 10,000 land provinces makes this game five times more detailed than Hearts of Iron 2 and the most detailed depiction of World War 2 ever made. Control the oceans with aircraft carriers, submarines and battleships. Use your air force to defend the skies, support naval and ground forces, and bomb your enemies. Customize your divisions in detail with more than 20 types of brigades.New economic system makes it possible to buy weapons overseas. Mobilization and reserves gives the option of surprise attacks. A completely new intelligence system makes it possible to get information about enemy reserves and troop movements.Assign troops to theatres on the map to fight two-front wars more successfully. Thousands of historically accurate real-world military commanders and politicians. Realistic military command AI with unprecedented levels of interaction. In-depth diplomatic and political system. labelimagesubject
Dark Void Capcom (Airtight Games)2010[b]infinigun[/b] - the machine gun attached to the rocket pack. doesn't have ammo magazines either like the other weapons.***[b]Minimum:[/b]
* Windows XP or Vista
* Pentium D or Athlon 64 X2 CPU
* 512 MB RAM
* 256 MB VRAM
* GeForce 7900 or Radeon HD 3850 GPU
* 800x600 display
* 8 GB HD space

[b]Recommended:[/b]
* Core 2 Quad or Phenom X4 CPU
* 2 GB RAM
* 512 MB VRAM
* GeForce 9800 or Radeon HD 4800 GPU
* 1280×720 display
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Arsenal of Democracy Paradox Interactive (BL-Logic )2010 labelminimizeminimize
R.U.S.E  Ubisoft (Eugen Systems)2010For 1-4 players (in beta)***2010-03-09 — Open beta started labelimageminimize
Lost Horizon Deep Silver (Animation Arts)2010[b]Minimum:[/b]
* Windows XP, Vista, or 7
* 2 GHz Pentium IV CPU
* 512 MB RAM
* 64 MB VRAM
* 4.5 GB HD space***1936: Soldiers of the Third Reich roam the world seeking occult weapons for their insane plans of conquest.
When Fenton Paddock, a former British soldier and hapless smuggler, is asked to look for his friend Richard, who went missing in Tibet, he has no idea that this search will lead him across three continents to a secret that could turn the whole world upside down.

Enough mystery? Not in the mood for another crime story? "Lost Horizon" brings the classic adventure back to its roots: the 1930s, exotic settings all over the world, and the dangerous quest for one of the greatest secrets of mankind makes adventurers' hearts beat faster. The Makers of the award-winning Secret Files series invite you to experience a technically outstanding, carefully designed game featuring an absolutely thrilling story at the side of Kim and Fenton.

* Unique handmade graphic style
* Exotic settings you've never seen before
* Movie-like story by novelist Claudia Kern
* Both realistic and funny dialogues
* Excellent technical appearance and minimal system requirements
* Fast-paced presentation of the exciting story in movie style
* Innovative puzzle design, always fair and logical
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Deadfall Adventures Nordic Games (The Farm 51)2013Un Indiana sin sombrero en un juego con elementos del Alan Wake y el Call of Juarez, y puzzles sospechosamente parecidos a las aventuras gráficas de Lucas Arts del susodicho arqueólogo.

Eso sí, el protagonista estaba mejor con la boca cerrada.

6 de 10***Deadfall Adventures is an action-driven first-person shooter, spiced up with elements from action-adventure games. Become an adventurer, hunt for treasures, explore unknown regions of the world and rescue the damsel in distress from the clutches of enemies, both earthly and not-so-earthly. Join James Lee Quatermain on his journey across the globe!

[b]The Story[/b]
The year is 1938. James Lee Quatermain is a man of many talents, yet holding on to money isn't one of them. James is an adventurer by trade, just like his legendary great-grandfather Allan Quatermain. And he knows how to squeeze money out of this famous name of his, while at the same time despising it. Despising those who believe his great-grandfather's tales of the supernatural and those who make fun of them alike.

Accordingly, Quatermain isn't all too keen on escorting Jennifer Goodwin, an US agent and former colleague of his, to an Egyptian temple structure in order to retrieve an ancient artifact - The Heart of Atlantis. Neither does he believe in the reputed invigorating qualities of this artifact, nor does he care the least that a division of the Ahnenerbe, the Nazi department specialized in the occult, is after The Heart as well.

But life has its ways of changing one's perspective. Quatermain soon finds himself part of a hunt across the globe - from the stormy deserts of Egypt to the icy depths of the Arctic, and all the way to the steaming jungles of Guatemala. In long forgotten temple structures the thrill of the chase awakens the true adventurer in Quatermain, as he and agent Goodwin strive to be one step ahead of the Nazis and the Russians, one step closer to obtaining the Heart of Atlantis. And deep in these temples, where age-old guardians awake from their eternal slumber, James soon learns that his great-grandfather's stories are not as crazy as he had always believed. For all things live forever, though at times they sleep and are forgotten...

[b]Key Features[/b]
* Action -Adventure gameplay from a first-person perspective
* Set in the Quatermain-universe, created by H. R. Haggard
* Fast-paced action and intense, accurate FPS gun battles
* Adventurer equipment: compass, treasure maps, notebook and flashlight – necessary to solve ancient puzzles, find treasures and even to defeat certain types of enemies
* Puzzles that encourage you to explore the game environment and interact with it
* Environmental traps that can be used to eliminate enemies in many spectacular ways
* Exotic, picturesque locations from around the world – Egypt, Arctic and forgotten
* Mayan ruins in the jungles of Guatemala
* Compelling story faithful to the spirit of classic action-adventure movies
* 1930’s setting, including detailed weapon designs
* Unique adventurer-style multiplayer features and modes***The protagonist is James Lee Quatermain, grandson of Allan Quatermain.
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White Night OSome Studio2015 labelminimizeminimize
Calvino Noir Calvino Noir2015 labelminimizeminimize
Transport Fever Gambitious Digital Entertainment (Urban Games)2016Transport Fever is a railroad-focused tycoon game. Players start in 1850 and build up a thriving transport company. As an emerging transport tycoon, the player constructs stations, airports, harbors and makes money by connecting areas requiring transport services. Build up your own Empire! labelminimizesubject
Train Valley 2 Flazm (Yukitama)2017 labelminimizeminimize
Amnesia: Rebirth Frictional Games2020 labelminimizeminimize
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