showing 8 games

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Seven Years War  CDV Software (HQ Team)1998Unplayable on modern computers because the game fails to limit its speed at all, several in-game days pass within a minute and more than that many enemy attacks occur in the same time, leaving you little chance to react to battles that start and are solved in the blink of an eye, with mostly the sound effects proving that they ever occurred. labelminimizeminimize
Battle Realms Ubi Soft (Liquid Entertainment)2001Kenji, exiled heir to the Dragon throne, must stake his claim in a chaotic world wracked by the subversive intrigues of the Serpent, Wolf, and Lotus clans. Shall he vanquish the land under a campaign of malevolence and terror or restore the war-torn realm to its former glory? Enter Battle Realms and choose your destiny. Explore the history that led up to the events in Battle Realms in Battle Realms: Winter of the White Wolf. Scattered and unorganized, your enslaved Wolf brethren hunger for revolt against their corrupt Lotus Clan masters. You must unite them. You must lead them. You must free them.
Battle Realms is fantasy real-time strategy game inspired by the stories told in kung-fu movies and oriental mythology. Develop your tiny peasant village into a highly trained and deadly efficient clan of warriors who are ready to die with your name on their lips. Experiment with Unit Alchemy and turn villagers into one-of-a-kind fighters like Samurai Cannoneers, Bandits, Geisha, and scores of other mythical warriors. Defend your people against the hordes of barbarians, evil magicians, and deadly ninjas.
[GOG.com]
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Ninja Reflex: Steamworks Edition Nunchuck Games (Sanzaru Games)2008Master the Art of Speed and become a Ninja Gamer! Ninja Reflex uses martial arts challenges to test your reflexes, sharpen your hand-eye coordination, and measure your reaction times to the millisecond. Wield throwing stars, katanas, nunchucks...even chopsticks! Progress from White Belt all the way to Black Belt, 3rd Degree, and see if you can complete the 50+ Steam achievements on your journey!

* 300 Ninja challenges to conquer.
* Go from White Belt to Black Belt, 3rd Degree.
* 50+ Steam achievements to complete.
* Compete in local multiplayer battles with up to 4 players.
* Receive authentic martial arts wisdom from your Sensei.
* Create a Ninja Name from over 25,000 possibilities.
* Learn to Meditate to achieve greater mental focus.
* Find all the Half-Life and Portal Easter Eggs!***Uses a confusing mixture of Chinese and Japanese elements, though the latter is more prominent.

Composed of 6 mini-games:
* Shuriken - reaction challenge where player needs to idenfy targets and flick
* Hashi - reflex challenge where player catches small flies
* Koi - reflex and control challenge where player follows (matches speed and movement) the koi fish without startling them and catches them on their short trips to the surface
* Katana - reaction challenge where player counters an attack with one of three blocks and follows them with a swipe/flick.
* Hotaru - reflex challenge where player simply clicks when hotaru (a firefly) appears
* Nunchaku - reflex and control challenge where player needs to move the controller in a pattern and click to destroy objects (the clicking does nothing if the pattern isn't maintained)
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Mini Ninjas Eidos Interactive (IO Interactive)2009[b]sledding[/b] / [b]boating[/b] - on the hat, which also serves to protect the wearer from arrows if worn properly.***Superficially similar premise to the original Sonic games. Animals being turned into "monsters".

Note that Hiro is the true protagonist of the story, the others are "just" his friends and fellow ninja who help him.***2009-09-08 as boxed (US?)
2009-09-14 on Steam (EU), by Eidos Interactive (lang: eng, fre, ger, ita, spa)

Square Enix worked as a distributor for some (all?) platforms, not as publisher.
Warner Bros. handled some (all?) US publishing.
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E.Y.E: Divine Cybermancy Streum On Studio2011Un juego de acción que parece una versión futurista del barroco de Los Austrias mezclada con elementos orientales, se presenta como una mezcla de FPS clásico con personalización, habilidades, conversaciones e inventario de RPG.
Campaña muy sólida, misiones secundarias variadas que añaden rejugabilidad y un multijugador muy entretenido.
Pena que el interfaz sea algo lento, porque por lo demás es un auténtico juegazo.

8 de 10***Without having played the game, it gives off similar feel to Anachronox, Cybermage and especially Shadowrun (the P&P game, not the botched MP game based on it).

Seems to have some Chinese and Gothic influences in designs.***As a member of the strange secret society E.Y.E, you wake up after a fight in which your fellow teammates were killed. E.Y.E, an armed branch of the Secreta Secretorum is attempting a coup against the all-powerful Federation, a coalition of several worlds and planets that rule with an iron fist.

To complicate matters, E.Y.E itself is plagued with its own internal conflicts between the Jian faction and the Culter faction, to which you belong. Your loyalties are torn between Commander Rimanah, your superior and the chief of the Secreta who is a separatist with an unstoppable ambition, and the "Mentor" your friend and instructor. The "Mentor" tries at all costs to unite the two rival factions. In doing so, you are thrust into the middle of a fratricidal war frought with political conspiracies and quests for power in which different groups and megacorporations are implicated.

These troubles set the stage for an attack by an unknown force bent on destroying humankind.

Key features:
* Multiplayer co-op modes directly influence solo play, and vice-versa. The limits of solo and multiplayer games are finally left behind.
* Psychological and mental trauma management.
* 25 weapons, different shooting modes, dynamic precision, drilling shots, iron sighting, extended zoom.
* Complete hacking system with game play impact
* 9 devastatingly subtle PSI powers.
* More than 20 NPC with non-scripted, fully reactive and efficient AI, endowed with a sense of initiative. Bloody close combat with technical detail. Incredible physical movement realism thanks to Source Engine physics.
* Excellent replayability - primary and secondary missions, dynamic environments, non-linear level progression, and random NPC spawn, type and appearance. Death doesn't penalize players: no need to restart the current mission.
* Open-level gameplay for hours of fun without reloading.
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Skulls of the Shogun Microsoft (17-BIT)2013Originally Windows 8 exclusive, later ported to older Windows operating systems. labelminimizeminimize
Tomb Raider  Square Enix (Crystal Dynamics)2013Probablemente el mejor Tomb Raider jamás hecho, aunque abusa un poco de los QTM y se nota la ausencia de puzzles.
Aún así, la mezcla de acción-plataformas está mejor realizada que nunca.

8 de 10***Notes on tags:
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[b]Giant humanoids[/b] - the Oni are not explained what they really are, whether they are actually Japanese demons ([url=/groups/info/ogres]ogres[/url] really) or just some of the samurai who suffer from gigantism.
[b]Undead[/b] - the Stormguard. Although nothing really suggests this except for that you can kill them by destroying their belt buckles, which presumably animate their dead bodies.
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Warframe Digital Extremes2013Un juego multijugador cooperativo muy interesante.
Con una enorme capacidad de personalización (especialmente pagando) y misiones de todo tipo, permite al jugador de gasto 0 (It's FreeToPlay) los elementos básicos para entretenerse mucho con las mecánicas del juego.

8 de 10***Borrows heavily from darkSector's original concepts and darkSector itself is included (at least in part) in the background lore of Warframe.

Some greater detail on this can be read from the unofficial wiki: [url]http://warframe.wikia.com/wiki/Story_and_History[/url]***[media=youtube]Gx5RDaGVkZE[/media]***Closed beta started on 2012-10-24.
Open beta started on 2013-03-21.***[b]Minimum:[/b]
* Windows XP w/ SP 3
* Core 2 Duo E6400 or Athlon 64 4000+ CPU
* 2 GB RAM
* GeForce 8600 GT or Radeon HD 3600 GPU
* 1 GB HD space
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