Last week I gave you guys a
brief glimpse into the world of Mechwarrior Online, which to be honest i think
is still freakin' awesome and I'm still pumping plenty of hours of free time and
money into it. But I feel there is something missing in my gaming life at the
moment... and that is a bloomin good RTS.
Recently (as I was saying last week,) myself and Mr Rich went to the year 3050. Now while we were travelling we stopped in the year 2070. Now if that year rings a bell?(ding-a-ling) You might have guessed that it of course relates to the game Anno 2070, which was co-developed by Related Designs and Ubisoft Blue Byte, and published by Ubisoft.
Recently (as I was saying last week,) myself and Mr Rich went to the year 3050. Now while we were travelling we stopped in the year 2070. Now if that year rings a bell?(ding-a-ling) You might have guessed that it of course relates to the game Anno 2070, which was co-developed by Related Designs and Ubisoft Blue Byte, and published by Ubisoft.
Now Anno 2070 is a City building game with elements of RTS, which I have to say
is one of the best City Building games I've played, but in terms of RTS it only
has a few daubs and dabs. It's as if the city building part of the game was
produced by Balfour Beatty and the RTS part by Bob Ross with a size 00000
brush. It was fun for a while, but once I discovered that dab of RTS, I felt
like it was time to move on. I found certainly the coop easy mode (which was all
I could handle at the time) was abit linear. Create A - then do 123 - create B
- then do 456 - create C and so forth. Maybe if I manned up and fought against
some harder AI then maybe it would be a little more interesting. Either way I
found it didn't fully satisfy my need for a decent build as much as you can,
then kill it as fast as you can RTS. SOOO... I'm Still on the look out for a
good RTS game.
I think Shogun 2 is my favorite in recent years along with the Dawn of War 2 series. I thoroughly enjoy an epic space marine battle with orcs flying left, right and centre. Which thanks to the Essence engine that Dawn of War 2 uses, is often the case. Sadly most of the time it's not intended and poor Mr Orc looks like he's re-enacting the first few flights of an early form of helicopter flown by a drunken blind folded orangutan. Anyway those games are getting on abit and having racked up 300+ hours in each Shogun 2 and DoW it's time for something new.
ALSO...
I'm hoping Sega will get the rights to Warhammer 40k from the newly deceased THQ. Which could lead to Relic bringing out DoW3???? Maybe...please...yes? thank you. OR Creative Assembly working their magic with some sort of Spacemarine/Shogun mash up.
I'm hoping Sega will get the rights to Warhammer 40k from the newly deceased THQ. Which could lead to Relic bringing out DoW3???? Maybe...please...yes? thank you. OR Creative Assembly working their magic with some sort of Spacemarine/Shogun mash up.
Either way in the wise words of Azariah Kyras...
RUBBER DUCKY!!!!!! (May or may not have been slightly adapted by our own Mr Rich.)
RUBBER DUCKY!!!!!! (May or may not have been slightly adapted by our own Mr Rich.)
