![]() As a cyborg implanted into a flying battlestation, you are the last hope to save humankind from being destroyed by invading aliens and bands of cults and terrorists. The background of the game is a dystopian future where a collapse of the food chain has left humanity in ruins, and space aliens have come to conquer our charred remains. You can tell it was designed primarily as a way to show off the awesomeness of that joystick, which incorporated force-feedback - meaning that when your helicopter fired a missile in game, you felt the recoil. Urban Assault is a game that came for free along with my Microsoft Sidewinder joystick for PC, which my Father bought for me probably because he worked in Airports his whole life and fancied having a son who was a pilot (sorry, Dad). Urban Assault (Microsoft) (Windows/PC) (1998) If you feel I missed anything, it's probably because I haven't played that game – so let me know about it so I can pick it up! This blog will be part reflection and part review my primary goal is to inspire some of you to play one of these games. It is not meant as a list of the objectively best games, but rather the ones I got the most enjoyment out of or created a new and memorable experience for me. I've always been a fan of FPS, Racing, RPG, and Adventure games but Strategy was the genre that could always keep me up until 4 in the morning on a school night.īelow is a list of my favorite 20 strategy games of all time. I quickly discovered other games for DOS and discovered my love for Strategy games. A game called Stunts, a car driving / racing game that ran on MS-DOS. It's fuzzy now but I believe I played my first one at about 4 or 5 years old on my mom's work computer, which means I've been at this for over 20 years now. The list became too long, (also my work has been blowing up lately – too many late hours, where did the time go?) and so for now I will have to sate myself with some reflection on the past 20+ years of Strategy. With that experience fresh in mind I sat down and tried to remember my favorite Strategy games amongst those I've played to see what I should revisit. I remembered it being easier as a kid but the fun factor has not left it. I just completed a re-playthrough of the Broodwar campaign. Very few games in recent years have become full blown love affairs most have been short lived flings, the gamer equivalent of a late night rendez-vous. Perhaps it is nostalgia taking over, but I find myself gravitating more and more towards re-playing older games that I already own rather than immersing myself in the new ones. #1 20 years of Strategy games: a Retrospective ![]()
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