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GAMES PREVIEW W Rebuild a broken world in PHOENIX POINT, a bold new sci-fi strategy game from the creator of the original X-COM. ...

hen the game starts in 2047, most of humanity has been killed, abducted, or transformed into alien monstrosities,” says lead des ...

bit of both. “We’ve spent a lot of time building the world,” says Gollop. “We’ve produced a number of short stories for [crowdfu ...

SIDE BY SIDE THE FACTIONS YOU’LL MEET IN PHOENIX POINT DISCIPLES OF ANU A religious order which believes that weaponising the Pa ...

having these internal debates, so you might talk to different people with different demands.” And the faction you side with, if ...

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FEATURE W T H E H I S T O R Y By FRASER BROWN ...

W FEATURE RIGHT:There’s nothing cowardly about hiding behind a big hill. BELOW:Sacrifice’s creature designs were fever dreams br ...

ESSENTIALLY, YOU WERE A DUNGEON MASTER, SENDING HEROES OUT ON ADVENTURES apocalyptic spells and summon all sorts of colorful, ma ...

W FEATURE mix. Command & Conquer: Generals, the first post- Westwood game in the series, switched the setting to another nea ...

FEATUREW RPG design, such as quests and NPC enemies that were hostile to every faction. Because they’d persisted through all the ...

2, the studio set about bringing the 41st millennium to life. Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War flung Space Marines, Eldar, Orks, an ...

FEATUREW RPG design, such as quests and NPC enemies that were hostile to every faction. Because they’d persisted through all the ...

W FEATURE required to plonk down buildings and recruit squads, but instead of being gathered, these were generated by capturing ...

FEATURE W COMPANY OF HEROES OFTEN SEEMED MORE LIKE A SQUAD- LEVEL WARGAME THAN AN RTS Total Annihilation’s unique approach to RT ...

W FEATURE a great case for 4X games to dip their toes into real- time action, mashing up empire management with gorgeous RTS spa ...

FEATURE W VENI, VIDI, VICI Command & Conquer defined a generation of RTS games, but after Westwood was closed EA in 2003, th ...

W FEATURE entire squads, by only giving you a single save file that got overwritten with every turn. A lack of publisher confide ...

FEATURE W AMODFOREVERYTHING Amplitude’s Endless Legend was a lesson in how to design compelling factions. Mods and map editors h ...

Contents 61 Resident Evil 2 64 Kenshi 65 Insurgency: Sandstorm 66 Gris 67 Dusk 70 Ashen 71 Catherine Classic 72 Ace Combat 7 73 ...