Richard Garriot's Tabula Rasa

Author: Alexei Barsukov
Source: PC GAMES № February 2008	07.02.2008

Darkness Within: In Pursuit of Loath Nolder

Author: Ashot Hakhverdyan
Source: Country Games № April 2008	15.02.2008

Authors Darkness Within (DW), all guided by the ideas of Lovecraft, at the same time not trying to re-think the writer's work, brought into line with the spirit of today, with expectations of a modern audience, or features of a genre of computer games in general, simply because after such a transformation we would have made another Doom. Instead, developers have faithfully followed the canon of classic works of masters of "supernatural" literature, bringing into play all the features of his prose, even when they are contrary to generally accepted standards of today's world view or picture of the work. And this commitment translates directly into the category of arthouse game, too far removed from the traditions of the modern mainstream, and at the same time perfectly with the expectations and tastes of fans of Lovecraft's prose.

Hotel Dead Mountaineer

Author: VP
Source: Country Games № April 2008	15.02.2008

Write a prestigious detective quest for the product - not an easy task. Although at first sight everything seems easier to nowhere, because the genre has to collect evidence, and the persistent interrogation of suspects. In fact - the work is quite difficult and thankless. For example, the maestro Lee Sheldon did not succeed even at the third attempt, and he tried a lot of options, trying to please everyone: changed the ending, introduced new characters, diluted effect of far-fetched mysteries. And still quite computer-adventure based on the books of Agatha Christie ultimately was not very much. The more interesting creature Electronic Paradise - and suddenly, a little-known studio will turn out better than the venerable pros? Consider everything in order.

Sudden Strike 3: Arms for Victory

Author: Alex Arbatskii
Source: Country Games № April 2008	15.02.2008

Sudden Strike series long been well known gamers, and write about him uneasy. Since the introduction of the first part of it caused bitter disputes. It took many years, leaked Sea of ​​pixel blood, and disagreements escalated into positional warfare in the spirit of the First World War. Wranglers lazily yawning, the shooting have long known arguments and do not intend to surrender.

No Time for Dragons

Author: Nikolay Tretyakov
Source: PC GAMES № February 2008	08.02.2008

UFO: Afterlight

Author: Oleg Charzynski
Source: Country Games № June 2007	23.04.2007

Dozens of sleepless nights, hundreds of parties and started an eternal promise to himself that way, not once, not able to perform: "one more turn, and everything." My friend, a serious man, and busy, with the word X-COM has suddenly come into a state of extraordinary agitation. It turns out that during his school years, they have played UFO: Enemy Unknown threesome - each player were in charge of two agents, they ruled in turn, pulling each other's mouse and keyboard. "There were suits with rocket backpack. Once I got to the third deck of UFO and looked out the window - remember my friend, lighting a cigarette from the filter. - I saw there sektoida in the laboratory. He bent over the operating table on which lay ... woman. I can not forget that picture ... "

First Eagles: The Great Air War 1918

Author: Ashot Hakhverdyan
Source: Country Games № June 2007	15.03.2007

These aircraft fly at about the same speed with which the storm desert suburban highway scorcher on tuned cars. Two wings are very very difficult for a review, the wind roars in my ears incessantly. Severe minimum instruments in the SPAD middle of the dashboard only set the dial - the chronometer. Cuckoo-cuckoo, how I would live?

Officers

Author: Ilia Chentsov
Source: Country Games № May 2007	26.04.2007

No, still the first person to storm Omaha Beach is not so bad. At least you're here people bonded and are responsible only for their own lives. But when you throw dozens of soldiers on the enemy bunkers, mowing down their arms fire, and the message of the defeat of all does not appear, and the new transport everything comes so come ... think: "Maybe I did something wrong to do? A reinforcement then why give? "And then you realize that so it probably was then, at forty-four, only the numerical superiority and were able to take the damn building, and people were killed when a lot of good reason, and you, whether you are at least seven genius, a little blood can not do. And when gunfire suddenly fell silent, and you can not understand what you are made.

Odama

Author: Sergey «TD» Tsilyurik
Source: Country Games № January 2007	28.02.2007

Enemy cohort distracted by cleverly located on the field, a rice ball. Full speed ahead! Pinball in which the ball can not be beat glasses? Strategy, where the units are not subject to the omnipotent and omnipresent cursor, but only the voice of a player? That for one of the genre - the madness, the two immediately - Odama.

Three small white mouse. Birthday Marine rat

Author: Tatyana Shchelkunova
Source: PC GAMES № February 2008	08.02.2008

Melkopakostnaya rat nepedagogichna truth. Each mouse is well known that the bite, steal, and throw things - it is possible. If caught, it is necessary to squeak, bursting into tears: "I am a little mouse, no one understands me" - and still cry away. Remember, adults: all mouse press on a pity! Question - whether the suit in the mouse friends baby?

Silent Hunter 4: Wolves of the Pacific

Author: Ashot Hakhverdyan
Source: Country Games № August 2007	20.04.2007

Meeting dawn almost at the equator. Darkness of night gradually dissipated, inexorably stars go out, the horizon is painted in such warm tones that he wants to hug, and you receive the edge of the sun, still quite bright, it just got out of bed, but not yet fully awake. Tired of the darkness the sea plays with bright colors, like beads, and look at it can be infinite. The estimated time of interception is low chasa.Tri two and a half hours later, a few sailors from torpedoed an enemy transport on the boat leaving the sinking ship. Accompanied her gaze through binoculars - to the nearest coast twenty miles. Not the kids already will get their own.

Galactic Civilizations 2. Twilight of the Arnor

Author: Aleksey «Chebur» Arbat
Source: Country Games № 14 2008	15.07.2008

Control Panel planetary upgrades, in general, little has changed - except that it has become more vivid and clear. A handy and informative it was before. Usually talk about add-on'ah pretty boring: Changes in the worst case, fine, but at best - not the principal. More or less notable updates gameplay - a rarity. Against this backdrop, the latest addition to Galactic Civilizations 2 looks great.

The Lost Crown: A Ghosthunting Adventure

Author: Marina Petrashko
Source: Country Games № 15 2008	01.08.2008

Advertising Lost Crown for a long time decorate a gaming publications. However, it can be done early and quite wrong conclusions about the content of the game. Girl with a bleeding eye sockets, compressed in a fist brutally tortured a crow, has nothing to do with any in-game graphics, with any content. The impression is that the designers did not read the name: it lost the crown (crown), but not a crow (crow)!

Death to Spies

Author: Ashot Hakhverdyan
Source: Country Games № August 2007	22.04.2007

Soviet spy is not hiding in the shadows, he proudly walks around the enemy's rear, pushing the personnel of the Wehrmacht, they say, do not get underfoot. He can go to Berlin, to break into the Reichstag and strangle Hitler, if the authorities suddenly put such a task. Soviet spy clean and neat, it does not stick to dirt, he did not moknet the rain and do not freeze during a snowfall.

SunAge

A. Arbat
Source: Country Games № 16 2008	07.08.2008

King's Bounty: The Legend of the Knight

Author: Oleg Charzynski
Source: PC GAMES № May 2008	03.05.2008

We already know about King's Bounty everything. We know that the earlier game called Battle Lord, that made her nuggets from Vladivostok, formerly known as Elemental Games, and now - Katauri Interactive. That these are the people who created the "Space Rangers" and forced the country to play again in the text quests. We heard that the protagonist will call Bill Gilbert in honor of the hacker that hacked into all the games for the ZX Spectrum, the designers Katauri are strongly influenced by Japanese tactical PRG with unpronounceable names, and draw inspiration from the Asian strategic epic, the original "Heroes" World of Warcraft and, of course, King's Bounty, a mythical half-forgotten game of our collective childhood, from which, as it seems at the height of past years, there has been all things on earth. You probably read about the "Box of Fury, Rune of spirit, strength and magic, talking objects, within which you can fight the demons inhabiting them, about the trip on the airship between the continents of distant islands with a treasure that can be reached only on a sailboat, about weighty book of magic spells, without which the battlefield is nothing to do, about the three classes of characters, and much, much more.

Savage 2: A Tortured Soul

Author: Sergey Gotsman
	19.05.2008

Issue sequels - is simple enough. Not that simple, but not much. The original concept remains, acquiring a small number of new features, the most unfortunate moments are polished, and then it all turns into a modern graphics, supplemented with new content and leaves the shop. Being a typical sequel, Savage 2 is constructed under the scheme. But who said it was bad?

STALKER: Clear Sky (review Gameland. Ru)

Author: Vadim Bobrov
	09.09.2008

Tomorrow War

Author: Ashot Hakhverdyan
Source: Country Games № 23 2006	06.12.2006

Introductory video: "has come XXVII century. On Earth, peace and tranquility "- says the announcer in this mock-pathetic voice that wants to pre-game kiss on both cheeks.

Lord of the Rings Online: Mines of Moria

Arkady Mihryutkin
Source: Country Games № February 2009	04.02.2009

Overlord: Raising Hell

Author: Aleksey Koptsev
Source: PC GAMES № February 2008	07.02.2008

Imperium Romanum

Author: Alex "shebur" Arbat
Source: Country Games № October 2008	15.05.2008

After the magnificent Cleopatra and Zeus: Master of Olympus lifted the genre to an unprecedented height of passion developers a little abated. But as time passed, and suddenly as if a dam had burst: in a year, we received a series of urban simulation - and Caesar IV, and CivCity: Rome, and the Glory of the Roman Empire, the predecessor heroine of our review of the same studio.

Sublustrum

Author: Marina Petrashko
Source: Country Games № December 2008	15.06.2008

What do those gamers who do not have neither the strength nor the desire to fight with retrograde drop in the turgor, and play into something unintelligible really want? And for them there is entertainment no worse name Sublustrum («sublyustrum", stressed on the "w"). Graphics excellent, catchy story, run frantically splashing lymph, will not have to. Whirl a camera, go over the points in the best traditions of Myst, to solve the puzzle. People living in places even show ... Beauty!

WATCHMEN: THE END IS NIGH

Author: Pavel Demin
Source: PC GAMES № May 2009	14.05.2009

STALKER, an overview of "SI&quot

Author: Alexander Trifonov
Source: Country Games № June 2007	30.03.2007

Not to pardon executed. Word stresses the green words, but put a comma in the right place devilishly difficult. Embark on a long argument about what are fraught with long-term construction - could be just what? It is better to imagine that there are people who have never heard of "Stalker". This is no exaggeration - when we Razumkinym returned by train from Kiev, a fellow traveler interested in our conversation, we started talking and he mentioned: that the play itself a bit, mostly to buy her son, but I believe this game did not really hear. What is it for?

TrackMania United

Author: VP
Source: Country Games № March 2007	15.02.2007

Initially, the first TrackMania seemed uncomplicated arcade racing: short-lived trip to the tracks catchy, funny "bandwagon jumping" cars and nice, but quite inexpressive schedule. In addition, TrackMania saw the light, almost simultaneously with the Need For Speed ​​Underground, around which a flash crowd of fans, not noticing anything, except his "neon" idol. When the hype about Underground has passed, the players were surprised to observe that missed an unusually amusing fun, unpretentious under the shell which hides an interesting gameplay. It would seem to drive quite a small track with a good result - what could be easier. But this principle TrackMania (plus the unusual route, reminding old-timers times Stunts) came to taste all without exception - the game is slowly but surely took possession of the minds of gamers.

Mass Effect, an overview of the PC-version of Gameland. ru

Author: Vadim Bobrov
	17.06.2008

Jumping from the steps of the lander onto the dusty surface of the Hollywood Pavilion, in which NASA staged a landing on the moon (it's our reviewer, so jokes can be ignored. - Ed.), Astronaut Neil Armstrong said: "This is a small step for man, one giant leap for mankind. "

Al Emmo and the Lost Dutchman's Mine

Author: VP
Source: Country Games № April 2007	28.02.2007

This is our E-mail - a naive, old-fashioned and infinitely miserable. Lot of fresh creations of Himalaya Studios, has become famous remake of the classic King's Quest and King's Quest 2, simply could not stay small circle of admirers. But after a while the game said the company Telltale Games. And not just noticed, and shoulder the difficult burden of the publisher. Why difficult? And who is now easy to take for the spread of the game, which was created on a free engine AGS and authorizes 640h400 points? But thanks to this heroic act Telltale Games, Adventure Al Emmo wins more fans - and quite zasluzhenno.Prezhde all, it is worth noting that our E-mail something like a noble ladies' man Larry Laffer - if the recall, he also threw to the winds for love, while possessing not the most attractive appearance. However, E, in contrast to Lovelace in a cheap white suit does not seek to go to bed every female person - his desire for a more natural and mundane. In particular: to find a life partner, a family, to meet adequately inexorably impending old age. With the latter is especially bad: Emmo 42 years, and he still shares the shelter with their parents. The only joy - correspondence with Ivannoy Lottamani for which our hero goes to the Wild West. But the dream still remains a dream - Ela begin bitch back in the intro and confidently continue to do so until the last minutes of the game - only in the final, he will receive his award.

Crusaders: Thy Kingdom Come

Author: A. «Chebur» Arbat
Source: Country Games № 15 2008	01.08.2008

Fortunately, this time, moving to Jerusalem, we will not have along the way to build stables and make up swords - after all, the end of XI century, all the necessary long-invented, and the era of "gunpowder and Spears have to wait another three hundred years. The authors are pleased: here it is, the campaign in the original sense of the word - we have a small army, gain experience during the war, growing in size and acquire special skills.

Turgor (review Gameland. Ru)

Alex Skavronskaya
	25.08.2008

When you first look at the girl on the cover of "turgor" catch myself thinking that poluletet, polupadat for this half-dressed creature is on the verge between impressionism and surrealism, it is quite normal. Spray paint, scattering in all directions, at first seem to be hair, and after - splash of emotions, replacing the expression on his face. Ring at the bottom reminiscent of the well, giving birth to the idea of ​​eternity. Not every cover'll be treated with such interest.

Nikopol: Secrets of the Immortals

Author: Marina Petrashko
Source: Country Games № 17 2008	01.09.2008

Have the game and signs trash, mainly arising from the desire of the author to say everything at once. Enki, the renowned French designer cartoonists of Bosnian origin, had fallen into understandable sin stale director - he Dorval! And the strongest gesture stuffed into one movie almost all the characters and plot his own trilogy about the adventures of frostbitten rebel Alsida * Nikopol. Frostbitten in the literal sense - his thirty years of "hibernation" in Earth orbit for crimes against a totalitarian government, and then he fell from the sky, then it moved in an ancient Egyptian god Horus, more ... But there is better to stop, otherwise a review of the game will turn into a thumbnail like the movie.

Rayman: Rabid Rabbits 2

Alex Koptsev
Source: PC GAMES number in August 2008	21.07.2008

Darkfall

Author: Sergey Gotsman
Source: Country Games № -9 1997	06.03.2010

Darkfall - a typical "niche game". Complex, shall be punished for any blunders, it is confusing for most players and the wild delight of the so-called "hardcore" audience. Very difficult to explain, for what it praise - just a game you like or not.

War Leaders: Clash of Nations

Author: Andrew Okushko
Source: Country Games № December 2009	29.06.2009

Stalin, Churchill, de Gaulle, Roosevelt - would you be anyone of them? Or would prefer to enroll in the camp of Hitler and his henchmen? And that, and another possibly in War Leaders - seven main parties to the conflict come together in such a big (and so little time) around the globe. The winner will be only one ...

Dilemma 2: Martian Chronicles

Author: Marina Petrashko
Source: Country Games № 17 2008	01.09.2008

On the night in such glowing eyes better not to look. Will dream more then ... Writing, however, it is necessary. It is clear that the end game of the dilemmas in the lives of gamers will sharply increase, but would be superfluous to tell at least in general terms, how he will get to such a life.

Heroes of Might and Magic V: Hammers of Fate

Ilia Chentsov
Source: Country Games № 24 2006	19.12.2006

I do not know whether the accident that the "episodic" model of game development became popular soon after the last episode of "Star Wars". However, you can see more interesting trend: igrodely after Lucas became much more daring to violate the natural order of the chapters of his saga. Thus, the expansion pack to Age of Empires III tells us not only the continuation of the main campaign, but also about the events that took place between the second and third of its chapters. Ubisoft is not far behind and with a revived Universe Might and Magic. First they showed us the top stories in Heroes of Might and Magic V, then its end (the end of it?) In Dark Messiah, and now we face a "continuation of the beginning" - the addon "Hammers of Fate." Without going into details of the plot, except to say that "the Lord" took a new record, "Might and Magic" is the same place as the "Clone Wars" in "Star Wars" - the action develops, the tension grows, the heroes are winning some interim victories but felt that the great achievements still to come. The script is not written in a much better than Dark Messiah, and play to find out what happened next - you want.