2006 Games Poll (poll is up - see link)

[Vicious Love]

B0rsuk said:
I'd rather stay away from Witcher. It's based on serries of polish fantasy novels. They're very popular here in Poland, but the movie is a disaster.

Bah, figures. To be honest, the first thing that came to mind upon reading the game's description was Rutger Hauer walking around delivering wooden dialogue and fighting topless witches with bad makeup and huge, fake hair. Or possibly Christopher Lambert. That paragraph can be interpreted several ways, and I wholly endorse all of them.

[PashaDawg]

djo said:
I'm looking forward to Combat Mission: Shock Force (battlefront.com; no page yet, just a forum), due spring 2006. It's a rewrite of the engine for the Combat Mission WWII tactical game, with this first release being set in the near future Middle East.

Do you know if they will be available for Mac? You got a Mac, right Djo?

[djo]

PashaDawg said:

Do you know if they will be available for Mac? You got a Mac, right Djo?

I do have a Mac. Battlefront has been very careful about announcing Mac support. They very much want to (the devs use Macs), but they are afraid the Mac to Intel chip transition may screw them if Apple changes key APIs or something. Apparently something of that kind happened during the OS 9 to OS X transition, which is why no Combat Mission 1 for OS X. However, they seem very optimistic; various posts in the forum seem to have almost all but announced Mac support. One wonders if announcements at this week's Macworld Expo may clarify the situation enough to make an official announcement possible.

[PvK]

Space Empires V
Dominions 3
Wierd Worlds
All American: The 82nd Airborne in Normandy
Galley Battles

Combat Mission Campaigns (http://www.battlefront.com/products/cmc/index.html)

Hammer & Sickle

Tigers on the Prowl III (hpssims.com)

[NTJedi]

Most of these games everyone here has listed sound good... yet when in search of buying a new game I search for specific game features which I've listed below:

1) Random Game Generator
2) Game/Map Editor
3) Multiplayer capability (4 or more gamers)
4) Developer/Publisher communications/updates with gamers
5) Adjusting/Improving Artificial Intelligence


---all of these are not needed but two of the top three are definitely needed.--

[Saber Cherry]

Unless anyone adds anything in the next few hours, I'll go ahead and post the poll.

[RonD]

Rise of Legends link - I haven't had time to get any good at an RTS since Starcraft, but I keep buying them. Rise of Nations and the Kohan games have been my favorites. Rise of Legends certainly wins the "looks interesting" award in my book.

[Cainehill]

Kohan 2 - was that good? I had / have Kohan 1 somewhere, rts ain't my cuppa whiskey, but it was fairly fun.

[Boron]

Saber Cherry said:
Unless anyone adds anything in the next few hours, I'll go ahead and post the poll.

You missed my earlier post.

Boron said:
Most games i await for 2006 have already been posted. Surprisingly though one of my favourite Developers is missing:
Paradox Interactive.

Early 2006 they will release Hoi 2 Doomsday.
http://www.paradoxplaza.com/


Promising Indy Games:
Soldiers of Empires, a mix between Panzer General and War in Russia.
http://www.igorlab.com/index.htm
2006 they might finish SoE 2 which will include the western theater as well.

Freeware, gets constantly further developed, so new Versions every few months:
Megamek, turn based tactic game based on the Battletech-Boardgames.
http://megamek.sourceforge.net/idx.php?pg=main

At least Hoi 2 Doomsday deserves to be added to the list definitely .