December 7th, 1941 and the blow that lead to the expanded theatre of war for the United States. The Japanese, in a bold strategic move, attempted to wipe out the U.S. Pacific Fleet and caught a lot of ships unprepared during the surprise attack in Japan's opening salvo of the war.
That is the historical element and the setup for Attack on Pearl Harbor, a PC game from Legendo and CDV. Once you understand that setup, forget everything else. The game itself uses the attack as a backdrop but the rest is pure fiction.
AnaCapri: The Dream is the sequel to A Quiet Weekend in Capri. The same team developed both games. When A Quiet Weekend in Capri was first released a few years ago, it garnered some good comments for its different approach to gaming, which somewhat resembled a picture tour of a popular resort, the island of Capri.
The Codename Panzers games have earned Hungarian developer Stormregion a reputation for making solid, tactical real-time strategy games, but its new game Codename Panzers: Cold War looks set to finally take the series out of the World War II scenario. Here is also a very interesting mmorpg game called Everquest 2.
After events in both San Francisco and London, we've seen a fair bit of Turok in recent weeks. Said events focused on Turok's multiplayer and single-player content, respectively, so when we were invited to visit Propaganda Games in Vancouver earlier this month, we weren't entirely sure what there was left to see.
Turning Point: Fall of Liberty revolves around the premise that Winston Churchill died when he was hit by a taxi in 1931 (in reality, he lived, but had to use a cane the rest of his life). With one of Hitler's most stalwart foes out of the way, the Third Reich conquers all of Europe and then sets its sights on the US. So this is very much an alternative history first-person shooter, one that tasks you with being an ordinary Joe who must help defeat the invading German horde.
Space Siege is sort of like the plot of the hit show Battlestar Galactica in which the last remnants of humanity flee Earth, pursued by deadly aliens. However, in Space Siege, humanity's last hope inhabits a giant colony ship, which the aliens have just boarded.
OK, we spoke too soon. In our last preview of Sony Online Entertainment's Free Realms--an upcoming free-to-download PC game for the younger crowd--we said that our initial preview would likely be the last preview of the game on the site, as Sony was planning on hyping the game through viral methods such as seeding message boards and depending on the ever-important word of mouth.
Frontlines: Fuel of War is a game that's got a couple of big ambitions. The first is to provide a large-scale multiplayer experience along the lines of Battlefield: Modern Combat.
The Sixth Alliance Tournament is fast approaching, and signups for this popular tournament will begin on Friday, 19th December at 11:00 GMT. You can find the sign-up page here.