Patrician III

Europa Universalis III

Very addictive game but ultimately vacuous and frustrating

This game seems so promising when you first play it and even, like me, after you've been playing it for ages, but eventually the absurdities become too much. When I first started playing this game it seemed brilliant,... Read Full Review

Europa Universalis III Complete

Very addictive game but ultimately vacuous and frustrating.

This game seems so promising when you first play it and even, like me, after you've been playing it for ages, but eventually the absurdities become too much. When I first started playing this game it seemed brilliant... Read Full Review

Patrician III: Rise of the Hanse

This could have been a truly great game but it's spoiled by clunky controls and excessive micro-management.

Patrician 3 is one of the most in depth games I've ever played and if you like business/trader/management games this has all the ingredients for a very good game. You start of as a small trader in a town in the 14th c... Read Full Review

The Settlers: Rise of an Empire

Settlers 6 has far too much emphasis on looking good. It looks good ok but it seriously overlooks the economic aspect.

I got this game because I loved settlers 3 and the reason I loved that game was because of the complexity of the economic management of your city and the difficulties that created for building up your city. I've not play... Read Full Review

Battlefield 2

Promised so much but still hasn't managed to create a real team playing atmosphere.

Im not going to start describing what this game is all about, I'm just going to give my views on the games strengths and weaknesses. Before Battlefield 2 came out I thought this is going to be a totally superb game, th... Read Full Review