Epinions Recent Reviews for duke_nuker

Not exactly a reference role playing game

Sat, 27 Jul 2002 15:26:06 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author duke_nuker - The lands of Arcanum, the latest RPG from Sierra, are no different from those in Baldur’s Gate, Icewind Dale or the upcoming Neverwinter Nights, where humans, elves, dwarves and gnomes gather in huge and powerful but yet criminal-intensive cities.
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Have you ever played an RTS? Well, here’s another one (2)

Sun, 3 Feb 2002 22:37:33 GMT

rating: 2/5 by: Epinions Author duke_nuker - German developers are finally jumping out of the complex micromanagement turn-based simulation bandwagon (which is about to crash at any moment, anyway) with titles like Sudden Strike, a World War II-based real time strategy, and more recently, the...

Command and Conquer Red Alert 2 for Windows: Will the game that changed history change history?

Sun, 12 Aug 2001 22:09:50 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author duke_nuker - ‘What if’ suppositions have been a handy tool for scriptwriters everywhere for a long time now. There are many well-known movies and books based on suppositions like what if Hitler had actually won World War II, what if the Soviet Union hadn’t broken...

The first 'non-doomed' licensed title

Wed, 20 Jun 2001 22:03:17 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author duke_nuker - What can I say about licensed games that hasn’t been said somewhere else before?

There’s some sort of ‘formula of Doom’ that states videogames based on licensed material are, for one reason or another, destined to fail no matter how much money is...

The genre that evolved the least, brings you another reason to stay away from it

Sun, 27 May 2001 22:16:48 GMT

rating: 2/5 by: Epinions Author duke_nuker - Innerloop Studio’s Project I.G.I is one of those weird creations that mixes elements so different that you can’t tell whether it will succeed or sink by just reading an editorial preview. The game is clearly a first person shooter in the ‘blow stuff up’...

Have you ever played an RTS? Well, here's another one

Fri, 11 May 2001 21:56:44 GMT

rating: 2/5 by: Epinions Author duke_nuker - One uninspiring day, in an office at the Ellipse Studios development house, a programmer told his fellow workers: guys, I came up with an excellent idea! What if we create a Real Time Strategy game?

After his bored companions gave him a rather...

Scariest experience since System Shock 2

Sun, 29 Apr 2001 12:04:15 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author duke_nuker - Survival horror games for the PC are few and far between, and those of them made with high production values (read: a kick-a_$s graphics engine and freakin’ positional audio) are even scarcer. Of the remaining group, those being a bit hyped by the media...

Fallout 2 for Mac: Nice trip into the wasteland

Fri, 6 Apr 2001 21:54:56 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author duke_nuker - Fallout 2 is a game where spear-wielding, semi naked natives cohabit with radioactive zombies and two-headed cows. It’s a game with dated graphics and a promising storyline. It has one of the best intro cutscenes I have seen in a long while. It lets you...

The king of expanion packs

Tue, 27 Mar 2001 21:56:44 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author duke_nuker - Reviewing expansion packs is like purchasing a PlayStation 2 on ebay, you never know what you are going to get. The title of choice can either be a quality follow-up to the franchise where the developers put all their efforts into or, well, a title where...

WWW Site Reviews: Online Gaming Publications: What’s going on, where we are heading to

Tue, 20 Mar 2001 22:20:33 GMT

rating: 3/5 by: Epinions Author duke_nuker - Like many other industries before it, online gaming publications are entering a period of recession in which, as predicted by the man who came up with the theory that states humans evolved from chimps (or was it backwards?), Charles Darwin, only the...

The king of RTS gaming

Thu, 8 Mar 2001 22:32:41 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author duke_nuker - Back in early 1999, the second Age of Empires game from Ensemble Studios came out, setting a new standard upon which future RTS games would be judged. Almost two years have passed since then, and looking at the endless piles of overhyped trash reviewers...

When “quick cash-in” actually stands for something good

Sat, 24 Feb 2001 14:05:45 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author duke_nuker - Due to many different reasons, ranging from sucky sales to the lack of a numerous fan base, not many games are given the privilege of getting an expansion pack done after them. Half-Life comes to mind as one of the few exceptions when even after more...

Suck it down! (tm)

Fri, 2 Feb 2001 00:23:34 GMT

rating: 1/5 by: Epinions Author duke_nuker - How much can I say about Daikatana that hasn’t been said before somewhere else? Not much I guess, but after visiting a friend that purchased the game, played with him through more than a half of this monster-piece and read the laughable README.TXT...

Gunman Chronicles for Windows: Half-Life without the storyline

Tue, 23 Jan 2001 21:44:03 GMT

rating: 1/5 by: Epinions Author duke_nuker - Seen from the outside, to work as a game reviewer has to be the best kind of job available out there. You play games all day (which by the way, are shipped to you for free), write a review between 500-1000 words after you are done with them, and you even...

It’s still Doom

Tue, 9 Jan 2001 23:27:02 GMT

rating: 3/5 by: Epinions Author duke_nuker - Of all the genres that compose the PC gaming scene, the First Person Shooter has to be the one that evolved the less through all this time. I know real time strategies are now getting stuck in a lethargic period of unoriginality, but it was not always...

Buy it while it's still legal!

Thu, 21 Dec 2000 23:42:28 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author duke_nuker - Ah, the light of day, it was nice when the sun was still out there. It used to pop up

everyday, reaching my monitor with its beams of light, telling me another real day had passed. That was until I hermetically closed the windows, locking...

The game capable of tarnishing the X-COM name has arrived

Sun, 17 Dec 2000 23:52:25 GMT

rating: 2/5 by: Epinions Author duke_nuker - When you consider X-COM Interceptor, you may ask yourself what reason there might be to buy it instead of another notable turn-based strategy simulator game. The answer is quite simple; there is none.

And for me there was even more; I was a big fan...

The French did it again!

Wed, 6 Dec 2000 21:24:25 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author duke_nuker - At last! It seems someone in France has finally done his homework. Games like this one are really hard to find, especially when they come from that side of the world, but there’s always an exception that confirms the rule.

Ladies...

Magic Set: Best registry tweaking utility in town

Mon, 27 Nov 2000 23:16:05 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author duke_nuker - I have been doing some tweaking to my PC lately. Not the kind of tweaking that implies opening the case or trying those DIP switches in three hundred different positions to make a successful overclocking but a less tiring activity.

Everything was...

Simulating adrenaline

Fri, 17 Nov 2000 23:06:56 GMT

rating: 3/5 by: Epinions Author duke_nuker - Before I begin this, I want to let everybody know that this isn’t only a review of SWAT 3 but a comparison between it and the other, newer titles that fall into the same category. Well, at least that was what I was trying to do when I first sat here and...

French stuff isn’t always a sign of evil

Wed, 15 Nov 2000 21:47:28 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author duke_nuker - Japanese exceptions aside, games made outside the U.S tend to be cheap copycats of other titles that were already successful somewhere else, where things like gameplay are sacrificed and exchanged for cool graphics or nice tunes. Or sometimes even...

KISS Psycho Circus: Homage to old styled FPS gaming

Thu, 9 Nov 2000 23:40:51 GMT

rating: 2/5 by: Epinions Author duke_nuker - When the KISS Psycho Circus game finally hit stores in mid July, it didn’t receive good criticism from the gaming publications despite all the coverage praising it coming from the previews section [Hint to game reviewers: don’t preview a game saying it’s...

Blair Witch Volume II: The Legend of Coffin Rock for Windows: Another proof that licensed games are doomed

Thu, 2 Nov 2000 23:38:12 GMT

rating: 2/5 by: Epinions Author duke_nuker - When the Gathering of Developers (GOD) publishing company initially announced to the press that they were going to release three separate games, divided by volumes, based on last year’s big hit, The Blair Witch Project, each of them created by a...

Everyone’s missing the point, this just isn’t the kind of se

Sat, 28 Oct 2000 23:56:43 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author duke_nuker - Ah, the dark world of movie sequels, what would Hollywood be without them? How many times has a sequel to a respectable film with a good fan base saved some troubled studio from bankrupt?

Not many actually, but they helped them a lot in the sense...

Heretic 2 for Windows: The game of the year that should have been

Tue, 24 Oct 2000 22:06:07 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author duke_nuker - When a game sells more than a million copies, it’s certainly a best seller. Although these numbers may not seem very high when talking about other products such as music or books, in the PC gaming market the “million copies sold” is a barrier that not...