"Hot Seat, hot game."

"I still from time to time load up my finished Dungeon Keeper savegame to listen to the awesome mission briefings. :D"

"Very tactical, few but unique units, great gameplay and style."

"One of the best RPG addons I've ever played. Fits nicely into the main story arc."

"Best adventure ever."

"Best game of the HoMM series, imho."

"Turn-based strategy, small number of units, very tactical. Great game."

"Using that baseball bat on other worms leads to some very silly homeruns... :p Still one of the best hotseat gameplay up to date."

"Great gameplay. Awards continuous combat through health / mana refillers and exp multipliers dropped by killed / damaged enemies. Good vs. evil choices and according character morphing."

"Great Japan style game, innovative unit training / progression. Awards early combat by Yin / Yang points used for unit improvements. Cool graphics style. Sadly, the races were unbalanced and this problem was not sufficiently adressed by patches."

"Eliminate target. Persuade and protect. Destroy vehicle."

"Beautifully designed authentic characters. Delivers the American "dream" as is, not as suggested. Critical tone on the current Western industrialized society. Attention to detail. Very interactive and fun combat. Great game."

"This one never gets old, I guess."

"This game is wonderful. Because of its art style, it feels like you play in a teenage comicbook."

"The Sequel to the "real" Monkey Island. "

"Classic Adventure."

"AAA B-Movie. :p"

"Braiiiiins! Tower Defense in a very funny way."

"Squad combat tactical gameplay with strong RPG elements (equipment, leveling, squad customization,...). The campaign experience is excellent, actually one of the best RTS experiences I had thus far. Campaign coop just plain rocks."

"Beautiful handcrafted graphic style. Super Mario like gameplay. Great game for kids / young players. Well thought-out puzzles."

"A 1st step towards cooperative RTS. But lacks motivation for strong teamplay since the only rewards for it are medals / batches AFTER the match."

"Heroes III reloaded, with nicer graphics. AI still cheats on campaigns, though."

"Great game! Free to play, turn-based strategy game. cooperative-competitive. Download and try it out for free at www.wesnoth.org"

"Imperium Romanum Tjuhlum. "

"Very well done 3rd person view RTS game in a "please the Gods with the execution of their powers" setting. "

"Interesting RTS and FPS genre-mix. "Indie" game that's way better than many many "AAA" games out there."

"Best of the Civ series."

"Diverse races, very balanced. Zerg are so cute!"

"Great game feedback, fun gameplay, heterogenous races. "Endgame", that is multiplayer vs. others, as in all Blizzard games, gets too hectic / unrewarding, though."

"No resource gathering and base development. Classic real-time tactics game."

"Well thought-out hero classes, great storyboarding. High quality RTS game. Standard playstyle: build base, research, build and use army."

"I liked the dystopian but still authentic "we control everything, minion!" setting and the overall story arch."

"maxlv +10, BC questing > WoW vanilla questing. Too many new spells, certain hybrids (e.g. melee shamans, moonkins,...) finally viable additions to groups and raids."

"Turn-based strategy DOS game, 2D. 8 different races that have access to different unit types at game start. Your gameplay goal is world domination through units recruited within controlled towns. Hero units that can search shrines for loot, blessings"

"Nice graphics, comic style. Well balanced. Very nice textures. Cool character classes and abilities. Endgame - that is running after a carrot on a stick, sucks, though."

Server: EU-EU-EU-Blackmoore

Guild: Inhume

Characters:

Hum, Level 29 Tauren Shaman — lv29 Enhancement Shaman

Tjuhl, Level 60 Troll Priest — Former main char. Holy priest. Likes dancing.

Wûtz, Level 70 Orc Shaman — Enhancement Shaman

"At the time it was released I was so yound that my brain was not yet capable of beating the AI. ;/"

"Additional campaign and a few new units. Liked the story arc and the rexxar campaign, disliked the multi-race levels."

"A paladin being held in your torture chamber was convinced to join your cause. * a nearby bile demon farts loudly with approval *"

"Best game of the Gothic series so far. Believable and authentic main character personality. Overall rough tone."

"Great combat system (back in beta)... Naval combat was okay. Had no "crew" though thus didn't play very long."

"maxlv+10. WotLK leveling > BC leveling > WoW vanilla leveling. Some very nice region-wide story archs / quest chains. Beautiful landscape design. Death Knight = cool, really enjoyed Unholy DK tanking."

Characters:

Drêad, — Death Knight Tank (Unholy)

Wûtz, — Enhancement Shaman, face-thundering since BC.

"After I finished the dark brotherhood and the thieves' guild, I heard there's also a main story arch? Didn't really care when the first demons popped out of those portals. (booooring :o )"

"Personally, I like the stylized graphic and art style of this software piece a lot better than the ultra-realistic graphics of games like FarCry2, Crytek, KillZone, etc."

"Free to play MMORPG. Nice comic style WoWish graphics. Gameplay is solid and pretty standard aka "kill 10 rats". Has a feature that greatly enhances group coordination and strategic movement."

"RTS with strong RPG elements. Interesting campaign and side-quests."

"I liked the way bases were build, that is just around the center building on fixed spaces (that you have to conquer). The variable campaign was nice in terms of replayability and taking over the units from the last battle to the next enhanced caring "

"Personally, I liked the basic Syndicate better. Nicer graphics / colors, more intuitive UI, better overall gameplay."

"The naval combat was funny, and I think I liked the campaign pretty much."

""A geologist has found iron in the nearby mountains." Yay."

"As cute as the Sims but you don't try to have your roommates become lesbians. :o"

"Liked the ability dependencies, introduction of offensive / defensive target, parley mini-game. Disliked the bugs, the quantity but quality approach, and the partly frustrating crafting system."

"I tried a free (mini-)MMO server, but patching the private shards caused major headaches (10 small changes --> please download the whole client = x GB)"

"Beautiful eerie underwater retro-look atmosphere. Still didn't "dive in" yet."

"Innovative ability activation, hero-centered RTS gameplay. No hero-centered multiplayer, though."

"Diablo clone. I was a little disappointed that you couldn't play the campaign cooperatively."

"Many very nice small features (quest mobs are shown on the minimap etc.). Better than some subscription fee games, e.g. WAR, Tabula Rasa, The Chronicles of Spellborn, or Vanguard: Saga of Heroes."

"While the overall idea of a post-nuclear scenario is nice, and the surroundings / world is beautifully designed, I didn't like (1) the overall trist grey / brown color tone and (2) the controls of the PC version (can I haz minimap please kktnxbye) an"

"Nice free / open world. Oblivion was better, though in terms of overall gameplay."

"I like the art style. All that world flipping and turning, however, was rather confusing, especially in terms of orientation."

"Free to play MMORPG. Game art is mediocre at best: very few objects, blurry textures etc. Animations are nice, though. Compared to other F2P MMOs, I'd rather pick 4Story or Runes of Magic."

"Just like the normal card game, with the difference you don't have to pay hundreds of dollars / euros to get a nice deck together. UI very Windows-ish and unintuitive."

"Civ III > Civ I > mediocre rest"

"Can't remember any significant improvement compared to the 1st part of the series."

"I liked the original Civilization much better as overall gameplay was more intuitive and more interesting."

"Within this game, you've got so many units that you don't really care about a single one of them."

"Esp. in PvP-oriented games, combat should be interesting and fun, reactive, tactical, meaningful,... which is imho not the case for WAR, sadly."

Server: EU Beta Server

Guild: out of Order

"I was in the closed beta for a while. Back then it lacked motivation for teamplay and control in combat, esp. targeting. Mostly passive abilities = no meaningful in-combat choices."

"Not nearly as good as Gothic I + II. Release version was a bug fest, thanks to JoWood / Piranha Bytes (probably both)."

"Demo was pretty boring. You're supposed to chase cattle into your UFO. Problem is, that the UFO reacts rather sluggish and UI feedback and camera angle are not really well-chosen."

"Action RPG sci-fi hack'n'slay shooter. Graphics are comparable to the Diablo2 graphics. UI and game feedback are a lot worse than D2. Kind of an achievement for a game that is a lot younger release-wise than D2..."

"Targeting, dodging, and animations are awful = core gameplay not working = hm no thank you."

"Downloading and reinstalling that game took about four times as much the time I played that game. It just felt... generic gameplay-wise."

"There is an Anno 1404 Closed Beta. I'm in it."

"Dawn of War as an MMO? Sounds like sth. I'd like to play. :D"

"This place is thick with the stench of ghouls."