PC Strategy games - what's the latest/greatest?
 

I've been playing Age of Empires 3 and still love it! Command and Conquer is another favourite of mine, gone through the whole lot up to Yuri's revenge.

Any suggestions for any similar and perhaps newer games in this genre?

I've nearly finished AOE 3 and like playing skirmishes still, but looking for something new if possible.

Well i like AOE3 too but it's not really a replayable game once you finish campaign and try all skirmish levels.At the moment i still play redalert 3 and it's mode challenge,where i try to accomplish better time on it.

You can try out the new Xcom Enemy Unknown (remake/reimagination of the original one) from firaxis (civ series).
Or just buy this badass for 5.99$ http://www.gog.com/gamecard/sid_meiers_colonization :D

i keep meaning to try out aoe but never get around to it.

Red Alert 3? Was that after Yuri's revenge? I remember playing Red Alert 2 and Generals/Zero Hour.

Not sure about 3 though, going to have to check my box set and see if that was in there.

That might my first thing to look for :thumbsup

Anyone played Civilization V?

I'll have a look, isn't gog.com mostly older games though? I want something newer :)

+1 on that (xcom), had a lot of fun playing this while bottle feeding pups every single hour of the day for a week :Oh crap

They all died btw :( apparently their mom had dog-herpes or someting

You're missing out :thumbsup. Be careful though, it's hard to close down once you get started.

yap played it, and it's awesome.. however many ppl are saying that civ4 was better (haven't played that one)

yap, this masterpiece is from 1994 :D or you can try out the new colonization (remake) based on civ4: http://www.firaxis.com/games/game_detail.php?gameid=21

That sucks :(

Cool will check it out! That new xcom looks like 3rd person shooter?

XCOM: Enemy Unknown is a turn-based tactical role-playing strategy video game (from wiki) :)
just like the old one

Ah right, looks good, but not really my thing.

I might get Red Alert 3 and Command and Conquer 4 because I haven't got them, just checked. I got the first decade box set only goes up to Generals.

Any good places to download demos these days? I want to try a couple of the Civilization games out and see what they're like.

i still play Rise Of The Nations (2003)... i think its 10 times better than any of Command and Conquer release...

total war

I'm a huge AOE3 fan, and C&C:Generals, too. And the original SimCity games. There just doesn't seem to be out much in this vein lately. I tried "Modern War" on my iPad and was heavily disappointed. blah. I'll have to look at the firaxis one linked above.

Never heard of that will have a look!

:thumbsup I used to like Settlers and Stronghold aswell.

Want to play a strip skirmish match sometime? :)

Yeah you're right though not much new out these days, there used to be a good new strategy game like every month, haven't seen hardly any around the past few years :(

Going to try Civilization out and find some of the missing Command & Conquers I think.

Oh and Black and White used to be good, so might look for number 2 (not rhyming slang).

Always loved Company of Heroes.

I think number 2 is out soon.

also 2 more great ones from 2000s

World In Conflict (late 80s USSR - USA war scenario)
and yes, Company of Heroes (WW2 allies campaign)

Empire is addictive

http://www.gamesplayzone.com/multipl...me-empire.html

On a console the best turn based game ever is Civilizations Revolutions.

total annihilation

ill check it out.. i heard good things about X-com, but haven't actually tried it yet

Civilization V gods and kings is awesome game,i would even say too awesome , because let say if you start to play in Monday you could spend entire week doing nothing else then just playing it since one game average duration is close to one week.

hehe got the first decade box also, however haven't got time to play it yet
basically you can't go wrong with the civilization series, one of the best strategy games out there.. and civ5 got some decent graphics also..

btw you can check out OpenTTD also, http://www.openttd.org/en/ it's a freeware remake of the original Transport Tycoon Delux, pretty cool too.

Civ 5 it is, then :) I believe I have a task this weekend :)

God I spent sp much time on xcom whilst at college!

Picked up this space trading and combat simulator, X3: Terran Conflict, which has a lot of strategy and depth. It started to feel like a bit like work after a while but was pretty cool and very complex, nice old school style game with some newer graphics and stuff. Basically build a giant space empire, almost more like sim city.

http://www.egosoft.com/games/x3tc/info_en.php

Current shortlist is:

Civ 5 and perhaps 4 or another more recent Civ game.
Command and Conquer 3
Red alert 3
Command and Conquer 4 I didn't know I was missing so many!

Thanks guys for helping me find something new :thumbsup

Got to check out some of the more recent suggestions. I don't really want games from early 2000's though because chances are I looked at them back then and put them down but I'll make sure first :thumbsup

a lot of people say that CIV 4 is better than CIV 5.

One of my favorites, along with the Kingdoms expansion.

I wish I could find my Total Annihilation CD

the old syndicate is the best

I know my questions is moving away from the traditional war strategy games SI was referring to but anyone can recommend a Final Fantasty Tactics/Vandal Hearts 1/2 type strategy game that's turned based?

slight off topic, but does anyone remember the old game on the Amiga that was a semi-humorous but very addictive strategy game about Nuclear Cold war, that had cartoonish type characters for the world leaders with different personalities, like Gandhi, and Gorbachev, and Ronald Reagan, and Thatcher, etc.?

that was such a fun game, and simple and quick enough to play in an hour or so, with lots of replayability, someone should do a remake for PC (if they haven't already)

I forget the name of it though, anyone?? I'd love to play it again and see if it holds up decades later

found it to answer part of my own question:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_War_(video_game)

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedi...me_box_art.jpg

Starcraft2 is by far the best real time PVP strategy game

Empire earth, the orginal one, epic game!

Many hours of my youth lost playing that

indeed, was the first game which i could get in my native language so i've played it all day long..

get civ5, it looks pretty good and it is a great game also..
or you can try out caesar IV which is pretty neat too

Also dont forget about this package:
http://store.origin.com/store/eaemea...55335500#terms

i agree, great game

Zork? lol

Coh company of heroes is the pinnacle. I've played them all.

Set in ww2, authentic units, 3rd person, focus on gameplay and tactics. Not base building.

now you make me wanna blow the dust off AOE3 and start playing it again, sure is a kewl game

Thanks for that link! I was trying to find that bloody store yesterday and had no luck!

I kept searching for EA Store and got nothing from google.

:thumbsup

I really enjoyed the campaign mode but I always got thrashed in multiplayer. Damn motorbike harass.

great topic, post more new RTS games here please

Another vote for Starcraft, either 1 or 2 actually.

An older one to look out for, The Close Combat series, realtime strat, ww2/realistic setting, tight focus on tactics, no real base building/resource harvesting/research. 4 or 5 games in the series, all reasonably worth playing. First of the series was released by Microsoft of all people, but GREAT set of games. Heavily influenced by Advanced Squad Leader from Avalon Hill (for those that are real geeks and also used to play table top wargames).

Lets not forget another of Sid Meier's classics, Alpha Centauri (Civ in space!)

There is also a great series of nearly realtime strategy (it takes a bit of getting used to but the realism rocks!) from an indie publisher called Combat Mission which has a few titles in the series now, fantastic series, check battlefront (dot) com. This game series is very realistic. First series or second series are both great buys, albeit fairly expensive.

As always, any of these games are only really worth playing against a human.

I have no idea what's new out there in this area but I had really liked Dark Reign back in the day for an RTS game and Master of Orion 1 for a turn based.

Have you seen End Of Nations from the same company that did Rift? It looks like it is going to be a big winner!

http://www.mmoden.com/mmo-news/end-o...n-unit-trailer

Bet I would have to have to move just to join in the fun lol, internet sucks here.

MMO Den rocks! So does the owner, great guy to deal with :thumbsup