War games are not only of the fps shooter genre driving a soldier on the front line, there are also those of strategy, which wear less and keep people glued to the chair for many hours. Strategic war games where you act as general of the armed forces leading your army to victory. The most popular of these war games have names like EA's Command and Conquer, or Warzone 2100 from Eidos Interactive, on sale for Playstation, Xbox or Windows PC. In these games, defenses are built, defenses are explored, the territory is explored and the enemy is attacked to defeat him.
The novelty is that the popular Warzone 2100 is open-source and can be downloaded and played for free on the computer.
In addition to WarZone, the Company Of Heroes Online game was released in recent months and I wanted to complete this article on war games with a nice turn-based video game called Battle Dex .
1) Warzone 2100 can be downloaded and installed on your PC, for free and without limitations. Since the game has been commercially encoded and distributed, you can expect high digital image quality, excellent sound effects, professional music, and a captivating and well-kept gaming environment. I spent two sleepless nights testing the game before I could write an article about it; it was hard work and sacrifice, just for you!
On Warzone 2100, you can play both a single player mode (alone) and in multiplayer game mode with online games. The plot of the game is about a post apocalyptic world that is being rebuilt after nuclear destruction. We must therefore put ourselves in the shoes of a manufacturer always under the threat of being destroyed.
In single-player mode, you start with a single base and a few vehicles; nothing is yet built, but there are funds available to invest to immediately build barriers and defensive machines, so as to repel the first attacks. The game itself is not very simple to play at the beginning because you have to get used to the controls and understand what you need to do to start the business. By hovering over any of the icons, a pop-up appears explaining what that button does. Once the important structures of the base have been built, you have to start manufacturing vehicles and explore the area. On a radar you will see the territory explored, with red points indicating the enemies and green ones representing their units. You can select one or more vehicles and then position the mouse on the enemy to attack it en masse.
Vehicles can also be told to defend a particular area, to shoot at a specific point, or to immediately retreat and return to base for repairs. Each vehicle has a status bar that indicates the level of life, when it turns red, it must be repaired before it is destroyed. For a real-time strategy war game that you can play for free, I would say that for the whole you can't ask for more. The multiplayer mode is identical to the single player, except for the spelled that war is waged against other people and not against the computer.
2) Company of Heroes Online This time it is a very big game, to be downloaded to the computer and played in multiplayer mode. It is about war and strategy with excellent and fluid graphics, which requires computers of a certain level to be fully appreciated (the minimum requirements to play are very high). Nothing to do with Warzone, this time we are talking about a large file to download and install on your computer. You can customize the commander, specialize on the battlefield and grow in experience. The game includes micro-payments that are not mandatory but useful for improving your character.
3) Planetside 2, on the other hand, is a huge game that requires some effort, but which gives great satisfaction. As already written in the review, it is a very lively shooter, with high graphic quality and endless scenarios.
4) Heroes And Generals is a mix of strategy and action in which you can play as a general or as a soldier on the field (review in separate article).
5) Command & Conquer can be played for free online on the web browser by going to www.adityaravishankar.com/projects/games/command-and-conquer/
Command & Conquer is a real-time strategy game (RTS), with a top view, where you have to build structures, have them developed and, above all, build tanks and defense weapons to attack and defend against enemies.
The gameplay requires the player to build a base and acquire resources, to finance the production of military weapons, in order to conquer the opposing base. The game is not turn-based, so you keep moving, clicking with the mouse on the structures to build new units and clicking on the tanks to make them move towards the enemies and attack them.
From other articles I remember other very nice war and strategy games such as:
- Battle of Wesnoth a turn-based battle and strategy game for Windows, Linux and Mac.
