The story centers around the demon Na-Krul, one of Diablo's cronies who is tired of being an underling and wants to branch out into his own brand of tyranny over the poor besieged town of Tristram.
Strategy games tend to focus on either micromanagement or massive battles, and no matter which one the game tends to focus on, the other almost always suffers.
Regardless of scope, the deciding factor for all historical strategy games is the game's ability to strike a balance between realistic detail and playability; too much of one can kill the other.
In the last few years there has been an overwhelming flood of pinball games released for the PC, but Sierra has now taken a different tack than the other producers.
There are tons of good first-person shooters out there, especially this year, but few of them have managed to mingle a good, solid game with an interesting and really quite amusing plot, until now.
Once upon a time, auto racing consisted of just that -- no beer commercials, no corporate sponsors, no aerodynamics -- just hard, fast, dangerous driving.
If you’re like me, your experience with computer minigolf meant top-down views taking angles and velocity into account in an attempt to get the small dot (ball) onto the bigger dot (hole).
As the smoke settles, you see them crossing the ridge. Dressed in the blue uniforms of the Union army, the well-supplied troops take the hill and dig in for defense.
The graphics in this game were wonderful, especially in the attention given to detail. Cyclone looks like an actual town, with pebbles on the ground, garbage, flowers, tombstones and more.
Now Urak is in dire need of help. With Balkoth free, the temples are overrun with the power of Darkness, and the land begs for a savior to return it to its former glory.
At first, they were just words -- rumors of things barely understood. Words without any connection to the magical world you know, but heavy with mystery.
I must say from the outset that I approached this game with more than a little skepticism, because I have never been a fan of 2D side-scrolling platform "run-jump-and-shoot" games.
It's an intriguing story: a young girl has been mauled by a wolf near Gabriel Knight's ancestral home in Bavaria, and Gabriel is asked to find out why.
Sierra's 3-D Ultra Pinball series, of which this is the third installment, has established a firm reputation of being highly innovative, frenzied, and a bit wacky.
An explosion rocks the side of your head! Using your jet pack, you quickly launch 100 feet into the air. Another explosion rocks the limitless ground beneath you.
It's the 40th Century and just when humanity thought they had the art of killing down to a' well' an art, along comes hordes of genetically engineered BioDerm salve soldiers. So now it's up to the four neo-barbarian tribes to stop them.
Okay, so you don't want to have your speaker turned up too loud when you slide this disk in -- the "LET'S PLAY BALL!" intro sound will wake you up quickly, or give you away if you happen to be at work.