11/27/2022 0 Comments Cossacks art of war ocean of games![]() And so it was that I bought a Greggs' pastie and a can of fizzy pop as I played Cossacks 3, to better transport myself back to my younger days of less pressure and terrible diets. The pace of publishing was such that I could spend a full week on a review rather than dash through as fast as possible. I am almost certain I reviewed at least one Cossacks game during that period, though I can remember nothing of it. It takes me back to a time when, working for PC Format magazine back in the days when magazines were something other than an expensive way to pass a train journey if your phone battery was running low, games like this would arrive on my desk every week. Cossacks 3, which in a sentence is a traditional build and bash RTS with higher unit counts and a little more focus on formation, is a comfort blanket, and I regret nothing. It's so thoroughly unreconstructed as an RTS, a straight-to-the-point rarity in changed times, like a visitor from an alt-timeline where strategy games never gave up on the Age Of Empires formula and were still the same in 2016, but slicker and flashier. It's a demi-remake of the 2001 original, in fact. GSC Gameworld (they of STALKER fame, at least in name) are behind this 17th- and 18th-century Europe-set real-time strategy game, which though it bears a 3 in its name does not present any particular barriers to series newcomers. Cossacks 3 is not PC gaming's norm in 2016 any more than Mario or Sonic are consoles', but I must admit that I found it to be something of a balm. I sought, somewhat in vain, to defend myself, because in truth it has been many years since I played a historical RTS. Our interests and stereotypes had not changed since 1997. This, these tiny men, those cod-historical serif fonts and that expanse of terrain - this was what PC gamers played all the time. He didn't say anything when he glaced at my screen didn't have to, for his face said it all. Whilst I was playing Cossacks 3, a console-focused journalist of some reknown (TV's famous Simon Parkin, since you ask) popped his head into the rotting cupboard above a coffee shop that I attempt to call an office. ![]()
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |
AuthorWrite something about yourself. No need to be fancy, just an overview. ArchivesCategories |