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Set in year 2011, Raven Squad: Operation Hidden Danger puts you in control of a bunch of mercenaries stranded in the Amazon Jungle. Now caught in the middle of civil warfare, their only choice is to fight it out and stay alive as long as possible.

Raven Squad is your standard tactical real time strategy game with a twist. You can control your squad members in first person view as well. The RTS section contains no base building as you'll be given a set number of units for each level to complete. It plays very much like Ground Control and Desert Rats vs. Afrika Korps. The first person mode plays pretty much like any first person shooter in the market, giving you the advantage to perform one shot kills (eg. head-shots). The game features single player co-op as well.

Taking place 2500 years ago, Fate of Hellas recreates the war between the Greeks and their mortal enemies. The single player campaign includes Spartans and Macedonians with missions on each side. Players will have to build strongholds and armies to invade hostile empires.

The game features unique army management like the ability to form formations which give the soldiers strategic advantage in battle. Players are able to configure unit weapons, add chariots to existing troops and change their armor type.

Ancient Wars: Sparta is a RTS which takes place during 500-450 BC period, which recreates the battles of Spartans, Persians and Egyptians for Little Asia, Europe and North Africa. The single player campaign is divided between the 3 aforementioned races totaling to 27 missions.

The game features large scale battles with tactical elements for formations and attack positions. In addition, units are able to pick up weapons from defeated soldiers and use it just like in Bungie's Myth games. The player will be able to customize the infantry units from the weapons to armor type. The player will be able to add existing tech to their own culture by conquering other cultures.

SlamTilt Resurrection is a 3D version of the hit Slamtilt pinball game released back in 1997. It features new high res graphics up to 1280 by 1024 in 32Bit color. It includes 2 tables: Demon and Pirate. Players are able to choose from 5 levels of difficulty ranging from novices to pro gamer. 4 types of gameplay modes like normal, tournament and so on. There are also 20 different in-game modes for each table.

War Front: Turning Point takes place in an alternate universe where Hitler is assassinated during WWII during a phase of Russian expansion. The replacement German leader unites Germany with the Allies in an effort to defeat the Russians. The story is played out in cutscenes with a B-Movie feel in terms of delivery and dialogue.

This is your standard base building and resource collecting RTS like Command & Conquer and Warcraft. Building a plethora of units and ploughing them at the enemy is the main course of gameplay.

The game features most of the standard World War 2 units (Shermans, Me-262s, rocket launchers) and (like Command & Conquer: Generals) hero units with special abilities, such as extra damage or stronger armor). New weapons add a sci-fi element: The Allies have earthquake bombs and shield boosters; the Germans have armored Mechs and ultra-destructive Zeppelins; the Russians have ice bombs (which freezes everything in sight) and underground carriers for a stealth element. You can take control of specific units FPS-style, but be careful not to lose sight of the bigger picture.

The single player mission allows the player to play the Allied or German side. There are primary and secondary objectives; primary usually involves destroying a base, but secondary will often improve your situation in later missions. In multiplayer, the player will be allowed to play Allied, German and Russian.

Taking place right after the events depicted in the movie,Evil Dead 2, Ash is arrested for the murder of the Deadite bodies found at the cabin and convicted. Found psychopathic, Ash is sentenced to Sunny Meadows, an institute for the criminally insane. Though free from the madness that plagued him in the woods, Ash learns that the Necromonicon Ex Mortis, the Book of the Dead has fallen into the hands of Dr. Vladamir Reinhard, the person in charge of the asylum. In the basement, Dr. Reinhard experiments on unlocking the secrets of the Necromonicon. Using a helpless inmate named Sam as a test subject, the mad doctor frees the evil and once again Ash must live the nightmare as evil forces break free and inmates are turned into zombie deadites!

Evil Dead Regeneration is a third person action game like The Suffering. Players control Ash, who fights with a variety of collectable weapons, which include the trademark chainsaw-hand and shotgun, as well as a pistol, flamethrower, grenade launcher and a harpoon gun to pick up. For the most part, Ash will need to hack and shoot at various zombie creatures until their bodies become weak. At that point the player can press a button to have Ash unleash a finishing move using his weapons. Ash can also collect "evil essence" in order to turn himself into "Evil Ash", a more powerful version of himself.

Also along on the quest is Sam, turned into a half-Deadite by Dr. Reinhard, he acts as Ash's sidekick in a quest for revenge. Sam can be controlled after finding certain "possession" symbols in the game. Ash can also kick Sam in order to attack enemies and activate puzzles.

Ash is still voiced by Bruce Campbell while Sam is voiced by Ted Raimi.

No Surrender: Battle of the Bulge is a World War II real-time strategy game and the sequel to D-Day. The game concentrates on the final 9-10 months of the war. There are twenty missions across three campaigns, including Normandy, the German counter-offensive in the Ardennes, and the battle of Nordwind. Fifteen new units are available, totaling up to 85 different ones.

Set in the 24th century, a group of unsuspecting colonies are attacked by a swarm of aliens who want to preserve their race. Now it's up to you to save the colonists and stop the aliens from taking over the planet.

Enemy Infestation is a squad-based RTS similar to games like Gender Wars and Commandos. The game is seen from an isometric view similar to Diablo and Crusader. Game missions range from killing off all the aliens, saving colonists and a lot more. Players have the ability to modify their squad's weapons, which range from lasers to missile launchers. The game supports multiplayer up to 4 players on LAN and Internet. It even supports single player co-op.

Relive the events of D-Day in Digital Reality's World War 2 collection. Like Digital Reality's last game, Desert Rats VS Afrika Korps, players will prepare troops for battle, create combat strategies, and execute one of the largest military invasions in wartime history. The 12 campaigns historically recreates the D-Day events. the game boasts over 60 different units including rifleman, paratroopers, artillery, tanks, transports, and planes. The game features the standard death match and team death match multiplayer. The game includes a map editor for skirmish and multiplayer games. The game is powered by the Walker 2 engine previously seen in Desert Rats VS Afrika Korps.

Set in the near future, Vanguard Ace is your typical vertical shooter similar to games like Raptor and Xenon. The earth is being invaded by a bunch of aliens called "Visitors" and it's up to you to stop them.

Players will be able to choose from 5 different ship types. Each of them have different abilities and weakness. Vanguard Ace, boasts a number of features like 70FPS of animation, multi-layered parallax scrolling, rendered graphics, mecha style sprite designs and a bounty of power-ups in this Japanese anime-styled universe.

The great ice dragon Aryn, the Frostweaver who in ancient times almost froze the world over with its terrible breath is awakened by a servant of the dark god Zarach. This Fial Darg (prince of darkness) has stolen the elven queen Cenwen away from him. In ancient times Cenwen saved the world from Aryn by calming him down and locking her self up with the mighty dragon. The Fial Darg wants to use the blood of the elven queen in a ritual to bring back the dark gods into the world of EO. With the elven queen gone chaos is once again ruling the lands. It's up to the player to restore order one more time.

Breath of Winter is the first add-on for the previous year's SpellForce: The Order of Dawn. The gameplay is similar to the first game with a few added features like new enemies, hero runes of other races, over 150 items for your avatar, skirmish mode and co-op play.

At the dawn of the 22nd century, the solar system was being controlled by huge corporations. One of these corporations has woken up something big at the edge of the solar system. Chaos ensues and it's dubbed as the "Jupiter Incident". You take the role of Marcus Cromwell who finds himself in the middle of the conflict.

Nexus is a real-time mission-based tactical space game. Think of Ground Control set in space and you get the picture. The developers call it a Tactical Fleet Simulator (TFS) and the first of it's kind. Nexus boasts a powerful Black Sun engine and supports both DX8 and DX9 shaders.

You take the role of an spaceship pilot set in the 3rd millennium. Your mission is to work for a corporation known as Project Freedom, who is struggling with other corporation to colonize and safeguard their ships.

Gameplay is similar to Wing Commander, where your given a ship and you roam about to fight of enemies of all sorts ranging from ships to colony defenses. Project Freedom is the sequel to 2002's Project Earth.

Singles: Flirt Up Your Life is a relationship simulator. Think "The Sims" on a much smaller scale but with a more detailed character interaction.

The game starts of by giving you 2 couples who live in a flat. Your task is to explore their relationship while controlling their tasks like cooking, watching TV and a whole lot more. The couples will fight with each like in real life too. Then there are moments where the couples will get intimate with each other. This where the fun starts as players are given a few levels of eroticism to play with. Starting from mild kissing up to making love or having a shower together.

EO, the world in which the game takes place was torn apart by a ritual called the Convocation. The ritual caused the destruction of the continents and was performed by each of the thirteen most powerful mages (both light and dark) on EO, who collectively were known as The Circle. The Circle ruled EO before its destruction and had slowly expanded their knowledge and power. Their vast knowledge allowed them to extend their lifespan to a point near immortality. Across EO they resurrected rune monuments that could be used to quickly call forth obedient armies to enforce their rule (known as the Rune) and bring peace to all the races of EO. At some point they learned of an ancient text describing a ritual supposedly granting immense power, possible under a certain alignment of planets. Not willing to share this power, wars between the various Circle mages erupted. When the time came each preformed the ritual, but none could tame the elemental forces and the continents shattered. After the event only isolated islands around magical towers remained. The islands were later connected by magical portals that make travel between them possible. At the start of the game the player is resurrected by Rohen, a former mage of The Circle. He is also the one who connected the islands using the portal system in an act to redeem himself and is believed to be the only mage of The Circle to have survived the Convocation. He instructs you to travel to Greyfell, the headquarters of the Order of Dawn. Soon after this you learn that a second Circle mage has survived and embark on a quest to inform Rohen of this fact.

SpellForce is a real-time strategy game with RPG elements, similar to Battle Realms. Unlike that game, SpellForce gives more focus to the hero. In fact, the player can go into third person view (only for the hero) and play it like a hack and slash game. The game features six playable races. The player character is called a rune warrior, an immortal warrior bound to a stone by The Circle to fight their wars. If the avatar dies, he will respawn at the last activated bindstone (stones around the map that can be activated and used for fast travel).

As the game progresses the player will find rune stones of six races (humans, dwarves, elves, orcs, trolls and dark elves) and hero runes. After being inserted into the rune board, they can be trained at their respective monument and help the player in the quest. The player will also find building planes for each of the races. When a monument of a race is switched on worker units can be trained to gather resources and construct buildings. This will eventually allow the player to train fighting units to overcome an enemy base. With the avatar rising in level runes and items of a higher level can be used to kill tougher enemies. The game has a lengthy single player campaign of 20+ maps. It was followed by two expansions called The Breath of Winter and Shadow of the Phoenix.

This gold collector edition includes:

• Haegemonia: Legions of Iron (base game)
• Haegemonia: The Solon Heritage (standalone expansion pack)

A stand alone expansion pack to last year's Haegemonia: Legions of Iron.

The Solon Heritage (TSH) is a multiplayer only package which includes 50 new inventions, new skills and heroes, new spaceships and strategy options as well as an improved Artificial Intelligence. The game combat is very much similar to Homeworld in terms of combat but it the whole game structure is a simplified version of Imperium Galactica. Players are able to colonize, conquer, do research, spy on enemy empires and even battle it out. The add on also adds a new features like trading and diplomacy between empires. The multiplayer network code has been improved and players won't have any synchronization errors like the first Haegemonia.

Eternal Champions: Challenge from the Dark Side is an enhanced port of the Genesis version of Eternal Champions. It contains added features such as new characters and moves, CGI cutscenes (including intro, cinematic kills and outros), CD quality music and many secrets. The game contains thirteen characters altogether to select from at the beginning and there are twelve secret characters to be unlocked as well.

Tough Guy is a fighting game similar to Street Fighter. Choose one fighter and travel all over the world to choose and challenge a wide variety of fighters.

A unique feature of Tough Guy is that fighters have the ability to refill their health if they are injured. They also have super moves which can inflict a lot of damage on their opponent.

From the co-creator of Mortal Kombat, Tao Feng is a fighting game with a few twists. The storyline is made out of the normal forces of good vs. evil which takes place in China. Unlike other fighting games, Tao Feng features torn clothes, bruises and the most original feature which is limb damage. Limb damage happens when you block too much, or when you collide with one of the hazards in the environment. Those with limb damage will have their attacks decreased by 50%. The same thing goes for the legs except they can't run.

Fighters can also use the enviroment to their advantages, example fighters can flip off the walls, swing on poles or throw opponents through glass. Each fighter also has powerful CHI attacks which can be devastating on enemies and the surroundings.

A new chapter in the Command & Conquer universe, set somewhere in the 2010s, pits three sides for global domination: the United States of America, the People's Republic of China and the Global Liberation Army (GLA).

Generals features real world (renamed or slightly altered) weapons combined with quasi-high-tech ones, new control schemes and a fast-paced multiplayer. Generals is the first game in the Command & Conquer series not to include FMV or pre-rendered cutscenes between missions, and was also the first C&C game without the Westwood Studios label (although the development studio was initially called Westwood Pacific before being merged into EA Pacific). It uses a full 3D environment powered by the SAGE engine, a modified version of the W3D engine previously seen in C&C: Renegade.

The core gameplay differs somewhat from other games in the series, a move done in order to modernize the formula. First off, construction yards are absent, as structures are built by dozers for the USA and China, and workers for the GLA. The sidebar is replaced with the bottom bar, and support powers are "purchased" with leveling up as a general, which is done through participating in combat. For the first time in the series, each factory-type structure (barracks, war factory, airfield...) has its own build queue, in the same fashion as in Blizzard's RTS titles before it, instead of having a shared one like in the previous C&C games. Upgrades are available for the first time in the series as well, bringing improvements to units and structures. Everything is paid for in advance instead of having credits slowly drain as the object is constructed.

Platoon is a mission-based tactical combat game taking place in the Vietnam Conflict. Terrain, vehicles and soldiers are all modeled and authentic, right down to the pockets on the uniforms and the types of plants and grass. The terrain affects your line of sight, and the surface and weather impose limits of the characters. The missions themselves are based on real missions undertaken during the Vietnam war. You groups contain up to 30 men, including engineers and commanders.

For eons, the planet Natrolis was controlled by the magic of the reptilian Sorin race. But when a fleet of tech-powered humans arrives to colonize the surface, they awaken the unimaginable - the Dreil, a hyper-evolved insectoid warrior race hibernating deep within the planet's core. Now, all three forces collide in a mortal struggle for domination.
A mix of Starcraft and C&C type RTS. Choose from 3 sides and blow them away.

Set in the 1920s, Post Mortem puts the player in the role of MacPherson, a retired private detective, whom is hired by Sophia Blake. His assignment is to find out who killed her sister and brother-in law.

The gameplay is similar to games like AmerZone: The Explorer's Legacy and other first-person adventure games, where the player goes hunting around for clues and interacts with other characters. During cinematics, the game moves the perspective to the third-person and offers different dialogue choices. The storyline is affected according to chosen lines.

Taking place in the year 2104, Mars has more than 700 million people living on it and Earth carries all their space projects on Mars. As months goes by, Mars becomes more powerful and they decide to gain independence from Earth. Things get out of hand and war is declared between the 2 factions. But that's just the beginning of their problems, as alien forces start to appear out of nowhere. In desperation, Mars and Earth form the Legions of Iron to fight back.

Haegemonia is a space based 3D RTS, very similar to games like the Imperium Galactica series but without the ground battles. The player will have to colonize nearby planets, research new technologies, build up his/her fleet to battle enemy forces, use spying tech and also manage colonies. Haegemonia emphasizes more on space battle than micromanagement.

Long ago a great empire spanned the stars until it collapsed. The worlds of this empire fell into an intergalactic dark age and forgot their past. In the Aldus solar system, spaceflight has been regained. Two different races, the Malus and the Alyssians, both venture out into space for the first time and encounter one another. Due to fragmented legends among both races, they soon grow distrustful of one another and declare war. However the Alyssians and Malus are weak in resources, having been confined to their planets for so long, and so it's important for both sides to establish Offworld Resource Bases.

O.R.B. is a 3D real-time strategy game, similar in gameplay to Homeworld. The player must build up bases and oversee the collection of resources in space. These can then be used to construct new vessels and spaceships as well as research additional abilities. Asteroids and planets can provide a strategic advantage in the positioning of forces. The player can assign movement and combat orders to individual units or as a group.