GameShark - Sengoku, the newest title by Paradox Interactive, does a great job of breaking out of the rut that strategy games tend to get into when the market is geared towards one general goal: the taking of other people’s stuff by force. It does its best to present you with a series of tools that are driven by characters; by people as opposed to faceless armies, and you quickly realize that the army that you were planning to raise, as you often might in other strategy games, is only one piece of an arsenal that extends to ‘weapons’ like marriage, assassination, plotting, and even genetics.
Everyone is entering the snowy and cold part of the year where going outside just isn't worth it anymore – perfect for a couple of dozen hours of gaming! If your wallet is empty from buying Christmas gifts but you still want a new game or two to play around with, here's what's on sale this weekend
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Nintendo Life: Given the popularity of arcade titles like Final Fight and Double Dragon, the beat 'em up genre was a big draw in arcades during the late eighties and early nineties. Hoping to cash in on some of this success, SNK created its own unique take on the genre with Sengoku for its Neo Geo system. While the game borrows many of the same tried and true conventions of other brawlers of the time period, it did manage to inject a unique theme and a few interesting gameplay twists to go along with it.
Celebrating the best, most creative, and most enjoyable niche downloadable games for the past year.
