Warcraft III: Forsaken Kingdom Impressions
Warcraft III has a complicated legacy, despite being one of the best real-time strategy games of all time. The success of its lore and hero mechanics helped fuel interest in World of Warcraft, and indeed it was so successful that it doomed the franchise to never get a Warcraft IV. Said hero mechanics revolutionized what you could do with those units in an RTS game, fueling countless custom games in the community. Unfortunately one of those was DOTA, which was so popular it led to League of Legends, which proved that forcing players to pay for characters and cosmetics was a sustainable business model, and here we are with modern free-to-play and microtransaction hellscapes. Perhaps most infamous of all was 2020’s Warcraft III: Reforged, an attempt to remaster the game similar to Blizzard’s StarCraft remaster several years before, only far more ambitious than widescreen support and clearer unit models. Blizzard…
Star Wars: Zero Company Review
XCOM is a turn-based tactics game that I’d consider one of my favorite series, but without a release worth mentioning since 2017 it’s a little weird that I haven’t gone out of my way to play similar games outside of Chaos Gate Daemonhunters. Star Wars is a sci-fi franchise that I generally enjoy but it’s a little weird that I haven’t been more actively engaged with a lot of Star Wars content lately. Fortunately here’s Star Wars: Zero Company, selling itself as an XCOM game with a Star Wars skin, to solve both problems at once. And unlike the other franchise games I’ve been playing recently, this one seems like it actually has the potential to go the distance. For the uninitiated, XCOM is an alien invasion franchise where you’re the commander of a military unit trying to research and overcome the aliens attacking Earth. It is known for its…