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• CNET Editor rating:
  3.0 stars Good

  Overall score: 6.9 (3.0 stars)
• Average user rating: 0 stars No reviews, write one!

The Bottom Line: This stand-alone expansion to last year's Napoleonic Wars doesn't add a lot that is noteworthy. Read review

Specs: Teen, GSC Game World, Strategy, 1 Player

• CNET Editor rating:
  3.5 stars Very good

  Overall score: 7.0 (3.5 stars)
• Average user rating: 0 stars No reviews, write one!

The Bottom Line: Forget about flight-sim physics and just enjoy this dumbed-down take on air combat over the Pacific in World War II. Read review

Specs: Teen, 3D People, Simulation, 1 Player

• CNET Editor rating:
  3.5 stars Very good

  Overall score: 7.2 (3.5 stars)
• Average user rating: 0 stars No reviews, write one!

The Bottom Line: It's a satisfying re-creation of the struggle that defined the 20th century. But because it lacks a challenging AI, it eventually falls apart as anything other than a multiplayer game. Read review

Specs: Fury Software

• CNET Editor rating:
  0.0 stars

  Overall score: 0.0 (0.0 stars)
• Average user rating: 0 stars No reviews, write one!

Specs: Teen, Nival Interactive, Strategy, Strategy / tactics / wargame - wargame, Strategy / tactics / wargame - real time, Historical

• CNET Editor rating:
  4.0 stars Excellent

  Overall score: 8.3 (4.0 stars)
• Average user rating: 0 stars No reviews, write one!

The Bottom Line: It's clear that Stormregion didn't need to fix much in Phase One, and so Phase Two plays it safe by offering more of the same. Read review

Specs: Teen, Stormregion, Strategy, Strategy / tactics / wargame - wargame, Historical, 1 Player

• CNET Editor rating:
  0.0 stars

  Overall score: 0.0 (0.0 stars)
• Average user rating: 0 stars No reviews, write one!

Specs: Everyone 10 and older, GSC Game World, Strategy, 1 Player

• CNET Editor rating:
  3.5 stars Very good

  Overall score: 7.0 (3.5 stars)
• Average user rating: 1.5 stars out of 1 review

The Bottom Line: The hack-and-slash role-playing game Sacred 2 may feel more at home on console systems than it does on the PC, but the game design still leaves something to be desired. Read review

Specs: Mature, Ascaron Entertainment GmbH, Action

• CNET Editor rating:
  3.5 stars Very good

  Overall score: 7.0 (3.5 stars)
• Average user rating: 0 stars No reviews, write one!

The Bottom Line: With a few glaring exceptions, the new missions tend to be exciting and challenging, taking advantage of what the Blitzkrieg series has always done well: intense real-time WWII combat. Read review

Specs: Teen, Strategy, Strategy / tactics / wargame - real time, Realistic, Historical, 1 Player

• CNET Editor rating:
  0.0 stars

  Overall score: 0.0 (0.0 stars)
• Average user rating: 0 stars No reviews, write one!

Specs: Everyone, Monte Cristo Multimedia, Strategy, 1 Player

• CNET Editor rating:
  3.5 stars Very good

  Overall score: 7.0 (3.5 stars)
• Average user rating: 4.5 stars out of 1 review

The Bottom Line: The hack-and-slash role-playing game Sacred 2 may feel more at home on console systems than it does on the PC, but the game design still leaves something to be desired. Read review

Specs: Mature, Ascaron Entertainment GmbH, Role-Playing

• CNET Editor rating:
  3.5 stars Very good

  Overall score: 7.5 (3.5 stars)
• Average user rating: 5.0 stars out of 1 review

The Bottom Line: Retro shooters don't get any bloodier or more intense than this. Read review

Specs: Mature, Sigma-Team, Action, 1-6 Players

• CNET Editor rating:
  2.5 stars Average

  Overall score: 5.4 (2.5 stars)
• Average user rating: 0 stars No reviews, write one!

The Bottom Line: Night Watch is a stripped-down turn-based strategy game that starts off interesting, but eventually settles into a shallow and repetitive rut. Read review

Specs: Teen, Nival Interactive, Role-Playing, 1 Player

• CNET Editor rating:
  1.5 stars Poor

  Overall score: 3.6 (1.5 stars)
• Average user rating: 0 stars No reviews, write one!

The Bottom Line: The KGB wasn't as hard on political dissidents as Hammer & Sickle is on those who play it. Read review

Specs: Teen, Novik & Co, Strategy, 1 Player

• CNET Editor rating:
  4.0 stars Excellent

  Overall score: 8.4 (4.0 stars)
• Average user rating: 0 stars No reviews, write one!

The Bottom Line: American Conquest offers plenty of single-player campaigns, plus skirmish and multiplayer maps and a good history lesson to boot, and it makes a great addition to any real-time strategy enthusiast's collection. Read review

Specs: Teen, GSC Game World, Strategy, Real-Time Strategy, Historic, 1-8 Players

• CNET Editor rating:
  2.0 stars Mediocre

  Overall score: 4.2 (2.0 stars)
• Average user rating: 0 stars No reviews, write one!

The Bottom Line: Breed makes a horrible first impression and then keeps making more bad impressions as you play. Read review

Specs: Mature, Brat Designs, Action, First-Person Shooter, Sci-Fi, 1-32 Players

• CNET Editor rating:
  0.0 stars

  Overall score: 0.0 (0.0 stars)
• Average user rating: 0 stars No reviews, write one!

Specs: Teen, Nival Interactive, Strategy, Strategy / tactics / wargame - real time, Historical, 1-8 Players

• CNET Editor rating:
  3.5 stars Very good

  Overall score: 7.1 (3.5 stars)
• Average user rating: 0 stars No reviews, write one!

The Bottom Line: Despite its flaws, Blitzkrieg is fast-paced, challenging, and generally enjoyable. Read review

Specs: Teen, Nival Interactive, Strategy, 1-8 Players

• CNET Editor rating:
  2.5 stars Average

  Overall score: 5.6 (2.5 stars)
• Average user rating: 0 stars No reviews, write one!

The Bottom Line: Glory of the Roman Empire aims low with a light take on the city-building genre. Read review

Specs: Everyone 10 and older, Haemimont, Strategy, 1 Player

• CNET Editor rating:
  3.0 stars Good

  Overall score: 6.0 (3.0 stars)
• Average user rating: 0 stars No reviews, write one!

The Bottom Line: The colorful presentational coating is tasty, but unfinished features and rotten AI keep Heroes of Annihilated Empires from reaching its potential. Read review

Specs: Teen, GSC Game World, Strategy, 1-6 Players

• CNET Editor rating:
  2.5 stars Average

  Overall score: 5.2 (2.5 stars)
• Average user rating: 0 stars No reviews, write one!

The Bottom Line: Sudden Strike II is a classic example of how to make a real-time strategy game and then completely undermine it with a bad user interface. Read review

Specs: Teen, Fireglow, Strategy, Real-Time Strategy, Historic, 1-8 Players

• CNET Editor rating:
  3.5 stars Very good

  Overall score: 7.8 (3.5 stars)
• Average user rating: 3.5 stars out of 1 review

The Bottom Line: City Life combines the fun of a city-building game with the challenge of a financial simulation, though it requires patience and perseverance to master. Read review

Specs: Everyone, Monte Cristo Multimedia, Strategy, 1 Player

• CNET Editor rating:
  0.0 stars

  Overall score: 0.0 (0.0 stars)
• Average user rating: 0 stars No reviews, write one!

Specs: Larian Studios, Role-Playing

• CNET Editor rating:
  2.5 stars Average

  Overall score: 5.9 (2.5 stars)
• Average user rating: 0 stars No reviews, write one!

The Bottom Line: The game is in its own "no man's land" between historical authenticity and fiction, and it falls victim to lackluster gameplay, thus preventing it from being recommendable to RTS fans. Read review

Specs: Teen, Related Designs, Strategy, Real-Time Strategy, Historic

• CNET Editor rating:
  3.0 stars Good

  Overall score: 6.6 (3.0 stars)
• Average user rating: 0 stars No reviews, write one!

The Bottom Line: Back to War is difficult to recommend to anyone who isn't a die-hard fan of the Cossacks series. Read review

Specs: Teen, GSC Game World, Strategy, Real-Time Strategy, Historic

• CNET Editor rating:
  4.0 stars Excellent

  Overall score: 8.6 (4.0 stars)
• Average user rating: 0 stars No reviews, write one!

The Bottom Line: There's much more to Divine Divinity than its impressive graphics and music and its combination of hack-and-slash action and pure role-playing, and that says a lot for the game. Read review

Specs: Teen, Larian Studios, Role-Playing, Action RPG, 1 Player