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Finding good strategy games is difficult, as there are not many to begin with. Here I have made a collection of new and old best strategy games, which everyone should play. These are the gems in the genre, and if you are even mildly interested in it, then you should play all of them.
List will be updated yearly.
Homeworld Remastered
This game is the newest entry to this list. Space games have a certain quality of calmness and isolation about them which I love. The remastered has both part 1 and part 2 included with modern graphics, the gameplay is virtually identical with the originals though. The story of the single player mode is the biggest selling point, it is exactly like Battlestar Galactica, as the humans lose their homeworld and start searching for a new one. And it plays like a traditional top down RTS. Its also difficult and complicated as hell.
XCom: Enemy Unknown
Another really difficuly game, with aliens. You are leading a top secret UN-like organisation whose sole purpose is to stop an impending alien invasion. The game is about choices, should you defend the Americans for an aid bonus, or go for Africa to grab the latest alien technology upgrades from the fallen UFO. You will be commanding a small troop of elite soldiers, who die for good if they die in battle. So yes your veteran from the first mission can die forever with one drunken misclick in the wrong cover location. A very stressful, yet deeply rewarding game.
Shogun 2: Total War
This is the best recent Total War game made my Creative Assembly (yes I played Rome 2, and Attila). They reached a level of perfection they couldn’t recreate, with small yet packed map size, a variety of units, a beautiful art style and a chaotic late game. Everything a good strategy game should have. For those unfamiliar with Total War games (living under a rock, have we?) you control a kingdom from a map mode (in turned based mode) where you manage finances, keep your family and generals loyal and happy, build castles, and raise armies. Then you can fight battles in real time, where you control each unit and fight against of thousands of soldiers. You can also fight naval battles, and skip them if you like managing more than actually fighting.
Command & Conquer: Red Alert 3
This game has full motion cutscenes! That is amazing on its own. Its also a deeply tactical and fun RTS game. The single player is among the most fun I have played. Make sure to find some friends and play it on multiplayer as well.
FTL: Faster Than Light
Another relatively new entry in the list. And its based on space setting (surprise). You control a small space vessel tasked with delivering a message from one corner of the universe to the other. The game is difficult, and you will learn to love losing. Part of the challenge comes from the fact that you are always running out of something, either you have low ammo before a big fight, low fuel before a big jump, or are just under staffed and can’t fully utilize the new awesome defense shields you just bought.
Tropico 5
The Tropico series is an example of squandered potential. They started out strong, but the newest versions of the game have been hurt by the lack of innovation. Still they are better than the others, as the competition for a city building simulator where you play as a dictator (benevolent or malevolent) is non-existent. You are El Presidente, who has just taken over a small carribean island. You can either turn it into a capitalist utopia, or a communist heaven. All the while balancing the world super powers against each other. Or you can go your own way and make the nuke. This game will eat up all your free time.
Advance Wars
This is an old classic. A turn based tactics game on the GBA (you can play it on the DS as well). Its sequel was great too. You control a variety of modern military units, and have to plan out each turn very carefully to win. Don’t let the old graphics fool you, the game is extremely fun, with a nice story. And the combat is surprisingly indepth too, as terrain and weather have a substantial affect.
StarCraft II
A no-brainer, most of you were already expecting this to be somewhere. This is the premier RTS game. I loved the single player campaign with a western theme for the humans. And the final upcoming chapter will hopefully be amazing. The real meat though is in the multiplayer. Its extremely competetive, and very brutal. I have lost many times in the early minutes, due to bad base defence.
Age of Empires 2 HD
You can never go wrong with this game. This is the HD remake of the game, with some modern additions like steam support. At its heart its still the classic you grew up loving. With the campaign in which you actually learn about history to the multiplayer in which you learn to hate your friends. Go for this game.
Civilization V
This game started the ‘one more turn’ mantra. It is not a game, its an addiction. When you install the game and run it for the first time, say good bye to your friends and family for the next week. You control the fate of a civilization from the early stone age to the space age. All the while trying to stay alive and convincing Gandhi not to nuke you. This is a very broad strategy game (unlike the Total War games, where you have to think small picture sometimes aswell, because that can change the game). You don’t have to be full macho militaristic to win the game though, you can win by science (going to the moon), diplomacy (elect yourself world leader in the UN), or the cultural victory which I could never win (make the utopia project).
TOP 10 BEST STRATEGY GAMES OF ALL TIME 2015
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Here is a list of some of the most messed up human experiments ever in human history.
Project MKULTRA
One of the most controversial CIA projects, which started in the early 1950s and being officially sanctioned in 1953. The project involved testing the effects of drugs, primarily LSD on unaware people. The test subjects were mainly men who were lured in through fake brothels with the drugs being administered by prostitutes.
Dr. Shiro Ishii
At the time of World War 2, developments in the field of biological warfare were on the rise. Unit 731 led by Dr. Shiro Ishii was one of the covert research facilities of the Japanese Imperial Army. Shiro performed vivisection on thousands of men, women and children majority of them being Chinese and around 30% being Russians. After the war Shiro Ishii and his team were granted immunity by the US in exchange for their data.
The Chamber
The Chamber was a secret Russian facility, headed by Ignatii Kazakov and is also know as Kamera. The facility was used to test the effects of various lethal gases compromising of mustard gas, ricin among many others. The basic objective of this experiment was to create a lethal gas which would be undetectable post-mortem.
The Monster Study
Conduced at the University of Iowa in 1939. The study involved 22 orphan children on whom the effects of stuttering were tested. The children were basically divided into two groups, half were given positive speech therapy while the other half were given negative speech therapy. The outcome was that the group of children given negative speech therapy actually started stuttering and experienced speech problems later on.
Nazi Twins Experiment
Although the list of experiments carried out by the Nazis is a long one, Mengele conducted a number of gruesome experiments on twins. The purpose was to create the perfect genetic combination. During the process the twins were photographed naked at times, there are also reports that his patients were completely stripped of all hair on their bodies.
The Aversion Project
During the 1970s as a cure to homosexuality a clinical psychiatrist in the South African army chemically castrated around 900 homosexuals. Other accounts also report of military personal forced to undergo sex changes as part of the cure.
Agent Orange
Ever notice how companies like Johnson & Johnson are so sure about their skin care products, well they should be. Agent Orange was a substance used by Albert Kligman on prisoners, the aim was to test it’s effects on the skin but in simple words it caused outbursts of acne and other skin diseases among the prisoners. It is also reported that Kligman had used almost 460 times the normal amount on his patients.
Guatemalan STD Study
This was a study conducted by the US on Guatemalan citizens in the 1940s. At this time penicillin was an established cure for syphilis and to test it out the US government infected the local population once again through prostitutes. Around 80 deaths are accounted for as a result of this project.
Willowbrook State School
Willowbrook State School was one the largest institutions in the US for mentally disabled children. The institute was the source of much controversy during the period of 1947-1987 when it was functional. The effects of hepatitis were observed in children who were infected through various means by the medical staff. The school was forced to close in 1987 as a result of public outcry.
The Manhattan Project
These were a series of experiments which started in 1945 the purpose being to test the effects of radiation on human health. It is believed that 18 people were injected with plutonium between 1945-1947 none of them survived. The patients were often poor homeless people who were unaware.
TOP 10 MESSED UP HUMAN EXPERIMENTS 2015
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We are living in a Golden Age of free entertainment. YouTube, SoundCloud, Crunchyroll, maybe even going outside! Of course, among all of these are countless free games, some great, some terrible, but these are the best (I swear if somebody says: where’s Maplestory? I’m going to hit them) in a completely factual, unbiased and complete list. Oh! One more thing, these are ranked by how fun they are without paying anything, free-to-play games are up for consideration but only insofar as you can enjoy them without shelling out cash.
Six Clicks To Hitler (Wikipedia)
You… probably haven’t heard of this one. But because of this game, Mr. Hitler really has improved my forward thinking and pattern recognition skills. The goal is quite simple, go to a completely random Wikipedia page and, within only six links to different pages, try to get to Adolf Hitler. But aside from being surprisingly educational, there isn’t a school computer in the world (I hope) that has Wikipedia banned where other browser-based entries on this list have fallen. So if you’re still in highschool, go ahead and play! Do you have kids? Teach them to play, though depending on their age group you might want to change the end goal… anybody up for a round of Six Clicks to Eggrolls?
League of Legends, Smite and likely DOTA2 (download sites and Steam)
I tried, really I tried. I wanted to love you MOBAs, I wanted to love you so badly. Your gameplay is fun, your lore is interesting and your minions are adorably derpy, but… trying to learn you is more like going to school than it is playing a game. Why do you have so many characters? Why does leveling up cause me to either become weaker than a kitten or stronger than a god? HOW AM I EXPECTED TO KNOW WHICH OF YOUR 700 PAIRS OF BOOTS ARE THE RIGHT ONE FOR ME!? I- I’m sorry I shouted, but everyone just obsessed over how great you are and I- I just can’t live this lie. Goodbye MOBAs, I’m off to play Awesomenauts, at least she understands my needs (Awesomenauts is another great one, I’d rank it at about 6.5).
Burrito Bison and Burrito Bison Revenge (Browser)
I put them together because these two are really pretty much the same game. Do you remember those games where you shot something out of a cannon, and had to see how far you could get it by bouncing it off of things on the ground? That’s Burrito Bison. So what does it have differently? Well the look for one, you’re a bull-headed luchador and the things you squash are terrified gummy bears. The upgrades are inventive, the sound effects are beautiful and the art is hilarious. What’s missing? Well, it feels too long and is liable to get pretty repetitive. But to play for ten minutes? A blast.
Sushi Cat (Browser)
Imagine Pachinko, got it? Good. Now your ball is a cat which collects sushi spread across the board, making it grow larger. Add in an embarrassingly adorable story about taking your stuffed animal back from a dog and you have what is a strangely satisfying waste of an hour.
Fistful of Frags (Steam)
A game like Fistful of Frags represents, to me, one of the larger problems with a list format: it’s hard to show just how better or worse one entry is from the adjacent ones. In this case, the previous three were all pretty close on how much I enjoyed them, but FoF is leaps and bounds ahead of any of them. Anyway, do you remember Half-Life 2’s deathmatch mode? Good, this is that, but in the Old West and good. It’s a slow game, but intentionally so. All of your weapons (besides fists) require you to stand still or greatly slow down for any kind of accuracy, and even then it takes a second or two before such can be achieved. My solution? I like to be Batman. Equip Brass Knuckles, Dynamite and a Hatchet then leap across the buildings and drop down on people, stabbing exploding or assaulting them until you die. Sure you’re likely to lose the fight, but you get a lot of points per kill so you’ll still rank highly even if you only win once every other life.
Team Fortress 2 (Steam)
Put down your pitchforks. Yes, TF2 is only at Number 5. Yes, TF2 is one of my favorite, if not my favorite game of all time. So why is it only Number 5? Because unless you drop some cash on the game, you won’t get nearly as much out of the game as you could. Even for free, this is an absolutely amazing game with hilarious characters, fun weapons, great maps and a community with more in-jokes than Gibusvision Pyros on a pub.
Super Crate Box (Steam)
This is probably the second most addicting game on this list. But what is Super Crate Box? What is it that makes it glimmer, akin to the sparkling waters of days gone by? Simplicity. Enemies come from the top of the screen, don’t stop them from reaching the bottom? They come back stronger. While you’re doing that grab crates to get better weapons and score points. That’s it. But it’s a blast of a twitch shooter and a very quick download on Steam. If you haven’t already, give yourself five minutes to install this gem, and another week or so to try and detach yourself.
Pokemon Shuffle (3DS)
Bah, why do only PC games get to have fun on this list? Well no longer! An F2P Pokemon Puzzle game was just what I needed for some time on the go. I don’t have a smartphone, so for me this game was truly a blessing. Match the Pokemon heads to release type-based attacks on your opponent, deal enough damage quickly enough and try your luck at catching them (if you press B and rock the d-pad back and forth it works better) to force into gruesome battles against their brethren… in about an hour. Unfortunately there’s only so many games you can play at once, but I think this style of game works better in one sitting anyway, so it’s no real issue.
Realm of the Mad God (Steam and Browser)
You remember when I mentioned Super Crate Box being the second most addicting game on the list (hope so, it wasn’t all that long ago)? Well this is the first. But how does this game not let you go? Add the satisfying and brutal nature of twin-stick shooters to the Skinner’s Box of World of Warcraft and blend it all into a fine permadeath paste and you get Smoothie of the Mad God. RotMG is glorious on so many levels, each session may take a little bit to get started, but once you get rolling the pacing is ablaze, everything you do could be the difference between life or death. Every monster stands a chance against you, and the only thing you have to defend yourself is your wits and the other players. This is not some petty squabble with every man for himself, this is a war against the forces of evil alongside your hopelessly addicted brethren, and avoiding their help is a bit like avoiding your own lungs.
Hearthstone (Battlenet, Android and iOS)
Do I even need to explain this one (Oh, I do? Well, okay)? For the three of you that don’t know, Hearthstone is a card game set in the WoW universe, and it’s fantastic. Not only does it have this feeling of a warm inn on a cold night, with a welcoming atmosphere to every sound effect, not only is every card and character fully voiced and not only does it have a wonderful sense of humor, but the gameplay is some of the tightest I’ve seen. Is the game complex? Sure, but everything is explained effortlessly in the tutorials and single-player missions. Every move is satisfying, the Arena and Tavern Battles offer a wonderful change of pace and building a deck is as clean as can be. This takes a little while to get used to, but any gamer with even a semi-functioning computer should absolutely pick it up.