Ascendancy (PC)

Ascendancy was the Logic Factory?s first offering to the computer games market and is one of my favourite strategy games ever. Brought out in 1996 it caused a bit of a stir winning high acclaim from all the top PC magazines and the highest accolade of all, two thumbs up from Mr. Insane himself!!! The very fact that I?m still playing the game today, six years after I purchased the game, is testament to its all round greatness. I?m not going to lie and claim it is perfect but it has all the gameplay you?ll ever need and is incredibly addictive ? I can easily spend a long four or five hour stint on it. If you?re a strategy nut like me then this really is a must for your ...  Read the complete review

This is a game of building a civilisation and conquering your opponents. It is like Civilisation in space but there is a closer match... Master Of Orion is the game that led to this release. Read on for all the gory details. I will start with the minimum specification: A 486DX 33Mhz or higher, Windows 95, or for those who still live in the nineties, you can play this game using MSDOS 5.0, For the amount of memory you need, you can’t buy a ram chip this small any more. You need the vast sum of 6mb, You will need an SVGA video card, this was before you had on board memory as such, so any SVGA card will do, A 2speed CDROM drive A ...  Read the complete review

The rules are simple; Explore the galaxy, Colonize other planets, Increase your science and your production, and Conquer!!! You start out as one of 16 races, each with it's own unique abilities. You must learn to make the most of this ability in order to win. One point I have to mention about this game is how different each species is. Unlike some Sci-Fi series where the only difference between a human and an alien is a facial feature, this game has some very good ideas about alien diversity. One species, the Chamachies, are very adept at Science, this makes them very likely to research quickly. The Govorom have the unique ability to terraform a planet into ...  Read the complete review