Before the era of cable news channels, in a time when political polarity had not yet overtaken the news media, Walter Cronkite was the voice most Americans listened to. He has often been regarded as the most trustworthy voice in the news media. And now a word from our president:
Anyway, annoyingly, the article here doesn't say exactly WHICH Sierra games Rebellion now has. They mention a few -- Ground Control (series), Evil Genius, Empire Earth (series), and Lords of the Realm/ Lords of Magic (!!!!).
Ground Control and expansion, Evil Genius, Empire Earth: Gold Edition, and Lords of Magic are on http://www.gog.com now. However, they're actually charging for Ground Control, even though it was made freeware several years ago. That's not very nice... I guess their excuse is that they're including the expansion too, but still... why is the original game not available free there?
Anyway though, LoM is interesting, but I always thought it wasn't very good compared to LOTR 1 or 2... right from when I first played the demo, I was disappointed in comparison to the LOTR games. Of course, I own both of those, plus the expansion (LOTR3 doesn't count... :(), so I don't need those... but as for LoM, it's cool it's there I guess, Impressions was awesome, but yeah, I do prefer LOTR. I don't like things like how it's more RPG-ish so you can only control areas where your units actually are, etc. If it was just a more standard grand strategy game like LOTR 1 or 2 it'd be more fun, I think.
I also remember being a bit disappointed that it went fantasy, I mean I love fantasy, but there aren't many medieval games that stick to real-world settings. Lords of the Realm was one of them. Lords of Magic, not exactly.
Anyway, annoyingly, the article here doesn't say exactly WHICH Sierra games Rebellion now has. They mention a few -- Ground Control (series), Evil Genius, Empire Earth (series), and Lords of the Realm/ Lords of Magic (!!!!).
Ground Control and expansion, Evil Genius, Empire Earth: Gold Edition, and Lords of Magic are on http://www.gog.com now. However, they're actually charging for Ground Control, even though it was made freeware several years ago. That's not very nice... I guess their excuse is that they're including the expansion too, but still... why is the original game not available free there?
Anyway though, LoM is interesting, but I always thought it wasn't very good compared to LOTR 1 or 2... right from when I first played the demo, I was disappointed in comparison to the LOTR games. Of course, I own both of those, plus the expansion (LOTR3 doesn't count... :(), so I don't need those... but as for LoM, it's cool it's there I guess, Impressions was awesome, but yeah, I do prefer LOTR. I don't like things like how it's more RPG-ish so you can only control areas where your units actually are, etc. If it was just a more standard grand strategy game like LOTR 1 or 2 it'd be more fun, I think.
A very interesting article... if you didn't know how deeply ingrained doping is in European cycling, this article does a great job of explaining it. Interesting stuff... (Though I don't imagine that things are all that different in other sports, doping seems to have been/be an incredibly common thing few athletes seem to be able to keep away from the temptation of...)
