AceGamez Review of AI War
[I]f you love realistic, complex and thorough space-based real time strategies, purchase this game right now as it is an aspiring space commander’s dream. – Tom Clark, AceGamez
[I]f you love realistic, complex and thorough space-based real time strategies, purchase this game right now as it is an aspiring space commander’s dream. – Tom Clark, AceGamez
The Claw has recently conducted a massive Google Wave interview with Chris Park about AI War, other upcoming Arcen titles, Chris’s design philosphy and inspirations, and the future for Arcen Games in general. Read The Interview
For me, it’s a rare thing indeed for a game to move from total obscurity to a fixed place on my hard drive in the course of a handful of days… [AI War] is just brimming with innovative twists on the 4X-style RTS. – Tyler Sager, Gaming Nexus
Three Moves Ahead is the official podcast of Flash of Steel, and commonly features really high quality discussion of strategy games for hardcore gamers, and interviews with industry giants — Brad Wardell, Soren Johnson, and others. Episode 37 features Troy Goodfellow and Tom Chick talking with Chris Park, the lead designer of AI War about…
AI War is, quite simply, the best experience you could have with co-op or single-player real-time strategy in this or any year. It combines grand strategy with emergent AI to form an excellent game perfect for parties and multiplayer. It is easily worth double the price that the developer is selling it at, and anyone…
Arcen Games is pleased to announce that The Zenith Remnant, the first expansion to its popular space RTS AI War, is now available for preorder. This expansion is still in the early stages of development, but we’re making the alpha/beta versions available to anyone on a trial basis, and in full for anyone who preorders,…
In this new feature, Design Right, I’m going to look at games other than my own — specifically, at certain things that other games do right. I spend a lot of time thinking about other games and what they do well, and I think it’s useful for discussion. So. Demon’s Souls, for the PS3. Yes,…
Get AI War on your platform of choice! Direct2Drive (UK link) and Stardock’s Impulse have joined Steam in our 25% off promotion, available for a limited time. The Steam and Direct2Drive sales end on the 27th, and the Impulse sale ends on the 26th.
[AI War] manages to propel the RTS genre forward and beyond its usual trappings with an innovation that is so simple it’s amazing it hasn’t been done previously, while still managing to keep the spirit of those classic RTS games alive. Best of all, it does so with one key element in mind: co-op is…
IncGamers has been keeping an AI War co-op diary chronicling some recent games with players who are fresh out of the tutorials. Read part 1 hereRead part 2 here