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Fallout 1 and 2 are among the best rpg games out there, still wicked games to play. The new ones (fallout 3 and new vegas) are ok, VATS and slo mo stuff is fun to use, but I still prefer the older ones where turn based combat was dead fun and great isometric sprites followed by written descriptions allowed the player to use more imagination. My designs are based on 1 and 2, tried to capture the dark and grim post apocalyptic atmosphere and humour of these fantastic games. Raiders are angry fellows who burn and pillage for a living, vault dwellers are regular folk who hid inside underground vaults to save their asses from the nuclear bombs, children of the cathedral are a religion who worship "The Master" and aid its super mutant army, tribals are what you think they are, slavers are masters of human resources, The Brotherhood of Steel are again a militaristic and religious organization. Ghouls are "glow in the dark" people who couldn't find shelte...

Old games nostalgia hits me again and this time I find myself doing a quick sketch of Sami, Andy and Max from Nintendo's Advance Wars series. AW is incredibly addictive stuff and is probably one of the best turn based war games ever made. 4 fictional but realistic countries; yellow comet (japan), green earth (germany), blue moon (russia) and orange star (the states) are pitted against each other until they join forces and defeat a fourth, hi tech nation, the black hole (which reminds me of nazi germany due to dress codes and the evil intentions) You pick a commanding officer from a list of lovely designed weirdos who posses unique special powers, build tanks, infantry, planes, ships and the usual war machine lot, capture cities, bases and all. Panzer General (pc), Field Commander (psp) and Shattered Union (pc) are namely a few of similar games but surprisingly non are as good as good old Advance Wars.

Deadlock Planetary Conquest was a turn based strategy game released in 96 and was one of my favorite strategy games. There are seven alien races (each with its own strengths and weaknesses) struggling for the domination of a randomly generated planet where each of the seven would deploy colonists to the planet. The colony to drive all others off the planet's surface, or to construct a number of cities, would claim the planet for its leaders. Usualy i dont like 4x or empire building games where you manage colonies and stuff coz they tend to be unnessecerily hard to play but unlike many games of its type this one is rather simple and fun to play and it still runs on win7 :) Maybe i should make a game page about Deadlock sometime.