One of the best games in history. Addoctove, timeless, graphics and gameplay, unforgetable music, great story placed in quite complex universe. Once you learn the basics, it will suck you up no matter if you are old or young.
The reason why I bought this collection was History Line. which is unique and challanging. I had this game on Amiga, which took 7 floppies (!), and required a lot of swapping if you wanted to enjoy animations. But game was addicting with it's "one-more-turn syndrome". However each missions can take a lot of time. Do not be suprised if you realize that you are playing this game for a week, and you are still during 3th or 4th mission. Besides, AI is not stupid - it punishes your mistakes, and can use any advantage like terrrain od distance. Thus you should carefuly plan your moves. It is more like chess, but on hex board. Game is also pretty simple to learn. It also can give you some nice historical lessons about 1st WW, which is also quite rare topic in games even today. For example - some units will be available later, like Mark 1-IV tanks or planes. One thing can annoy you - controls are bit clunky, because it was made for joystick, and mouse is actually acting like joystick ;)
This game was considered as "Independence day" unofficial game adaptation, and because that official one (from Radical Entertaiment) sucked, this game became quite popular among the movie fanbase. I rememeber this game was pretty, but challenging. It was not easy to take down that big mothafukka alien mothership. But hey, it was the best way to feel like Will Smith in the movie, so it is worth it even now!
It's a second game of the series, and it's better than first game. Even if it dropped story mode and gave campaign map with free choice of attack, it is more polished and balanced than previous game. Of course every core of mechanics are present, so you will not have to learn again how to play, basically every nation got their upgrades and new units. For those who have never played this game, it has a lot to learn, because game contains a lot of diffrent nations, heroes (and their skills), spells, upgrades, and more. Concept of heroes like in rpg, had been copycatted in Warcraft 3 later, which led to creation of DOTA map mod, and DOTA as a game. Yup, this series are in some way the progenitors of DOTA 2 and League of Legends. You should be grateful and buy a copy, if you are a fan of LoL :) Anyway, it has the soul of oldschool RTS. Build workers, send them to mines, gain materials, build barracks, then army, upgrade them, smash your enemy. Gain experience with hero and units, protect them, and be superior than your enemy. Sounds familiar? It's a game for you ;)
