Battlefront is awesome. A third person shooter with some strategic elements. It's also about the only Star Wars game that doesn't have you running around with a lightsabre. Adding playable Jedi in the later games might have made Star Wars fans happy but it broke the balance of Battlefront's gameplay and really made this series a whole lot less fun to play IMO. I'll stick with the original anyday.
Yeah I know it's not a city builder and it's not trying to be but personally I always find city builders a bit boring. But lately for some reason I've had an itch to play an old simulator game. It's a wonderful game once you learn how everything works and it still looks great today. It really is a joy watching all the rides come to life, the visitors buying balloons, and even your handymen sweeping the park. The interface feels a little dated to me though. At first I was dropping food stalls in the center of footpaths but no one could reach them! Why? Well turns out you have to place stalls facing the side of paths or the game gets confused. Placing water seems awkward to me too. You can't just place water on a tile you have to lower the ground level first. Once you learn how to properly place buildings and the like, everything becomes a lot of fun. You can also make your own roller coasters and test them for safety (or not). It's actually possible to create and place rides so they kill the visitors. I guess if you love movies about amusement parks that go horribly wrong this is your chance to make your own death park. I'm glad I found this game on GOG, it's exactly the sort of game I was in the mood for.
I've played quite a few real time strategy games and not many of them have resonated with me. I think what most RTS games lack is personality and style, but Galactic Batlegrounds Saga has a lot of both. It uses the Star Wars license to great effect and has lots of story driven single player campaigns which I enjoy more than skirmishes. This is without a doubt the most colorful and engaging classic RTS you can play on GOG right now. FYI getting it to start took some troubleshooting--when I used the desktop shortcut the game starts with a cinematic and then freezes before the main menu pops up. To avoid this I had to open the shortcut's file location and then started the game by opening the battlegrounds.exe instead. That skips the opening cinematic and goes right to the main menu.
