Upcoming PC Titles
I’m just going to quote this from an email one of my workmates wrote and sent round, it really speaks for itself:
Here are Play’s coming soon titles
The Sims 2 : Open for Business (3rd expansion to a sequel)
Lord of the Rings : The Battle For Middle Earth 2 (sequel)
The Elder Scrolls 4 : Oblivion Collector’s Edition (3rd sequel, special edition)
Galactic Civilisations 2 (sequel)
Commandos : Strike Force (3rd sequel)
C-130 Hercules (15th expansion to 4th sequel)
Tomb Raider Legend (6th sequel)
CSI : Crime Scene Investigation 3 (2nd sequel)
SWAT 4 : The Stechkov Syndicate (expansion pack to 3rd sequel)
Anyone else wonder why the PC market is stagnant?
March 3rd, 2006 at 11:20 am
I wonder. Especially given that there are less sequels on PC than there are for consoles, and that of the sequels you mention, a number of them do bold new things.
Commandos: Strike Force is an FPS, while the first three (not two) games were all top down RTS games. By continuing the mechanic of switching between multiple soldiers in the same team, on the fly, each with different skills, it creates a unique experience.
Oblivion, while superficially similar to Morrowind, is in no way related to the game in terms of world or plot. It’s an entirely new experience, and even if it weren’t, it’s a world 16km in size with thousands of NPCs and hundreds of hours of missions. It seems unfair to dismiss it as “just another sequel”.
All the others are probably fair game. For mocking, I mean. Aside from maybe Galactic Civilisations 2, which I hear is ace.
March 3rd, 2006 at 4:52 pm
I’m actually looking forward to both Commandos and Galactic Civilisations II, even the next Tomb Raider has my interest if it delivers on the promise. It’s not so much that these are bad games, more that it’s *only* sequels that are coming out for the forseeable future. But then if I’m buying some of them I guess I’m partially to blame. Ho hum.