Brian Wettengel

The digital world is crawling with Diablo-likes (erm, I mean ‘Action Role Playing Games’ or ARPGs), but so many of them seem to agree on many things all in the name of convention or convenience. So what happens when a designer sees a two-dimensional world and decides to step sideways?

Let’s get this straight at the top:  This is a chess game.  Not entirely unlike Chessmaster 5000 or any other chess program you might peruse, this is primarily a chess game.  It’s not Dawn of War 3 (just when do we get that game anyway?), or the recent

Act of Aggression reminds me of the original Command and Conquer, the one from Westwood that started it all.  Don’t get me wrong, Act of Aggression is solid.  A handful of bugs that spoiled saved games were taken care of quickly after release and the engine runs well even