There's just something about designing your own goodies that no strategy fan can resist. Games like Sword of the Stars or Galactic Civilizations 2 let you design your own spaceships for use in combat, but spaceship design is a common feature in space 4X games. It's not seen often in real-time strategy games, but unit design is definitely there, and the case-in-point for this loveable feature is Warzone 2100.
One of the earliest RTS games to support the custom units feature, Warzone 2100 is a blast from the past, and best of all, free and open-source. With a double whammy of free and retro, you can't really go wrong.
It’s that time of the week again, you’re reading this because you’re either curious for some reason or you’re in need of something to play on an awful, awful rig. Here are some suggestions down below for ya, some of these titles are even free!
Hardcore Gamer: Welcome to This Week in Gaming, where we take a look back at some of the most newsworthy events in gaming history from last year to even decades ago that happened this very week. Take a gander at some of the highlights and see which spark nostalgia and which may still be news to you.
DIYGamer: A growing, laudable trend in games development recently has been for older studios to release the source-code and (sometimes) the actual media resources of their older games to their respective communities, effectively giving the fans the opportunity to adopt the game, and expand, improve and refine on the original commercial release under a freeware banner. Warzone 2100 is one such game.
