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Strategy games are able to test you as a gamer in more ways than most other genres are. They usually put you in a precarious situation to test your methodical thinking, strategizing, and tactical thinking through developing assets and managing resources to resolve a hectic scenario which is usually a battle. Some go even further and test how well you would build a nation’s power through colonization, exploring maps to find new places to settle, engage with your rivals on the battlefield, and even with diplomacy. Whatever their method, strategy games are an excellent way to see how you fare at the forefront of a major campaign with lots of assets to manage. Now, developers Tindalos Interactive and publishers Focus interactive hope to test your command skills themselves with their new real-time strategy game: Etherium.
While it is not a bad game, for the price, there are numerous titles which do Etherium's best elements better, and often with: cleaner language, less stability issues, better maps, and a far more capable A.I.
If you fancy some free RTS this week then now might be the time to give Etherium a look. It's entirely ours to play for nothing at all until next Monday, July 20th. It's also been discounted 50% for the promotion.
Outpost building, resource management, fancy sci-fi units to unleash upon our enemies... the only thing to top that would be giant colossi. Oh wait, it does have giant colossi.
GamingLives takes a look at Tindalos Interactive's real-time and turn-based strategy game.
"Company of Heroes, a game that was released nearly ten years ago, offers a better single played and multiplayer experience, with improved graphics and audio. I’m still playing that today and, unfortunately I probably won’t remember Etherium in ten years’ time."
