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I loved Counter-Strike when it was a Half-Life mod. From my Danish Beta 6 coverdisc and cs_mansion to the Steam version I never connected with, this is the CS I still miss.
Condition Zero let me play Counter-Strike without other people. I look back at its bots, two solo modes, development history and unfinished fixes.
I’ve played all the main Sims games but never became a fan. A guide from Computer Tips & Tricks 5/2000 covers the original, alongside my thoughts on expansions and my Sims 4 gameplay.
Fallout 1 and 2 were extremely hard for me, but I still rate their quality highest. A 1998 Fallout 2 preview brings back those memories, while New Vegas remains my favourite.
I tried The Sims 2 when it was new, but it never did much for me. Most of the other names on this page meant nothing to me. That was my first reaction to the building and life simulator list in issue 7/2005 of Dansk PC Gaming World: eight ranked games, and hardly anything I […]
PC Planet gave Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas 95% in 2005. I grew up with GTA, played the original on PlayStation, went through London, GTA 2, GTA III and Vice City, and still never particularly liked San Andreas. The opening bicycle sequence is one of the first things I remember about it, mostly because I […]
PC Planet gave Clive Barker’s Jericho 91% in 2007. I played it on Xbox 360 when it came out and returned to it once later. Reading that score now, I can recognise the game the reviewer describes, but I remember being frustrated far more often than I remember enjoying it. The monsters, blood, ruined buildings […]
Thirteen PC game cases for 26 kroner at Mission Afrika genbrug in Frederikssund. Two kroner a case, and an extra game turned up when I opened Age of Empires: a loose Claw disc. No cover, no matching box, just a pirate cat sitting inside a strategy game. I normally try to keep these second-hand PC […]
Empire Earth II wanted to put most of human history on one battlefield. Fifteen epochs, fourteen civilizations, changing resources, borders, diplomacy, weather and armies that could grow from early warriors into machinery from the future. PC Planet Denmark gave it 85% in 2005. I understand the attraction. I also understand why, after all that ambition, […]
I have seven Hitman games in my Steam library, and I still would not call myself a Hitman fan. Blood Money got some of my time. Absolution got considerably more. I have played a little World of Assassination too, but the older games mostly sit there. Having a series in my collection does not mean […]
