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A Flying Tank and Ten Unproven Promises: PC Gaming World’s 2005 Action-Adventure Ranking Revisited
A retrospective on PC Gaming World’s 2005 action-adventure ranking reveals the contrasting nature of hopes and realities in game release cycles. The list reflects optimism about anticipated titles like GTA:…
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Eight Futures, One Misplaced God: PC Gaming World’s Fantasy & Science Fiction Strategy Ranking Revisited
Dansk PC Gaming World ranked eight fantasy and science-fiction strategy games to watch in 2005 and 2006. Twenty years later, the list is a collision between real classics, forgotten commercial…
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PC Gaming World’s Military Strategy Top 10 of 2005: Hype, Forgotten Games and My Real Gaming History
In 2005, Dansk PC Gaming World placed Age of Empires III above Civilization IV, Anno 1701, The Guild 2 and Rome: Total War—while one of its chosen games never even…
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The 8 Historical Strategy Games of 2005 Ranked on Hype
In 2005, Dansk PC Gaming World placed Age of Empires III above Civilization IV, Anno 1701, The Guild 2 and Rome: Total War—while one of its chosen games never even…
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The 8 Building and Life Simulators of 2005 That Passed Me By
In 2005, Dansk PC Gaming World ranked eight upcoming building games and life simulators, from The Movies and The Sims 2: Nightlife to X3: Reunion and Football Manager. Looking back,…
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GTA San Andreas: A Love-Hate Relationship with a Classic
GTA: San Andreas in 2005: PC Planet Gave It 95% — I Never Loved the GTA Game Everyone Else Seems to Worship This GTA San Andreas review begins with a…
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Battlefield 2 Review: Why PC Planet Gave It 91% in 2005
Battlefield 2, released in 2005, earned a 91% score from PC Planet for its innovative multiplayer design involving 64-player battles and diverse classes like Medics and Support. Players could engage…
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Clive Barker’s Jericho Review: Was PC Planet’s 91% Too High?
This Clive Barker’s Jericho review looks back at one of those strange cases where an old magazine review and my own experience with a game seem to describe almost two…
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PC Game Pass on Linux Sounds Great — Until You Remember You Still Don’t Own Any of It
I saw the news about Xodus and at first there is this obvious part of my brain that goes, okay, this is actually pretty damn impressive. An open-source project trying…
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Empire Earth II in 2005: The Huge RTS I Only Really Enjoyed With Friends
Empire Earth II was one of the biggest real-time strategy games of 2005, promising thousands of years of history, 15 epochs, huge armies and enough strategic systems to keep players…
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