It's the one genre that still hasn't fully transitioned to the home consoles, but strategy games still made news in 2007 -- and we don't just mean because Blizzard finally showed off some footage from StarCraft 2. A slew of high- and low-profile mind-benders helped keep the genre in the limelight, particularly on its native PC platform. The one-time king Command & Conquer finally returned, while new expansions breathed life into older games like Company of Heroes, Civilization IV and Age of Empires III.
But none of these made our top picks. In a very close race, here are the titles that tickled our gray matter most.
The Nominees Are...
Puzzle Quest: Challenge of the Warlords
It might sound like an odd choice, but D3's puzzling role-playing hybrid had our minds reeling and our fingers itching to play more. And more. And more.
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Supreme Commander
Although Total Annihilation is but a distant memory to most hardcore gamers, Supreme Commander proved the concept of large-scale real-time strategy games is alive and well.
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Fantastic unit balance coupled with fast, deep multiplayer result in a real-time winner for Sierra. Our compliments to the sweet engine as well.
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Posted: 18 Dec 2007
