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Video Strategy Games For Everone

Whenever people think of classic strategy games, often games like Age of Empires and Starcraft are the ones that come to mind. While these games were not the first strategy games ever created, they are often thought of as the founding fathers of real-time strategy games.

Starcraft is a science-fiction based strategy game, which submerges players into an anti-alien atmosphere. Players must then build their military structures and train their troops for battle. Age of Empires is a strategy game that requires players to start out in very primitive times and build up through the ages. Players of these games spend hours online with their friends. In recent years, strategy games have greatly evolved. With the use of high-tech graphics capabilities, many companies have changed the strategy game genre as a whole.

In earlier days, strategy games would only support local multiplayer. It was extremely hard for players to connect to other players around the world because servers were not nearly as advanced as they are today. People would often have Lan parties, which means players would meet up with their computers and link them to play games like Starcraft. Nowadays, server technology has become so advanced to a point that players are able to play with each other around the globe.

The latest Starcraft game, Starcraft II: Wings of Liberty, must be connected to an internet connection in order to play. While this may frustrate some players, the concept Blizzard Entertainment wanted to utilize was that all players would be submersed in a multiplayer atmosphere. Players can earn badges and other achievements while playing online and can participate in leader-boards. Starcraft II: Wings of Liberty is a game that is hard to put down. The graphics are fantastic and can be adjusted according to a person’s quality of computer. The subtle differences these later games offer players has the titles lasting longer and longer.

But newer strategy games are changing more than ever in recent months. In one of the newest strategy games, Diablo III, players now have the opportunity to sell the items they collect in dungeons on online auctions. While this sounds like some boring auction, where only veteran players can prosper, that is not the case at all. Many items are scattered throughout dungeons at random, which means a player might consider themselves to have “won the lottery” if he or she finds a quality piece.

Overall, the technology of next-generation strategy games will keep players glued to their computer screens for hours on end. Future strategy games are becoming more and more interactive.

Age of Empires developed by Ensemble Studios.
Starcraft, Starcraft II: Wings of Liberty, Diablo III developed by Blizzard Entertainment.