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Game: Disciples III: Renaissance
Resource: Gamers.at
Feature: Preview
Quotation: “Am meisten gewerkelt wurde ausnahmslos an der Optik des Rundenspiels. Weg mit der 2D und her mit 3D. Demnach sieht die komplette Welt von Disciple 3 im Vergleich zu den Vorgängern um Weiten besser aus und kann sich selbst mit Vergleichstiteln problemlos messen. Es wird sogar einen Tag-Nacht-Wechsel geben, der zwar keine strategischen Raffinessen mit sich bringt, jedoch umso mehr zur Atmosphäre und Optik beiträgt. Ansonsten wird das Universum um Nevendaar – im Gegensatz zu Heroes of Might and Magic – recht düster daher kommen. Das beginnt bei den oftmals gezeichneten Helden, geht weiter über die geheimnisvollen Armeen der Dämonen und deren toten Landstrichen und endet in der düsteren Hintergrundgeschichte, die somit passend verknüpft wird. Schön ist ebenso die 
optische Veränderung der eingenommenen Gebiete. Nehmt ihr beispielsweise als Führer der Dämonen ein Landstrich Menschen ein, wird aus dem einst so farbenfrohen Wald eine verkümmerte Einöde, wo kein einziger Grashalm mehr wächst. Ausdünstungen nach einem scharfen Chili con Carne Abend sind ein Witz dagegen.”

Game: A Stroke of Fate
Resource: Mendoza Gamers
Feature: Interview
Quotation: "MG- Buenos días. Diganos, ¿de qué se trata el juego?¿cómo se les ocurrió la idea?

Akella - Hola! Nuestro juego trata sobre los verdaderos patriotas de Alemania, quienes no estaban de acuerdo con el régimen que gobernaba el país en 1940. Nuestro personaje principal, Gerhard Mayer, era uno de los hombres que inicialmente apoyaba al Führer sincera y honestamente, pero que luego se dio cuenta que Alemania no se estaba moviendo hacia la realización de los sueños e ideales de los ciudadanos alemanes de los años 1920-1930. Lo que estaba ocurriendo no tenía nada que ver con las ideas de prosperidad, paz y felicidad. Por el contrario, Alemania se encontraba estancada en la guerra y millones de muertes, y Hitler era el principal iniciador de la política que estaba llevando a la nación al precipicio."

Game: PT Boats: Knights of the Sea
Resource: Armchair General
Feature: Review
Quotation: "All of these graphics are perfect as are the sound effects, which include the drone of aircraft and the bangs that depict weapons’ different rates of fire. Simple mouse moves allow players to find the best position for viewing."

Game: PT Boats: Knights of the Sea
Resource: SimHQ
Feature: Review
Quotation: "The actual gameplay is great. You can play from a 3rd person view, issuing driver orders like a first person shooter (using the W,S,A,D keys) to your PT Boat or Destroyer. You can fire torpedoes with an estimate or pull up the detailed torpedo targeting device. 

You can access a first person view of any of the guns on the PT Boats (but not other ships), or sight in with the machine gun sight and let loose; it's a lot of fun. But in game, if you want to play it properly, you will want to play in tactical view. Tactical view lets you view all of the ships from a map view, select different ships, issue orders, assign waypoints, assign targets, lay out smoke screens, engage certain targets, or defend certain targets. You can do this with individual ships or all of them, or in different groups. You can assign formations to the ships, or order zig-zag tactics. There are really have two games in one here; PT Boats can be played as a first or third person shooter, and/or as a tactical strategic game. Both are great fun, and play well."

Game: PT Boats: Knights of the Sea
Resource: Games32
Feature: Review
Quotation: "it is a must have for anyone who appreciates an excellent naval action simulator, because frankly this is the best product available right now"

Game: Numen
Resource: Gaming Nexus
Feature: Interview
Quotation: "What kind of monsters can we expect to slay in the game? Are you putting your own twists on some of the ancient greek mythological monsters or are you lifting straight from the standard mythos?
We surely wouldn't dare to omit some of the monsters one would expect to find in a game like this but we've also managed to smoothly blend in some creatures that were not present in any other games"

Game: The Bad, The Ugly, and the Sober
Resource: Game Zone
Feature: Interview
Quotation: "Although sometimes you’ll understand that Jack is not that good guy or kind of a prince of this tale. To be honest, Jack is not so much better than the guys he’s dealing with or even fighting against.”

It must be a difficult time for filmmakers who want to produce new westerns. No matter the potential, westerns are no longer on Hollywood's hot list. Consequently, it couldn't be easy to develop a video-game western either. After all, many of today's games are influenced by movies and TV. Regardless of the challenges ahead, that didn't stop one courageous developer from pushing forward with The Bad, The Ugly and The Sober..."

Game: Disciples III: Renaissance
Resource: Gaminator
Feature: Interview
Quotation: "Jakiekolwiek myśli o pójściu z serią do konsol? 

Jasne, trochę o tym rozmyślaliśmy. Jednakże wszyscy fani Disciples to gracze PeCetowi - a jednoczesne tworzenie wersji konsolowej sprawiłoby, że praca byłaby jeszcze cięższa i pożerająca więcej czasu. Z tego i kilku innych powodów, Disciples III zostanie wydane tylko na PC - przynajmniej na razie. Mamy pewne plany, aby w przyszłości pracować nad konsolowym projektem bazującym na świecie Nevendaaru. Jak do tej pory, nigdy oficjalnie o tym nie wspominaliśmy, tak więc ten wywiad jest chyba pierwszym razem, kiedy mówimy o tym prasie."

Game: PT Boats: Knights of the Sea
Resource: WarGamer
Feature: Interview
Quotation: "The Wargamer (WG): The subject of PT Boats as a game seems obvious in retrospect, but I have to wonder why it hasn't been done before. What inspired you to make a game about PT Boats and what kinds of challenges has the subject presented that you haven't seen before?

Anisimov Maxim (AM): The idea of making a game dedicated to torpedo boats was born quite a while ago, at the time when publishing company "Akella" was working on Sea Dogs. Watching the majestic galleons slowly crossing the sea, the developers naturally thought that it might be better if the ships would sail just a tad faster - since at that rate people would grow long beards when the ships finally reached their destinations. At some point Dmitry Arkhipov (VP of Development at Akella) suggested to introduce a torpedo boat model into the game - just to see how it's gonna play. That boat was rushing among the ships like a horselfy in a herd of cows - and people really enjoyed it. But Sea Dogs really needed to be finished soon, so we had to put the idea with the torpedo boats on ice for a while."

Game: Disciples III: Renaissance
Resource: EuroGamer.de
Feature: Preview
Quotation: "Auch die Kampfmechanik wurde leichten Veränderungen unterzogen. Während ihr in der Vergangenheit lediglich Attacken und Spezialfähigkeiten eurer Mitstreiter anordnen konntet, zieht ihr die Kameraden nun erstmals aktiv über das optional einblendbare Hexfeld-Gitter. Auch hier verspricht man sich wohl dank Angriffen aus verschiedenen Richtungen und möglichen Blockaden zusätzliche strategische Tiefe - ich kann gut verstehen, warum Akella sich dazu entschlossen hat."