Quick! It's a Saturday afternoon, and you must choose between doing your homework and building an army of Dragon warriors to defeat that nasty Lotus clan. What do you do? The answer is obvious!
There are a few games that I keep going back to. This is one of them. Released ten years ago, Battle Realms is a real-time strategy game that never gets old. You can play one of two modes: story or skirmish. I almost always play skirmish because you get to decide the number of players, what teams they are on, where you battle, and how easy it will be.
The Wolf clan protect their base from the invading Lotus
I have wasted many an hour switching between the four clans--Dragon, Serpent, Lotus, and Wolf--and varying my battle strategies. Do I send out small raiding parties to keep my enemies weak? Or do I focus on defense while I amass the largest possible fighting force, then crush all that dare oppose me in the final five minutes? Both can be pretty fun.
Battle Realms is different from other strategy games in that your peasants are the key to everything.
They're very nonchalant about it, too.
Like in similar games, peasants gather resources so that you can build and train and then construct your buildings, but here they are also the troops you train into Samurai or Unclean or Ballistamen or what-have-you.
Seriously, this is a really fun game, and a round of battle can take as short or as long as you wish. There's a trailer here, and the demo of the game can be found here.
Music
Fort Minor - Petrified
genre: "Oh, snap!" hip-hop
ideal for: shaking your head and smirking at those posers
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DaCaV5 - Tetris
genre: "Some people call it hip-hop, trance, dance, rock, and pop. It don't matter, it's hot."
ideal for: schooling your friends in old video games
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