PCGame & Hardwares: May 2012

Thursday, May 31, 2012

Tropico 3 [Download]best

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List Price : $9.99 Price : $4.41

Product Description

The time is yesterday and the Cold War is in full swing. Through means devious and dubious you have seized power in the Caribbean island country of Tropico, where you now rule as the all-powerful "El Presidente". Whether you turn Tropico into a vacation paradise, a police state or a modern industrial nation - you will always have to defend your actions before your people!

Comprehensive Campaign With 15 Different Missions.
Mission Generator For Random Map Creation.
Wide Range Of Editing And Modification Functions.
Online Funcions Such As High Scores And Visiting Other Players' Islands.
Great Latin soundtrack

Tropico 3 [Download] Reviews

30 of 30 people found the following review helpful

Fun, but short lived, November 22, 2009

Pecos Bill (Gaithersburg, MD United States) - See all my reviews

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This review is from: Tropico 3 (DVD-ROM)

I never played Tropico 1 or 2, but I do enjoy Evil Genius, Dungeon Keeper and Dwarf Fortress. I love games that let me build up an empire and repel attacks without being completely focused on combat all the time as in a standard RTS.

This game has a lot going for it. Think "Sim City" with the additional need to balance out political factions and put up with rebels. In Sim City, unhappy sims would simply leave. In Tropico 3, they're more likely to pick up a gun and try to overthrow you directly.

That said, the game has some faults that are making it into a pretty short lived affair. I've put in maybe 8 full sandbox rounds and I don't think I've got many more left in me.

The problems I had:

* It's too easy. It's not hard to go through the whole game without a single rebel. Factions are easily made happy and the extreme measures of dealing with rowdy individuals available to a tropical dictator seem to be unnecessary. Even if I... Read more

48 of 52 people found the following review helpful

NO NEW TRICKS FOR EL PRESIDENTE - BUT STILL GREAT FUN!, October 22, 2009

NeuroSplicer (Freeside, in geosynchronous orbit) - See all my reviews

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This review is from: Tropico 3 (DVD-ROM)

Every regime turns old and stale. Every banana-republic runs out of national resources to sell-out for kickbacks. And every dictator can hide only so many populist aces up his sleeve. So in the end he calls for ...degenerate capitalist image-makers to reinvent his persona and make the beard hip again. It's the same old story.
Power corrupts - and absolute power corrupts absolutely. True - but aren't you tempted? Not even a little?

The original Tropico and its expansions were of those rare RTS games that manage to blend absurd stereotypes with classic gaming genres and reinvent them with humor. From the old Dungeon Keeper to the unsurpassed... Read more

20 of 24 people found the following review helpful

From someone who loves Tropico: It's Tropico 1 + Expansion Pack in 3D, October 21, 2009

Game Geek - See all my reviews

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This review is from: Tropico 3 (DVD-ROM)

If it ain't broken, don't fix it. Calypso has created Tropico 3 to the full extent of the maxim.

Other than the different scenarios and the new ability to customize your own avatar, Tropico 3 is essentially a Tropico 1 + expansion pack with 3D rendered graphics.
However, I'd hasten to add that it's still as fun as the original and you will spend countless hours managing your banana republic.

THE GOOD:
- Still as fun as the first one
- Graphics have been updated
- Ability to Customize Avatar

THE BAD:
- It's still as fun as the first one...because it's almost identical to the first one plus the expansion pack...gameplay is identical.
- ...in fact, it has lost a few of the cool little features (i.e., the little videos that followed the issuing of an edict are now gone :()
- Tropico reloaded, the bundled pack, is available for download at much better value, it's not in 3D but Tropico has always been about gameplay and not... Read more

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Borderlands Game of the Year Edition [Download]best

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List Price : $29.99 Price : $21.21

Product Description

A sci-fi/action RPG from acclaimed developer Gearbox, Borderlands combines the best in first-person shooter (FPS) action gaming with elements of a traditional role-playing game (RPG). The excitement of this hybridization is further magnified by the game's groundbreaking content generation system which allows for a near-endless variety in missions, environments, enemies, weapons, item drops and character customization, making the game's single player, multiplayer and online campaigns not to be missed. This special Game of the Year edition takes the action even further with the inclusion of all four of the downloadable content releases for the game, as well as a fold-out map of all the Borderlands Pandoran territories.

Co-op Design - Borderlands is built from the ground up to be an exciting, intuitive cooperative experience for up to four players simultaneously that rewards players who work together and invest in co-op skills. Split screen is also supported.
FPS Gameplay - In this role-playing shooter, choose one of several distinct characters, each with their own individual skill sets. As your character grows throughout this fast-paced FPS, you choose and customize your abilities to suit your style of play.
Art Style - The game's distinctive art style combines traditional rendering techniques with hand-drawn textures to paint a bold and eye-catching spin on the FPS genre.
Vehicular Combat - Jump behind the wheel and engage in high-speed vehicle-to-vehicle combat, complete with spectacular explosions and road-killed Skags.
Frontier Planet - Search the wasteland planet of Pandora for the legendary alien vault. Fight your way through bandits, discover nine native (and aggressive) creatures, and help the few settlers on the planet in your search for a Vault

Borderlands Game of the Year Edition [Download] Reviews

22 of 24 people found the following review helpful

Great deal., April 26, 2011

Allen Oster (NorCal) - See all my reviews

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This review is from: Borderlands Game of the Year Edition [Download] (Software Download)

Just wanted to mention that this product does activate on steam, steam seems to like it better when you take the dashes out of the key.

163 of 201 people found the following review helpful

Buyer BEWARE, December 10, 2010

JD - See all my reviews

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This review is from: Borderlands Game of the Year (DVD-ROM)

What a way to ruin a great game.

The DLC add-on content, which is really the only reason to buy this version of the game, is NOT included on the disc. Please note: You get a 1 time download of the content, then the codes become invalid! If your computer crashes, you have install problems, want to install on a different computer, or for any reason at all you need to re-install the DLC content, you're out of luck!

I quote "These codes will become invalid after use...A new code cannot be provided, nor can data be guaranteed or restored in the event of a failed unlock or the loss of data due to a hardware malfunction."

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EDIT 05/19/2012

I has been some time since my original review. I never did install the DLC's (scarcity effect), although I did try to activate unsuccessfully through steam (apparently my code predates Steam/2kgames cooperation). Anyway, someday I may use my 1 use download because this is an awesome game... Read more

119 of 152 people found the following review helpful

VERY deceptive, January 18, 2011

EgotisticalMe - See all my reviews

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This review is from: Borderlands Game of the Year (DVD-ROM)

First off, the game Borderlands is an amazing game, very worth of purchase.

This review is rating the PRODUCT, not the game.

The product says that it includes all 4 DLC (Downloadable Content) packs. This couldn't be further from the truth.

Instead of actually including the software on the disc, like the Mad Moxxi's Underdome Riot & The Zombie Island of Dr. Ned add-on pack, it instead gives you a link and a code to gearbox's website, where it wants you to individually download all 4 of the DLCs (weighing in at approximately 1.5 to 2 GB per DLC, in .ZIP format).

Now typically, I wouldn't be too bothered with this, aside from having to wait about an hour or so for EACH DLC to download. However, I'm a service member deployed in Afghanistan. Given our already shoddy internet, it would take no less than 9 HOURS per DLC, and that's assuming it will even download properly (I'm on try #3 with The Secret Armory of General Knoxx right now, 10 hours... Read more

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Tuesday, May 29, 2012

Pickers [Download]super

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List Price : $6.99 Price : $6.99

Pickers [Download] Reviews

6 of 6 people found the following review helpful

Fantastic Fun - When Do We Get a Sequel?, March 8, 2012

Randi Flaa - See all my reviews

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This review is from: Pickers [Download] (Software Download)

After playing many, many HOGs it was a pleasure to find a truly unique twist to the genre. Rather than straight-forward HOG or HOG with the usual mini-games thrown in and some kind of story, in Pickers you not only look for items in various locations, you get to haggle over prices of items you wish to buy (singly or in bundles), decide your selling price, bargain with potential buyers in your shop, even auction your items off to see if you made a good investment. To make it even more fun, you can "match up" 2 items that may be in the same location or different ones to create a new item that is worth more on the open market (match a lamp shade with a lamp base, for example, and sell the completed item for more than the sum of the parts). And finally - there are 3 "hot buys" to be considered each time you go out on a buying trip. If you find items in those categories, you earn more. Because the "hot buys" come up in different order for each game, and because you determine (to some... Read more

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful

The best game ever, April 12, 2012

SLP - See all my reviews

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This review is from: Pickers [Download] (Software Download)

This is the best game I've purchased. My son and I never have quit playing since I bought it over a month ago. He is a real rpg player and has constantly teased me about HOG playing. This game is so unique that I am trying to find something similiar. If anyone has any suggestions let me know. I love it and can't get enough.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful

Fun for the family, March 18, 2012

Jimbo - See all my reviews

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This review is from: Pickers [Download] (Software Download)

Great fun, I showed my ten year old the basics and we competed in a who could make the most bucks at the end of the game challenge. He won with just over $100K- Has anyone topped that? This game is more than an HOG, the bargaining, pricing and selling aspects make it standout as one of the best out of twenty or so casual games that I have downloaded from amazon.

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