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A thousand years ago the creatures of Shee fled their world of Albia in a gigantic spaceship, in search of a new home. An evil race called the Grendels took it upon themselves to scupper those plans though, and attacked the spaceship.

Many of you may remember the original game in this series, Interstate '76. While its 3D engine was a little dated even 3 years ago, it developed something of a cult following for its hip 70's culture and time capsule humour.

Massive multiplayer role-playing games are becoming more popular than ever, and the game developers have taken notice of this. If you are active within the gaming scene you have no doubt heard of Turbine's latest addition to the genre, Asheron's Call.

In the midst of the release of Unreal Tournament and Quake 3 Arena there are other games that, while they may not share the cult like status, are no less impressive in their own arena. One such game is F/A-18E SuperHornet...

"In the year of 1999, and seven months, from the sky will come the great King of Terror. He will bring to life the great King of the Mongols. Before and after war reigns happily."

- Sierra

I must admit, upon reading "This game is about trains for people who love trains" on the official Railroad Tycoon 2 website, I was a tad worried that I was about to witness digital trainspotting!

For several years now Impressions Games have been making something of a reputation for themselves with the "Caesar" series of games, essentially transplanting the idea behind SimCity into classical Rome.

It's a bit of a daunting task to sit down and review an id game. No other games have quite the fanatical following nor the sharp polarisation of views. id themselves, despite being quite a normal software developer internally, are so revered to this day that they remain the last of the famous rock star developers. EuroGamer's editor, Gestalt, last week took an initial look at Quake III Arena with the wider viewpoint of how the game fits into the global scheme of things. I'd like to try sum up Quake III Arena in the same way, but also take a look at how the game shapes up for those folks, like me, that treat FPS games as a way of life rather than 'just another game'. Traditionally I kick off reviews with a bit of background, but I'm sure that everyone is familiar with id's past legendary works, so far so I'll cut to the chase - Quake III Arena is a strange hybrid of supremely polished first-person shooter evolution and a burning desire to have it appeal to the broader gamer. It's a bit odd, but I mean that in a good way...

Picture the scene - a crowd of lads in the pub, beers in hand, loudly discussing Saturday's full-time football scores.

In days gone by, you could count the number of games successfully converted from console to PC on one hand.

Quake 3 Arena might already be on shelves in the USA, but here in the UK we have to wait for another two weeks. And unfortunately, Activision UK don't have any review copies of the game yet...

There are those of us that quite like the first person shooter, the gaming genre responsible for those ancient memories of jaw dropping drool when you first clapped eyes on Doom.

- Triumph Studios European Publisher - Take 2 InteractiveAmerican Publisher - Gathering Of Developers

Before you ask, that's Edgar Torronteras, the "famous" Spanish motorbike superstar. What do you mean you've never heard of him?

"Thief : The Dark Project" was first released at the end of 1998, just sneaking into the stores in time to pick up my "Game Of The Year - 1998" award. Half-Life? Never heard of it...

With every new generation of games they become both more advanced and more realisitic. We have seen first person games increase in realism almost infinitely in comparison to their original precursors, but nothing has matched the level of detail and realism that the flight sim genre has achieved.

Based on the story of the man who sold his soul to the devil, Faust is sometimes disturbing, sometimes funny, and almost always downright bizarre...

Nomad Soul (the game formerly known as Omikron) is downright weird.

Up until a few years ago, if you mentioned "Microsoft" and "game" in the same sentence, everyone thought of MS Flight Simulator.

Rogue Spear throws you into the near future, 2001 to be precise. The former Soviet Union is falling apart at the seams, plagued by terrorists and mostly controlled by the Russian mafia.

Homeworld is a refreshing new take on the real time strategy genre, abandoning the usual forest, ice, desert and volcanic worlds of most RTS games and instead setting the action in deep space.

It's been almost twenty years now since Elite was released, and people are still trying (and largely failing) to clone the ancient masterpiece.

Freespace 2 is the sequel to Conflict Freespace, a space combat sim set 32 years after the Great War fought against the Shivans in the original game.

Rites Of War is a combination of two of my favourite wargames, Warhammer 40k running on a modified Panzer General II engine.

Nintendo's latest DS title, New Super Mario Bros, has recorded the second biggest launch week ever for a DS title in the UK - but it wasn't enough to move the PS2 version of GTA Liberty City Stories off the top of the weekly software charts.

Adventure game development hero Ron Gilbert is having trouble shopping his new story-driven project around, and reckons that publishers are missing a trick by not funding small, low-budget games.

Atari's "Want To Be A Car Designer?" contest has entered the polling phase - so time's running out if you fancy getting your own dream car design into Test Drive Unlimited, which is due out later this year.

The third Resident Evil film, Extinction, pits the last dregs of humanity against a dying world overrun by zombies, according to scriptwriter Paul W.S. Anderson.

TrackMania developer Nadeo has told Eurogamer that the new TM compilation will be in the shops by the end of the year. Nadeo also revealed that a beta is scheduled to start some time around the end of August / start of September so they can try out all the new network features.