Dawn of war 2 attempted to straddle that line by having hero units that are actively fighting other units but failed to really fit it’s setting and didn’t add much to the already massive library of strategy games.
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The big game companies said that strategy games would never make a huge difference anymore and no one needed it but when some games like Firaxis’ XCOM released to massive global success, people realised that they always wanted some sort of strategy game in their lives and so this resurgence of strategy has created some fantastic titles but is there one more game to add to that list?Ī lot of strategy games that have appeared in recent years like XCOM and the Total war series have really fallen into one of two categories They either are turn based skirmish games in the vein of older tabletop wargaming or grand strategy with massive armies clashing for control. Some franchises kept going but in terms of overall market presence they were minor compared to shooter and action game sales.
Age of empires, Command and Conquer, Civilisation and others have been around for decades and some still argue the original versions of these franchises are timeless classics but when it came to the console’s birth into the market and more specifically around the mid 2000’s, the strategy genre kind of went dark.
Strategy is one of those genres that has fluctuated in terms of notoriety throughout gaming history.