#Cossacks european wars steam review Pc

It's so thoroughly unreconstructed as an RTS, a straight-to-the-point rarity in changed times, like a visitor from an alt-timeline where strategy games never gave up on the Age Of Empires formula and were still the same in 2016, but slicker and flashier. It's a demi-remake of the 2001 original, in fact. GSC Gameworld (they of STALKER fame, at least in name) are behind this 17th- and 18th-century Europe-set real-time strategy game, which though it bears a 3 in its name does not present any particular barriers to series newcomers.

#Cossacks european wars steam review Pc

Cossacks 3 is not PC gaming's norm in 2016 any more than Mario or Sonic are consoles', but I must admit that I found it to be something of a balm. I sought, somewhat in vain, to defend myself, because in truth it has been many years since I played a historical RTS. Our interests and stereotypes had not changed since 1997. This, these tiny men, those cod-historical serif fonts and that expanse of terrain - this was what PC gamers played all the time. He didn't say anything when he glaced at my screen didn't have to, for his face said it all. Whilst I was playing Cossacks 3, a console-focused journalist of some reknown (TV's famous Simon Parkin, since you ask) popped his head into the rotting cupboard above a coffee shop that I attempt to call an office.