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NAME THAT GAME 50!

August 01st, 2008 | Category: Name That Game!

I told you it was going to be a bit more involved. These games are all quite recent (released within the last three to five years) and are all PC games. So, to make things harder, I’ve given you a whole bunch of games to identify and have shrunk the screenshots down to 400×300. On the other hand, I’ve grouped the nine games into three logical groups so in the end it shouldn’t be too hard to figure them out.

Enjoy! If you are the first person to name all nine games and their developers, I will name a kitten after you.

RTS Games:

FPS Games:

Strategy Games:

Point? No, I wasn’t really trying to make a point. Why do you ask?

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12 Comments so far

  1. sol_hsa August 2nd, 2008 12:26 am

    Heh, I’m not even trying. One I know, a couple I could hazard a guess at.

  2. Irwin1138 August 2nd, 2008 1:54 am

    Warcraft 3, Blizzard
    ?, ?
    Warhammer 40000: Dawn of War, Relic Games?

    Battlefield 2, Digital Illusions CE
    Call of Duty 4, Infinity Ward
    Counter-Strike Source, Valve

    The Settlers: Rise of an Empire, Blue Byte Software
    Anno 1701, Related Designs
    Sid Meier’s Civilization 4, Firaxis Games

    It seems that I cant crack that 2nd RTS nut 8(

  3. TheDaian August 2nd, 2008 7:21 am

    That second RTS looks familiar, but I can’t quite get it. I’m happy to have known all the strategy games, though.

  4. sol_hsa August 2nd, 2008 10:45 am

    Somehow I have this feeling the second one could be heroes of might & magic, but have never played any of them..

  5. Irwin1138 August 3rd, 2008 12:13 am

    No, this is not heroes. Heroes is a turn-based strategy, while this game is in the RTS category.

  6. Viridian August 3rd, 2008 2:22 am

    Irwin, I’m going to declare you the winner even if someone else gets that last RTS. You shall have a kitten named after you!

  7. sol_hsa August 3rd, 2008 8:50 am

    Irwin kind of sounds like a cat, actually .. =)

  8. Irwin1138 August 4th, 2008 2:23 am

    Nya~! ^.^

  9. Viridian August 4th, 2008 10:58 am

    For the record, RTS 2 was Spellforce 2. And did anyone actually pick up on the point I was trying to make?

  10. sol_hsa August 4th, 2008 11:03 am

    apart from games looking the same?

  11. Viridian August 4th, 2008 11:40 am

    Excellent! Somebody got it! Good Lord, but there’s a lot of copycat art direction out there.

  12. GBGames August 4th, 2008 2:06 pm

    Oh, darn! I was waiting all this time for NTG 50, and I missed it!

    I was going to guess Total Annihilation: Kingdoms for RTS #2, but I knew it wasn’t right. That game also looks similar, though. B-)

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