In this week's edition of Game.Ars, Carl discusses the nearly-released Sid Meier's Pirates! along with some news that will bring smiles to the faces of fans of turn-based strategy games. Pickings for fans of genre may have been slim lately, but that could be about to change.
MiST Games, a Russian Developer, is creating something that could fill the void left when Jagged Alliance went on hiatus. The game is called ALFA: Antiterror and it offers the unique chance to join Russia's KGB as a member of the ALFA task force. It was inspired by world events of the past several years and especially that of global terrorism, but the game's campaign settings will take players back to the early 1980s into the present.
The title is due out some time in 2005. In the meantime, Game.Ars has news on upcoming releases, plus some cheat codes for Castle Strike. Game on!
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