Some strategy games provide enjoyable single-player campaigns that span dozens of missions. Other strategy games offer robust, fully featured multiplayer modes that can keep you busy for months on end--or even longer than that. While some strategy games manage to attain the best of both worlds, others are more squarely focused toward multiplayer competition, which is what hard-core strategy players prefer. Before we award one of the following as the best multiplayer strategy game of the year, we must acknowledge each of the five nominees for rising above the other games in this extremely competitive category.
Nominees:
Command & Conquer Yuri's Revenge
Publisher: EA Games
Developer: Westwood Studios
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All its new features combine to make Yuri's Revenge ideal or even downright necessary for anyone who enjoyed Red Alert 2.
Conquest: Frontier Wars
Publisher: Ubi Soft
Developer: Fever Pitch Studios
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Conquest succeeds in large part due to an epic atmosphere and a number of unique design elements that convey the complexity of waging war, from establishing supply lines to commissioning talented commanders.
Empire Earth
Publisher: Sierra Studios
Developer: Stainless Steel Productions
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Regardless of whether you've played other games like it, you'll find that Empire Earth is massive--more than most real-time strategy games would dare to be.
Kohan: Immortal Sovereigns
Publisher: Strategy First
Developer: TimeGate Studios
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It's a shining example of the fact that you can combine real-time gaming and strategy and come up with something that's an excellent combination of both.
Shattered Galaxy
Publisher: Nexon Inc.
Developer: Nexon Inc.
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The battles can be spectacular, tense, and exciting, with one caveat: You're always limited to one small corner of the action.
