Strategy First Games

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Software publisher Strategy First, Inc. a wholly owned subsidiary of Silverstar Holdings, Ltd. (NASDAQ: SSTR), was founded by friends who shared a mutual passion for videogames. They still work closely together today, and are the driving force behind the company that is now a leading worldwide developer and publisher of entertainment software.

Their dream began in 1990 when the company received its first art and graphic design contract for a strategy role-playing game published by Sir Tech. For the following two years, it continued to fulfill contracts for such leading companies as ABC Sports Interactive, Strategic Simulations, Empire Interactive, LucasArts and Cinar Films. Soon after, Strategy First developed its own sports game entitled Solid Ice and began to make a name for itself as a premier developer in the Industry, releasing such titles as Man of War I and II and Disciples: Sacred Lands.

Since that time, the company has continued to grow rapidly and has expanded from a small team of a dozen employees to a team with over 40 talented programmers, artists and marketing representatives spread over 2 offices in Montreal and London, England.

Strategy First continues to build its profile as a unique alternative for up-and-coming developers seeking to market their games to a worldwide audience. Examples of some of the titles that Strategy First has brought to the market are Kohan: Immortal Sovereigns, Europa Universalis II, Sudden Strike, Hearts of Iron, Cossacks and Galactic Civilizations.

In addition to publishing third party titles, Strategy First’s very own development studios continue to break new ground with titles such as Disciples II: Dark Prophecy, O.R.B. and Nexagon: Deathmatch.

Strategy First is definitely a company to keep your eyes on. The future is bright!

  • MAKING HISTORY: The Calm and The Storm is a true grand strategy game that puts players in control of global conflict, combining a highly sophisticated AI with rich historical detail. The game is unique among World War II games in the way it challenges gamers to achieve economic and diplomatic victory, not just military success.
  • GODS: Lands of Infinity Special Edition is a blend of adventure and action in a turn-based setting. There is an array of missions and NPCs that players can add to their team. Players must fight, gain experience, level and acquire new skills. The game is played out in the first-person perspective, until gamers enter a battle encounter, at which point the game goes into third-person turn-based battle.
  • Set in WWI, 1914 Shells Of Fury is the first WWI submarine simulation to be released. Players have command of their very own WWI Submarine from the German Emperor’s fleet. Prepare to participate in exciting underwater missions from WWI, and work out detailed strategies using powerful weapons. Take command and control of the various missions given, while roaming across the ocean. Players must use tactical skills in order to survive and move ahead of the opponent.
  • S.C.S. - Dangerous Waters allows you total control over multiple air, surface, and submarine platforms in a modern-day naval environment. Take direct control of individual crew stations and also plan and execute combined arms naval strategies from a top-down “Commanders Eye” perspective.
  • Space Empires V is the latest edition in the Space Empires series. This new chapter completely updates the UI and takes the player into a real-time rendered 3D universe. Watch space battles played out in glorious detail and realistic effects. Expand, Explore, Exploit, and Exterminate in a huge living breathing galaxy. New features abound with political alliances between multiple empires, a top-down ship design system, a hexagonal movement grid, and many more. Due to player demand, the game is completely “moddable” and even adds a scriptable AI system to the mix. Space Empires V boldly takes the next step in the genre of space strategy.
  • GREAT INVASIONS™ plunges you back into the dark age of Europe, a time in history where barbarian tribes and nation states quarreled, warred and conquered each other as the fate of the western world unfolded. Great Invasions allows you to lead armies in the epic conquest of Europe! By force or diplomacy dominance must be established!
  • Alien Shooter Vengeance is the large-scale sequel to the first part of Alien Shooter. In this unique fusion of arcade action and RPG elements, the carnage continues with non-stop fury!
  • Legion Arena is a role playing strategy game created on a massive scale, providing gamers with more than just the pure taste of battle. Set during the period of the Roman Republic, players take command of a band of simple peasant warriors and train them into a formidable fighting force.
  • Baseball Mogul 2009 puts you in complete control of any professional baseball team - the baseball game for fans who want their success on the field determined by their strategy, not their reflexes. Never before seen interview featuring one of Baseball’s most out spoken, talented, and controversial pitchers of all time. Close to 90 minutes, covering the game’s past, present and future.

Making History: The Calm And The Storm

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Making History: The Calm And The Storm,

MAKING HISTORY: The Calm and The Storm is a true grand strategy game that puts players in control of global conflict, combining a highly sophisticated AI with rich historical detail. The game is unique among World War II games in the way it challenges gamers to achieve economic and diplomatic victory, not just military success.

The fate of that nation is entirely in your hands as the world melts into chaos and global conflict. With behavioral models of over 70 countries Making History is a totally new approach to strategy games, where brain cells are as important as bullets.

Features:

  • Rich WWII world: MAKING HISTORY: The Calm and The Storm includes over 80 nations and 800+ regions. Each nation is given detailed characteristics built on extensive research, including economic and military strengths, diplomatic relations, ideology, and technical advancement. Each region features terrain, infrastructure, resource production and more.
  • You are your Nation: Jump into a world in motion where every nation is pursuing its own agenda, and where events can turn on the breaking of a single alliance. Devise strategies based on your nation’s historic strengths and weaknesses – and revise your plans as the world evolves in response to your actions. Play as the United Kingdom, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, the USSR, the United States, or China.
  • Effortless Game Navigation: Player’s console provides one-click access to all critical information and actions. Beautiful 3D world map includes detailed city, military, and other models that you can work with directly.
  • Multi-Turn Combat: An innovative combat system allows many approaches to engagements from massive assaults to holding actions. Supplies, reinforcements and geography all affect your battle plan.
  • More Military Options: Use unique unit abilities to blitzkrieg with armor, fight attrition battles with hordes of infantry, decimate enemy industry with strategic bombers, and bomb fleets from a distance with a carrier task force. With scientific research you can unlock more advanced military units, and every unit features a detailed 3D model.
  • Sophisticated World Economy: The game’s economic system models the connections between world power and economic strength. Players control trade, aid, industrial development, infrastructure investments, and a deep field of research.
  • Powerful Alliance System: As you make and break alliances, declare war and propose peace, each action affects your relations with other nations, and their willingness to ally with you. If you lack strong allies, you may find other nations are more are more likely to attack.
  • Historic Scenarios: Six scenarios let you start at a crucial historic moment, focus on a specific event, or play the whole war. Scenarios cover the fall of France, Pearl Harbor, the D-Day invasion of Europe, the Sudeten crisis and more, and each is based on detailed research. You can work to succeed where others failed, or take a different path and see what happens.
  • Superb replayability: Each scenario drops you into a different firestorm. Each nation you play presents unique challenges. Everything evolves from your economic and military choices, the alliances you make, and the actions and reactions of the world’s other nations.
  • Single and Multiplayer Turn-Based Gameplay: Innovative simultaneous-turn-based play is quick and responsive, and keeps you in control with no waiting. Play with up to eight others in multiplayer mode, using in-game chat to devise joint strategies and secret pacts. Will you be a trusted ally or a backstabbing tyrant?
  • Three Ways to Win: Pursue victory for your Nation, your Alliance, or your Ideology (Democracy, Communism, Fascism, or Authoritarianism.)
  • Built for Modding: Use the Scenario Editor to modify scenarios or create your own. The Scenario Editor will be available for download from our website soon.
  • Share Game Reports: Save complete reports of a game session to share on the web, analyze strategies and results.

Making History: The Calm And The Storm

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Bill Spaceman Lee’s Baseball Mogul 2008

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Bill Spaceman Lee’s Baseball Mogul 2008,

Baseball Mogul 2008 is the 10th edition of the award-winning game that puts you in complete control of any professional baseball team - the baseball game for fans who want their success on the field determined by their strategy, not their reflexes. Never before seen interview featuring one of Baseball’s most out spoken, talented, and controversial pitchers of all time. Close to 90 minutes, covering the game’s past, present and future.

Baseball Mogul begins on Opening Day of any year you choose, from 1901 to 2007. As General Manager (GM), you control a 25-man major league roster plus up to 100 additional minor league players.

You can make complex player trades and negotiate multi-year contracts as you build your team, but you’ll have to compete with the other GMs and manage the bottom line.

Your involvement as GM does not stop in the team’s front office - you also help to manage your team on the field. You set the starting defense, batting order and pitching rotation for your team. Of course, once a ballgame starts, you retire to the luxury box and its up to your team’s coaches and players to get the win! A powerful game engine simulates every pitch of the game based on thousands of customized ratings and projections, assuring you the maximum realism possible!

Details on the Bill Lee DVD

Never before seen interview featuring one of Baseball’s most out spoken, talented, and controversial pitchers of all time. Close to 90 minutes, covering the game’s past, present and future.

Bill Lee offers insight on some of the games most historic, successful and failed General Managers. Follow the “Spaceman” as he also talks about his career, his triumphs challenges, and his life on and off the diamond.

Features:

  • Baseball Mogul Encyclopedia,
  • Database Engine,
  • Financial Model,
  • Player Development Engine,
  • Physics-Based Simulation,
  • “Save Anytime” Feature,
  • Ticker Tape,
  • Expanded Scouting Reports,
  • 2007 Rosters,
  • Roster Tools,
  • Player Database,
  • Pitcher Database,
  • Animated Play-By-Play,
  • Pitch-By-Pitch Mode,
  • Lefty-Righty Stats,
  • Fast Simulation Speed,

Strategy First,

Enemy Engaged 2

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Enemy Engaged 2,

Climb aboard an American RAH-66 Comanche, or the Russian KA-52 Hokum B, and prepare to experience low-level helicopter combat like never before! Sharpen your “line of sight” tactics on over 30,000 kilometers of treacherous landscape! War rages continuously on 3 diverse real world combat zones, where you engage the enemy as both pilot and co-pilot/gunner.

Not only do you feel the white knuckle tension of the realistic flight dynamics, the immersive voice control allows you to command your gunner and your wingman from a microphone connected to your PC. To increase the realism, you may also play co-operatively or competitively with other players, up to 16 on LAN or online Multiplayer.

Features:

  • Modern helicopter combat simulation with realistic flight physics.
  • Three exciting theaters of war with two opposing campaigns each.
  • Dynamic real-time battlefields. No linear mission plot or predefined unit behavior.
  • Over 300.000 square kilometers of flying area over Lebanon, Taiwan and Korea.
  • Diverse combat environments executed in lush 3D detail under a wide range of weather conditions.
  • Over 1200 very detailed and blue-print precise vehicles, chosen from among proven classics in actual use in armed forces around the globe.
  • Use immersive voice control to command your gunner and wingman.
  • 16 players over LAN or Internet.

Enemy Engaged 2

Alien Shooter - Vengeance

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Alien Shooter 2,

Alien Shooter Vengeance is the large-scale sequel to the first part of Alien Shooter. In this unique fusion of arcade action and RPG elements, the carnage continues with non-stop fury! Battle hordes of Aliens that are pouring through the teleports and threatening to escape the top secret M.A.G.M.A. base. With more than 50 types of weapons at your disposal, you will be fighting up 100 monsters simultaneously on screen. Wipe out the enemy with 3 different game modes: Campaign, Survival, and Multiplayer. You are the last hope in keeping this threat from invading the earth!

Features:

  • dynamic shadows and lighting,
  • about 10 000 monsters on each map, showing up to 100 monsters simultaneously onscreen,
  • natural phenomena (fog, rain, water),
  • NPC characters,
  • more than 50 types of weapons,
  • more than 20 types of useful gadgets,
  • 3 game modes: Campaign, Survival and Multiplayer,
  • dynamic music soundtrack and effects,
  • natural phenomena (fog, rain, water),

Alien Shooter 2

GODS: Lands of Infinity Special Edition

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GODS Lands Of Infinity,

GODS: Lands of Infinity Special Edition is a blend of adventure and action in a turn-based setting. There is an array of missions and NPCs that players can add to their team. Players must fight, gain experience, level and acquire new skills. The game is played out in the first-person perspective, until gamers enter a battle encounter, at which point the game goes into third-person turn-based battle.

The ancient world of Bellarion struggled in the never ending war of Gods. The conflict began when Xarax, ruler of the Gods, was murdered. Each of the remaining Gods claimed the right to the Divine Throne. After many battles, the defeated Gods refused to submit to the victors and instead summoned their armies to attack the worshippers of other Gods. The deaths of those worshippers weakened the power of the conquering Gods. After 2000 years of battles, Bellarion lay in ruins. No one was able to achieve victory until the God of Darkness, Mortagon, found a new weapon which resisted all magic and divine powers.

As the last hope Arswaargh, the God of Fire, created Vivien, who he fashioned after his own astral body. Arswaargh sent Vivien through space and time to seek the counter-weapon needed to defy Mortagorn, but unfortunately, she lost her divine essence while traveling through the magical portal to another world. Vivien must now seek the Gods of the new world, gain back her power and search for the counter-weapon against Mortagorn.

GODS: Lands of Infinity Special Edition invites you into an exciting world full of adventures, battles and quests of unearthly affairs. Spend hours discovering the world of Antasion, trading and completing the lead quests of each race or kingdom and many side quests.

GODS Lands Of Infinity

Legion Arena

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Legion Arena,

Legion Arena is a role playing strategy game created on a massive scale, providing gamers with more than just the pure taste of battle. Set during the period of the Roman Republic, players take command of a band of simple peasant warriors and train them into a formidable fighting force.

With each victorious battle, gamers can reap the rewards of fame, money and experience along with the opportunity to ‘level up’ their units. Troops will learn hundreds of new talents through their field experience, and will progressively upgrade their skills with each new combat they face.

Gamers can play as the Roman Empire and Celtic Clans through over a hundred scenarios and must use calculated strategies in an attempt to crush their Roman enemies on the front line -

Fighting for the pride and glory of the battlefield!

Features:

  • Gamers recruit and train their troops.
  • Buy equipment and choose their skills. Over 100 skills to choose from!
  • Personalize the appearance of each squad by selecting their textures.
  • Command vast armies in epic 3-D battles.
  • Earn experience and denari for every victory.
  • Choice of two campaign paths - play as Romans or Gauls. Get drawn into the story of the rise of Rome.
  • Over 100 scenarios.
  • Over 20 unique unit types including Legionaires, Praetorians, Elephants, and Naked Fanatics.
  • Special effects including water, particles, lighting & night battles, weather and grass.
  • Detailed combat model design by twice world wargaming champion, Iain McNeil.
  • Deploy troops and issue orders before battle.
  • Real time control in battle using Slitherine’s innovative order time system.
  • Every unit has strengths and weaknesses. Gamers learn how to use their strengths and exploit their enemies’ weaknesses.
  • Real terrain effects - cavalry are weaker in woods, light infantry are weaker in the open.
  • Easy to learn, hard to master.
  • Two-Player head-to-head mode over LAN & Internet.

Legion Arena

Space Empires 5

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Space Empires 5,

Space Empires V is the latest edition in the Space Empires series. This new chapter completely updates the UI and takes the player into a real-time rendered 3D universe. Watch space battles played out in glorious detail and realistic effects. Expand, Explore, Exploit, and Exterminate in a huge living breathing galaxy.

New features abound with political alliances between multiple empires, a top-down ship design system, a hexagonal movement grid, and many more. Due to player demand, the game is completely “moddable” and even adds a scriptable AI system to the mix.

Space Empires V boldly takes the next step in the genre of space strategy.

Features:

  • 24 bit 3D real-time rendered graphics.
  • Detailed Tactical Combat (and a combat simulator to test your designs!).
  • New vehicle types and sizes: Ships, Bases, Freighters, Fighters, Mines, Satellites, Troops, Drones, and Weapons Platforms.
  • Ability to completely design and customize all of your vehicles.
  • Large Galaxy: 100 solar systems with 15 planets each.
  • Huge Technology Tree: Thousands of tech levels with hundreds of components and facilities.
  • Completely customizable game graphics: Create your own planets, stars, vehicles, etc.
  • Completely customizable AI players: Create your own AI players with unique traits, styles, and speech.
  • 14 unique races to play or customize (or just create your own!)
  • Randomly generated map for every game (or load an existing map).
  • Complete game customization allowed by players (“mods”).

Space Empires 5

1914 Shells Of Fury

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1914 Shells Of Fury,

Set in WWI, 1914 Shells Of Fury is the first WWI submarine simulation to be released. Players have command of their very own WWI Submarine from the German Emperor’s fleet. Prepare to participate in exciting underwater missions from WWI, and work out detailed strategies using powerful weapons. Take command and control of the various missions given, while roaming across the ocean. Players must use tactical skills in order to survive and move ahead of the opponent.

Features:

  • First Submarine simulation of World War I.
  • Detailed models of Submarines, Warships, Merchant Ships and Airplanes.
  • Four different German Submarine boats to choose from: Armada-Petrolboat, Armada-Dieselboat, UB-I and UC-II.
  • Over 50 individual missions with accurate historical background.
  • Campaign-mode from 1914 to 1918.
  • Mission-generator.
  • Adjustable levels of difficulty.
  • Realistic Submarine Stations.

1914 Shells Of Fury

Great Invasions

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Great Invasions,

GREAT INVASIONS™ plunges you back into the dark age of Europe, a time in history where barbarian tribes and nation states quarreled, warred and conquered each other as the fate of the western world unfolded.

Great Invasions allows you to lead armies in the epic conquest of Europe! By force or diplomacy dominance must be established!

Live the greatest moments of the times! This historically accurate recreation allows you to encounter over 150 nations / tribes, more than 30 religions and heresies, as well as thousands of historical characters drawn from the pages of world’s richest historical sources.

Great Invasions is an extremely elaborate real-time strategy game covering over 700 years of history. Put your leadership and visionary skills to the test and drive your population to the dawn of the Middle Ages!

Great Invasions puts you in command of one or more of Europe’s nations between 375 and 1066… you decide their path… and their fate!

Features:

  • Great Invasions is based on pure historical facts designed in collaboration with historians and includes 150 historical events and over 3700 key figures of this period.
  • Manage the finances, diplomatic, religious and military needs of a nation.
  • Apart from managing the conflicts between borders, you must control population migrations, heresies and confront the fall of kingdoms and empires facing barbarian attacks.
  • Manage up to 10 populations simultaneously, selecting them via a bidding system with over 80 difference nations.
  • Multiplayer mode supporting up to 4 players via LAN or Internet.

Great Invasions