The Sims - Complete Collection

 

The Sims - Complete Collection - 1DVD

What could be more fun to play in life? If you are still able to resist the craze of humanity simulator of human life, this special edition of The Sims can change your preferences. Playing The Sims allows you to monitor and organize the lives of citizens SimCity, in all its diversity. Create a computer character. Build him a house, its furnishings obstavte, grow a garden. Know your neighbors. Send a job, learn to earn money. Build character. In short, make a man of him. By itself, of course, he and a finger does not hit. You will have direct his every step, gradually raising it a full-fledged member of society.

Features of edition:
• The Sims
• The Sims Livin 'Large
• The Sims House Party
• The Sims Hot Date
• The Sims Vacation
• The Sims Unleashed
• The Sims Superstar
• The Sims Makin 'Magic

System requirements:
• Operating system: Windows ® 95 / 98 / 2000 / XP / Vista / 7
• Processor: Intel Pentium III / AMD Athlon K6
• Memory: 256 MB (for 95 / 98 / 2000 / XP) / 768 MB (for Vista / 7)
• Video: 8 MB (for 95 / 98 / 2000 / XP) / 1964 MB with SM2.0 (for Vista / 7)
• Sound Card: DirectX sovmestimoya with
• Free space on hard disk: 3,5 GB

Sword of the Stars II Lords of Winter

 

 

Sword of the Stars II Lords of Winter - 1DVD

Swordof the Stars II: Lords of Winter is the full stand-alone follow- up tothe hit 4X-styled Sword of the Stars franchise. The continuing storylinewill reveal the dark secrets of the ancient force responsible fortampering with the races in the original Sword of the Stars. Sword
ofthe Stars II: Lords of Winter will be a major step forward in 4Xgameplay, taking the easy-to-learn-but-hard-to-master philosophy set outin SotS1 and following that path to a new standard in space strategygames.


Features:
Lead one of six playable factions, including a completely new one, as you strive for galactic dominance
Unravel highly detailed star systems featuring planetary orbits, moons, asteroid belts, and different space terrain
Experience the new graphics engine
Choose between entirely new vessels, or build your own with new levels of shipdetail, including specific sub-systems, allowing for new fleetstrategies and tactics
Explore an advanced technology system as the game begins in the Fusion era and moves beyond the Anti-matter era
Randomizing options in technology removes the unavoidable optimal path making the game more replayable
Command your empire by exploring new solar systems, improving diplomatic relations or destroying a race
Engage in fierce multiplayer battles with up to 8 players

System Requirements :
-Operating system: Windows 7 64-bit
-Processor: Core2 Duo or equivalent
-Memory: 2 GB RAM
-Hard disk space: 2 GB free space
-Video: 512 MB DirectX 10
-Sound: Any Windows Vista compatible sound device, stereo speakers or head phones
-DirectX-: February 2010 or newer (DX10)
-Controller support: 3-button mouse, keyboard and speakers
-Internet required for online play.
-LAN required for local multiplayer. 8 player multiplayer.

Taking a look at the gorgeous art in Atelier Torori's premium edition

Time sure flies! Have you noticed I haven't been posting very frequently (all two of you)? Well I had, but I've been quite busy with some new and exciting stuff over the past week or so, and unfortunately I had to put all of my great blog post ideas on hold! Most importantly, I've been promoted to junior editor over at Video Game Writers, and I'm quite thrilled about that. Who would've thought?

Well today I finally got my package from the US, and in it was my Atelier Totori premium edition (among other games, but that's for a later post)! I never preorder things, let along get collector's editions, but I was so enamored with Atelier Rorona a couple of months ago that I jumped on the chance to get both the game's soundtrack and artbook. The art is just so lovely that I had to share! 

The whole set comes in a cardboard box featuring the Japanese/European box art, which is much prettier than the NA version, in my opinion:

Next we have the soundtrack CD:

And the CD itself. Isn't it cute? I haven't seen this illustration used anywhere else.  

The art book is a tad disappointing, as it's only the size of the game case itself, and as you can see they've reused the cover art.

The art inside doesn't disappoint, however, and I particularly liked looking at the character sketches and some of the earlier scrapped character designs. 

For those familiar with Atelier Rorona –– Sterk is back, but he's much more broody this time around!

I'm not particularly fond of Gino (the childhood friend)'s character design, shown right, but one of his earlier versions looks quite appealing! I really wish they stuck with the swashbuckling look. What hair!

Some of the early designs of Totori look great, too! I'm not a fan of the version pigtails, but I almost prefer the top one with the yellow dress to her final design. It's really interesting to see what could have been! 

And finally we have the tear and water resistant poster, which was an exclusive to the NIS America online store. Er, I'm afraid to ask why a poster needs to be water resistant... Anyway, this poster clearly isn't aimed at me, as both side feature Totori looking, well, cute. If it were me, I'd much rather have a group illustration or even the very first picture they used as the box art on the limited edition (or, I admit it, one of the male characters...). Can't have everything, I suppose! 

Yeah, I probably won't be hanging that up any time soon... But for an additional $10, I'd say the premium edition is definitely worth all of the extra goodies! If you're at all tempted, they still have a few left at the NISA store, so grab one while you can!