Set in 1937, "The Case of the Cautious Condor" is a point-and-click adventure that relies on speech to further the storyline. The murder of a wealthy man's son has taken place. The victim's father is known personally by you, a police detective. You have been invited on board an airplane, along with all the suspects in the murder, to help him solve this case. But shortly into the flight he is poisoned, and the airplane begins its 30-minute return home. You alone must solve the murder in the time remaining.

With a map of the airplane and the cast of characters onscreen, you navigate by clicking on the desired room. Once inside a room, any other characters present will appear in color; waiting for a few seconds will prompt them to begin a dialog. Your job is to decipher who is guilty by listening to the other characters speak, along with the clues found throughout the plane. Comic book-like cells are used to illustrate the game instead of full-motion video. The game cannot be saved, and must be played in one session from start to finish.

Any game that features the voice of Patrick Stewart automatically earns a 6-point rating. He’s got a voice I could listen to for days no matter what he is saying. I’d pay good money to hear him say; "Amoebas and monkies have cadence and rhythm that would make any marsupial envious." Or something – anything – equally bizarre and/or mundane. In Star Trek Armada II (STAII) he’s relegated to the old Next Generation standbys like, "Mr. Laforge, reroute all auxiliary power to the engines." It’s been a while since I last heard him in his Captain Picard role so it was good to hear his return. Actually, it was good to hear all the great audio from the show. Phaser fire, photon torpedoes, that strange garbling sound in the background of all Borg transmissions – it’s all here and it’s all great.

Since Empire Earth (EE) and Star Wars Galactic Battlegrounds (GB) it’s hard to shake the feeling that STAII is Age of Empires in space! Both EE and GB have strong similarities to Age of Empires, and the same can be said of STAII. You begin with a starbase and a couple of other structures and ships, and must collect resources to build massive strike forces to conquer an area of space. Along the way you’ll populate a planet or two and forge trade alliances.

The reason behind all this conquest is that the Borg have appeared suddenly in the Alpha quadrant about four months after the events in the first game. The Federation sets out to push the Borg back to the Delta quadrant and/or blast them out of the cosmos because they’re deathly afraid of the Borg’s new planet assimilating technology, not to mention the huge Borg Fusion Cube (8 regular cubes combined in a Rubic’s monstrosity). Throw the Cardassians, Romulans, Klingons, Species 8472, and the occasional Ferengi into the works and you’ve got a lot of Next Generation tension.

Fanatics of the show, be warned: STAII features enough holes and irregularities in Star Trek lore to drive a gas giant through. In the first mission of the Federation campaign, rabid fans are likely to foam at the mouth and have their eyes bulging out in frustration and/or anger. If you’re one of these people, take the fifty dollars you would have spent on this game and buy a session of therapy.

There are three campaigns to battle though starting with the Federation, then Klingon, then the dreaded Borg. For the most part the campaign objectives are straightforward. Some will give you pause, like any good game should, but persistence pays off. You’ll build massive fleets of Sovereign class (or whatever the most powerful ship is for each faction) and fight the enemy with special weapons. As soon as it’s possible to build the bigger ships, it’s best to ignore the smaller vessels. This aspect is entirely un-Trekkish. You’ll send wave after wave of these huge ships to certain doom and probably won’t even blink. All those crew members and officers lost! Oh no! Build more. This has become an RTS standard – even in the Star Trek universe. The same can be said of the multi-resource collecting that goes on.

The action is quite good. Since this is a 3D game you have full range of movement on the X, Y, and Z axis. However, this 3D aspect seems to be a frill. Rarely did I bother sending ships lower or higher than the 0 axis and I still enjoyed success. AI is predictable at times but it’s still challenging. Warp speed has been added and used to cool effect. I never went anywhere at impulse speed – it was warp or nothing! Everything moves at a good clip regardless of the number of ships swarming around. Setting up formations, rally points, grouping units, unit behavior, etc. are all included as well and easily accessible. Really the only flaw with the gameplay is that I ran into a mysterious bug that crashed the game a few times in the single-player campaign.

Whether playing the instant skirmishes, campaigns, or online you’ll want to play panned out as far as possible to see what’s going on. This makes the area look flat so any 3D feeling is lost. The units are well done whatever the faction, but Species 8472 has the coolest looking stuff. Nebulas and other space phenomenon are great to look at (and add another element to gameplay) but they will send hardcore fans (and possibly astronomers) into a tizzy. I had no problem with the graphics except the tendency of some of the smaller units to look the same when panned out – not that you’ll build many of the small ships.

Multiplayer is pretty good, although it took me a long time to find servers to connect to. Multiplayer has more options open than the single-player campaign since you can play as the Romulans, Klingons, Species 8472, Cardassians, Borg and Federation. Computer AI will never replace the fight and creativity that human opponents can throw at you – however, "armada" rushes are still very popular.

As a Trek game Star Trek Armada II is above average, but as a RTS game it’s simply standard. It does well what all RTS games should do and it’s fun to play. It expands on aspects of the original game and provides some solid hours of gaming - plus Patrick Stewart! What more should we expect?

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Explore a mysterious desert island in the Mediterranean in the Twisted Land: The Shadow City. An accident while you and your wife are enjoying a boat ride makes the boat capsizing and lava on the island. Unfortunately, his wife is nowhere. Search the mysterious desert island with his people, residents and curious ghost snake figures. Locate your wife and find your way home before the both of you suffer the same fate as previous visitors to the island!

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You take on the role of a materialistic treasure asylum, diving off the coast of Spain with his wife Angel of maintaining your business. Even after Angel's admonition not to be recovering treasures stranded in their dives, still go ahead and collect these artifacts. This time, one of the things we found is a strange figure of a snake. Suddenly, you lose control of the boat and washed ashore on a mysterious island. Unfortunately, Angel did not end in the same part of the island like you, so he set out to find her.

Twisted Land brings you to the mysterious and strange places, from a subterranean door carved with the symbol creepy snake, a cruise abandoned, and a city mist whose inhabitants all seem to have disappeared. You'll also find more of the figures of serpents and encounter ghostly apparitions and supernatural characters. You get dragged further into a surreal adventure in his quest to find his wife and leave the island.

Much of the game is shrouded in fog and has a dark and spooky feel to it, so it fits the theme of the game perfectly. Although dark, the art is detailed and well made, representing each scene in a style that fits well. The soundtrack is also good and appropriate to the setting. The haunting music in itself will give you goosebumps, but this may be a awkward silence until you click something and the music starts again (which may be intentional).

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Hidden object scenes feature work that is clean and crisp, and the hidden objects that are detailed and not too difficult to select. It seems that these scenes do not take the time to resolve, such as some of the hidden object games. This may be a good thing, as the story focused on developing Instead of squinting to find a few dozen hidden objects. The various mini-puzzles in the game are primarily based on logic, and are also very interesting.

The twisted history of the land is very strong, and it is obvious that the game is very story driven. Every time you move to a new scene, or click on an object of interest, you will receive a first-person narrative, whether the tie in the object with the story, or advance the plot. After every few scenes, may also enjoy a lively scene. These animations are flashback scenes of his time with his wife Angel every time you find an object that belongs to it. As you can imagine, these scenes draw and will provide a great interest in how the story unfolds. One thing missing from this game, although the voice acting. But considering how bad the voice acting is some of the hidden object games, not voices that can not be a bad thing ...

This game does not have a very complex game or puzzle, but that captivates with a story that flows as the gaming experience. The premise revolves around the supernatural and an issue of missing persons mystery, and you like it if you like Similar games like Mystery Case Files: Huntsville and Edgar Allan Poe, The Black Cat. The basic version of the game is not out yet, but you can get the Collector's Edition PC game which includes exclusive content such as an extra chapter, new puzzles and more.

Rating: 4.0/5.0

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