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S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Legends of the Zone Trilogy

Delve into renowned classics of open-world survival with the original S.T.A.L.K.E.R. trilogy, now available to console players for the first time ever.

• Investigate the Zone's origins, taking on the roles of legendary stalkers and forging paths that can lead to different outcomes, based on your actions and decisions.
• Test your gumption while navigating through radioactive debris and anomalies, and put your reflexes to the trial during intense tactical gunfights.
• Search for the answers to the darkest mysteries that could cost your sanity in sinister catacombs filled with starved mutants.
• Traverse vast locations, saturated with Eastern European atmosphere and referenced from the real-life Chornobyl Exclusion Zone: the city of Prypiat, the Nuclear Station, the Jupiter plant, and many others.
• Embrace the solitude and desolation of these lands, as they are your only trustworthy companions on your foray into a dark science-fiction setting.

S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Clear Sky

Year: 2011. Five years passed since the Second Disaster, which eclipsed the events of April 1986. The Zone is shaken by frequent and powerful blowouts, which move anomaly fields, opening new routes to previously inaccessible locations. Stalker factions fight for the new territories and key points. A lot of stalkers die, but newbies keep on arriving.

The action takes place one year prior to the events of S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Shadow of Chernobyl, one year before Strelok's most successful trip to the center of the Zone - the third one. We will learn about Strelok and his squad from another character's vantage point.

The Zone is waiting for you ahead, new locations and unknown threats, spatial holes and monsters hiding in the fog, pitch-black nights and saving rays of a rising sun. Try to avoid anomalies and hide from blowouts, discover the Zone and collect artifacts, cure radioactive irradiation and fight for any stalker faction you like! Only then will you uncover the truth about Strelok and how he happened to get inside the death track and receive the S.T.A.L.K.E.R. tattoo on his arm.

Heroes of Annihilated Empires

Did you ever wonder where legends, sagas and characters like elves, gnomes, dragons and mages - the races and creatures we typically refer to as fictional fantasy archetypes - come from? As we say - There is no smoke without fire. If any gossip and writings get spread around, there must be some link between what was imagined and reality. Even an authentically candid lie or skillfully disguised fiction bears links with true to life events.

We are breaking the seal on the door to myths and legends; the entrance to a world where magic was commonplace, the gateway to Empires long ago extinct. The memories of them were methodically erased from the public consciousness, and have remained in oblivion for ages. Now, the time has come to take a step through that door leading to a distant reality where mysterious people lived and their societies where lived heroes keen on defending their lands until the last drop of blood. You will find the truth about what happened to that ancient world of magic and why our knowledge of it is so scanty. The game Heroes of Annihilated Empires is the key to that world's door.

Cossacks II: Battle for Europe

Let the battle begin! The Cossacks II: Battle for Europe add-on continues the renowned Cossacks II:Napoleonic Wars game. It depicts the rather short historic period of the Napoleonic wars. The Napoleon wars changed Europe forever, leading to the formation of empires and putting an end to almost one thousand years of constant strife between small states. The game provides mass-scale battles between nations involved in conflicts during this period whose armies numbered in the thousands. The theatres of operation introduce France, Britain, Austria, Russia, Prussia, Egypt, and three nations not represented in the original game - Spain, the Grand Duchy of Warsaw (Poland), and the Confederation of the Rhine.

Cossacks II: Battle for Europe reconstructs in detail the soldiers' uniforms, weapons and architecture of each nation. Each nation's army has its unique units and possibilities. The game includes over 180 units 190 buildings and 1200 flora and fauna elements. When developing the combat system the peculiarities of early 19th century warring were taken into account as was the value of formations provisions and troop morale. Tactical tricks utilized by military commanders of the time are fully reflected in the game. An honest system of bullet and cannonball ballistics based on physics is an innovative addition to the Cossacks engine. Other engine features include 3-dimensional landscaping which creates realistic-looking scenery and towns which impact combat tactics. For example the firing range of a subdivision of soldiers or a cannon positioned at the top of a hill is greater than the firing range of a unit stationed on flat terrain.

Cossacks II: Napoleonic Wars

In Cossacks II: Napoleonic Wars , lead your 19th century army to glory in this much-anticipated sequel to the internationally acclaimed Cossacks: European Wars. Whether fighting as Napoleon's highly disciplined Grand Arme, the tenacious Russians and their Cossack horseback warriors, the Austrians, Britons, Prussians, or Egyptians, the challenges will be daunting as you master weapons and tactics during a time that redefined modern warfare.

Massive Historical Battles - Fight through battles of the 19th century, with massive armies colliding in varied types of terrain and weather.
Varied Game Play - Enjoy a strategic campaign for the dominance of Europe, follow in the footsteps of emperors and generals in history-inspired battles, or duke it out in open-ended skirmishes.
There is More To Winning Than Combat - Learn to weaken your enemies economically before the first musket volley is fired. Forge treaties, devise treacheries, or simply buy your opponents' loyalties.
Realistic Troop Morale System - Only well-led, well-provisioned troops live long enough to grow in experience and become valuable battlefield assets.
Online Play - Compete against or in cooperation with other armchair emperors via LAN or an Internet connection.

Cossacks: Back To War

Standing alone in war is extremely unpleasant. Extremely pleasant, on the other hand, is the stand-alone version Cossacks: Back to War. Containing all of the gameplay features of Cossacks: European Wars and Cossacks: The Art of War, this is a complete care package for all current and future Cossacks fans. This add-on contains 100 captivating missions taking place between the 16th and 18th centuries. In addition, two new nations, Switzerland and Hungary, are included. These countries waged war in the late Middle Ages and essentially influenced the development of European military strategies. This addition causes the second add-on of Cossacks to pass the threshold of allowed gaming fun.

Thrilling real-time strategy game with a historical background.
Fascinating 3D landscapes.
Play takes place in Europe between the 16th and 18th centuries.
Stand-alone game, other Cossacks games not required to play.
A total of 20 different European nations to command.
100 new single missions.
2 new nations: Switzerland and Hungary with a total of 8 new units.
Spectacular real-time battles with up to 8,000 units.
4 different difficulty levels.
1 new camel riding unit for Algeria and Turkey: Bedouin.
This version with low system requirements is adapted for comfortable play on any hardware from low-end computers, laptops and netbooks, to high-end PCs (with Windows Vista/7).
Ad-Hoc multiplayer play (offline mode).
Infinite AI skirmishes on randomly generated maps.

He outlasted Johnny Sack (cancer). He outlasted Phil Leotardo (a car trunk). He outlasted Christopher (the nose). Paulie won the war not through strength, but through a lack of ambition. He never reached too high, so no one ever tried to cut him down.

When he sees the Virgin Mary at the Bada Bing (dancing alongside the strippers, no less), he doesn't have a spiritual awakening; he has a panic attack. When he dreams of "those two guys" (the ghosts of his victims), he refuses to sleep alone. This paranoia is not a joke; it is the crack in his armor. It suggests that deep down, beneath the gold chains and the murderous rage, Paulie is terrified of the ledger he has written in blood.

His name is Paulie Gualtieri. But you know him as Paulie Walnuts.

He is the only character who seems to realize that the life he leads has cosmic consequences. He just doesn't care enough to change his behavior. The final gift of The Sopranos is Paulie’s survival. In the cut-to-black finale, while we don’t know if Tony lives or dies, we know exactly where Paulie is. He is sitting in the back office of Satriale’s, alone, a stray cat on the step, looking at a future of empty chairs.

For six seasons, Tony Soprano was the sun that the entire show orbited around. But Paulie—with his silver pompadour, his cackling laugh, and his pathological fear of ghosts—was the show’s dark, beating heart. He was the living, breathing contradiction of the mobster’s soul: a devout Catholic who would strangle an old woman for her life savings; a loyal soldier who would sell out his boss for a better parking spot.

He was, and remains, the perfect gangster. Unlike the cerebral Tony or the princely John Sacramoni, Paulie never wanted the throne. He didn’t have the imagination for grand strategy or the patience for diplomacy. Paulie was a creature of the street. He rose through the ranks not through bloodlines (he was, as a hilarious subplot reveals, a "whoo-ah’s" son), but through sheer, terrifying brutality.

In the sprawling, shadowy landscape of The Sopranos , where mob bosses collapse on psychiatrists’ couches and heirs apparent get whacked in a rain of gunfire, one figure remains constant. He is not the brightest. He is not the strongest. He is, however, the cockroach that will survive the nuclear winter of organized crime.