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A fun and tactical game where you battle for supremacy using huge capital ships.

Nowhere near as crazily complicated as Dota, therefore recommended even to normal people.

Much deeper than it seems at first, this game makes you reflect upon both reallife and video game violence.

An interesting experiment in interactive storytelling.

This is one of the most exiting heist games I have ever played.

There is lots of planning involved and you can take lots of different approaches, some of which might work, some won't.
The difficulty is rather high, but once you get used to it, it can be really satisfying. Just don't give up and keep trying!

The game doesn't contain too much story, but the emergent gameplay more than makes up for it.
After you successfully completed the heist, you will agree that it was quite an experience!

I had a few issues with the game, though.
- Early in the level there are a few laser traps which kind of feel out of place.
- When I was trying to ride the elevator for some reason I had to press the button like 20 times and there were strange sound effects. Kind of like someone talking and steps right behind the wall. Didn't seem to have any relation to the "story", though.
- The loading times were rather long.

Best part of the game was the tiger, though ;)

Blender is an extremely powerful piece of software which can potentially allow you to accomplish any task from modelling, animating, texturing, rendering, video editing, audio editing to even compositing and motion tracking.

I am certainly no professional but I have been using Blender for years for various smaller projects.
While very hard to get into at first, once you grasp how everything works and how flexible this application is, the only thing really separating you from fulfilling your ambitions in 3D graphics is your own skill.

That last part should not be underestimated, as from personal experience I can tell that it is easy to try to create something and never end up with a satisfactory result (or any result at all!) and blame it on the software.
But the truth is, while any software has its limitations (Blender has some relevant ones that I will discuss further down), creating something beautiful in the space of 3D graphics takes lots of experience and skill.
Luckily there is a large amount of learning resources on the internet, both paid and free, that allow for learning Blender as well as the necessary skills (even at the same time! :D).
Just be warned that this is no simple weekend task.

Blender itself is, as already said, a very powerful piece of software and some say that it even surpasses the industry standard tools in many areas. I can't confirm or deny that, as I have not used those tools for any longer amount of time.

What I can say though, is that while Blender has most of the features those tools posess and certainly is able to allow you to produce very professional results in an efficient way and therefore might be a great choice for teams and individuals, it is not one of the major tools that are used by most of the larger studios.

Therefore it might not be an ideal choice for individuals trying to gather skills mainly with the goal of starting a career at a large studio.
The other implication of this is that some tools that have been built (e.g for Unreal Engine 4) are not designed to be compatible with Blender. It is also a bit tricky to set up a reliably working import-export pipeline to certain engines.
But these are not as big of a problem as they might seem, and the situation is improving a lot these days.
Both Valve and Epic Games (developers of Unreal Engine 4) have sponsored Blender development of game specific features (especially when it comes to importing, exporting models and animations to game engines. Epic Games even started a tutorial series on making Blender work with UE4 as good as possible and improves their own importers).
There are also tools, that already have great support already, such as Unity 3D.
Personally I have tested both Unreal Engine 4 and Unity and I can confirm that Unreal Engine is a bit tricky but can be made to work nicely with the right settings and Unity works just about fine more or less out of the box. It can even import .blend files directly.

Overall Blender is a really great piece of software (especially for the price!) and if you can deal with its "limitations" it will serve you well and allow you to fulfill your dreams if you have the patience to gather the required skills :)

An interesting game that focuses more on story and exploration than on combat, which is refreshing.
The story itself might not be the most logical and sometimes feels a bit cheap, but overall it dragged me in with its atmosphere and characters.
Even after finishing the game I still think about it, so I will just go ahead and say that this is a memorable game for me ;D

One of the only true realtime strategy games. Use with Forged Alliance Forever for maximum multiplayer fun !

One of the only true realtime strategy games. Use with Forged Alliance Forever for maximum mutliplayer fun (even 5 years after release).

Addictive experience created by an awesome story and interesting gameplay.
Don´t care about graphics.

The only game that truly brings medieval warfare to life.
And then there are a ton of awesome mods..