7th Legion

This is the first PC game I played back in the 90's, I felt so nostalgic of seeing this available in Steam... If you never played this game I would only recommend it if you like retro games. Otherwise you may want to consider something more modern. If you are willing to buy it just keep in mind that you will need to download DxWnd to get it to work in Win10.

The music is super bad-ass, but the gameplay is really weak. The UI looks bad too. It feels like a cheap copy of C&C. Yes, the very first C&C which came out 2 years before this! To be honest, it's more like a copy of Dune 2 (1992) with the extra ability to select more than one unit at a time (group-select, yeah Dune 2 did not have this). The problem (for the game) is that we can play even Dune 2 in a modern way (with the ability to group-select, higher res., etc.) (Dune Legacy), so there's no chance I want to play a (super-outdated) game like this. I would have not enjoyed this even in 1997! It was an embarrassment even when it came out. In the same year Age of Empires came out. C&C was already 2 years old, as I mentioned. C&C:RA was 1 year old. WarCraft was 3, WarCraft 2 was 2 years old. Dune 2000 and StarCraft was less than a year to come out. These games are in the same genre (RTS) and were the competitors of this game at that time. All of them are better. So yeah, it was a bad game even in it's own genre.

This is one of those good, overlooked RTS games from the 90s. Most modern gamers take a look at the graphics of a game and then pass it over. In that case, many gamers would simply ignore this title. However, this is one of, if not the first sci-fi RTS game to also incorporate a card system. Not in the sense of trading or collecting, but rather as usable abilities, buffs, debuffs, and attacks that you "drag and drop" from your hand (up to five cards) in the upper-right. There are two factions, and this game boils down to something that I miss dearly: Good vs evil, a concept that is nowhere near as present in modern gaming. You muster your infantry, tanks, and a variety of bi-pedal mechs with weapons such as lasers and huge rockets, then march off to crush the evil Chosen. Is this as good as the greatest, such as WarCraft II or Age of Empires I? Nope. However, this is easily worth $7. I played the original version when it launched in the 90s, and this game has full compatibility with Windows 10. Cinematics, sound; everything.