Theatre of War
This is a real-time strategy game that depicts the large World War II battles. There was a significant amount of time put into research of World War II to make this game absolutely accurate. It took a team of three historians researching for 18 months before this game was ready to be developed. It even gets accurate on the level of the way the troops enter and exit the authentic tanks.

It seems like an average, run of the mill tactical RTS. What makes this stand out is the historical accuracy and precision that was put into development.

Battle Lord
Battle Lord is the stand-out title from 1C this year. Unfortunately the 2007 release date is a bummer. It is a fantasy adventure game that uses both real-time gameplay and turn-based gameplay. The world interaction is all done real time while the battles are done in a traditional turn-based. It looked good and the gameplay seemed promising with the use of real-time and turn-based gameplay.

Death to Spies
Like Theatre of War, Death to Spies is taking a historical approach to a third-person stealth action game. This title, called Smersh, in Russian means death to spies. Smersh also happened to be the name of a set of counterintelligence departments in the Soviet Army during World War II. They arrested traitors, spies and deserters.

The game is based on actual historic events. It has a lot of stealth aspects where you have to use the surrounding environment to complete your missions. It also incorporates a lot of common logic.

Whirlwind Vietnam
Whirlwind Vietnam is another historical flight sim that places you inside the cockpit of the American Huey helicopter used heavily during Vietnam. The environments are accurate and completely historical. Inside the cockpit you can operate multiple seats including the co-pilot and gunner. Unfortunately the Huey is the only vehicle you can pilot, so repetitive gameplay may be a concern.

You Are Empty
You Are Empty is a first person shooter set in a 1950s alternate universe. It takes place in a Soviet Union environment. In this town the Soviets tried to create a perfect town by engineering humans. The experiment went entirely wrong and now you have to fight your way through the town filled it mutants, including a giant mutated chicken. This one keeps some of 1C's obsession with history by including real soviet environments all the way down to authentic signs on the wall.

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