The most interesting strategy games released in 2001
All the best and most popular games of the year, upcoming releases, and hits from the past. Use filters to narrow down search.
Kingdom Under Fire
Strategy
January 15, 2001
Kingdom Under Fire is an interesting combination of typical RTS and cRPG games. The forces of good and evil meet again, it is up to you to decide which side you want to take. Each of the parties to the conflict received its own, long for 30 missions campaigns. There was also a multiplayer mode.
Pizza Connection 2
Strategy
February 10, 2001
An economic strategy game by software 2000. You lead a management board of a huge corporation owning a chain of pizza restaurants. You have to build the restaurants in centers of big cities, employ new staff (up to 20 people per place) and manage their effectiveness, hire security, and interfere with your competitors' business. The last part can involve blackmail and threats, as well as police raids or using gangsters to get the desired results. The game features a pizza creator, allowing you to create your own dish with 80 available ingredients. Moreover, the restaurants can be furnished with over 100 objects, which allows you to decorate the place as you like. Pizza Connection 2 features 10 campaigns, in which you compete with up to 7 rival companies controlled by the AI.
Political Tycoon
Strategy
February 21, 2001
Economic War is an economic strategy produced and published by Monte Cristo Multimedia. The player takes on the role of an ambitious head of government of one of the countries and tries to build a world superpower with different methods. The authors prepared eight different scenarios covering the period from 1950 to 2050.
Three Kingdoms: Fate of the Dragon
Strategy
March 14, 2001
Three Kingdoms: Fate of the Dragon is a real-time strategy created by Overmax Studio. The action of the game was set in the second century AD. Players take on the role of rulers of one of the three kingdoms fighting to take control of China. In accordance with the genre convention, the game focuses on building up the economic base and creating an army that will defeat the opponents.
Fallout Tactics: Brotherhood of Steel
Strategy
March 16, 2001
A turn-based tactical strategy game with RPG elements and a spin-off installment of the Fallout series. It was developed cooperatively by Micro Forté and 14° East. The action takes place in the post-nuclear universe of the future, in which we become a member of the eponymous group that seeks to rebuild the world destroyed by the nuclear apocalypse. The players’ task is to locate long-forgotten technologies that will enable them to destroy dangerous foes. To do so, we have to complete a series of subsequent missions that will test our tactical abilities. In Fallout Tactics: Brotherhood of Steel, we can make use of a large weapon arsenal and numerous armored vehicles, while the party members, in a typical RPG manner, increase their attributes and skills thanks to the experience points gained in combat. The game can be played either solo or in a network multiplayer for up to 18 players.
Outlive
Strategy
March 21, 2001
A futuristic RTS taking place in the 21st century, when the Earth, depleted from natural resources, sends two different expeditions to the rich Titan deposits. Different factions of the earth, genetically modified people and mechanical cyborgs, are beginning to fight for the right to Saturn's moon.
Majesty: The Northern Expansion
Strategy
March 22, 2001
Majesty: Northern Expansion is the first official addition to Majesty's popular real-time strategy: The Fantasy Kingdom Sim. Prepared by the Cyberlore development studio, the extension introduces 13 new missions, new types of buildings and spells, as well as new enemies. In Poland, the supplement appeared as a component of Majesty: Gold Edition.
Pharaoh Gold
Strategy
March 23, 2001
Pharaoh: Gold Edition is a package containing two hit RTS development studio Impressions Games. The set includes games Pharaoh and Cleopatra: Queen of the Nile. In addition, thanks to the efforts of the Polish distributor - Play It - the package was joined by the multimedia encyclopedia "Egypt" from the series "Great Encyclopedias of Ancient Cultures" of Fogra publishing house.
Black & White
Strategy
March 28, 2001
An unusual strategy game with RPG features, developed by the British Lionhead Studios under the lead of a legendary developer, Peter Molyneux. Black & White takes us to the world of Eden, where a long-standing harmony and balance between the humans and the nature is disrupted by the appearance of many deities, whose untamed craving for power leads to countless conflicts and wars. We take role of one of such gods, with our task being to teach and guide our followers, as well as raise a familiar - a powerful creature that will assist us in fights and help control our tribe. Depending on our preferences, we can become a god loved by our people or a merciless tyrant ruling through fear. Our choices will also impact the growth of our familiar, which can turn into friendly and helpful entity or a fearsome monster.
Heroes of Might and Magic: Quest for the Dragon Bone Staff
Strategy
April 18, 2001
A console spin-off of the popular fantasy turn-based strategy game series by New World Computing. Heroes of Might and Magic: Quest for the Dragon Bone Staff, developed by the 3DO Company, differs greatly from the PC installments of the series and is based on the franchise's predecessor, the 1990 game King's Bounty. Your main task is saving the dying king, but to achieve that, you have to find the eponymous Dragon Bone Staff in 500 days. The gameplay mechanics have been significantly simplified, and you have no castle to occupy or defend. You control one of the four available heroes, and the gameplay focuses mostly on exploration, during which you gather gold and recruit warriors for your army, participating in turn-based battles.
Tropico (2001)
Strategy
April 25, 2001
Tropico is the first installment of the popular cycle of economic strategies. The player plays the role of a dictator on one of the islands of the fictional archipelago. Its task is to bring a small state to bloom. Developers from PopTop Software studio took care of humorous approach to the subject and climatic visual setting.
Catan
Strategy
April 26, 2001
A successful adaptation of the popular board game, where the player plays the role of a colonizer settling a new unknown land. We set up settlements and cities and collect raw materials. The authors have prepared a long 12 mission campaign for a single player and a multiplayer mode for up to four people.
Desperados: Wanted Dead or Alive
Strategy
April 27, 2001
Developed by Spellbound Entertainment, the game is a tactical strategy western-style game based on the mechanics of the popular Commandos series. The action of Desperados: Wanted Dead or Alive takes place in the Wild West and during the game we control a team led by gunslinger John Cooper and consisting of six cowboys with different skills. In the team there are: a simple bandit, an expert in explosives, a barber who can heal minor wounds, a poker player and an experienced gambler.
