Naked War (PC)

There are sentences I never thought I’d write. Here’s a good example: My current favourite game is a turn-based play-by-email strategy game on the PC. Here’s another: I have fallen in love with a game with no single-player component and which I play against total strangers. Yet both those sentences are true. My current favourite

I’m losing my current games and turns are coming in slowly, but I’m really enjoying it when I play. (Except when I seem to find a bug which means one of my men doesn’t move or use his healing items on his turn.)

This is actually fantastic. Even though I’m fantastically bad at it. There’s an incredible amount of different stuff to do on the small maps and – most importantly – there always seems to be hope, even when I’m losing badly. Though on my bad PC (using the lowest graphical settings) I find it very hard

I’ve completed one game and had an excellent time. I lost horribly – I was playing one of the game’s programmers, after all – but by the end I almost knew what I was doing… Except when I didn’t jump out of tank even though I thought I’d asked myself to. Odd. Anyway, it’s great