A strategy game could be a parlor game or a video game. The aim is to achieve a known goal: to increase domination of space, the defeat of one or more enemies on a playing field, helping to increase an entity, etc. The focus is not on the player’s dexterity, but the action plan (tactics or strategy).

We tend to call strategy game any game that requires a little thinking. In fact, when talking about a strategy game, it is more about computer war games or simulation games.

I will present below 3 upcoming strategy games, because those strategy computer games that already exist, do not require any presentation.

End of Nations – is a real time multiplayer strategy game developed by Petroglyph Games which will be released at Trion Worlds next year. End of Nations will put players in command of vast armies, they must build their own headquarters and also to produce a series of vehicles and weapons. The experience gained and research will play important roles, and the machines built will become increasingly effective.

Players could choose between taking part in single player campaigns or to join other players online, being able to play co-op or against other gamers or huge maps. The game is placed in the near future in XXI century, following two powers to fight for supremacy: Order of Nations and Revolutionaries. Each mission accomplished or battle won, will bring points to players, called Commander Points; points acquisition will offer the opportunity to extend the headquarters and also to build new units.

Petroglyph Games, the developer of End of Nations, is a studio located in Las Vegas who developed titles like Universe at War: Earth Assault and Star Wars: Empire at War.

Patrician 4 – is a new strategy computer game, announced by Kalypso Media and Gamimg Minds Studios GmbH, which will be launched in autumn, 2010. The game will take place in the Middle Ages, and the players will have to being their career as merchants in the Baltic Sea.

Starting from simple sellers, players will have the opportunity to become true merchants of the whole Europe. Supply and demand, and the ability to search and open trade routes, will help to increase players in the merchants’ hierarchy. Patrician 4 cities will be developed once with the players, small villages having the opportunity to become true capitals of commerce. The progress will be influenced by diseases, weather, political argues, piracy and charges levied by the authorities. Competition will consist eight NPC merchants but I do not know details about a possible multiplayer because there wasn’t any detail about such thing. Even so, it looks like a great game!

Order of War: Challenge – is a strategy computer game online, which will be released by Wargaming/net this month.

The action takes place in Order of War universe, title released in autumn, 2009. Challenge will have 6 playing modes, over 12 maps and hundred of ground and air units. The 12 maps will represent different areas of struggle, starting and ending with the classic urban combat data in vacant areas. As in the Order of War, the three combat forces will be U.S., USSR and Germany. The game will also have an online co-op mode (survival), in which 4 gamers will be able to defend various strategic objectives.

And because it will appear very soon, you should know the minimum requirements before you consider it.
System Minimum Requirements:
Windows XP SP2/Vista SP1/Windows7
CPU: 3.0 GHz, DUO 2.0 GHz
2 GB RAM
Video: 256MB NVIDIA GeForce 7600/Radeon HD2400
DirectX 9.0c
HDD: 10 GB free space