Boot Disk: Uprising

Posted Oct 26th 2009 6:30PM by James Murff
Filed under: Features, FPS, Strategy

Sometimes you just need to sit down, slide a floppy into your A: drive, and enjoy gaming retro style. We know this all too well! That's why we have a list of the best and brightest from days long gone. These are some of our favorite games of all time, and we're sure that you'll love them as much as we do, if not more. Welcome to Boot Disk, and enjoy the retro ride!

While the real-time strategy genre may have started as an action game where you wade into the thick of things to deploy your units, it quickly became more about the dramatic overview and large-scale strategy, mostly in thanks to Dune 2. Instead of bumping shoulder to shoulder with your troops, you command things from the safety of an eagle's eye perspective. While there's nothing wrong with this, sometimes it is more fun to frag enemies alongside your soldiers instead of simply commanding them to attack. One of the better games in this expanding and mixed genre of first-person shooter and real-time strategy, and one of the first, is Uprising. It didn't shake any foundations when it released. This is a shame, because it really should have. Uprising is fantastic, and if you have never played it, you definitely need to give this nostalgic ride a go.

Tags: 3DO, action, boot-disk, cyclone-studios, featured, fps, joystiqfeatures, retro, rts, strategy, the-3DO-company, uprising, uprising-join-or-die

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Uprising was one of my favorite games of that era -- I think it was actually ahead of its time. Uprising 2 really didn't get enough visibility -- I think they did everything about as well as the original with a few new features. It was tough, but fun.Posted at 12:21AM on Oct 27th 2009 by James

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