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Westward III: Gold Rush Review
Northern California may not be in the throes of any present gold rushes, but circa the mid-1800s, nugget fever was in full swing. It's a state of mind cheerfully captured in Westward III, a satisfying hybrid of real-time strategy and life simulator which sends three all-new pioneers scurrying off to tame the wild frontier.
Westward Review
Forget everything you know about how the west was won. In Westward, it's up to you to decide the fate of brave settlers as you set up camp, harvest resources from the ground and eventually build a thriving community that will attract other passersby.
So if you're bored of the countless gem-swapping puzzlers out there in cyberspace and want to try on a tougher strategy game,Westward is for you. And dagnabbit, it's one helluva good time.
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The "Golden Age of the Western" began in the 1930s and lasted through the '70s. Stagecoach, A Fistful of Dollars, The Good, the Bad and the Ugly, My Darling Clementine and High Noon epitomize the best in films. On TV, it was shows like Wagon Train, Bonanza, Maverick, Rawhide and Gunsmoke that kept viewers in the saddle.
For PC pardners, however, no "Golden Age" appeared. A handful of decent mainstream titles sauntered into town over the years, but nothing to placate the more "refined" tastes of the casual gamer...until now.
