Fallout. Half-Life. Civilization. As soon as you look at some games, they just scream PC - that '90s or early '00s aesthetic which, to this day, is often imitated but never paralleled. The artwork on graphics card boxes. Early 3D cutscenes. Menus. There's an arresting visual style across all the classics of PC's golden era, something that often feels lost in the world of modern triple-A. 21 years since it first launched, one stalwart RPG - or perhaps CRPG, as has become the pseudonym for anything that's isometric and stats-driven - is finally making a comeback. With a huge new remaster available to play right now, if you want to return to the heyday of what were then called 'computer games', this is essential.
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