Games released on September 3
Four games that still hold up, from Imperialism in 1997 to Total War: Rome II in 2013
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Imperialism 1997
Turned 29 this year
In this turn based strategy game you rule a nineteenth century nation and the aim is the world, by conquest or by a vote in the Council of Governors.
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Metal Gear Solid 1998
Turned 28 this year PlayStation
Solid Snake comes out of retirement to slip into a nuclear weapons facility on Shadow Moses, an island in Alaska held by the rogue unit FOXHOUND. The game is credited with popularising stealth as a genre.
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Second Sight 2004
Turned 22 this year GameCube, PlayStation 2, Xbox
A parapsychology researcher uses psychic powers to piece together a lost past tied to a military mission, throwing enemies across the room or taking over their minds when a gun will not do.
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Total War: Rome II 2013
Turned 13 this year
A campaign that begins in 272 BC and runs for 300 years across Europe, the Mediterranean and the Near East, in the eighth Total War.
