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Podcast: Retro Spectives
Episode: Episode 89: Gorky 17
Description: By 1999, when Gorky 17 released, the genre of tactics games was definitely well trod. X-COM, Final Fantasy Tactics, Jagged Alliance - these were all heavy hitters, and many consider them to still be masterpieces to this day. But the Polish developers at Metropolis Software were not to be cowed, and set out to put their own spin on sequentially murdering monsters on rigid tiles.Unlike other tactics games, this would be a short and tight game, clocking in at 10 hours. Unlike other tactics games, it took cues from survival horror games such as Resident Evil, both in presentation and...