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Cossacks (video Games Series)
''Cossacks: European Wars'' () is a real-time strategy video game for Microsoft Windows made by the Ukrainian developer GSC Game World. It was released on 28 November 2000. The game has an isometric view and is set in the 17th and 18th centuries of Europe. It features sixteen playable nations each with its own architectural styles, technologies and no limit on unit numbers. Players must avoid famine and engage in army expansion, building construction and simple resource gathering. Mission scenarios range from conflicts such as Thirty Years' War to the War of the Austrian Succession, and the game is renowned for the seemingly unlimited number of units players may control. This ability set it apart from other games of the time such as ''Age of Empires'' and ''Empire Earth''. ''Cossacks'' is a game which allows the user to gain strategy skills and learn history of that period by the inclusion of a comprehensive encyclopedia. The game has won two awards and was positively favoure ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
GSC Game World
GSC Game World is a Ukrainian video game developer based in Kyiv with a second temporary office in Prague. Founded in Kyiv in 1995 by Sergiy Grygorovych, it is best known for the ''Cossacks (video games series), Cossacks'' and ''S.T.A.L.K.E.R.'' series of games. GSC Game World was the first company in Ukraine to Video game localization, localize PC games to the Russian language. In 2002, it became a publishing house, GSC World Publishing. History Founding and early activity The company was founded in 1995 by Sergiy Grygorovych (), who became chief executive officer (CEO). He came up with the company name and emblem in 1993, aged 15. "GSC" are the initials of his name in the transliteration "Grygorovych Sergiy Constantinovich". Later Grygorovych explained this decision: By 1996, the company employed fifteen people in a two-room apartment. Early employees included Grygorovych's younger brother, Evgeniy, and Andrew Prokhorov. The company was the first in Ukraine to translate ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
