21.   Now comes a new strategy game that also rewards the occasional murder, extortion plot and torching of local businesses.

22.   Of course, there are plenty of nonviolent video games, including sports games, flight simulators and strategy games.

23.   One of the fun things about strategy games is that they let you become a kid again, creating your own battles with your own rules.

24.   Only hard-core lovers of strategy games are likely to stick with it.

25.   Pity the Mac enthusiast who also loves computer strategy games.

26.   Real-time strategy games need twisting more than any other genre because they tend to get tedious.

27.   RAILROAD TYCOON II is a classy PC strategy game about building a railroad empire in the last century.

28.   Such are the decisions that await you in Legions, a new history strategy game for the Mac.

29.   Strategy games, where the payoff depends on interactions between subjects, all involve risk, a contaminating factor.

30.   The different behavior of men and women in strategy games may reflect their different responses to risk, not their natural level of generosity.