not the best game

User Rating: 7 | No Man's Land PC
The in-game environments are pleasing to the eye. They are not the best graphics in an RTS game by a long shot, but they are far from bad. The creepy, benighted woods of some levels, coupled with the ambient sounds of howling wolves are very well realized. Water is represented fairly well in those missions that contain naval combat.

There are, however, a few aspects of No Man’s Land that are not as refined. Unit pathfinding is downright frustrating, and the AI in general is questionable. Units routinely get hung up on buildings, shrubs and sometimes each other. There are a variety of attitudes that you can be set for your military units: defend, attack, hold position, etc. However, I found that there really wasn’t a default mode. There were far too many instances of units standing about while they’re being hacked to pieces or shot full of musket balls. I see no reason why a unit should have any AI routine that prevents it from defending itself or even moving while it’s being attacked. There are some elite units with a stealth ability where this comes into play, but why would even these units stand about and take it up the chute if they have been discovered?

Unfortunately, the quirky AI makes it difficult to attack opponents in an efficient and organized way. After a very short time, if you have a superior force, you’ll just let your units run wild. It’s easier than trying to control them.

These frustrating incidents are not, once you learn to accept and work around them, enough to make you turn off the game and relegate it to the trade-in pile, for you will actually care enough to push past these annoyances and finish the game. The story sequences help to keep you engaged, and when you consider the big picture, this is a pretty solid, old school RTS with some sloppy AI that could be remedied in the future. over all this game is really just age of empires in a boring form of game everything is the same as age of empires the only difference is that it is amercain trubis is what u control insed of the european conutries