RUSE don't believe what you see

User Rating: 9.5 | R.U.S.E. PC
The name says it all, RUSE. You see an air rush coming at you, so you go to counter by pumping out some AA real quick and find it's nothing but plywood as the enemy crams tanks up your backyard and you lose becAUSE you spent all your resources defending an air rush. HAHA RUSE. See the tank rush coming, this time you think it's a RUSE so you don't prepare for it? Wrong, you countered and planned on an air attack and now you lose. There are so many strategies to use with this game both against and in defense of your enemy it's mind boggling. Overthink it on the other hand and you will get over-run.

This is a thinking mans/womens game, not a clickfest, the smarter player will usually win. 20 strong tanks can lose to 5 anti tank guns used properly, or what about those infantry hidden in the woods, seen em take out too many heavy tigers in a mater of seconds. Recon Recon Recon, know what your enemy is doing and adjust to it. This is a game where you may develop a winning strategy but if your unable to alter this during the course of games, your in for a rude awakening. What works against one person won't work against the next

This is strictly for multiplayer, have not even opened the SP campaign yet. Also if you think the AI sucks, I do, on skirmish - then add 2-3-or 4 hard AI, ain't so easy now.

If you try this and don't like it, come back to it a 2nd time (don't go by the Demo it's not a representation of the what skirmish and multiplayer offer). I threw this game aside the first time during beta because I thought I did not like it, I picked it up again at the free trial weekend and have not stopped since. For some players the ruse is you may be turned away the first time, come back and learn the strategy, the challenge, the ruse's - you won't be disappointed. This game is what chess is to a grandmaster. This maybe the best RTS to be released, SC2 has nothing on RUSE. Yes, I really think it's that good.