If it's on the top of your list, Shame on you!! If it's on your list, You go boy!
Ok lets do this… First things first: This will never replace Supreme Commander, Call of Duty, World in Conflict, or Dawn of War.
But I love the concept of this game! A working voice command. For all you who think there is nothing new in RTS well this is yet another chance for you to not see what is right in front of your face.
After playing the demo on PS3 I thought it was kick ass! It actually caught my voice on most of the commands. And who doesn't like WMD's!! I even read mister Clancy's book Endwar
Well I'm sad to say although the voice commanding is great and maxed out on the vid it's great to look at. But game play wise it seems to be about as deep as the blondes in playboy.
One: All of the units of the same type are the same for the different sides (which there are 3). So there is no reason to pick one side over another. This game was made for kids mostly. Which means that it's Tact & Strat lite.. Due to the fact they have short attention span disorder. The units are slow with a capital S! The shooting ranges are close as hell even for the Arty, so all the units will be together when the fighting starts.
Now with that being said in solo it's fun. I mean buying unit upgrades and taking care of you units to ensure their career path. But after about 10 games I don't think the computer gets combined attacks. But I enjoy going through it if only to get to release the WMD's!!!!
Here is how my first net game went:
I enlisted with the Russians, not cuz they were better cuz they're all the same. But at the time there was a bonus for doing it! So with my new found loot I toddle off to the online store "Weapons R Us". Man I had fun!! Missiles Bombs and Bullets oh my!
So once I was ready I went into the games online persistent war zone. I got into the war, "Down with America and Europe! For the mother land!!"
The game opens I send out a chopper to do some quick spotting and first killing. I find that he was thinking the same thing but this game is just Rock Paper Scissors. So I also had and APC close by (chopper killers) ok now he's down one chopper. My Chopper found his tanks. Down one tank. It went like that for a hot min. Now I was seeing glory and humming the Russian anthem. But in this game the loosing side gets the first WMD strike…. Note: all ranges in this game are close. So while about all 8 of my units are laying waste to him and his homeland, I hear "Kinetic strike pending" that is the first and last warning for you to leave the party area. But there is no time, so with one hit I lost almost every thing! I had been doing the mission and taking uplinks and I had the win game count timer going. I hit him back and took out all of his ground forces! "Take that Yankee dog!" Two min to go I got 1 command vehicle 1 infantry unit. He had 2 choppers. One min and one command unit down my infantry learn why it's good to stay in out the rain. I lost cuz I didn't have a rock to throw or arm to throw with. "Lost another one to Ditec!!!"
So you see you can enjoy a game even though a game isn't the best (and it ant), isn't the most challenging (and it can't), by being a new way of playing (and it is), it could just be fun (and it is). If it's on the top of your list, Shame on you!! If it's on your list, You go boy!