Axis and Allies has the honor of being one of the worst games I've ever played.
User Rating: 5 | Axis & Allies: The Ultimate WWII Strategy Game PC
Wanna know how you can make a WWII game without putting a SINGLE swastika in it? Look at Axis and Allies. The game, of course, features Nazi Germany, but does not feature a single swastika or the word Nazi. Yeah, this game really is that absurd. Gameplay wise it's not that great. It could have been a lot better. Why you can't take over neutral WWII coutries is beyond me. The continet of Africa has some pretty crappy gameplay. When you start the game there's only British and Nazi units there, and not many, so the 'blitzkreig' feature really just makes fighting on Africa a cat and mouse game which is very repetetive and boring. Overall it's just pretty boring. Sure, the five different playable countries give you some replay value, but unless you're playing as Japan, the game is extremely difficult to play as any other country, which leaves you not wanting to get yourself frustrated over replaying this game. There's also really nothing unique to the gameplay. Everything gameplay wise has already been done before, and with the small exception of the 'blitzkreig' feature, there is nothing gameplay wise that really sets it out from any other game much. Even the blitzkreig feature isn't well thought out. It goes like this, if you have a tank (a unit that can move two spaces), and invade a territory with no units on it, you can invade another territory. This is an interesting technique, but really only works in Africa, and as I said earlier, it fails. Graphic wise, the game is what you'd expect from a Risk type game from 1998. Which is to say it's average. It has some decent cutscenes, but these cutscenes rarely appear and one could go the whole game without seeing one because he doesn't know they're there. You have to turn them on in the options menu, and I could see how one could easily oversee the cutscene option. Sound wise this game is below average. The backround music is pretty plain, and the sound effects are very lame. Instead of a fierce bombing or tank fight, it sounds like firecrackers going off. In fact, the whole sound experience is so bad, that the rare times I do play this game I put on my headphones and listen to Pink Floyd instead of listening to this game. With that being said, Axis and Allies is a horrible game that will only provide you with two or three hours of entertainment, and there really isn't any reason to play this with all the better Risk type games out there.
