This video game is a fair representation of the board game but a few annoying problems, hamper it somewhat.
Assuming you're an avid board games aficionado, you've heard of Axis and Allies. First made in 1984, it seems to be the epitome of turn based World War Two gaming. What the virtual version has done has put all the initial setup to ease. You can play from one to five players just like the board game. You can choose either the Americans, British or the Russians versus the Germans and the Japanese. The game starts off with Germany on the ridge of Russia's walls with the Japanese flanking on the other side while the Allies are more spaced out but have more economic power.
There are various units in the game from tanks, infantry, battleships and fighter planes. Each have their own unique skills and you can even play with some unique modifiers such two hit battleships and no technology. This allows you to play with some “house” rules if you so wish. Unfortunately, the game doesn't have online multiplayer and the single player mode against the computer is extremely frustrating. Though you can save games at any time and you can quicken combat, the dice rolls are horribly inaccurate. Everyone rolls so many ones, it's completely ridiculous at times. Another issue is the fact that the computer is completely brain dead. They will make fighters instead of infantry when infantry would be better. The game came out a long time ago and there are no updates since 1999 so what is out now is what you have. I'm not aware of any mods that add new units like artillery or fix the dice rolling problems so that is too bad.
The graphics in the game are pretty simple but it is clear what units are where and who owns what territory. Too bad the sounds are mucked up with some sub-standard music but if you can ignore it for a while, it's tolerable.
The game cost me about ten bucks so at that price, it was worth it. If it was thirty dollars, I'd cringe a lot more. If you wanna see a virtual representation of Axis and Allies, you can give this game a try but don't expect a challenge from the computer and the dice rolling make combat really annoying.