pretty good, but once again tanks rule the battlefield, making infantry nearly useless, tank fights are spitball wars.
User Rating: 8.1 | Codename: Panzers, Phase One PC
i thought this game would be the ww2 rts game i would play for a long time. i've been looking into the best ww2 rts out there but still i'm looking. this game focusses on tanks (hence the name), but gives you a large amount ofinfantry selection as well. but the problem is in most skirmish battles you wont need the infantry because the enemy has mostly armor, and tanks have machine guns on them too chew up infantry. so skirmish is a tank show, and a lame show it is.... you start at one end of the map and the computer starts at the other end. the computer will take its army and throw it at you, head on. So basically its a rush to set up your position before the enemy hits you in the face. i liked the fact you could select your army down to the last footsoldier, the number of units is the best i've seen so far. but its too bad that you couldn't select which troops/tanks etc that your computer friend or enemy could use againist you. Because the enemy uses mostly tanks, therefore it forces you to use mostly armor too, because its the only way to win. the only thing you can restrict is the amount of money everyone has to purchase units before battle. campaign is dry and some of the worst cutscenes and voice acting ever! but at least infantry play a role in the campaign. easy and normal difficulty in campaign seems too easy and hard is just way too hard, wheres the middle ground?
probably my worst compliant is the damage system. When tanks engage enemy tanks they fire round after round at each other until one side wins, the problem is that one shot from a single tanks does little damage! its a spitball war! even tiger tanks barely pack more of a punch than a sheman. so its not fun watching a battle that last five minutes consisting of tank rounds flying back and forth.
on the bright side the rearming and resupplying trucks are a great game feature, as long as you protect them!
overall this game was the only one that came close to having that felling of fighting in ww2. its for sale now for about ten buck at target, and i'm not going to bother with the sequel, cause i hear nothing changed, but maybe you should try the sequel. it will be easier to find than this game.
