Great game in the continuation of the series
User Rating: 9 | Cossacks II: Napoleonic Wars PC
This game Cossacks 2 is a great game which is really underrated. This Real time stratay game is set during the Napolionic wars so you would expect to line up your troops in a line and start fireing vollley after volley of bullets in to the other wall of men until they break. Gameplay: The gameplay is pretty good, The game brings along six nations that played a leading role in the history of Napoleonic wars. These are France, Britain, Austria, Russia, Prussia and Egypt, with each country possessing its unique and peculiar abilities, architecture, development tree and military features. There is a moral system in this game were the men would be demoralized if to many men die or they are outdunbered and your men would start running away from the battlfield. There is also another feature were you get to see the how much dameage your troops can do by colored circles around them each of them signifying how much damage they can do, for example red is point blank rang and will do the most damage while yellow is the furthest away and to minimal damage to the enemy. This game lets you micromanage your empire like building buildings and produceing troops and fighting battles but there is another side to it to. There is this empire building like in Rome: Total war were you have to dominate the whole map or key areas of the map to win. The great thing is that you don't wall ways have to send troops to fight the enemy, you could just cut of your openents resorces and economicly starve your enemy and then take over there land.
Graphics: The graphics are not the best in this day and age and it's 2-D mostly. But the buiidings are very nicely done and can see every single detail in the buildings. The graphics are not bad but not the best though I think the troops could of used some more detail. Gameplay is usually more important then gameplay though graphics can play a part in gameplay like in Company of Heroes. oh one more thing I should mention when you get board at watching the action on the battlefield sometimes there would be life re-enacting video's at the bottem of the screen that is pretty ineresting to watch.
Sound: I think the sound is great from the fireing of the Muskets and rifles to the booms of the cannon. Value: This game has great replay value, You can play and try to dominate as much as the map with the diffrent nationalities once your done with one nation. Then is the the multiplayer portion of the game that supports up to four players to duke it out against each other which can be challanging.
All in all I give this game a 8.5 out of 10 because I think that they could of done a little better on improving the game but all in all this is a good game to play and too add to your collection of games.
