1. HORRIBLE voice acting. It's full of clichés ripped out of horrible military movies from the 80's. Anyone was has ever served in ANY branch of the military will roll their eyes at the voice acting in this game.
Who cares? Why should frigging voice acting be considered a negative trait for the game. Better yet, what makes you an expert on military communications?
2. No strategy/use of tactics. 99% of your objectives are achieved by simply placing units into objection "circles". Leaving these circles to setup a better tactical advantage will show you as LOOSING the objective point (even though you are right next to it) so it's best to just stack all your units into these circles.
At which point they will get butt raped by anyone with so much as10 points of TA. Honestly, it sounds to me like you played a single MP match, couldn't figure out how the game worked and left.
3. Unit replacement is somewhat unreasonable. Though i do like that there isn't any "resource gathering" if you just called in replacements, even you have the points, you have to wait for a "cool down timer"....I'm sorry but the Air Force typically has more than ONE plane for resupply available. If you pick the wrong units for a situation they will all be killed off quickly while you wait and wait and wait to resupply
And WiC is not a 100% realistic game. This is an issue of taste, not game design. If you chose the wrong units, then the problem isn't with the game dude. It's you.
4. Never enough units or no access to much needed units. You seem to always have a ridiculous small amount of units for certain situations. Also a lot of time you'll have to go up against heavy Russian armor without any heavy armor yourself. This can be very frustrating as the units you selected get slaughtered while you wait for the resupply points to stack up. Also it seems the Russians have an ENDLESS supply of units that they will spam you with.
This is nothing new to the RPG genre. Single player AI ALWAYS cheats like a mother ****er. And the developers insists on stacking the player against impossible odds in many other RPGs as well. Don't even get me started on Homeworld 2.
5. No checkpoint type system. Some missions are LONG with multiple objectives (primary and secondary). If you don't save your progress yourself, then you must start all over from the beginning of the mission. Not a real big issue as long as you remember to save but having to save after every completed objective or move can get annoying.
Oh boo god damn hoo. Are you honestly saying it's the game's fault that someone is too god damn stupid to open up the menu and click "save"?
6. HORRIBLE map controls. You have to use WASD keys to move the map but the angle of the camera typically doesn't match the direction of the keys or where you want to go. For instance, I found myself pressing W to move north...however actually I would be moving east because the way the camera was position and there's no compass that shows what direction you are currently looking at. Very frustrating and pointless.
This is yet another issue of personal taste. I thought WiC had very good camera controls. Since most RTS games place both the movement and camera controls directly into the mouse. Forcing the user to needlessly multitask.
These are just the problems I can think of off the top of my head. This game had great potential and I really don't see why gamespot gave it such a high score when typically they are quite strict with their ratings when compared to other sites/magazines.
Probably because, it's a genuinly original title that actually lives up the term REAL TIME STRATEGY. Sorry WiCcouldn't be yet another REAL TIME ZERG RUSH game.
It's so god damn stupid that people have gotten so used to the typical RTS battle system they have nothing but hostility to anything that challenges the status quo.
CaptHawkeye
PWNAGE!!!!!:lol::lol::lol:
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