A good game, but I still have a bone to pick with it.

User Rating: 8 | Universe at War: Earth Assault PC
To be honest, If I listed off all the good things about it and ranted about pros outweighing cons, I would be GameInformer magazine, While I love those guys, thats not the way I think this game needs to be reviewed.


The gameplay itself was altogether fun. I spend nearly ALL of my time in skirmish modes when playing RTS as I like having control over what I gotta deal with. The difficulty setting in this game is whacked, totally whacked. I set my first match against two Easy AI. Then me with a Medium AI, this is a method I use in all skirmish games when I am playing my first match. Not only are my opponents weak, but I compete with my AI freind, trying to mimic and keep up with him until I learn the game.

Well, this idea went bad quick. The enemy AI, in this case the Robotic Novus, had built a hero, all their building AND a superweapon before my Medium AI buddies and I, who were the clairvoyant Masari, could manage to set our material sources up properly. A few short spiteful minutes later I was utterly defeated, but not before the Medium AI died FIRST without launching an attack.

That means two things. Easy means 'REAP TIEM' on whatever planet this game was made on or the game is on very uneven ground when the three armies are lined up.


I will mention now I personally enjoy the graphics and overall look of the game, but I think the Masari could look a little better. When you compare the Masari's look to the other two armies, the Novus and Hierarchy seem to laugh off the Masari. The only cool unit from them seems to be the arial units, but they die quickly enough to make you cry, so making too many are pointless. The Novus look great, the robots and colors/textures on them made me go 'awesome' and forced many Terminator and Gundam flashbacks. The Hierarchy made me want to call in Master Chief as a hero. Yeah. I said it.


Music. I mentioned this because I mentioned the graphics/look of the game. While I don't feel qaulified to critic this, I got bored witht the music and found dominating instead to the sounds of classical was more...errm...interesting.


Also, something I personally dislike being a control freak when it comes to me versus computer skirmishes in lack of smaller tweaks. I would like to be able to add/remove what kind of special capture buildings are around. I would like to add/remove Hero types. For instance, if I want to play against an AI who I want to use a specific Hero, I gotta cross my fingers and hope the game uses it.

Well. I am doning reviewing this game. Which means I am out of things to say 'I don't like' about.

If you see this game cheap, buy it. Seriously. It is worth the 10 to 20$ range when I put my own price on it. It lacks what is needed to completely wow a plauyer, but it is a good RTS game, even among its flaws.