Old school RTS with even older school GFX

User Rating: 7.5 | Universe at War: Earth Assault PC
UAW is rather a novel RTS in that its heavily sci-fi based in a War of the Worlds remake.

To say its a new game to come out at the beginning of 2008, its is distinctly old school with graphics from about 4 years ago - This is hardly C&C 3 or Company of heroes. When playing it I have a feeling this game was made rather tongue in cheek as everything about it is very cheesy, even down to the commentary screen that you get in game.

That said , UAW is worth playing (when you have nothing else to do ! ).

To be honest, it is fun but has a number of niggles, like the fact that you cannot zoom the camera far enough out and it has an annoying heavy metal rock track.

The story line is good but rather predictable.

If there is any game it can be compared to, it is Joint Task Force which had poor gfx for its time and came out about 2 years ago which had a similar cartoony feel to it.


Graphics 6
Sound 8
Gameplay 8
Stability 9
Value for money 8

Overall 7.5