Men Of War, seriously, look past the name. This is a game that is at least as interesting for real-time strategy lovers as Dawn Of War 2. If you ignored the demo, please go play it, and understand that even that undersells the immense battlefield missions with hundreds of units, not to mention to vast scale of a game that has three full sized campaigns. Campaigns whose maps are also playable in co-op. I’m posting the videos after the jump with a sense of futility, because I know they don’t and won’t sell it to many people. Nevertheless Men Of War is second only to Empire in awesomeness for games I’ve played so far in 2009. It really is a fine thing. I recommend you take a look. The game is out now in Europe and will be out on the 17th in North America.
Update: you can steal the hats of your fallen enemies. Yes!
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- Difficult Campaign
- No skirmish AI
- Voice Acting
+ Everything else: realism, unit diversity, direct control, multiplayer (deathmatch, map-control, and assault/defend modes), graphics, interface
I won’t buy it, becauce im utterly tired of WW2. I can’t stomach it no matter how good the game is. Had it been any other setting I would give it a look.
I’m tired of WW2 as well. I saw the top screenshot (which is frankly awesome), read the glowing comments, and still can’t muster anything beyond “meh”.
However, here’s a twist: I’m not going to buy it NOT because it’s set in WW2, but because I’m totally skint. Go figure.
If for some reason I come into some money I will most likely buy DoW2, although I’ll admit that “realtime Combat Mission with Company of Heroes graphics” is pretty much the best thing I’ve ever heard, ever.
this game is better than company of heroes. never thought i would say that, but it is. the scenarios are brilliant.
i would play only WWII games if i could. all games should be about it. actually, i am sick of games that are not about WWII.
I was coming here to say much the same thing. WWII got old about 20 years ago for me – I think the original Commandos was the last time I dabbled in the genre
Commandos was the last time you’ve played a WW2 game, 11 years ago mind you, and you’re sick of the genre? Say what?
No man who has ignored Company of Heroes can call themselves a PC gamer in my book.
Also, this looks great and the demo convinced me but having got DoW2 and Empire I can’t afford this one. I’ll pick it up later in the year.
The game is RTS, it’s the core conceit that the originators of the genre were thinking of before adding in all those buildings and resources. It’s worth playing if only for the sheer level of mechanical detail.
How many games are there where a character can grenade an AT gun crew, throw a molotov into the bed of a troop transport (incinerating a dozen men), man the AT gun and blow the turret off of an enemy Tiger tank, finish off the escaping tank crew with his SMG as they try to run for it, hop in the driver’s seat of the tank and drive it back to his own defensive lines and then repair the turret and fully crew it to begin wreaking havoc on the germans with their own tank?
I’ve actually done this in the game. Actually you could do it in in the previous 2 games of the series as well. The options available to you at any given moment are as staggering as they are compelling.
>you could do it in in the previous 2 games of the series as well
That’s because they’re the same thing with a few extra models chucked in.
I’m quite certain the scenarios and campaigns are not. I don’t know, I’ve never played the prequels.
It does look pretty good, although I’d prefer more clips with real gameplay. Yet aside from all that it may be, I probably won’t buy it.
The first reason being that I’m actually not that good at strategy which means that although I can enjoy an RTS, I also look for flavour aspects I like.
The second reason being that I don’t generally prefer real wars (real situations taken from history in general, really) as subject of my games. I tend to go for sci-fi or fantasy or maybe mock-realistic things like World in Conflict. There are notable exceptions, like Battlefield 1942, though.
The third reason is that I’m already filled on the RTS genre since my purchase of Dawn of War (sorry, I do keep bringing that up). So even if I’d buy it, it’ll probably be quite some time. And considering that the previous RTS I bought was Starcraft (BroodWar if you want to add expansions), well, suffice to say that I don’t wear out my RTSs easily.
Mm FYI if you buy it online at GamersGate.com , it’s available everywhere. Now. (it says pre-order… but you get it right now, and they’ll throw in Silent Heroes free $39.99)
Even in the states.
Now..
Go On..
go get it, i’ll wait…
I Picked it up as soon as it was available online and wow, it’s so very nice to enjoy a game where the S in rts is valued.
They really should have let you play the first 20 minutes of the second mission in the demo so you can really see it shine.
Somehow they managed to do what DOW2 tried (and failed) to do.. Once you take control of a unit and he does something super heroic under your divine guiding hand, you can’t help but to care about the lill bugger and want to help them survive.
And since its the Russian front it’s NOT just like all the other wwii games with the same 5 tanks and guns.
Does anyone else still buy PC games knowing they may not finish them any time soon due to the sheer volume of other unfinished games they own?
Just asking is all; I’m considering quitting my job to clear the backlog. Anachronox here I come!
*edit fail
On topic though, I’d like to thank the participants of this thread for pointing me toward some seemingly monumentally worthy PC RTS i’d completely missed (including the prequels).
I find the “WWII is tired” complaint to be entirely overblown.
“Gee. WWII is so overdone! It sounds like a fun game but I can’t get over such a generic setting! Besides, I have a couple Tolkienesque fantasy titles and a game where I control Space Marines to get through!”
“Does anyone else still buy PC games knowing they may not finish them any time soon due to the sheer volume of other unfinished games they own?”
Yeah, I’m waiting for the next bout of not-too-serious manflu…
i buy games knowing i will finish none of them. it’s a horrendous habit.
I’m sorry but I can’t “enthuse” about this game.
I remember trying the last one (Faces of War), the demo for which appeared at the same time as Company of Heroes. It struck me as being less professional and far too fiddly. I had men being killed because of the interface and didn’t really appreciate the need to loot bodies for ammo and grenades.
Two years later and here comes the next version – same fiddly interface, same fiddly looting and the worst voice acting I have heard in a modern game.
I tried the first demo mission and got frustrated with the quirks of the game (which isn’t a good thing on the first mission) – for example, when crewing a tank, the excess soldiers automatically sit on top of it. Great except I couldn’t work out how to get them off the tank again without completely decrewing it, so in any combat they immediately died. I then failed to complete the mission because having crossed the river and started taking out the defenders on the hill, I was trying to repair my tank but the endless procession of troop and fuel trucks ended up depositing enemy troops behind me, so I was surrounded and lost everyone.
Co-op campaign sounds nice but no skirmish sounds rubbish.
I think I’ll pass.
Apology accepted.
I just bought thanks to all your recommendations, and am currently downloading it from GamersGate. I’m in the US, too, so it’s looking good for us Yanks.
Great game guys.If u like RTT games,that`s your game.
Controls are simpler than those of FoW,graphics are excellent,game depth is enormous.
Sadly it does not have skirmish mode.
Voice acting is the worst ever…I mean ever…
An RTS game with no skirmish? I don’t understand. How do you play multiplayer?