Comments on: Men Of War Videos, Thumbs Up, Sad Sigh

By: cliffski

cliffski — Sun, 15 Mar 2009 16:53:37 +0000

An RTS game with no skirmish? I don’t understand. How do you play multiplayer?

By: jonpet

jonpet — Thu, 12 Mar 2009 18:06:47 +0000

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…

By: DoomMunky

DoomMunky — Sat, 07 Mar 2009 21:53:50 +0000

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.

By: Cypher

Cypher — Sat, 07 Mar 2009 18:54:56 +0000

Apology accepted.

By: Quercus

Quercus — Sat, 07 Mar 2009 12:03:21 +0000

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.

By: leeder_krenon

leeder_krenon — Sat, 07 Mar 2009 08:46:09 +0000

i buy games knowing i will finish none of them. it’s a horrendous habit.

By: Gap Gen

Gap Gen — Sat, 07 Mar 2009 07:38:17 +0000

“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…

By: kuddles

kuddles — Sat, 07 Mar 2009 02:30:16 +0000

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!”

By: SavageD

SavageD — Sat, 07 Mar 2009 02:06:05 +0000

*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).

By: SavageD

SavageD — Sat, 07 Mar 2009 02:02:13 +0000

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!

By: Drakkheim

Drakkheim — Sat, 07 Mar 2009 01:57:41 +0000

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.

By: Hmm-hmm.

Hmm-hmm. — Sat, 07 Mar 2009 01:24:01 +0000

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.