Comments on: Theatre Of War 2: Afrika 1943 Demo

By: Cypher

Cypher — Sat, 14 Mar 2009 16:23:29 +0000

Yep. (Sumerian).

By: Nick

Nick — Sat, 14 Mar 2009 12:52:11 +0000

No, it’s a rare dialect of sumerian.

By: Cypher

Cypher — Sat, 14 Mar 2009 01:40:08 +0000

After MoW (which is just brill), this was a slog to play. Real hard work. It feels bloated and slow, and the gui is hard work. Ai is wobbly (see MoW for how it should be done), and having stuffed my face on DoW2, MoW recently, not having a proper ‘cover’ system (amongst many other things) left me decidedly underwhelmed.
Some lovely bugs too, like the hilarious crouch/stand jig all my inf started doing whenever left to their own devices. Well, that’s when they wern’t gleefully taking HE rounds in the face WITH NO REACTION WHATSOEVER.
I got stung with the original game, and even with the sweetners, I’ll be passing.

By: Sam C

Sam C — Sat, 14 Mar 2009 01:21:12 +0000

Well, I tried it again, and it was better. It just took a slower, more methodical approach. Very slow, actually, it ended in a tedious house to house search until every last enemy was dead. The slowdown was even worse once the battle got started, pretty much a slideshow. The friendly AI is pretty good, it fought the battle by itself once they were moved into place.

By: Gap Gen

Gap Gen — Sat, 14 Mar 2009 00:58:16 +0000

As long as they leave the bromide out, I’d be OK with a bit of sand in my tea.

By: Sam C

Sam C — Sat, 14 Mar 2009 00:05:10 +0000

I’d have to second the pretty choppy performance, and I have a AMD 64X2, 2GB RAM, GeForce 8600. It looks pretty, if very pixelated with AA off.

I wasn’t too impressed. The tutorial was pretty much worthless, it just gave you orders and didn’t explain them, you’d be lost if you hadn’t played an RTS at all. The voicework is at least a higher caliber than Men of War, but it’s very repetitive.

I got slaughtered in the mission that comes with it, I’m not sure how else I’m supposed to approach a desert objective, as MacRae said, with no cover. It does look very detailed, but there are too many soldiers to control to even begin to dig very deep into the myriad of options. No immediately obvious squad system, the battle was pretty much select a group of tiny pixel men and send them towards the enemy. Not helped by the camera that doesn’t zoom out far enough to get a really good view of the battle.

It wasn’t all that fun, to be frank. I couldn’t really tell what was going on. Maybe it just takes more time, but I certainly wasn’t very involved, it didn’t grab me like Combat Mission. Actually, I’d say get Combat Mission: Afrika Korps instead, since it does the same thing with less shiny and a lot more control. Just my two cents.

By: Mad Doc MacRae

Mad Doc MacRae — Fri, 13 Mar 2009 23:44:28 +0000

I hate games that give me about 50 infantrymen who I have to order around separately. Through a village with no cover. As far as I know, soldiers didn’t deploy in even lines since the turn of the century (1900). Why make me control my infantry like that?

By: unclelou

unclelou — Fri, 13 Mar 2009 23:06:10 +0000

Unacceptably horrible performance on a C2D with a 260 GTX, on medium settings, I am afraid.

By: Senethro

Senethro — Fri, 13 Mar 2009 18:39:10 +0000

(X of Y WWII game lol)

By: Smurfy

Smurfy — Fri, 13 Mar 2009 18:35:30 +0000

Cool.