Comments on: Order Of War Demo On Steam

By: Darthy

Darthy — Wed, 05 Aug 2009 18:44:41 +0000

Demo is very underwhelming, compared to the plentiful number of other WW2 RTS games out there. I couldn’t figure out any tactical depth above flanking the enemy and making sure I had both tanks ‘and’ infantry in my army.

By: Sajmn

Sajmn — Wed, 05 Aug 2009 13:19:17 +0000

Order of Men, War of Faces, Faces of Soldiers,…

By: Carra

Carra — Wed, 05 Aug 2009 10:55:13 +0000

Confusing name indeed, too easy to confues it with “men, soldiers, faces of war”. Thought it was the sequel when i first saw the name.

And it makes me like the title “men of war”. Order of war, seriously?

By: MD

MD — Wed, 05 Aug 2009 00:28:12 +0000

Heliocentric says:

I want an order of war, with a side of fries.
Haha, I was scrolling down to see if anyone had made that joke yet, hoping I would be the one to do the honours. Curse you! The only other comment I had (which has also already been made) was that with a name like “X of War” it should be another Best Way/1C game, which it isn’t.

By: destroy.all.monsters

destroy.all.monsters — Tue, 04 Aug 2009 21:19:56 +0000

It looks a bit like RUSE without the whole art of deception thing.

I hope Best Way sues them over the “Of War” title. :)

By: JB

JB — Tue, 04 Aug 2009 20:32:50 +0000

Just played the demo, not at all impressed. I’m going to fire up Men of War again now.

I second Jim’s comments about it being dull. So there can be lots of troops/vehicles on screen, that doesn’t make it a great game. It mainly seemd like some pretty cutscenes interspersed with boring RTS stuff.

Guys, this is bad.

By: unclelou

unclelou — Tue, 04 Aug 2009 20:31:53 +0000

Terrible demo. A cheap World in Conflict clone, down to the interface, that looks not nearly as nice, has annoying “accelerating” camera controls, a gimmicky “cinematic” cam, and not a single feature that is even worth mentioning.

By: Javaguy

Javaguy — Tue, 04 Aug 2009 20:30:40 +0000

So having tried the demo I’m a little less than impressed. It wasn’t a disaster, sure, but with CoH and MoW to contend with it felt a little lacking. It lacked the cinematic quality of CoH and the detail of MoW.

If it had been released in 2005 it would have been pretty impressive, I suppose. Now though? I’m not sure it has quite enough going for it.

It also ran at 15fps on mainly “Normal” settings, which wasn’t particularly super. Not game breaking, of course. Just didn’t help my impression :p

By: Jim

Jim — Tue, 04 Aug 2009 19:00:11 +0000

Firstly, enough with the name bashing, yes they have silly names but do we need to go through this every time? Secondly, WWII is such an interesting period it’s no wonder there’s so many WWII based games out, I love them personally, if you want sci-fi or something else then just go play it, you don’t need to moan. The WWII setting still has lots and lots to give.

But enough of that, on to the demo. That has to be the most boring demo I’ve ever played. It stuck well within the rule book for a generic RTS game and it’s just dull. It just feels like a game that didn’t really need to be made, everything you can do in it can be done in another RTS. Sure it has a lot of vehicles on screen at once, but that doesn’t save it at all for me.

Men of War is still the best WWII RTS out there, this game with its awful explosion sprites, lack of physics and terrible camera could learn so much from playing it. Maybe i’m just tired.

By: Shadrach

Shadrach — Tue, 04 Aug 2009 17:48:51 +0000

I like the infographics a lot.
Gameplay-wise I just hope there’s less micromanagement than Men of War.

By: Hermit

Hermit — Tue, 04 Aug 2009 17:25:35 +0000

And don’t forget to complete all the side missions to unlock your Ultimate Tank Summon: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Landkreuzer_P._1000_Ratte

By: Rosti

Rosti — Tue, 04 Aug 2009 17:20:46 +0000

They don’t like it up ‘em, those 1000 troops. [/Dad's Army]