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Yet another "Conquering the world .." game

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 16 / 17
Date: March 30, 2005
Author: Amazon User

Started playing Alexander yesterday. After a while, realized that the game's interface comes from the Cossacks' stable, which I liked plenty, so I liked this one too. Easy to set big and
disciplined units of 32, 64 or 100 soldiers; great the way the horses run; same stoned ground surrounding the buildings; the tunneled mines; aside the basic buildings and a few of dwelling structures, you don't have to bother building a lot of houses to grow your population; practically unlimited size of population; etc.

Like American Conquest Fight Back was a departure from Cossacks series, even though I didn't see the Strategy First or CDV logos in Alexander, this is another branch from the same tree, still have to say the graphics detail and realism have been greatly improved, when compared to the original Cossacks, which were fairly good at the moment. And still, being a heavy loaded game with thousands of units and realistic graphics, the software runs fast and light.

A couple of nice details: this game solves, for me, the main shortcoming of the genre - the need to click once (at least) for every unit you want to create in the game. When playing against the computer AI, this is a great unfair disadvantage, which has nothing to do with your intellectual skills. In Alexander, any unit you select to create in the correspondent building, you have to click only once, and then the building keeps creating continuous units till you right-click again to stop it.

When under massive attacks, you can start creating soldiers from your barracks and sending them to a convenient rally point, and then you can keep an eye in the overall developing of the battle, and take the appropriated decisions, instead of stay clicking franticly, till your hand breaks, trying to cope with the enemy numbers.

The second nice feature I noticed, was the "living" walls (Crusader series style) with bastions, so you can build like real fortresses and populated the walls with archers or any range-shooting units to defend them. Every section of wall has a "bastion" and stairs to allow the garrison go up and down. Linking wall segments, allows you to create the fortress, and you can choose any "bastion" and convert it in the gate. The process of constructing the walls is lovely to watch: peasants do a great job carrying materials, setting wood structures, etc.

Final word, if you like battle oriented RTS games, you won't be disappointed with this release.

Great RTS in the Tradition of Age of Empires!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 3 / 3
Date: November 11, 2006
Author: Amazon User

I actually think this is a splendid game. The graphics are very good, the levels and maps are designed wonderfully, and the gameplay is marvelously addicting. It probably reminds me most of Age of Empires 2, which was another great RTS.
Highly Reccomended!
PS
Also check out the Lords of the Realm series, my all time favorites.

Terrible

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 4 / 7
Date: October 25, 2005
Author: Amazon User

Sorry, but this is 2005 and this game sucks. Even in 1995 this would be a poor game. I would have given it zero stars, if that was an option. With games like Rome - Total War out there, I can't say enough bad things about Alexander. It's obviously a marketing scam to sucker money from people based on the movie and appeal for these types of games. The people who developed and marketed it should be shot.

Serious flaws kill fun

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 2 / 3
Date: November 26, 2006
Author: Amazon User

I really like Alexander, while it works. Problem is at some point the the game crashes back to desktop. Go back in and the same, and since Ubisoft believes this game was a failure they won't patch it.

That's sad because at it's core Alexander happens to fun, and while it's not Rome: Total War, it does have pretend to be either. (BTW, RTW is far from perfect too, don't get me started on, people out running horses, Archers/Tebuchets firing on your own troops, or the giant trees that block your view.) Speaking of which there is an Alexander expansion for RTW.

Anyway Alexander is fun, until it crashes.

Pure Trash

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 1 / 3
Date: December 16, 2006
Author: Amazon User

It Won't run
It Won't uninstall
They Won't support it

What more can I say?

fun fights

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: August 05, 2006
Author: Amazon User

i like how u can control thousands of people but in some of the levels u cant attack building with melee units im not sure if there was something in my way but that was annoying. i also like the fight how u can knock them back and stuff the fighting is fun.

DONT BUY IT

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: May 07, 2007
Author: Amazon User

Guys, Do not take this bait even if the game is sold for one cent !!! It's just not worthy to but it. The game is awefull and the worst RTS out there. i paid for it 19,99 and i regret i purchased it. They should stop producing this kinds of games and ban this from the shelves because it brings a shame upon good rts genre. The developers done such a poor job on it seems like they rushed and messed a good ideas into one terrible compound. Turns out Alexander the Great movie was laughed upon when this parody, a big joke was released patheticly designed, skillessly engineered and implemented, an underachiever amoung other rts titles.

First of all the specs of my PC are AMD Sempron 2.1GHz (code name Palermo), with 1024(gig)of RAM, and Ge Force 7600 GT 256 MB so i can run this game perfectly fine 1024 x 768 resolution. But this game, though as much as i would like to have fun and enojoy it( i love that time's period armor and hoplites, phalanxes, formations and structures ) is just impossible to play. The graphics are 2D like from 1994 and not 2004 when 3D becomes a standard. The camera is fixed so you cant zoom in and see any detailes of the armor, farms and buildings. The villigars are generic and small dots on the map. The voicovers, well there are none of them present, if you issue a command there is a silence and hardcore rts fans will be very disappointed. The combat sound is from Age of empires I and is so primitive just two voices groaning together in stone age manner. The animation is very bad !!!

The unit creation has to be constantly monitored and if you dont right click second time on the unit training icon at barracks or Town Center they will be produce infinitly draining all of your resources. The solution is good economy. Farmers ganerate food, miners extract gold and iron deposits, stone is collected from rocks but all this sounds good in theory. In practice flawed designed of the game doesn't show you how many gatherers are per structure. Its very hard to select needed amount of workers to put them in the mine. You have to expande the mines from original 5 villys allowed to speed up gathering.

The amount of buildings to build is overwhelming (18-20 in total), upgrading troops and economy just puts so much pressure onto plyaer that only hardcore rts fan will like this sado-masochism. Upgrads require a mix of resources and 5 resources make it very difficult to remember what proportions of which has to be used for immense amount of upgrades. The micromanagment is very hard beacuse peasants are slow to respond Remembering units cost is a chore because the price varies and combines 3 separate resources. The user interface is confusing, heavy, menues give poor information. Selecting a necessary number of peaseant, say, put into the mine is aggravating nerve torture.

In two words, plese STAY CLEAR of this monster game, its the worst example how the RTS game should be made. Avoid this game at all cost. You've been warned. One guys sad that this game is the same branch from the tree where Cossacks and American Conqueste are growing from. So take my advice, forget them because there time has passed. They are outdated and only attractive thing is their box art. Do not fall for it.

why is the game still on the market?

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: June 23, 2007
Author: Amazon User

This game is awful, that is why you still see it for sale. 2D graphics, They used the movie to sell the game.

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