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Trust me...

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 6 / 8
Date: December 22, 2004
Author: Amazon User

When I saw this game like all the other reviewers before me, I just had to have it! Well I got it and like the old saying goes "don't wish for something, you just might get it", definitely applies to this. Oh be prepared here, you are in for a lecture!

I saw two different sets of reviews on this, one set was really positive (just MAY have been written by people who are affiliated with the computer company in some way). Why so harsh a comment??? Because that is the only reason anyone in their right mind could possibly even like this game. Ok back to the subject, the second set of reviews are by people who say this game is bad. I have to DEFINATELY and totally agree with them.

Trust me out there, this game is a total and complete waste of money! The fact that it now sells for Twenty dollars is an excellent indicator of this. I didn't even know it was out and the price dropped by half before I even knew it was available. If you buy computer games, use that as a "suck indicator".

Ok, so now you want to know why it totally sucks??? Here's why; I ask you, have you ever played Axis and Allies??? It's a great board game. In fact, it is one of the best board games ever made. This computer version of this great game has nothing to do with this fantastic board game. They made it into a mutant of the original game by throwing in a real time strategy game. The bottom line is this, "they totally changed the game". They changed a game that won numerous awards over many years.

Well I know the game company has people who get paid to read reviews like mine. To YOU I say congratulations. You just killed a great game from the computer world. There was another great game called Squad Leader. It was one of the best board war games ever made. The computer world effectively killed it by changing the entire game except in title only. Do you guys do this on purpose??? Now due to copyright laws and a very big ball of red tape, people who only play computer games will never know about Axis and Allies. Who out there reading this knew about Squad Leader???

This brings up a syndrome that the information age is creating. Hollywood makes movies from books from time to time. You hear this over and over again, when you talk to someone who read the book (how was the movie?); they will usually tell you they didn't like the movie. Why is that??? The reason is always the same, because the movie "changed the book".

Now it seems Computer gaming is doing the same to classic board games. Soon (and remember this well), you will run into people who say they know how to play chess. It will be a shock to see when this same person looks at the game in progress on a chess board and doesn't know what they are looking at. That day is fast approaching.

Because people allow this to go on in the name of profit, history and culture is being forgotten because it is being changed. To you people who think is little computer game is good, to you I say "get off your computer and play a board game". While you're at it, go read a book, one made from paper. You don't know what is good except what the Computer industry wants you to think is good.

To those who skipped my entire review except for the bottom line, "trust me, this game totally and completely sucks". Buy the board game.

Michael W. McFall
michaelwmcfall@yahoo.com

Great game

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 5 / 6
Date: May 22, 2006
Author: Amazon User

This game was the first "build an army" type game I ever played. I thought it was really good. I loved how you could build special units for every general and there were mutiple generals and 5 country choices (Germans, Americans, Great Britain, Russia, and Japan). The graphics are good and the sound effects are too. Overall, I definetely recommend this game to almost anyone above 7. I don't really understand why it's rated "T" though. Because in the game there is no blood. And when your squad kills someone the person just falls down or goes flying. And it's not even zoomed in. The only problem is MAKE SURE YOU HAVE ENOUGH VIRTUAL AND PHYSICAL MEMORY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! (Otherwise the game will be slow)

great game, wrong title

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 4 / 4
Date: January 10, 2006
Author: Amazon User

First of all, this game has the wrong title. If you love the board game, you will be sadly disappointed. If you want the board game on PC, you can still find it offered by other vendors but the AI is horrible. Aside from that, the RTS in this game is great and very addicting. There are flaws of course, such as the fact that you have to constantly pause the game to issue commands because your units are too stupid to show any logic for themselves, such as being able to get out of the battle before being wiped out or to fix a burning building they are standing right next to, etc. But overall, it if very fun to play the campaigns and the RTS and AI is very good.

Good fun game

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 4 / 4
Date: November 05, 2007
Author: Amazon User

I used to play the board game in my younger days, so this pc game was quite fun. I like the history of world war two, so the game is quite fun for me. It's very easy to figure out. The AI, however, is not very strong. Over all, the game should hold your attention for a couple of hours, once you begin to play and the real good battles, takes place on line.

Great RTS Game!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 9 / 16
Date: November 11, 2004
Author: Amazon User

This game is REALLY nice. If you like WW2 and RTS games, this is the one for you. Unlike Rise of Nations, Empire Earth, or other RTS games this one focuses on WW2 and the military. There are no civilian buildings here, and you even have a military economy, so you don't need villagers or workers.

The units are REALLY good. First off, they're organized in regiments, rather than individuals. Each regiment has 3-8 units depending on its function. For instance, an infantry regiment has 8 units, an infantry officer, 2 machine gun infantry units, and 5 infantry units. Each country has different-looking units, for the most part(Russia, Britian, and the US all use the American M3 halftrack, however they each use the countries respective machinegun.) There are also unique units and "unique classes". Unique units are units that are COMPLETELY unique. For instance, Britain has Flame Tank regiments, which are modified Shermans (not Churchills, if you read the other reviews!) that shoot fire(I haven't gotten a chance to use them yet, though). Another example is Germany's King Tiger regiments, regiments of King Tiger tanks. Don't forget that no matter what type of specialty regiment it is, it needs a commander unit. Commander units are units like Infantry Officers and Command Cars and Tanks.

"Unique Classes" are classes, like America's Armored Infantry regiments, that aren't considered to be unique units in the handbook. "Unique Classes" are things like Germany's Mechanized Tank regiments(tanks and halftracks together), Britains Anti-Aircraft Infantry regiments(infantry and anti-aircraft together). They're probably not considered unique units because they are just mixtures of units that are not normally together.

Buildings in this game are not stationary, they can be packed up and driven in trucks to new locations. This is good because your Corps HQ generates a supply line that supplies your regiments with ammo and oil, the games 2 recourses that affect your money income. Your supply line also regenerates regiments that have lost units, if they are attached to Division HQs. Cities, nuetral civilian buildings that can be captured, also have supply lines.

Similiar to Age of Mythology, you have a General who "helps" you. He gives you special operations and techs. Special Operations are like Age of Mythology's god powers. You select one, say the A-Bomb(yeah baby!), and target its effect over the map. Special Ops can effect your units, enemy units, or all units, by causing damage, raising/lowering morale, combat efficientcy, attack value, etc. The general's special techs are usually shared by all the generals of a country. For instance, America's special techs are Special Forces, Machine Guns, a few others, and I know Patton (and possibly Eisenhower,too) has M1 Garand Rifles, which affects infantry attack(every American infantry unit has a M1 Garand, you can check by clicking the unit in the regiment screen, and putting your cursor over the rifle icon with a numbered attack value on it, this works with all units, giving you the ability to see what the unit, like a tank, is called, and what type of gun it has).

I'm probably have lossed you, or are boring you, SO GO GET THE DAMN GAME. HOAAAH!

P.S. (should have expected it, right :) ) there is a demo. It lets you play 2 tutorial missions, the Battle of Stalingrad, and a random map generator (REALLY HARD and you can ONLY BE THE RUSSIANS AND THE GERMANS!)

Go to www.3dgamers.com, search for Axis and Allies, find the Demo in Dowloads, and get yourself a demo. By the way, if you need a game's demo, go to 3dGamers, it will get you it.

Also at 3dgamers, the free multiplayer game, America's Army. You can only download it (FREE) or get it from a recruiter (its made by the Army). Its a great multiplayer first-person shooter, not hard to register either.

Everything in 3dgamers is FREE, so go and get a demo.

What a Waste!

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 5 / 7
Date: June 29, 2005
Author: Amazon User

This game is a total waste. Whoever thinks it is a five out of five must not have played it. Maybe if it was ten dollars, it might just reach the level of fair, but it's horrible. I played it for a day, and won every campaign using both all the allied and axis nations within a few hours. The idea of winning by merely capturing the capital is a big mistake, and there is no way that you should be able to take Russia out of the game using germany in two turns. The producers should add more territories and units to the game. However, even then it will still be well below most turn-based strategy games.

WWII- my style

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 6 / 10
Date: November 08, 2004
Author: Amazon User

Okay, I just read some of the reviews listed on here and I feel like I have been playing a completely different game because I've been glued to my PC all weekend! It's so addictive! The animated cinema sequences are so awesome. There are plenty of land, sea, and air units to control so I'm not sure what the other player listed below is playing. For true RTS gamers, it just doesn't get any better than this!!

Entertaining but...

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 4 / 5
Date: June 28, 2005
Author: Amazon User

Fun to play (I don't use the RTS option as it drags out games) as it is partially reminiscent of the old board game. But two faults limit enjoyment and realism: 1) Computer-run players in the one player mode aren't quite smart enough (the Russian army will move to occupy open space rather than concentrate forces in protecting its capital) and 2) there are no naval units whatsoever unlike the board game. naval units made the game so much more realistic in that it made Germany's ability limited as the U-boat fleet dwindled and made the US-Japan pacific battle so much more interesting. This game completely ignores the navy...too bad. I did enjoy however the battle previews which examine unit stats and probabilities of victory prior to battle.

Poorly Designed

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 4 / 5
Date: December 28, 2005
Author: Amazon User

I bought this game hoping to answer some 'What if' questions about history (i.e. - what if Hitler had attacked at Dunkirk?); this game answered none of those questions. There are two aspects to this game. The main aspect is a division of the world into about 20 or so blocks. You create divisions of infantry, mechanized infantry or armor, each with their own marker. You move these markers around the globe and attack enemies. You can win a game in an hour. There is a second aspect to this game that allows you to see units on a smaller level as infantry, tanks, etc. The movement of these units is very cumbersome and non-intuitive. I uninstalled this game after a couple of days. They've dropped the price to $20, but that's still too much. As freeware it might be passable, but doubtful even then.

WWII STRATEGY GAME

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 4 / 5
Date: July 14, 2006
Author: Amazon User

I can see where the negative reviews for this game are coming from. I've played quite a few strategy games myself and at first was becoming a little frustrated with this one because strategies that I used in similar games didn't work here and it wasn't readily apparent what strategy would work. Don't try to use other games' strategies in this one. This is a simulation of WWII so why should you be surprised that you can't build unlimited armies? What at first appear as limitations actually makes a lot of sense modeling-the-WWII-conditions-wise. The game's fun lies in coming up with new strategies and defeating your enemies by using them. A few pointers:
- when available, air support is vital both strategically and tactically;
- if air support is unavailable extend your supply lines towards the enemy so you can bring your staging area closer and minimize the re-supply time thus keeping constant pressure on the enemy
- your base is mobile so move it when you need it;
- when using air support, target the corps headquarters first, then depots, then other structures
Good luck and enjoy the game!

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