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The problem with Allied General

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: May 27, 2004
Author: Amazon User

Allied General is a good concept, allowing individuals to be the 'good guys' after experiencing Panzer General. In practice, it is absurdly difficult. For one thing, assigning the allies a set number of turns for victory is ridiculous. Would Stalin, FDR, or Churchill have given up after Stalingrad because of any kind of time factor whatsoever?! The wildly inncurate historical errors spring forth from the very beginning of play. The Russians took an embarrassingly long time to crush Finland, but ultimate Soviet victory was never in doubt.
Prestige points are stingily awarded, considering the kind of economic superiority enjoyed by the allies. And the later scenarios actually have post D-Day battles where both sides have numerical equality. In short, to qualify for any kind of historical re-creation, Allied General needs to be easier than Panzer General, not the reverse.

boring real quick

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 3 / 6
Date: April 04, 2000
Author: Amazon User

I enjoy strategy games, especially war strategy quite a bit, but this game doesn't require strategy. There is practically no one who has enough strategy to beat this game. The designers wanted only God himself to be able to win certain battles. Even if it was easier you would find yourself bored within a few days of buying it. Not much of anything is good about this game.

Not worth $

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 2 / 10
Date: November 19, 1999
Author: Amazon User

Being a big fan of the strategy genre, I found Allied General a huge disapointment. Hexagonal playing fields with poor graphics mean a very bad playing experience. Stick with the Civilization series.

Shaken and not stirred

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 6 / 10
Date: December 29, 1999
Author: Amazon User

Allied General appears to be the computer generations answer to the Avalon Hills strategy games played with seemingly endless little square pieces on a giant hex map. If you like the look and feel of little squares on a hex map strategy game but like the computer tracking all the rules and moves and so forth, you may like this game. I am embarrassed for the game developers because of the graphics and presentation of the game - in this day and age, there is no excuse for exceptionally lame game presentation. As far as strategy gaming goes, the scenarios are very difficult to overcome even on the 'easy' setting. If you are a true strategy fanatic, you can find yourself challenged and enjoy this game very much. It is more likely you will play for several hours and walk away in disgust several times a week. The game does not stir me to excitement but I can plan for fun when nothing else is going on. I am very shaken up that such bad graphics and game presentation is still being sold on the market.

thankful for the crumbs thrown my way

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 5 / 5
Date: December 10, 2000
Author: Amazon User

I like games that allow me time to think, rather than games that become exercises in button pushing for Ritalin-deficient, Mountain Dew-hyped 13-year olds. I like historical simulations. AG is a good game, but not great. The manual does not reveal what thevictory objectives are, execpt in very vague terms. Help is available on variuous web sites, but the objectives I found on the web appear to be for the PC, as they do not seem to jive with the objectives for PSX, or indeed in reality. One example, the battle of Pskov is the second in the east front series. There are seven cities on the 'board', of which the Russians own three and the Germans four. As this is July, 1941, one would not expect the Russians to be attacking -- at any point in the battle -- yet that is what they must do to achieve even a minor victory. I have found -- through extensive and frequent saving (or 'cheating', if you will) that the only way for the Russian to achieve any victory is to possess all seven cities. Acccording to the web help I found, the Russians need only hold their three original cities to achieve a minor victory (which would be realistic in historical terms), and capture two of the four German cities to achieve a major victory (which would have been a *HUGE* historical victory). The other scenarios also experience similar problems vis-a-vis what is achieveable, what is historical, and what it is in the game. But it is an okay. And it is all we have. At least on PSX ...

Tactically, don't even mess with infantry. Buy loads of tanks and artillery. If you are on the defensive, buy air defense and sprinkle them liberally around your artillery, because that is where the Germans unrealistically large quantity of aircraft will be heading. Once your AD has taken out his planes, then build your own planes (fighter-bombers like the Mosquito or B-26). Don't try to achieve air superiority with your fighters -- they will get hammered.

I concur with the prior reveiew that the game must be played on the lowest difficulty due to the objectives issue.

The wargamer's game

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 7 / 7
Date: June 02, 2000
Author: Amazon User

Straight out, this really is only for those real war-gamers who spent their childhood (and may in fact still do so in adulthood!) setting their lounge up as a huge battlefield, with little plastic soldiers and tanks, .................With this in mind, Allied General is a engrossing, addictive game. It is not fast moving by any stretch of the imagination (even when turning off the annoying battle animations), and the graphics are workable at best - the AI, however, especially the further into the game you get, is very good, and the basics of strategy such as level of entrenchment, the territory being fought over, and the wide variety of weapons and soldiers available, makes Allied General a very good substitute for the sofa in the lounge.

Great Game

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: December 01, 2000
Author: Amazon User

Allied General is the perfect companion for Panzer General. It took me a long time to beat PG, and I hope it takes me just as long to beat AG.

Some helpful hints for the novice: (1)turn the animations off, they're useless, and just slow the game down; (2) set the difficulty low at first or you'll give up quickly; (3) buy lots of aircraft.

I liked this game more than PG because of the diversity of the available equipment. In PG, you are limited as to what equipment you can purchase, which in the early stages of the game limits effectiveness.

If you are looking for a super-fast, dazzling game, stick to command and conquer. If you like your strategy without bells and whistles, get this game.

great strategy game

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 1 / 2
Date: September 26, 2004
Author: Amazon User

it is a fun game to play. I only would like it to have better graphics. a great complement to my panzer general. shoild be 5 stars but because of the graphics is not

Basic strategy

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: September 14, 2007
Author: Amazon User

This game and its twin, Panzer General, are probably the best strat games for the Playstation. I've loved them, and their PC successors, for years. These have crappy graphics and clunky movement and firing rules compared to PZ2 & PZ3, but I still love them.

The only reason Im reviewing this after 10 years is because I'm interested in what another review wrote about the Pskov scenario in the Russian campaign. It has to be bugged.

I remember trying for months to beat it, to the point where I reloaded extensively until one time I beat it with a major victory. Anything other than a major appears to end the campaign with a loss.

I saved that win on a memory card and any any time I wanted to play the Russian campaign I just started with that save. So my old memory card got trashed in a flood and now I have to try to replicate what took about 1 month of on and off again playing to beat Pskov the first time. Can anyone (if anyone reads this in the next three years) tell me if there is any quick and easy way to pull a major on Pskov?

Great Strategy Game

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 9 / 9
Date: December 02, 1999
Author: Amazon User

I love Allied General and I have had the game for over 2 years and still have not played all the different battles. I must disagree with the previous review. If you want better graphics, I would get Panzer General. I have both and enjoy the fact that both games make you think about your next move. When you make a rash move or have not thought about your next move the game will punish you for bad startegy. For example, I have played the battle of Sicily 15 times and still have not even won a minor victory. Allied General takes a long time to play I would reccomend you buying a storage card and playing the game over time. I have some major problems with some of the battles. For example, the battle of El Almein was a battle of combined arms with heavy emphasis on infantry, artilley and anti-tank weapons. The game programers have program most of the battle as a battle of armor first. I won the battle by follow the British Strategy during the battle. I attack the Italian infantry and wore down the German armor. Sometimes it is very hard for a player to win the various battles. It may take a player four of five times to win. It took me three games to win the battle of Tunis and that is my major problem with Allied General even with the EASY option, the programers sometimes makes it hard or impossible to win the different battles. I do not mind taking 3 to 5 times to win, but after the 6th or 7th time even with programer's own advice and my knowledge of WW2 history, weapons, and strategy. Overall, I feel both are the best military strategy games avaialble.

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