Whether this includes the subjugation of Great Britain or Russia, or a Japanese invasion of America we're not sure - Timegate is being coy. However, it seems that unlike other WWII-themed games, this may well pull up a few welcome surprises. Of course, the full-scale war has yet to begin, with plans still being drawn up, so we reserve judgement till then.
There's Been a constant bombardment of World War II strategy games of late, and it's been so relentless that I'm sure we're becoming numb to it all. Shells from Commandos, Blitzkrieg, Soldiers and Codename: Panzers have been landing all around - and there's still no let-up. Between them and the various war-themed shooters they've covered every theatre of war imaginable, from all sides and every perspective. Well, the clue is in the name.
With recent versions of the game set specifically around D-Day and the Pacific War, not to mention a revised edition earlier this year, it's clear the board game still has plenty of fans. Enough, Atari is no doubt hoping, to ensure similar successes will engulf the interactive edition.
Common to both tabletop and desktop is the fact that the game allows you to fight the Second World War across the entire globe, from the well-worn fields of Europe to the less travelled regions of central Africa and beyond.
Moreover, not being linked to any linear campaign although the game features those as well you aren't limited to sticking to what happened in the history books. As Germany for instance, you could quickly subjugate Russia before hopping over the Bering Straits and fighting battles across the American mainland, or maybe swing down into South East Asia instead.
They're roughly consistent with how they were in when Germany was marching towards Moscow, Britain was camped in the motherland and America was waking up after Pearl Harbour. The subsequent aim, as either Britain, the United States, Germany, Japan or Russia, is to conquer the capital cities of your sworn enemies, by building up resources from each of the territories under your control and buying infantry, mechanised or armoured armies and moving them around the map.
Where in the board game you'd move a tank into North Africa and hope to roll a one or a two on a die to dislodge the enemy infantry and claim the territory your own, now you must - assuming you don't want to select 'Quick Resolve' - fight each battle in 3D. As soon as battle becomes inevitable the engine then runs through its map generation routines, and depending on the latitude and whether the territory under dispute is predominantly coastal in nature, will quickly knock up a fitting environment.
Despite the fact that the version of the game we were privy to only seemed to know how to construct temperate land-locked levels, we're assured that no map will ever be quite the same in any one game. Once the computer has decided on the topography of the landscape, it's then up to you to decide how you're going to capture it. This design decision actually makes for a lot of sense since whilst the side fielding the most armies will have an obvious numerical advantage, the process of base building gives the defending nation a chance to repel an attack.
It was repetitious, though fun. So is this computerised version, minus much of the 'fun' part. Part of the problem is that instead of playing to the original game's strengths, what the developer has devised is a lily-livered RTS that's a pale shade of the Kohan engine on which it's based. You can play a campaign, which is basically a string of tenuously linked missions, or fight over the world map, a la the board game. The RTS battles are fought over dull, isometric maps. You can zoom in a little, though apart from the odd detail like trees crushed under tank tracks, there's not much to look at.
The base building and resource gathering system is fairly interesting, revolving around constructing HQs that produce and manage your armies, and depots that expand your terrain and generate cash, oil, supplies and ammo.
An ever-expanding border shows the limit of your power, and within this area, troops can be re-supplied and new constructions built. When playing the Allied campaign, you will jump from nation to nation's battles'. One mission that stood out in its difficulty was Operation Overlord, or D-Day.
In this famous battle, you will have to take the beach and set up your base of operations before moving inland to overtake the enemy positions. With little room to set up your operations, and the enemy presence overwhelming, the level of challenge in this level was truly enjoyable.
For the most part, though the introduction to each mission is a little bit sparse and the historical significance of each battle seems somewhat diluted. Unlike a game like Soldiers: Heroes of WWII, where each mission tells a story of how something happened, with a little artistic license, or some of the true simulators of WWII where historical accuracy is paramount, Axis and Allies falls a little bit flat in this regard by being somewhere in between with not quite enough of either to be interesting.
While a small blurb is given about the events leading up to the battle, for the most part, each battle feels just like any other battle. The actual management of units and the gameplay is virtually the same as Kohan 2 with things modernized to reflect the WWII era. Like in Kohan 2 there are three basic building types; building that generate units, buildings where you perform research and allow the creation of better units, and buildings that generate a resource.
The buildings you create generate your resources for you, and the units you recruit require a certain amount of resources as upkeep. There are a maximum number of buildings you can create though, and when reaching the cap, you must be careful to manage what you have carefully at the risk of using more than you make.
If you use more resources than you are generating, your monetary income will decrease and can go into a negative creation. Money is what is needed to build any buildings, to research any technologies and to create any units. To generate more money, you will need to create more Division HQs; buildings where you create units. The game happens over time World War. It Features a game style that imitates the Entire conflict and impels by the prepackaged game Axis and Allies.
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