Each of these historical nations has its own advantages in the forms of special units many of which are slight tweaks to the standard unit types. Like most real-time strategy games Cossacks: European Wars lets you choose a faction. The historical campaigns are highly accurate - which can result in impossible odds if you play the historical loser - but there are also randomly-generated maps to test your strategic skill with. The game allows you to take command of European nations in conflicts from the Thirty Years' War to the siege of Vienna and the War of the Austrian Succession. I consider BG to be more replayable than Fallout, and so I don't cry (too much) about how much I've spent on it, and I still play it, whereas I rarely fire up Fallout these days.Softonic review Gallop across Europe's battlefields in Cossacks: European WarsĬossacks: European Wars is a historical strategy game set in the 17th and 18th centuries. OTOH, I've bought the Baldur's Gate series twice, after lending the first out to a friend who then moved across the country. I returned it, but later bought it again in a bundle with Fallout 2, at about 35 USD. The game had several bugs, the most egregious of which was a total crash just at the moment of game completion. I finished in about 20 hours, seemingly half of which was spent watching load screens. I remember buying Fallout when it first came out, for 50 USD. Results improved dramatically at 50 paces or less, but I don't know the exact figures.Īs for the question of enjoyability vs price, this is hard to calculate because of many different variables. So you can see that the smoothbore musket was not very effective, even at that range. Of approximately 100 shots fired, exactly six hit the target. They deployed a company line of Guards infantry and at 100 paces set up a cloth target six feet high and of company frontage, then fired off a volley. A lot of "empire builder" games meet that requirement, but only a few manage to be intelligent and enjoyable in the process.Īround about 1780, the Prussians conducted a firing experiment. My long-term favorites are all games with the ability to play more than one side, with multiple scenarios, a random generator, or a non-linear sequence of events, which allows/requires you to play it differently each time. If it keeps me only marginally entertained for weeks before I get sick of it, that's probably on par with one that blows my socks off for a couple evenings, and then ends, with no decent replayability. The "value" of a program isn't easy to determine. Maybe next year I'll get to try RTW, if it ever drops under twenty bucks, but they still want way too much for it, in spite of the bugs and inadequate AI.įor $50 or more, a program had better improve my life, not just keep me distracted for a few hours. Spartan was one of the pricier ones I bought, at $29.95, if I recall. Unless the game is crap, or the movie is your favourite movie of the last few years, you are going to get far many more hours of entertainment from a game than from a movie.Įxcept in extremely rare and unusual circumstances, I NEVER pay more than $30 USD for a game, and generally wait until the price drops under $20. In general I do not think it is fair to say the time/price is the same as a movie. And that is even when I have a job, unlike now. I don't mind seeing a price of 35 GBP on release but if after a month or two the price hasn't fallen at 24.99 or so, I don't usualy buy it. Buying from another source is out of the question unfortunately. There is no way I am going to pay for it, even though I want that game. I am currently having fun with a game I want to buy (TOCA Race Driver 2 for the PC) for months now but even though the game is like a year or more old it still is listed in the local GAME for 34.99. This is usualy with games like from Microsoft for example, Flight Simulator or Age of series, that takes ages for the price to come down. I see some games released for 34.99 and even 39.99 (here in Wales, but also back in Plymouth) and I am like "yeah right". Pip, as for your question, in my case some games, no matter how good they are, they are too freaking expensive. The only thing I am worried about so far about the ability to outflank with a cavalry unit and go for the enemy artillery. Apart from the first game, after that with a bit effort the enemy cavalry is easily defeated with your infantry, if it is prepared for it. As for the cavalry, I seriously doubt it it is too powerful in this game.
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