Order of War Review

[grossband]

Bought about a week ago and here’s my brief review.
First of all, I liked the scale. You have lots of troops on the battlefield simultaneously (in one of my multiplayer battles the stats screen said that I had deployed >1,5K infantry, >250 tanks, > 130 guns, >30 aircrafts) - that makes you feel Patton Jr., at least.
Secondly, the graphics. I have pretty much experience of playing RTS games, but every time I started one I never forgot that I was playing and that it is just a game and nothing more. Here I was so hipped on what is there on the screen that sometimes it seemed to me that I was watching a new epic war movie. The cinematic camera mode here is something second to none, really!
And the coolest thing for me is the reality of what is going on. I mean the historical correspondence. I’ve read a lot to the topic of WWII and I should say that I never expected such detail accuracy in the mere entertaining product. All the missions are based on real operations that actually took place during the war and they follow one by one in strict historical order making an impression of a continuous war campaign. Preppy introductory movies give you the short review of preceding events and get you into the battle atmosphere. And you may be sure that all the troops mentioned were really represented in that particular operation of 1944.
I must confess that at first I was rather skeptical about the historical truth. In the “Hill of Sorrow”, for example, I was surprised to find Americans on the hill instead of Poles, but having turned to the history books I saw that the fact had place! American forces really took part in that battle, so there’s nothing contradictory here.
So, my conclusion is that the game is undoubtedly WORTH playing. I can insistently recommend it both to RTS-fans and to those who want to get true impression of ‘how-it-really-was’. “Straight A’ from all sides!


Check out ingame video of one of the missions (Hill of Sorrow):

http://www.youtube.c...h?v=khIQR5KbXZU Part 1
http://www.youtube.c...h?v=sH6FhEZcBr0 Part 2
http://www.youtube.c...h?v=2WOYgG67nmU Part 3
http://www.youtube.c...h?v=uEvUfFOy928 Part 4

[GvidelCatastro]

Impressed by this game and its scale. I don't want to sweet talk it, but it is really something different from WWII cloned games. Commanding thousands of units on the battlefield - it looks really epic. What I really liked about it comparing to others is that it gave me much space for tactics. And observing this with cinematic camera is something aaaawesome.

[Richard_Rahl]

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