Worth buying?

[This is Sergei]

Someone told me that this game is good, however, the metacritic score is kinda low, should i buy this? now on sale?

[Gemini Mosin]

Journalists don't like this game because it doesn't have hours upon hours of cut scenes to get wet at and act like hot shot movie critics. Men of War is a strategy, RTS game, where you actually have to learn the game to play it and have fun. Something these game journalists who played MOWAS are incapable of. So of course they'll get all hot and bothered during their review and hate it.

[bonerwizard]

dont buy it if you are interested in multiplayer

[Lasac]

ye if you like multiplayer but some of the other games in the series and frankly mowas2 runs like ♥♥♥♥ cause the game is using an engine that is older than alot of players

[Nomad]

It isn't a strategy game like CoH, SD, or Starcraft. It's more like the game Commandos (Pyro Studios), where every single soldier and vehicle has an inventory that you've to manage. You need to pick up stuff from soldiers you kill, or vehicles you destroy to keep going. As for the multi-player, there's no functional Automatch, you've to arrange for the matches in the lobby (good luck with that). It was a major disappointment, I uninstalled it and never looked back a year ago.

[telekon]

buy it it's fun, purchase the complete edition that has the 3 dlcs for like 8 bucks, if you want to play skirmish with bots

[steelwork]

if you like RTS games with a tactical approach (no base buildings or ressources gathering, only armies and war) and are interested in the added direct control and inventory feature with no HP buildings (but gets destroyed like in battlefield, piece by piece) and 99% map destruction (except most stones and rocks...) you should definitively consider this game.

of course it is still in 32bit, with an old engine. but the fact this game has a stable amount of players (around 2000 per day, just like COH1) means that there is some acknowledged quality and replayability.

the metacritic score is low only because this game is a sort of mowas1 clone with the added sp unit feature. and instead of upgrading mowas1 to be able to play it on steam they just made mowas2 instead. (blame gamespy servers closure for that).

in the end it is a very cool and unique RTS game. the best ww2 game after COH and a ♥♥♥♥ ton of very high quality mods (for what the engine can do).
also (with mods) the most realistic RTS you ll ever get (but to a tinier scale since maps aren't the size of steel division's ones).
to the point of some players buying this game only to play the mods, not even touching the base game. which is very rare to see on other titles.
if you like modern warfare, cold war, W40K or starwars be prepared, some mods will blow your mind.

definitively worth it.