For a lot of players, Cossacks: Back to War became one of the first real time strategies they ever played. The developers from GSC decided not to reinvent the wheel and just repainted the old, time tested one. Cossacks 3 kept everything people loved about the series and served it in a new wrapper.

It`s still a good, versatile RTS that can keep you busy for many hours. But as much as I`d like to keep praising this old new kid, there are some negatives worth mentioning. I don`t know why, but the developers, both back then and now, never fixed the game`s memory limit. Because of it, in long matches where your army keeps growing, the game starts crashing before the match is finished. Maybe someday it will be fixed.

It doesn`t take away from the main part of the game, but keep in mind that you won`t be able to play a mega battle with 8 players at once.

★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ☆ ☆ (8/10)

It could be so much, though the AI is nowhere near exciting - they build no normal settlements, all is just one giant blob system. No tactical edges, chokepoints, placings etc. It's just a empty experience whereas there could be loads of it. It was much better in the old days.

You can play as the Dutch, therefore it good game.
Pro tip: make units to shoot enemy units.