5 people found this review helpful
Not Recommended
0.0 hrs last two weeks / 4.2 hrs on record (1.8 hrs at review time)
Posted: Jan 2, 2017 @ 3:43pm
Updated: Sep 12, 2020 @ 10:31am

I played the game on Xbox, both the original and cold war. And was gifted this by a friend,
I wish i could return it for him...

Deciding to complete the WWI campaigns first I played threw them, i was a bit surprised at first finding how this versions units had changed. Mortars were no longer AT weapons but now gas launchers, There were anti tank guns too, Armoured trucks functioned like cold-war APCs and the AI vehicles took a lot more interest in destroying turrets. Planes and tanks now needed battery charge;

Not bad, it was clear though especially with the First-game they'd more or less re-skinned the Coldwar game for the WWI game...

Then came the first boss, the TSAR tank, or, more likely then didn't come... It simply rolled out, entered the main battlefield and froze. not shooting, not deploying troops, it was just pelted by my artillery emplacements...

I decided to retry it, probably on my end right? Nope same thing again...

After that i got the AA gun mark II, which at least in player hands is massively inferior to the MK I, it shoots like a shotgun, your turret AI can machine gun it like crazy, while humans can't... the original AA from TS was much better, a heavier MG.

Then came a mission in the Trainyard, bombers turned up the they circled away from my turrets dropping bombs and either died or flew off. Next some elite troops spawned, got stuck on the traintracks running in circles and died to artillery fire... And then finally came the helicopters. The original ones were slow sorta derpy, durable, these ones just dashed my box, one getting through, while machinegunning my turrets...

The next level was it though. the MKIII AA, basically the MKII but does more damage and fires slower. it doesn't produce a flak-cloud like the old game... Oh and your turret AI is useless with it. It can't aim and hit fighters, meaning i had to manually control it but lost to fighter spam, that's when i decided i was done.

Don't by the game, Don't gift the game, Don't play the game.

It's broken, very much so, and based on the top reviews, most of which are negative, the devs have little intent to fix it either, with more bugs further in the game.

play the originals, do not play Complete.
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