What is the best WW2 game?

See, games like COH are like Starcraft. Theres no realism involved. There is some 'gamey' tactic (mass producing/rushing) and very little realism involved. You could play the game where you base things off terrain, limiting production of certain units, etc, but thats not how it was designed. I'd say next time i play 1v1 with one of you, that one of us is designated an attacker, the other defender, split the map in half, and give the defender enough time to prepare defences, then let the attacker try and attack. Would be fun like that.

 

Trust me, for an experienced gamer (Not me) a mass of enemy infantry is their best friend. They will annihilate it within seconds.
And whilst the King Tiger is very powerful, if you send it somewhere by itself you are asking for it to be destroyed. e.g. An American rifle squad throws a sticky bomb at it, immobilising it (not exactly, but it will be deadly slow), then a British player might arty it to death.

 

Thats what we did. except we didnt designate anything to anyone. i just made the mistake of letting you have that right amount of time to build all your emplacements. Next time!! Im allies!

 

Man... I bought it last night and went home to play, it took at least 2 hours to install, so I went to bed and this morning I woke up and it had errored out. Dang which means my memory has problems or the disk does and it is going to take another several hours to figure out which one. This game had so better be worth it.

 

Wait till you need to install the 40000000 MB of patches! (no joke, 3 hours later i was really getting pissed off about the # of patches and the size).

 

piece of trash...... grrrrr... I am never going to get to play this thing.

 

I think that we all thought the same thing with this game. lol

 

that's why i don't like pc games that much. You have to upgrade your pc every two years if you want to play new games smoothly, it can get really expensive. A good graphic card costs as much as a xbox 360. But what can you do?

 

You only have to upgrade it you want to play the newer and higher requirments games, just like an Xbox or playstation. Try playing a ps3 game on a ps1 console, in the end it happens the same and you spend lots of money upgrading your console as well as buying the same game you already have for the better and redone ones. Unlike computers where you can just use the interent to find mods and upgrades for your already existing games, mods can completely change a game and make them almost new. Sure if you want higher performance you have to get a newer card or motherboard, but at least with a computer you get that option, unlike most game consoles.

Well thats what I think anyway.

 

Okay I got the thing installed. It took 3 hours. Tonight I start the 40.7 MGs of updates. It is a shame that I get home at 7:00pm and have to be back to be up at 5:00am to get to work on time, it makes getting this all done more difficult.

The compy I have is 4 years old and I don't have to upgrade a thing to play the 2007 game of the year. Its all about how you buy in the beginning. It was 7 hundred and does way more then an xbox, oh and when was the last time you had a good RTS on a console? They are great for sports and FPSs but after that they are through. IMO.

 

I have one called Army men:RTS for PS2. Needless to say, it is not very good.
But what can you expect from an 11+?

 

Just an update I got the game installed but corrupted it by not turning off my virus protection and I am now in the middle of a reinstall.

They say this is common... I have never heard of it before.

Very frustrating setup...... better be good. I may actually have to go and get a video card though it is not on the supported list.

 

FPS: Call of Duty (specially Stalingrad and Berlin) , Call of duty - united offensive (specially battle in Kursk and mission in Aircraft) and Call of Duty 2 (Normandy and Stalingrad)! Call of Duty 3 is the worst game of these series (for my opinion)! And Medal of Honor - Airborn.
Strategie: COH-OF and Blitzcreg

 

Those aren't real strategy games. I still think, for that type of game, the Silent storm series trumps COH-OF/Blitzkrieg. You have limited forces to start off with in MP, and have to capture 'sets' of 'ballons/flags' in order to get more reinforcements. Each color comes w/ different type of reinforcements, and you get them ever XX minutes of game time. So some might give you infantry, others give you tanks, and others artillery, etc. Terrain limits sight etc. There are no gamey rush tactics either, like in COH - OF. Not to mention, its cool being able to capture tracked vehicles that have been abandoned by placing crew into it.

However, if we're talking Grand Strategy, Hearts of Iron Series takes the cake, hands down. No Ifs, Ands, Ors, Buts. And now i have a craving to restart my HOI 2 DD AA Campaign and see it through to the end.

 

In box with game wrote rts-real time strartegie! So I think this is strategies.

 

I'd hardly call it 'strategy'. Not much 'thinking' involved when you build a million of a certain unit and rush your opponent in the beginning. Hearts of Iron, on the other hand, requires you to plan ahead, gives you the ability to time attacks to the hour, has weather that effects combat, transport capacity in a country, economies, trade, etc. Much more complex then a game where you build a Barracks and Supply Depot first, then you can build a Tank Factory etc.

Don't get me wrong, COH - OF has GREAT graphics, but its good for some mindless fun where you don't really have to think too much about anything. Like COD4 multiplayer, you can just run and gun.

 

Mussolini, I can tell you haven't played the game a lot.
You do need a lot of strategy to beat an experienced player, trust me.

 

Ok you do it quickly

 

An experianced players knows the gamey tactics, and how to rush. Its just like Star Craft, or Red Alert, or any other game where you build buildings and research tech to produce units. No real strategy involved. Sure, you need to utilize buildings and chock points to your advantage, and sneak a unit behind enemy lines so you can bombard them from afar. I still think Sudden Strike series involves more strategy then COH. For example, you start off with 10 tanks and 20 infantry. They all die and you lose. So rushing your enemy is too risky. You need to cap the balloon/flags for reinforcements - do you send these tanks over to Z Ballon? Or do you defend the Infantry ones? How many forces do you commit to X Balloon, when you need to hold onto Y Balloon at all costs?

 

Trust me musso, rushing stuff into an enemy base is suicide. An expert player will have tons of defences up round his base before you have 5 infantry units.
Then when your force is massacred, he'll counterattack for an easy win.