Recent reviews by Backlasher [NL]

Another game that should be mixed instead of a positive or a negative.
So i am going to give it a rating based on the good and bad


The good:
* The only historical world war 1 strategy game
* If you are a historical fan of me, genuinely get it during a sale
* Its addictive in the just one more turn sense
* Runs mostly stable, i only have some moments where it decides to go window itself, this is easily ignorable
* Easy to learn, hard to master.
* The voice-overs are good and authentic language is used.

The mixed:
* Once you invent tanks, get ready for w#nks, i had my first sweep when i used them, feels historically accurate, but i just drove them over the map clearing 3 victory points before being stopped, and that wasnmennit trying.
* Escalation of the war: worse weapons are used, but they dont feel like they have s impact
* The Research tree looks better than any other game i have played so far, but the Research tree has some irrelevant items (the improved research for events tech is a big one)

The bad:
* Stay in your trench ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ soldier (sometimes a move order causes soldiers to get out of their trench causing them to be moved down)
* You can recruit tanks and planes, but not Infantry, which get replenished
* Planes feel EXTREMELY clunky
* It feels like AI is cheating and always know where you units are, i had artillery called on them the moment they entered the field.
* The price (34,99 euro's is just too much, get it on a sale)
* Audio could be of better quality, the music is too Lighthearted for such a grevious moment in history
* AI feels repetitive and tends to attack on the same way every battle, consistently they send 3 man down, and then either wait you out if you are attacking or keep sending the same wave over and over again when defending.
* Game lacks events with impacts, disease is barely a issue in the trenches

You dont notice the problems when you are new, but you definitely do when you are in the middle of a campaign

In a weird way the negative points help, trench warfare is brutal repetitive and boring and paranoia inducing which is why i can recommend this game

So the premise is great, the story is great and its the most fun i have ever had in a game....
and its actually one of the few games that really gives you a remote kind of planet vibe, exploring is fun

However, this is all ruined by the following:

* Game has a save file limit and only saves automatically, combined with the numerous bugs and crashes this becomes a issue, especially because the save files stopped working i was at day 55 ready to go, but then forgot to put rad filters on and my workplace broke down, this caused me to be launched back to day 43 because the game refused to save since then, i am not playing those days again
* DLSS causes artifacts ingame, playing with a RTX 4070 (you can use amd FSR, but this causes framerate consistency issues to arise, especially when you are in the base, which in turn causes:
* Frequent crashes to desktop
* Frequent microstutters
*Game puts up orders that you cannot fix in time if you do not know whats coming, i had to redo both act 1 and 2, i am pretty familiar with games with a tough income

Id highly reccomend this game if i didnt have these issue every 10/30 minutes :/
Please patch the game.

Despite its shortcomings planet coaster vastly improves on being able to build the dreampark you want, while lacking in scenery i expect that this improves as more DLC comes out

I don't know how but this game causes sound on my computer to suddenly not work, even when i close down the game, a full reset of my computer fixes the issue. decided to refund the DLC before i couldnt do it anymore

the idea is great, it looked great on youtube. But i simply cant reccomend this game for the following reasons:

1. *The controls are too hard*
repair generator with F Jump with space jump become a prop with left mouse and unprop with right mouse, in a game where you have to be fast its simply too complicated. Id suggest using only right mouse to interact with stuff because as of now it and get stuck in stuff because you fly too far and suddenly the killer lost you

2. *controller support is VERY bad*
if you attempt to simplify it with the controller it becomes even worse, one example is the emote menu becoming stuck on your screen or become unable to look behind you
and in the main menu there isnt full controller support

3. *price vs quality*
at this moment i am on the verge of refunding for the things i mentioned above it was very pricey and it was a absolute letdown in terms of gameplay.



At this point i simply cant reccomend the game but i hope it gets fixed in the future

got this game as a present from someone henche why i said i got it for free
overall i wish there was a mixed review setting because i dont think the game is "bad"

I really want to like the game,i really do...
Unfortunately the game is plagued by poor design choices.
at certain points you feel locked in your tiny compartment space, you dont have enough build space and are forced to do something unrelated to that, until you progress and can get bigger stuff
A few examples are that the game has a lot of content, but you get either too much information or little/none at all.
You get too much in that you can make a lot of stuff but you get too less in information on why a product succeeded or failed just a final rating and make x amount of stuff a comparable game: game dev tycoon. told you what went wrong (aliens and farms are a good combination) and what you could do to improve it in the form of a final report i really like to see this implemented

the save system is a bit meh
while i understand that its a way to make the game a bit harder id like to see manual saving to be there
the devs are (from what i saw) involved with the community and i really hoop they heed the community's advice/

edit: 7-1-2020 devs abandoned the game so its a decisive negative review for me

game is exacly how a strategy game should be

first of kudos to the AI in terms of warfare really done well and caught me off guard a few time's

second let me ask you HELP ME! i havent been doing anything else the past day exept sleeping talking a shower and eating/drinking

third off no i'm not a troll nor is my play time fake


this game really did what civ 5 had to be in my opinion it has a few flaws yes but here are the good and bad things in my opinion


+AI: you can see especially in terms of warfare the ai and especially the barbarians are a pest who can ruin your early game if you dont plan well in my experience its very common that a civ beats the dust at the classical era

+Graphics: Day and night cycle really adds a bit of graphical detail game overal looks beautiful

+Reseach and civics seperated: add so much more inversity to the game

+Ghandi is back and we discover his true nature not gonna spoil that ;)

+early mid game there is just so much to do at the start exploring is fun thanks to the addition of continent's new resources

+the music this is probably the thing i love more than anything in the game before i played "seriously" i was hypnotised by the intro and the menu song also each era the music get's a bit more advanced

+faction introductions there is so much more the introductions are more fitting to each leader

+ cutscene's building a wonder launching a rocket again praise to graphical details

the bad


-Diplomacy feels empty i dont feel i can make a declaration of friendship with anyone or take a trade heck they wont even accept my delegations that being said if i am not being demounced by said leader for not bringing my religion to kongo or builded a wonder before china it restricts the game really

-late game. it just feels dull there is almost nothing to do exept facing demouncing threads from civ's who at prince assault you with spearman good luck against that machine gun man :/ only to after the said deed declare peace when i destroyed a 1-3 situation to only have it return 10 turns later there is no world congress and diplomatic victory is no more i really hope there will be a dlc expansion something for that

-barbarians spawning rate i know this is Civ VI barbarians ar part of the game but when i want to learn a game as how it should be learned i wish you could adjust the spawn rate for barbarians ive seen barbarian camps spawn 1 spearman every turn RIGHT NEXT TO MY FREAKING LV 5 city kudos to those who can play this on emperor or deity



overal i still love the game wich for me stood the test of time
gameplay 8
Graphics 9
music/sound 10
AI 7.5
Overal 8

at first rome II was really terrible numerous bugs plagued the game and the only victory you could have was when u managed to UN-freeze your pc

but now after having put around 200 hours in the game (some was offline and those minutes were not counted i can say this is a solid game that delivers what it is advertising for


yes the dlc's too......


but still this game is really nice to do

will you please stop reading the review and play the game? everyone has played it when he/she was a kid and if you do too u will soon realize why this game was and is so popular