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Kruelgor
02-27-2009, 04:41 PM
I've only played 3 online games so far, so forgive me if some of my information below is inaccurate. I am highly interested in playing some more when I get home from work today :)

Things I love so far
1. The amount of options available to the map host. This is impressive.
2. Supports up to 16 players. Totally awesome.
3. You actually have German Stormtroopers while many other WW2 games chicken out for political correctness and exclude them.
4. Historical accuracy
5. Realistic game mechanics
6. Enormous amounts of micromanaging
7. No base building
8. A large variety of different types of units
9. Steady game pace. Game doesn't progress too fast. Gives the player time to think.
10. Huge maps. I love big maps.
11. Click and drag display features are very nice.


Things which concern me, or I just haven't figured out yet.

1. Steep learning curve (I personally like this, but it concerns me that it might turn off mainstream players thus causing a small online population)
2. Many commands do not display the hot-key on the display. This would help.
3. Colored messages displayed on top-left corner of screen can become obnoxious or make the game appear as crude. If there is an option to toggle this feature off it would be nice, which may already exist not sure.

That's all I have so far. I really don't have any major complaints which is quite amazing in itself. This game looks very good and very promising. I actually lost sleep last night because I was thinking about it. I can't wait to play more.

I've already pre-ordered it at GameStop.