There is multiplayer in this game, but I was unable to connect to any games for some odd reason and there were not too many games to be found. This feature includes some basic resource management where calling in more units, vehicles and tanks cost “points” which the player gets for completing objectives. Units become helpless quickly, luckily players can can call in supply trucks and also find ammo crates within the levels. The hardest part of the game is keeping your units armed with ammo.

The quality of the aiming aside (and I hope it’s remedied in a future patch) it was a unique feature that I have never seen in a game like this before and when it works it’s something really fun to mess with. I had some trouble with the aiming though, and sometimes missed the shot even with the cross-hairs aiming right at the enemy. The level of control you have over battles is impressive stuff – it’s possible to command a unit to attack a specific part of an enemy vehicle, for instance.Įxtending on from that, there is a cool feature in this game that lets you control a solder’s aim as if it were like a third person shooter. The vehicles and tanks can take damage in a couple of different zones and continue to operate taking damage to the wheels for instance makes the vehicle unable to move until you command a soldier to repair the damage. The player also commands vehicles and tanks, of course. Like most serious RTS games there are a lot of units to play with, and some have some unique skills indeed, such as the sniper who can pick off enemies at long range and medics who can heal downed soldiers. Later on I found that there was indeed a tutorial listed under the bonus missions, but it had to be one of the worst tutorials I have ever seen so I still did not have a clue as to what I was doing after completing it.Īfter messing around with the game for a while I started to get the hang of it. I spent a good hour trying to figure out what I was doing. The first skirmish I played was with the US forces, and I was a little surprised as someone who isn’t familiar with the genre that there was no tutorial in that first mission. Also 25 of them are reworked skirmishes from the original game, so existing fans should be aware of that. Right from the outset I would like to say that while “40” sounds like an impressive number, I found that some of the missions are the same as others, but are just played out on a different map and with the player playing as a different set of colours representing their country. The game features 40 single player skirmish missions and lets you play as the USA, Germans, British, Russian and Japanese. Men of War: Assault Squad 2 is a hardcore military RTS set in World War II.

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