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Summary: waterloo
Review: I have poblam when I play waterloo the game will stop and show me about debug and visual c ++ documentation on asserts
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Summary: Good potential. Try again.
Review: I was really excited about this game. Unfortunately it does not live up to expectations. The graphics are not up to standards achieved on some other strategy simulations (the Cossacks preview, for example). Movement, at least on my PC,(which is able to handle B17 2 with no problems)is not smooth. Also, the game menu, graphics and music are not of the quality, for instance of Sudden Strike or Age of Empires. its been a few years since the fine Gettysburg game. One would have expected improvements in this genre reflecting advances made since then. If you are into 16th to 19th century European strategy, I suggest Age of Sail 2 or wait for Cossacks.
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Summary: Waterloo:Graphics worst battle
Review: I was very disappointed about this game. The graphic were the worst I have ever seen. I have all of the Sid Meiers games and love them all. That is why I don't understand how these graphics ended up so bad. Having to try that hard to make out what a unit is on screen is just terrible!
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Summary: The Best And Most Authentic Napoleonic Game Ever!!!
Review: If you Love Real Time Strategy games and Love the Napoleonic period, Buy This Game! The Graphics aren't the best But, the gameplay, the variety of units, the many senerios, the Sounds, and the History make this game Great!... Buy WATERLOO!
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Summary: The Best Napoleonic Game Yet.
Review: Relive the glory days of the little corporal's era in this fun,exciting,& challenging game that recreates the complexities of Napoleonic era warfare in real-time format.Pay no heed to critics who dismiss this game for more simple & less cerebral teen follies;the game has been improved by subsequent patches & will be further bettered with upcoming ones.Strategy wargaming doesn't get better than this.My rating is 4.5 stars.
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Summary: Difficulty is a good thing
Review: Someone who'd never played any of the games of this type (like Gettysburg, etc.) will find it very difficult to figure out which troops you're controlling at any time. The mass of little flags on the map are difficult to control, and if you're not used to 18 C army structure you might find it difficult to keep units near their commanders, which is a key to the game. Also, the game takes a lot of patience to play. It takes considerable time for pre-mechanized armies to develop and then execute your battle plans. So, in short, you might not like the game if you're someone who wouldn't like ANY of the games in the series because of the aforementioned difficulties that are par for the course. As a big fan of Gettysburg, my opinion is that this is a worthy descendant. Get the 2nd patch and some of the problems notes in earlier reviews will go away. Before widespread rifle use, cavalry played a huge role in battles and are accurately represented in the game. If you're used to Gettysburg, you fast learn that you can't leave your soldiers in line formation for the duration once the battle starts. Once you learn to use cavalry, though, you quickly can torment the other side the same as they do to you. One small problem: the background is set a little bit too dark, probably accurate for Belgium after a heavy rainfall, but I liked the terrain colors better in Gettysburg. So: if you liked Gettysburg and want what I think is a better game (perhaps a pro-Napoleonic era bias coming through) get this. If you're new to this kind of game entirely, download the demo and see whether you like it. But note that the real game runs better, has infinitely more variety, and comes with a tutorial to allow practicing movement, formations, and use of artillery and cavalry.
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Summary: Difficulty is a good thing
Review: Someone who'd never played any of the games of this type (like Gettysburg, etc.) will find it very difficult to figure out which troops you're controlling at any time. The mass of little flags on the map are difficult to control, and if you're not used to 18 C army structure you might find it difficult to keep units near their commanders, which is a key to the game. Also, the game takes a lot of patience to play. It takes considerable time for pre-mechanized armies to develop and then execute your battle plans. So, in short, you might not like the game if you're someone who wouldn't like ANY of the games in the series because of the aforementioned difficulties that are par for the course. As a big fan of Gettysburg, my opinion is that this is a worthy descendant. Get the 2nd patch and some of the problems notes in earlier reviews will go away. Before widespread rifle use, cavalry played a huge role in battles and are accurately represented in the game. If you're used to Gettysburg, you fast learn that you can't leave your soldiers in line formation for the duration once the battle starts. Once you learn to use cavalry, though, you quickly can torment the other side the same as they do to you. One small problem: the background is set a little bit too dark, probably accurate for Belgium after a heavy rainfall, but I liked the terrain colors better in Gettysburg. So: if you liked Gettysburg and want what I think is a better game (perhaps a pro-Napoleonic era bias coming through) get this. If you're new to this kind of game entirely, download the demo and see whether you like it. But note that the real game runs better, has infinitely more variety, and comes with a tutorial to allow practicing movement, formations, and use of artillery and cavalry.
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Summary: Uneven but Brilliant Fun
Review: The games graphics are not the cleanest, prettiest artwork ever to grace a game but they bring more atmosphere to the game still. At the end of the day it should be gameplay which decides the quality of the game and so it is with Waterloo. This is the bit thats uneven.In single player the game is approachable and on the lower difficulty settings the ai can be beaten fairly quickly without haveing to be a tactical genius. On the higher difficulty settings the game is considerably harder, perhaps even too hard but everyone can find their own level. Where the game can shine most is in multiplayer, where it can surpass Gettysburg in terms of tension and is even more gripping in the heat of battle. And for this the game gets 5 stars and deserves it thorougly. The addition off cavalry plus defensible buildings counts a lot for this. Also is an army morale rating that counts as casualties at the end of Battle. All these and many more features add to the flexibilty of the game, and most importantly rewards the tactical ingenuity of the player. Though the interface is not as navigable as it should of been and the Random Senario Editor though with more selection options, is not as truely accomplished as the one in Gettysburg the game can still be superb fun. Though some people(as i have had to) may have to stick at the game a little to get the most enjoyment out of it. It's easy to be dismissive of a game that's as complex as this. The demo is a good example of this, it has no multiplayer and the senarios are fairly hard for the beginner to handle which can lead to fustration.
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Summary: Table wargamers take heed!
Review: This game is not for you! The play is extremely clunky and the unit graphics are horribly done. It would seem the designers have placed too much emphasis on cavalry as they are way overpowered and the artillery appears to be shooting BBs and may as well not even be on the battlefield. The objective points are never clear as to where the true ground is, so you may hold a solid line for hours but lose the points because your men just weren't on the right pixel. The AI often jumbles into a solid block of mess with which the inferior graphics engine really tortures, so that you never know what the hell is yards in front of you. Even more fascinating is that the AI somehow fires volleys from this massive mess into your well formed line shattering them for some reason. You suffer incohesion but the AI can just munge corps together and even fire through them. All in all a very disappointing game not even near some of the better quality games of Strategy First. I think I will skip the next one in this awful series - Austerlitz, and SF needs to give Breakaway Games a break away.
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Summary: Big disapointment
Review: This game was a huge disapointment. I expected this game to be like Sid Myer's Gettysburg, which,by the way is an excelent game, but it wasn't. The graphics were horrible and the animation was very choppy. I liked the game for 1 hour then I wanted my money back. Take my advice, DON'T BUY THIS GAME !
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