Rating: 
Summary: Five stars after v1.1 patch
Review: Hi,Before buying this game I seen 20+ review on it. All of them bad :(
And it seemed all the reviews were right, this game does have problems! But did you know the v1.1 patch fixes 90% of the problems? Even the big three crashes
- crash involving artillery fire
- memory leaks which were causing slowdowns and crashes after playing the game for a while.
- crashes to desktop during the game. After patching, this game rocks! Play American, German or Brits, durning late years of ww2 (44-45).
Random scenarios are great and if your into miniature games like, Easy Eights "Battleground WW2" or Meramic Enterprises "The Face of Battle" You'll feel right at home.
Rating:
Summary: Cool CD...
Review: I am a eleven year old war addict.
This is a great game because it
allows you alot of control. I
especially appreciated being
able to choose the weapons.
Rating:
Summary: Cool CD...
Review: I am a eleven year old war addict.
This is a great game because it
allows you alot of control. I
especially appreciated being
able to choose the weapons.
Rating: 
Summary: Squad Leader..NICE BOX, BUT THIS GAME JUST ISN'T HAPPENING!!
Review: I bought this game a couple of days ago. I thought it was going to be really fun, but to my mistake it's really complicated and the computer AI takes forever to make it's moves. I'm glad I bought this game from a store where they give you 10 day to play the game and figure out if you wanna keep it. I definatley am goin to return this. I really enjoy playing WW II strategic games, but this game really blows. The graphics are good and the sound is really cool... but don't let that fool you.
Rating: 
Summary: Great Game With Poor Platform
Review: I truly enjoy playing this game. The simulation allows players to participate in historically accurate scenarios from the Normandy invasion. Very playable, historically accurate, and lots of fun. The game falls down on the quality of its programming. It can be rather slow paced (a typical scenario runs about 90-minutes), and the program tends to experience fatal programming conflicts that cause the game to crash --very, very frusterating. For the price it was great, but left me wanting more. --Jeff
Rating:
Summary: Hard To Love
Review: I'll get to the point - "Combat Mission: Beyond Overlord" by Big Time Software is far closer to the spirit to the original boardgame "Squad Leader" in both playability and realism than this current adaptation. In "Combat Mission" you actually experience the sudden shock on seeing German stormtroopers rising like phantoms from the snow, their burp guns spewing death, you hear the hideous screams of the 88's, and the sickening feeling on finding yourself armed with only a bazooka in the vicinity of angry Tiger. All of this with well-designed units, controls, realistic weapons, easy-to-use 3D sighting, etc. This "Squad Leader" doesn't match up. I've tried it. I mean I want to like it. Really, I spent money on it after all. The soldiers aren't all that distinct once in combat, the sound effects don't cover impacts (no ricochetts, etc.), line-of-sights are strange (example: if you're anywhere in an enemy's LOS, even if you're crawling several hundred feet away, he will see you through the dust, bushes, etc.). My copy crashed repeatedly although this was a relief after awhile. Path-finding is weak, units "disappear" in vegetation, and so on. I want to love this game (for old time's sake), but I doubt I'll play it again. You might like Squad Leader, but try the Combat Mission demo. It rocks.
Rating: 
Summary: WARNING
Review: If you are a fan of Avalon Hill's Squad Leader DON'T buy this game. It has nothing at all in common with the board game. I bought this game and even before the end of the tutorial, uninstalled it and threw it in the bin. Thanks for nothing Hasbro/Microprose.
Rating:
Summary: Hard To Love
Review: If you're expecting to play the old ASL board game classic by Avalon Hill, you're in the wrong theater of operations. This game plays more along the line of Dungeons & Dragons, where you choose individual fighters, outfit them, and take them into battle...there, their individual ability traits come into play and develop as you advance through a campaign. Once you shift your mental paradigm from ASL into a D&D mode, you find yourself immersed in an intense battle experience staged on the Western Front. I don't buy the criticism that this game's graphics and script seem "stodgy". It's not much different from other games I've played on this level, including Sid Meier's Gettysburg or Shogun Total War. I've seen far worse. The violence level is moderate. There's no blood splattering or gruesome death scenes. If anything, the manual could use some clearing up...but a deep "read me" text file augments the instructions enough to turn every visit to the game into an enjoyable and satisfying war gaming experience. I was pleasantly surprised and would recommend it to anyone who wants to play "army", without goofing around on fantasy soldier-level games like Army Men. This is WWII, down to the man. And, with some of A.H.'s old ASL developers working on the project (you'll see some familiar names in the credits), Squad Leader for computer will only get better. Watch for updates and sequels. But don't wait. Get it now and enjoy the war!
Rating: 
Summary: Squad Leader by Hasbro Interactive
Review: If you're expecting to play the old ASL board game classic by Avalon Hill, you're in the wrong theater of operations. This game plays more along the line of Dungeons & Dragons, where you choose individual fighters, outfit them, and take them into battle...there, their individual ability traits come into play and develop as you advance through a campaign. Once you shift your mental paradigm from ASL into a D&D mode, you find yourself immersed in an intense battle experience staged on the Western Front. I don't buy the criticism that this game's graphics and script seem "stodgy". It's not much different from other games I've played on this level, including Sid Meier's Gettysburg or Shogun Total War. I've seen far worse. The violence level is moderate. There's no blood splattering or gruesome death scenes. If anything, the manual could use some clearing up...but a deep "read me" text file augments the instructions enough to turn every visit to the game into an enjoyable and satisfying war gaming experience. I was pleasantly surprised and would recommend it to anyone who wants to play "army", without goofing around on fantasy soldier-level games like Army Men. This is WWII, down to the man. And, with some of A.H.'s old ASL developers working on the project (you'll see some familiar names in the credits), Squad Leader for computer will only get better. Watch for updates and sequels. But don't wait. Get it now and enjoy the war!
Rating:
Summary: Squad Leader by Hasbro Interactive
Review: If you're expecting to play the old ASL board game classic by Avalon Hill, you're in the wrong theater of operations. This game plays more along the line of Dungeons & Dragons, where you choose individual fighters, outfit them, and take them into battle...there, their individual ability traits come into play and develop as you advance through a campaign. Once you shift your mental paradigm from ASL into a D&D mode, you find yourself immersed in an intense battle experience staged on the Western Front. I don't buy the criticism that this game's graphics and script seem "stodgy". It's not much different from other games I've played on this level, including Sid Meier's Gettysburg or Shogun Total War. I've seen far worse. The violence level is moderate. There's no blood splattering or gruesome death scenes. If anything, the manual could use some clearing up...but a deep "read me" text file augments the instructions enough to turn every visit to the game into an enjoyable and satisfying war gaming experience. I was pleasantly surprised and would recommend it to anyone who wants to play "army", without goofing around on fantasy soldier-level games like Army Men. This is WWII, down to the man. And, with some of A.H.'s old ASL developers working on the project (you'll see some familiar names in the credits), Squad Leader for computer will only get better. Watch for updates and sequels. But don't wait. Get it now and enjoy the war!
|
