Call to Arms - Gates of Hell: Ostfront

10/10

I'm in two minds whether to recommend this or not. On one hand the detail is fantastic, the units are varied and have had a lot of time spent on their uniforms and loadouts, there are literally hundreds of units to choose from and call in or unlock. The Dynamic Conquest is brilliant, essentially being a deck builder paired with the RTS gameplay. One of the things that separates this game from other similar ones is the ability to take control of units directly via either the traditional top down view, or a third person view that brins you down to the unit's level. Sound and graphics are really good, while the in game music does get repetitive the sound effects (aside from the British voices) are great. Speaking of the Commonwealth faction they are locked behind some pricey DLC. The voice lines for each soldier seem to be cut from different takes and mashed together as in the campaign a unit will often start talking in one accent and finish in another, it really is terrible and goes against the attention to detail placed in other areas of the game. The biggest bugbear for me is the AI, quite frequently your artillery will ♥♥♥♥ around and face the wrong way or just flat out ignore an order you give it leading to them swiftly dying. The same with tanks who unless you control them yourself will happily show their weak side and rear armour toward enemies. The AI don't seem to play by the same rules, they have unlimited ammunition by default, and they don't have any sort of logistics coded into them whatsoever, so I'm unsure if that's fixable with mods. You can use a smoke grenade to obscure the enemy unit's view, but the hive mind system means if any of their other units can see you then the concealed unit will still hit you with pinpoint accuracy as if the smoke isn't even there. Mortars and artillery are especially annoying as they will continually hit you with their unlimited ammunition and uncanny accuracy. Also in Dynamic Conquest every single match plays the same for me. If you're on offence you call recon in first, scout around, make contact with the enemy, if they have a mortar or artillery I use a sniper and hope I can de-crew it before it obliterates me. If they don't have any artillery or a mortar then you can just mow their infantry down as instead of using any tactical awareness they just blob their infantry together for no reason. I have looked into it and there are mods that reduce the amount of artillery the enemy uses but the sight system and the other complaints such as the perfect accuracy and blobbing meat shield infantry cannot be fixed I don't think. It can be fun in small bursts especially if you're into WW2, just don't expect any deep tactical gameplay unless you're playing PvP.

good game

很不错的即时战略，和朋友玩乐趣不断，但战役重复度高，服务器有时还卡。

very booring

имба игра не на 1 раз а навсегда в моем сердце

Esta bueno, aun lo estoy aprendiendo a juagar!