The Great War: Western Front™

The Great War is a wonderful RTS with surprisingly deep involvement and mechanics you don't see at first. First off, this isn't your typical RTS. The game is grueling at times. you often fight through one trench line of a map just to find yourself at a stand still again. You throw your troops into certain death just to gain a bit of intel. You spend 5-10 minutes simply shelling the enemy with artillery before even moving a single unit. You dump time and effort into taking not a map, but one little section of the map from your opponent. And all at the end of every battle there is often not a victory or defeat, but rather a stalemate. A strange disconnect between what a video game is supposed to do for you, and what the great war actually was. It won't be for everyone, I say this with relatively certainty. But there are people out there, like me, that will thoroughly enjoy this game. That being said, the game is not without it's flaws. There are annoying mechanical quirks and systems here and there that can often cut into enjoyment of the game, as well as general RTS quality of life things that would have been really nice to see. Examples for improvement- - Splitting troops into selectable divisions (like total war) was sorely missed here. - Having hotkeys for artillery rather than having to click each one, then click the shoot ability (Which you do A LOT). - If a unit can't fit in a trench, they should just go to the nearest one automatically, instead of just standing there to die. - A simple total troop count window in the metamap would be nice, so I don't have to sit there and count each troop up on both sides each time I'm shuffling troops around the board. - There's a weird thing with click and drag to direction face going on, that basically negates your input if you end it over any troop, even your own. That's rather annoying. - The animation for firing range only shows on the side the trench is facing, even though I found out very quickly that troops can fire from both sides. Kinda odd. - The unit animations for running into trenches often feels weird and quirky, like the troops who are ahead have to back up into their squad, even if the squad is getting pelted with rounds. And a few other things I won't mention now. But even so, The Great War is one of the better (And more interestingly designed) RTS games on the market, despite it's quirks. And it's really got something going for it. I would love to see something in an elsewhere fictional trench warfare world in this design, not slightly held back by historical accuracy, with multiple factions in a domination type of game play. Especially if it were a "trench-punk futurism" type of game. With more polish, and maybe a few extra features, the game has the bones and muscles of something amazing, slightly held back by the tattered skin it wears. Even if not that, a modern Great War 2 with a deep narrative, individual axis and allies army composure (rather than combining them into one), longer map structures rather than square, city siege maps, 2 player Co-op campaign maybe(?), and a more defined metamap structure would definitely hit my steam cart in a heartbeat. It's been a long time since I've really enjoyed an RTS like this, and I'm ready to just back in and start a new campaign immediately.

新鲜感只存在于前几个小时，游戏的战术与战略部分在长时间体验之后非常无聊，战斗观感很差，前期与后期干着相同的事，只能说唯一有趣的只有题材

This game just barely becomes worth it at a severe discount. It is glitchy, repetitive and worst of all slow (yes I know WW1 was a slog).

Pretty relalistic game about trench warfare, but i wish i could zoom in depper during the battle

This game got me obsessed with the great war... sucks ass they stop development of it. Would recommend if on sale.

There are multitude of mechanics that seem to be there just to hide the impressively low number of maps that the game has, is fun for a while, but it gets incredibly repetitive incredibly quickly, its such a shame it was abandoned so soon, it clearly has potential

Abandoned.