So let me do this. The game Cossacks (i wont be including the European wars in here due to the lack of time) is a strategy game which came out a couple of years ago. For its time the capability of the engine to put thousands of soldiers on a map was amazing. Never before had I seen such fierce fighting and this game certainly has loads of it. I might even say that you wont get through a random map battle without a couple of thousand soldiers killed. YOUR soldiers. Unless you are very good :). Gameplay: The gameplay is quite good, but the relative stupidity of the AI grants serious lack to it. You can get thousand of soldiers on the field relatively quicky and the ability to take enemy civilian buildings is, well quite stupid for me. If you play the game on the easiest level the computer wont form any formations at all, it wont collect resources the way it could and it wont fight the way it can. If you play it on the hardest than, well i rarely get to survive for very long, due to the fact that it rushes up with mercenaries very quickly. Okey, there are a lot of buildings in the game, and there are also plenty of research to be done. You can collect resources for infinite from the same spot. I wonder why the maps have more than 400+ wood spots if you need only one in the whole game. Another thing is that this game wasnt ment for such fast computers as we have today, and It runs WAAAAAY to fast for an ordinary human to withstand. Even on the slowest setting it runs way too fast than it should. But overall i would give a good 8 for gameplay. Graphics: The graphics are, well the game looks quite ugly but the ability of thousands of soldiers on the battle map is a great achievment. The good part of the game is that the explosions are very well made and i think that they are one of the best parts of the game. Graphics get a good 7, sorry i would love to give more but somehow i think that they could have done it better. Sound: You gotta looooove it. When you have 1000 grenadiers firing at each other and charging at the sound of drums you got to smile and order you cannons to fire. By sound i think this is probably the greatest in a strategy game i ever played to the day I got this game. Well of course R:TW has better sound but come on, this game is old. Sound is perfect for me. Value: A hard thing to say. The Sp of the game is good, and i prefer it over the Mp. The campaigns for this game are waaaaay too hard and I wasnt able to complete them even with the cheat codes. Well i wasnt able to complete one of six but still... :) After a while the game will start to repeat itself but thats why well, about 20 nations are included. Each has some unique units and you may like to play them through. Value gets 8. Considering everything this game is an Instant classic, and i beleive two expansion packs came out for it and there is the sequel Cossacks: Napoleonic Wars that is coming soon. To fully enjoy it i would consider this game a must have. It shouldnt cost too much these days... I hope you liked my review and that i will get some thungs up ;). I am off to write another review and i hope you will like that one too.
Cossacks are my favorite strategy game of all games. It's very addictive, and very interesting. The game was released like in 2000 and by that time it was one of the best, still right now it has amazing gameplay, and sou... Read Full Review
Gameplay: The gameplay in "Cossacks: European Wars" is like non that I have every played before, when I first played it. That is to say in terms of the battles fought in the game. There is still the micro-manag... Read Full Review
