Binding: CD-ROM
Brand: Sierra
EAN: 0020626013284
ESRB Age Rating: Kids to Adults
Format: CD
Label: Sierra
Manufacturer: Sierra
Platform: Windows 95
Platform: Windows 98
Publication Date: 1994
Publisher: Sierra
Studio: Sierra
Feature:
- Choose from over 60 different weapons for your arsenal
- Eastern and Western Battle Theatres as Union Or Confederate
- Over 40 historic scenarios
Product Description:
ivil War Generals 2 expanded on Impressions' earlier title, Robert E. Lee: Civil War General. CWG2 features turn-based play on a hex map and artwork by Mort Künstler. Battle as the boys in blue or gray in the Mississippi Valley or on the Atlantic Coast. Play an individual battle, a mini-campaign or the entire war. Create your own customized battlefields with the new terrain editor, and challenge foes around the world to Internet, modem, or network war.
Customer Reviews:
2 of 2 customers found the following review helpful:
 Rarely a game stands the test of time as well, 2007-05-05
Civil War Generals 2 is a turn-based strategy game, where you play a campaign of tactical level battles. Unlike in many games, the results of the battles actually affect the course of war. Depending on the result of the battle (casualties, supply captured from the enemy, victory or defeat) you will get to choose from different lists for the next battle, you will have different amount of resources to arm your men (supplying then with better rifles, for example), and you will have different number of troops available. Play well/badly enough, and you will attack/defend Washington D.C.
The graphics and sounds are very poor by modern standards, of course, but completely adequate. Who plays turn-based strategy games to see nice graphics? (Some might play Battleground series to hear nice songs, though, although it would be easier just to play the .wav files.)
The controls are easy to use, and at the level of tactical battles the fighting is slightly tuned-up version of the Battleground series. The troops get tired and scared, and may use all their ammo, if you do not have enough supplies.
I recently began playing a campaign again. It is still a great improvement compared to most of its successors, not to mention its predecessors.
A great game, a great play. Together with Sid Meier's Gettysburg perhaps the greatest civil war game ever, and undoubtedly one of the best tactical games.
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