essentially a capture the flag mode… but this time there are two “flags” to capture… I fail horribly and when I’m returned to the campaign screen I do a few checks to make sure I was in a campaign and not just a multiplayer game with bots… nope it was the campaign mode. Cool, I thought… what’s the next mission like? Click through and find it’s…. I managed to get my troops into decent position and I actually won the battle. Second time I fired it up I got myself into the “campaign mode”… worked my way through a few screens and ended up on what looked like essentially a capture the flag mode. I clicked a few buttons and ended up in a battle… ok, I’ll have a bit of a click around. The first time I fired it up I thought I had thrown myself directly into a multiplayer lobby (perhaps I had… I’m still not quite sure).
To start with the initial interface is not what I was expecting. That all sounds great… but the playability leaves a lot to be desired. The general notion here is it’s an RTS game in which you can take control of either the US or USSR forces, you can fight on the large scale or take over a single unit. I went from confused, to bewildered, to thrilled to unimpressed. But I do enjoy a bit of war gaming so I was happy to give Men Of War: Assault Squad 2 Cold War a try. I’ll admit off the bat that I haven’t played Men Of War games before… at least not that I can remember.
