Monday, December 3, 2007

History Channel: The Civil War

The History Channel once again brings out a Civil War game. This game follows a first person shooter format, where you run around as a soilder from actual units and kill opponents with anything from knives to Revolver rifles. You can play two sides: Union or Confederate. For Union you play the following levels:

Fredericksburg (Iron Brigade)
Gettysburg (20th Maine)
Chattanoga (Unit unknown)
Selma (Wilson's Infantry)
Fort Fisher (United States Marines)
Petersburg

For Confederate:

Bull Run
Shiloh (Confederate Sabotgers)
Antietam (Mississippi Sharpshooters)
Chancellorsville (Stonewall Brigade)
Chickamauga (Texas Brigade)
Cold Harbor (Confederate Guerrilla)

The upside of the game:

1. Historical Battles
2. A wide variety of weapons (at certain points, you can even use a Gauntling Gun)
3. You don't follow just one persons' storyline, you go through several.

The downside of the game:

1. Do you know the real reason the North won? They were all clones! You are pretty much fighting clones, because the people who made it forgot that they can use more then three models for thier characters.

2. Ease. Even the hardest level is very easy to beat.

3. Play length. You can win the game in a day.

My score for HC: TCW: 6 out of 10.

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