RE: OT: War on the Sea
Posted: Wed Feb 10, 2021 3:21 am
War on the Sea is absolutely dreadful. It is an insult to terms such as "wargame" or "simulator" which they put in their store page. A slap in the face of realism and historical accuracy.
It ignores basic fundamentals of warfare such as leadership, personnel, organization, command and control etc.
It is essentially a micromanagement game in the vein of primitive generic RTSs where the fleet commander directly controls a fleet of brainless clones, and points and fires guns manually. It is a game for children to look at pretty ships and planes go "boom boom".
Sorry it sounds harsh. Just frustrated with a slew of arcade formulaic clickfest games like this made by lazy unambitious devs masquerading as wargames and simulators. Especially saddening to see it mentioned in the forum for War in the Pacific which is at the other end of the spectrum. Developers like these should be strapped to a chair and forced to learn to play WitP and understand what a realistic in-depth wargame should be like.
It ignores basic fundamentals of warfare such as leadership, personnel, organization, command and control etc.
It is essentially a micromanagement game in the vein of primitive generic RTSs where the fleet commander directly controls a fleet of brainless clones, and points and fires guns manually. It is a game for children to look at pretty ships and planes go "boom boom".
Sorry it sounds harsh. Just frustrated with a slew of arcade formulaic clickfest games like this made by lazy unambitious devs masquerading as wargames and simulators. Especially saddening to see it mentioned in the forum for War in the Pacific which is at the other end of the spectrum. Developers like these should be strapped to a chair and forced to learn to play WitP and understand what a realistic in-depth wargame should be like.