RE: First Impressions
Posted: Thu Apr 21, 2011 3:51 am
I was extremely reticent to buy this game. I installed the 1st of the original games, Danger Forward, which I seemed to remember had some ctd's. I was not impressed, but bought the compilation. So here's how wrong I can be:
1. The guy who posted that the screen shots don't do justice to the actual game graphics is correct.
2. The 108-page manual is very well done. The previous manuals was probably a reason I never got into Danger Forward. (There's a lot of good stuff going on under the hood, but it helps if you understand it.)
3. You'll probably never create a battle with 15 nationalities, but this option is nice to color-code types and capabilities of the same army; i.e., five different colored German units to represent SS, Veteran, Volkssturm, etc. There's also a lot you can do with the editor.
The upcoming Panzer Corps looks very pretty, but I hope the depth is there, or I'll be playing this one instead.
1. The guy who posted that the screen shots don't do justice to the actual game graphics is correct.
2. The 108-page manual is very well done. The previous manuals was probably a reason I never got into Danger Forward. (There's a lot of good stuff going on under the hood, but it helps if you understand it.)
3. You'll probably never create a battle with 15 nationalities, but this option is nice to color-code types and capabilities of the same army; i.e., five different colored German units to represent SS, Veteran, Volkssturm, etc. There's also a lot you can do with the editor.
The upcoming Panzer Corps looks very pretty, but I hope the depth is there, or I'll be playing this one instead.