It certainly has a historically accurate and original approach to the genre, although this is often at the expense of gameplay.

The problem is that if you have as much interest in America's war-torn heritage as, say, a Canadian, the game quickly degenerates into a mindless click-fest around fields, searching for foreigners to bayonet. We can certainly see the appeal of Divided Nation: all of the historical battles are there, the uniforms and generals are authentic-looking, and even the maps are topographically correct. Nevertheless, GSC Game World has decided to drag us by the knees through a standalone expansion for its 19th century war game American Conquest. In fact, we've seen drunken scuffles outside The Pig Fancier's Arms of a Friday night that would make a more compelling backdrops for an RTS game. Now Let's Face it, the American civil war was not the most interesting of conflicts for a game. The problem is that there are so many great RTS games for PC this one struggles to live up to many that came before and after it.

The game is technically fine enough and the AI puts up a decent challenge. Not to mention things like horse artillery and field fortifications which add to the scale of battles.Īs far as the actual gameplay goes, I feel that what we have here plays it pretty damn safe. The game also gives you a ton of new units to play around with as you wage war to. Being able to take part in the Battle of the Alamo was certainly awesome. The game gives you four nations in The Confederacy, The Union, The Republic of Texas and Mexico. I must admit that they went all-in with this expansion. While this game may not be as well thought of as games such as Civilization and Total War to name a couple. You also have a random map option where you can play on your own map or back in the day, you could download one. You can play a single mission that lets you jump in and play on through ten well thought out missions. Keeping You BusyĪs well as the campaign mode American Conquest: Divided Nation has other things for you to do as well. Still, the setting alone made it something I actually wanted to play all the way through. The game has a very “historic” feeling about it, but it lacks the cinematic flair that other real time strategy games have. Here you get to play the role of a general in the Civil War and try to lead them to battle.

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