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Highly recommended.

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 3 / 3
Date: March 20, 2007
Author: Amazon User

I highly recommend this game to anyone who enjoys strategy or civil-war related games. Very solid game engine, with lots of customization options to suit just about everyone. You can micro-manage your army as much as you want, but you're not forced to, since the AI for both sides is as good as it gets. It's also historically accurate down to the smallest detail. Just make sure you have at least 1 Gigabyte of RAM. The bigger battles use a lot of memory, but they're also the funnest to play, with tens of thousands of soldiers onscreen at once.

Civil War battle simulation

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 3 / 3
Date: May 29, 2007
Author: Amazon User

The game is a good simulation of American Civil War strategy and tactics and covers the 2nd Bull Run Battle. There is nothing on the PC game market that matches MadMinute's game covering(civil war battles). The game provides many secnarios from small detachment battles up to grand army battles in real time. Some battle senarios can last 3 hours or more. But the save battle button gives you a chance to go pee. The combat AI is quite good and will test any seasoned PC game vetran. The game will run on low end computers too. The graphics are not flashy, but this is no distraction for civil war buffs. Also a plus is the open play battles that you script. I use windows XP and have had no problems except with virtual memory which can be solved by adjusting the game settings.

very good war game

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 4 / 7
Date: January 05, 2007
Author: Amazon User

This game is a very good war game. I would rate this game 5 star
but for thing. When you go into battle you can command a army,corp,division,and a brigade. A division brigade is my favorite to
command because it's small and easy to move around. A division is fun to
use to. How in the world can anybody command a army if the AI constantly moves my troops when you don't whant them to! That realy is the only bad thing about this game. This game has amazing graphics and detail. If you
are a history {nut} or a wargamer than I think this is the game for you.
Some of things I was amazed at was the fact that Thomas {Stonewall} Jackson can be seen sucking lemons and raising his arm in the air like he
is famous for doing. If you do buy this game than I will give you a little
tip. Use the 1st U.S. sharpshooters the are unstopible. Just so you know were to find them the are Y.W. Ripley.

Now for a more Honest Review

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 8 / 28
Date: April 23, 2006
Author: Amazon User

Let me give you a little insight of what to expect.

1) This is a command decision type of game, though it is rts, it is more based on issuing a command to the commander of the detachments, brigades, regiments, etc. etc. and the AI carries out the orders based on it's socalled historical nature of the commander in charge.

2) Graphics are mediocre compared to todays standards. Go back 2 or 3 years and this is what you will get.

3) It's published by Paradox Interactive. Many of you are probably familiar by now with Paradox releases. Faulty and buggy out of the box and takes many patches to be a complete game. Basically if you buy a Paradox game you are paying to be a beta tester.

4) The hands off approach to this rts wannabe leaves me rather bored. I guess if you like watching the AI play and implementing some action every now and then you might like this sort of game. It doesn't have the action of say a Creative Assembly Total War game. It's more of a grognards type of game and not much in the excitement catagory of rts. You could basically take one small detachment and just watch the AI play the entire battle.

5) As for the AI playing the battle. When you step down and take on a smaller detachment the AI will attempt to control even the detachment you chose to play. This can be a pain when you want to setup on a ridge and it wants you down in front, once again the lack of control makes for an unfun experience.

It has potential, but, I would still classify it as a grognards type of game and not a mainstream title that I think many of those that enjoy a true rts game would like and might be misled to by it thinking it like an rts game. It's one of those once in awhile type of games and that is about all.

6) It doesn't support multiplayer of any type. Big disappointment there. Totally a single player only game.

Not a whole lot more for twice the price

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 8 / 37
Date: April 23, 2006
Author: Amazon User

I played the origional version of this Civil War:Bull Run by Activision. Now, I've seen the 2nd edition at twice the price and I can't say I'm impressed with basically the same game with a few modified tweaks. The combat engine is the same, the maps are the same for all basic principles. The addition of the campaign feature was really all I saw being new, though in my case not worthy of an additional $20 when the first game was only $19.99

Something else that puts me aback about this game is it is a Paradox release. Well you all know my stance on Paradox that have been following my reviews (all 3000+ of you and I thank you). You rarely if ever get a complete package when you buy a Paradox title and in many cases end up having to wait months to over a year and a half plus for a version that actually works.

I will state that the AI is pretty good in this one (at first), though of course no master. It's pretty easy to figure out if you are an experienced wargamer of any depth.

A multiplayer feature might have put this one over the top. It's also for the more old fashioned wargamer in place of anyone who is rts oriented. I personally don't recommend this if you are a multiplayer enthusiast.

As I've always recommended waiting a few weeks to months on purchasing Paradox titles I do once again. You'll probably find this one in the bargain bin price range ($20 or less) within a few weeks/months. So, unless you are just the impatient type, I'd suggest a wait on this one.

Nostalgia or for the pre-teen mind

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 6 / 40
Date: April 25, 2006
Author: Amazon User

Yah know when I was 6-12 years old a game like this would have fasinated me. It brought back memories of when I was that age playing with my lime green army men in the sandbox. But, at my age now I don't see a lot of depth or strategy required. Very little even in the tactics department is needed. You rush to the enemy/objective locations, setup your line of units and then more or less watch the battle with simple inputs of commands, but, nothing spectacular. It isn't your high speed clickfest that the majority of rts games are which is one of the welcome features of this one.

Had it been of the Napoleon era I think this engine might be more interesting and fun to use since there was more fluid movements on the battlefields and heavy use of cavalry/cannon included and of course the colorful nature of the Napoleon era as well. The American Civil War was basically a dull and boring part of military history. Where men stood across from each other one group using the advantage of the terrain over the other and then slaughtering each other more or less based on size of the army versus army. Picketts charge had to be the most stupid and idiotic strategy of the entire campaign, thus showing the Americans at that point and time still didn't really understand strategy and tactics of a situation.

Overall this is probably for the very young 12 or less and perhaps a good model to show them what a battle might look like for a classroom discussion of the Civil War.

Great game,feels like being a general

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 3
Date: January 19, 2007
Author: Amazon User

Love the game it actually feels like you are leading armies during the civil war.Could not have been better except to have been about the entire war period instead of one campaign.But overall great game loved it.

Very fun

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 1 / 4
Date: May 13, 2007
Author: Amazon User

This game shows what civil war Generals,corlnels,and commanders whent threw and how they commanded. The gameplay is my favorite part it lets
you command small armies and huge armies. You can be all kinds of your favorite generals like Robert E. Lee or Stonewall jackson and many more generals. also when you command cannons you can choose witch type of cannon ball you want to fire. During the game you will recive messages during battle from other generals. The graphics arent as bad as Sid Mires civil war collection.Overall this is my favorite computer game. If you like civil war games than i suggest you buy it!!!!!!

Very Accurate historical game

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 1 / 5
Date: November 03, 2006
Author: Amazon User

If you like games that follow history and are fun to play you will enjoy this game. A little on the slow side as far as game play but over all a very good game for the Civil War persons

bugs in the game

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 1 / 25
Date: July 31, 2006
Author: Amazon User

Before you buy this game you better buy a state of the art computer. I have a two year old computer that was state of the art when i bought it. It will not play the game. Not only that, but I tried to contact the web site support for the game to get some help 3 weeks ago and still have not received a reply.

As far as I'm concerned, the program is a piece of junk.

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