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what a piece of Junk!

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 0 / 10
Date: July 08, 2006
Author: Amazon User

I tried installing this game one time and you know what it had a virus on it and I think this was a complete waste of money which I bought it from scholastic and I should've complained to them about this. But I also should've complained to Atari the ones who made this game. Anyway if you are interested in buying a game for your child or loved one, do not buy this one!

One of my favorite RTS games, even better on multiplayer

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: August 17, 2007
Author: Amazon User

It seems all the people giving this game a negative review are people who have played the Axis & Allies board game and are thinking this is the video game version of it. I've never played the board game but I have been playing RTS and strategy games my whole life and this is one of my favorite.

Here's what I love:
1. The fact that when you build soldiers, you get a whole squad of troops and not just one unit such as in Age of Empires.
2. Units have morale and will retreat if they are losing or have been in combat too long
3. You get money by building up your base and by capturing cities, not by gathering resources such as in other RTS games. This makes capturing and holding cities a key part of the game.
4. You build a supply line where your troops can recover their health. I think every RTS should have this feature since it adds to the realism.
5. The fact that you can buy upgrades for your troops and vehicles, and they get promoted as they gain experience.
6. The variety of troops you can build is great. Everything from SAS troopers, paratroopers, snipers, kamikaze troops, conscripts, tiger and king tiger tanks, tankettes, and much much more.
7. The online multiplayer is great and probably the best feature of this game. It has a dedicated community of players, some of whom are insanely good. If you buy this game I suggest you go straight to multiplayer since it's so much more fun than singleplayer.

Here's what I hate:

1. Some of the general's abilities are ridiculous, such as the V-weapon and A-bomb. These are superweapons you can call in to basically annihilate the enemies army. They are unrealstic for the simple fact they can be called in instantly, right after you click the button, and I don't think A-bombs or V-weapons were ever against troops in combat during WW2.
2. The airplanes and bombing in this game looks like it was done half-heartedly. You don't actually control the planes, just build airbases and point to where you want to bomb.
3. In multiplayer especially, the game usually evolves to both sides building nothing but heavy artillery, which of course is unrealistic since infantry were a key part of battles in WW2, but not so in this game.

Despite these small flaws, I love this game and you should definetly get it if you like strategy games or WW2.

Axis and Allies

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: February 16, 2008
Author: Amazon User

Excellent!!! Lots of fun. I lost the code to my last one and ordered a new one I love it so much!

Axis & Allies

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: February 25, 2008
Author: Amazon User

Having tried to learn the boardgame (and giving up - pretty complex) I came across the electronic version here... I was hoping it would be similair to the boardgame (with the computer handling remembering all the rules) and what I got was a real-time strategy. I was expecting it to be turn-based still, but what it does, it does pretty well.

The game is a few years old now, so it's not cutting edge graphics - but has held up pretty good over the years. There's sooo many different units to build and send off to war... The included maps have kept me busy for hours, and the enemy AI is pretty good. The most fun has been playing with a friend and taking on the computer players. Definetly worth the ~$8 I paid for it... would definetly encourage friends to pick it up to have some LAN fun.

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