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Great Game

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 1
Date: September 30, 2001
Author: Amazon User

This is one of the best battlefield sims available to-date. It really gives you a good idea of what the warfare of that time was like in terms of tactics. For those who complained about the UI... I don't know what you are talking about. I had issues with the follow-up game on that (see below). This is one of the few games that is almost unbeatable on the higher levels.

I would not reccomend the follow-up game however, Antietam. It was done by another game studio and did not have the same easy to use interface.

save your money

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 0 / 7
Date: July 27, 2001
Author: Amazon User

Within three weeks, this game totally quit working. I could have had more fun taking the money and setting it on fire. BEWARE!

Great

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 1 / 2
Date: December 16, 2000
Author: Amazon User

The controls are somewhat hard to learn, but it has excellent graphics, ai, and repeat playability.

AWESOME!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 2
Date: July 12, 2002
Author: Amazon User

"Sid Meier's Gettysburg" is the best Civil War computer game out there! Stunning graphics and exciting real-time combat put you in the middle of the bloodiest battle ever fought on American soil. Don't miis out! Grade: A+

Meant to be fun...

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 1 / 2
Date: November 24, 2005
Author: Amazon User

Ok its obvious that this game was not made to be 100 percent historically accuarate. Aside from flanking, any 1800's strategy you think would apply almost gets tossed out the window. But over the past few years ive found this game to be one that easy to come back to again and again. You MUST find art patches to quadruple the size of the units and increase the flag size. Without that its not half as realistic. Its a good faced paced action strategy, with a random scenario creator that makes the game open ended. Yea, its got plenty of flaws. The units move too fast, more like game pieces than real units. But theres still alot of strategy involved, and for the price, you cant get a more exciting action civil war game anywhere. Bar none

Great Game Great Problems

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 1 / 2
Date: September 30, 2001
Author: Amazon User

First of all this is a great stratagy game of th Gettysburg battle. You can choose to be the Unoin or Confederacy and can choose on 4 different diffultcalty levals. You can to command your troops through to long, gruling, battle. But this has major problems. This has hardly any detail and the graphics absolutly stink. You have a hard time given commands. The high levals are too difulcult almost impossible to beat. You also lose very easy in this game. It is very slow and outdated. I hope they come out with a Gettysburg 2 or something similar because a great game like this deserves better. You should at least try out this game even if you are clueless about the Civil War.

Great Strategy Game but OLD

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: June 28, 2006
Author: Amazon User

It didn't occur to me to look at the dates on the reviews when we ordered this game. We have Windows ME, which the game works on, but didn't work on newer operating systems and even crashed one of grandpa's computers, causing him to comment, "Wow, this game is reallly old." Well, that's relative, but once we got it loaded on the ME computer it has provided endless entertainment for our 10-year-old genius and battle strategizer. He figured out the controls and rules quickly. When I sat down to look at it, I couldn't find my troops and gave up! I especially like the different bugle calls b/c I spend most of my time "listening" to my son play the game rather than watching/playing. It's wonderful battle history and tactical instruction. Very cool and educational -- from a mom's point of view -- and not bloody or gory, which detracts from the realism but makes it more palatable for younger kids.

Technical problems, impossible UI, and not much fun.

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: April 12, 2008
Author: Amazon User

The first thing you'll notice is that this game suffers from copious
technical problems. It won't run on XP without a patch. You can't
install the patch without installing the game first, but you can't
install the game first because even its installer won't run on XP
without the patch. Yes, this can be worked around. No, the vendor's
web site won't tell you how.

Once installed, the game's technical problems don't end. About half
of the time, at random, when a scenario starts you will find that
floating the mouse to the edge of the screen does not scroll the screen
like it should. Since that's the only way to scroll around the map in
this game, the game is unplayable in that state. The only fix is to exit
the program and re-start. Hope you saved the game before the scrolling
locked up, because otherwise your game is lost when you re-start.

The actual game play is difficult and cumbersome. Regiments sit on
top of each other, or hidden in the woods, or off forgotten at the
edge of the map, such that you can't see them or can't click on them
to move them. Action is slow, lots and lots of clicks are required,
and your regiments are always facing the wrong way (the one thing
they do on their own) or standing right next to the enemy but not
firing.

Finally, the difficulty of this game renders it unplayable, as if
it were playable otherwise. There are four difficulty levels. On
the easiest level, it's quite easy and not very compelling. On
the next harder level, it becomes impossible to win most battles.
Yes, impossible. After repeated plays, I am firmly convinced that
most of the battles are just unwinnable, and on the rest, a "marginal
victory" is the best that can be achieved. Ever. How can I be so
sure? Well, when four of your regiments are completely surrounding
the end of the flank of one of the enemy's regiments and still can't
route that enemy regiment, that's not a strategy question. That's
something technically wrong with the program.

I can't believe this game won awards when it came out. There is
really nothing about it to recommend. Sid Meier, you really let
loose a stinker.

Gettysburg

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 4
Date: October 13, 2001
Author: Amazon User

Ausome game can't stop playing you don't have to take turns like some other civil war games and it is 3-d where you can see every unit it tells you how good the troops and generals are. Shows you where the cannon can shoot and anounces new men a charge a retreat almost anything many scenarios you can set it to many different diffuculty levels and your opponents personality aggresive cautios direct etc. can play historical or what might have happened example Longstreet's option insted of Pikket's charge shows you how close your men are to routing very realistic also.

Gettysburg Rules!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 4
Date: March 19, 2002
Author: Amazon User

To put it simply, this game is the best I have ever played, next to Call to Power II. It is both challenging and fun, with endless surprises. The Day One: Meeting engagement scenario is incredible, and the graphics are well done.What I like best is the freedom it gives the player; You make all the descisions, and carry out orders. Sometimes that's a bit tricky in real-time, but I manage. The AI is great, and the stress factor is astroke of genious! If you love the civil war or other real-time games you must get this. The downside: too adictive. I can't stop playing!

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