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For all you AOE, AOK and AOK:Conquerers Fans

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 36 / 38
Date: March 18, 2001
Author: Amazon User

I'm an avid AOK:Conquerers player and I NEVER thought I would find a game that would blow it away. I've found it!!! The graphics are stuning. The detail in the buildings is extreme. The trees really look like trees. The peasants and military units perform their tasks with an almost lifelike grace.

Rifles, cannons mortars etc. all have different sounds and all produce puffs of smoke when they fire. The artillary bombardments are spectacular; actual explosions and clouds of smoke and flying debris when they hit a target.

The ships are very lifelike, especially in their movements.

Forget the 200 maximum on units... I just finished my first run thru on this game and had a maximum population limit of 1000 and could have gone higher. There are also LOADs of unit upgrades.

On a scale of 10 I rate this one a definate 12!!

Cossacks is actually one of the best RTS-Games

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 15 / 18
Date: March 25, 2001
Author: Amazon User

If you're a RTS-Fan, Cossacks: European Wars is a must for you... I've been really suprised as I played it for the first time a few days ago. The Graphics are the best I've ever seen in a 2D RTS Game, there are even much more better than those in Age Of Empires 2. The Game balance's nearly perfect.

The most interesting thing about Cossacks, is that it's the first game ever with a realistic number of combat units, indeed you can handle more than 8000 Units... Isn't that fantastic?

In a word, Cossacks' a game which provides you a high gaming pleasure and a long time motivation...

Best RTS that I have ever played!!!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 4 / 12
Date: April 04, 2001
Author: Amazon User

Amazing is the only word that I can think of that describes Cossacks!!! A must have for anyone that has even thought about playing an RTS game...

Two words...BUY IT!!!!!!

A Must Get.

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 9 / 14
Date: April 18, 2001
Author: Amazon User

I must admit, the demo is impressive. First, I recommend you get the demo, it's at ... , just copy and paste the address. Be sure to get the version 1.02, because you don't need the current patch. I'd start the download in the morning, and leave your computer on through the day, because the demo takes a lot of time, but trust me, it's worth it.

Ok, now about the game. If you play any Age of Empire game or demo, you'll have no trouble with the controlls. The game spans the 16th-18th centurys (1600s-1800s) and looks historicly accurate. In the demo you only get a random map with Spain, but it's real fun. In the demo you start out in the 17h century and are able to progress to the 18th, but you must have several buildings and 12500 gold, 500 iron, and 20000 food (I'm not sure about them, but it's close.)In the 17th century don't waste time and resources on Musketters, but on Pikemen. There attack and defense and be upgraded six times each, and you'll need to. But when you get to the 18th work with Musketeers from the Barracks Two and from the Academy have the Muskteers cost half as much. Oh, yes, set it on easy mode, I can't even beat it yet.

The Best RTS now

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 16 / 16
Date: April 19, 2001
Author: Amazon User

I like RTS games, but all of have their own disadvantages. When I first played Cossacks, I was waiting to face a new one, but the only thing I found was advantages. The game is better than Age of Empires 2 and the magnitude of choices is unbelievable. The computer is clever and unpredictable and this makes the game very interesting. (If you play the game in the "Very-Hard" Mode, your possibilities to win are limited.) If you like RTS games, this is your next game.

COSSACKS: The Greatest Strategy Game Ever Made

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 24 / 27
Date: April 25, 2001
Author: Amazon User

What can i say, The gamepay is exellent, the grafics are exellent, there is nothing i can find whitch is wrong with this game. These are the points i can think of that make this the greatest strategy game of all time...

1. The enemy attacks you in formation (not scattering its units like in age of empires or red alert).

2.it features loads of countries.

3.it is 100% historicaly accurate. the units themselves, tecnologies, formation of units,

4.in this game the population limit is 8000 (not 50, or 100 like in red alert or age of empires) + the computer does not crash even if you have 8000 units in play.

5. the grafics are brilliant, great attension has been given to the detail of the units. units are in proportion, they act so realiticaly, and are so finly detailed, that its almost as if in real life.

6. it has loads of units and upgrades, more than any other game ive seen n my life. every type of infantry or cavalry that ever existed in that time.

7. Every country has its oun type of buildings and units (unlike all other sutch games)

after playing the demo, and then getting the full game, i must say, this the only game i have not gotten bored of. for more info on the game, go to: www.cossacks.com

Very Rabid

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 4
Date: April 28, 2001
Author: Amazon User

THis is probably one of the coolest games i have ever played. The game is like based off of Red Alert but better stuff. I got the demo and was completely taken in. If i was u i would try it. RABID GAME

I for one will stick with AOK - especially for Multiplayer

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 39 / 48
Date: April 30, 2001
Author: Amazon User

Well, I REALLY wanted to love this game. I came close, really close, but ultimately returned it today. I won't repeat everything that others have said about how great it is, but I do agree with most of their points. Using more than 200 units was a great feature, it got a little crazy at first but once you got used to it it did add realism - costs of units in Cossacks have been lowered compared to other RTS games so you can afford huge armies. I must compliment Strategy First on their attention to detail, the buildings were spectacular, and as far as I know much of the game was historically accurate in generating thier 16 (yes 16!!!) different nations. In Cossacks defense it was quite fun to play in a genre between AOK and more modern warfare such as one of the many WWII games out there.

OK, now here is why I returned the game: My biggest complaint will probably not effect too many people but since 75-90% of my gaming is gone multiplayer with friends from accross the country we were dissapointed with the fact that AI controlled armies were unavailable in Multiplayer mode!! I don't understand why this was since they do have a random map option for sigle player and it wouldn't have been too complicated to include this option for multiplayer. Not everyone is super competative and loves to whoop up on thier friends - we prefer to work together to overcome multiple AI Armies which is not possible in Cossacks

I also had problems with the game play. The Frigates and Battleships (emphasis on the later) were just too powerful. Their cannon range is incredible!! If you play an Island or Continents map these ships could almost fire all the way accross the land. No building or unit is safe from their wrath. The Frigates were bad enough but then the Battleships have increased rate of fire, damage, AND range - I can agree with the 1st two but the 3rd is unnecessary. Of course one way to try to stop these monsters is with stone walls, however Strategy First in their infinate wisdom chose to charge you for stone continuously - not just when you built the walls!! Huh?! I was constantly at zero stone and I couldn't seem to recruit enough peasants to get more.

There were some more other minor annoyances: no way-points and units sometimes had trouble finding the best route to a place; the ferrys were quite picky about where to land to load troops; peasants don't automatically go to work, as in Conquerors, which can be troublesome when you are talking about 100s of them; Other than the tech trees there is no real description of the pros and cons of each nation.

In the end I pretty much have to agree with CGW that this is still "just another variation on an oft-played theme" and that other than extra eye candy it doesn't add too much to the genre. There were not enough pros, or atleast too many cons to convince me that I wouldn't just go back to AOK in the coming months once the initial charm wore off.

I'll end in Cossacks defense: if you are not like me and have time to play single player games than it may be worth it - not at the standard retail price though find it on sale.

Happy gaming!!

Awesome RTS game!

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 19 / 21
Date: April 30, 2001
Author: Amazon User

I'm always alittle weiry of "real" RTS games because in general they never seem as fun as the "fictional" RTS games like Red Alert 2 or Warcraft, but this game is as fun as those games and in some ways funner becasue of the huge armies you can command. I hear it's possible to have 800 units onscreen at once, but I have only reached around 300 units which, in my book, is already simply amazing.

I have been playing the full version for a day now and only have 1 complaint, and that is there seems to be an issue with building wood or stone walls, as it seems it will drain your wood or stone resources way way too much when you have long walls.....perhaps it's a bug, or perhaps I'm still not sure how to play properly.

In any case that is the only downfall I could find. I would also like more sound effects, but that's really a minor issue since the sounds effect themselves are good. The graphics are the best I have seen on a 2D RTS, and the animation is amazing.

I absolutely love deploying 4 ferries with 80 units each and unloading them at the enemy island...They dont know what hit them, but the battles can get huge and some maps seem to take forever since it's based in reality and you just can't take 300 units and "mop up" the enemy like you can do in other RTS games. You really need to play strategically, or you will waste way to many units.

Do yourself a favor and download the demo, and you will se what I mean, then go out a buy this game!

If you don't like this game, it's you that has a problem

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 4 / 7
Date: May 03, 2001
Author: Amazon User

Seriously, if you don't like this game and you loved Ages of Empire or any RTS, then something is wrong with you. The guy who wrote about the battleships exagrerated somewhat on the distance - maybe if it is small island. I've played the sea battles many times, and you can beat the AI on hard - barely. I loved AOEII and spent many hours online. Cossacks is by far much better and will only get better as the developers tweak and make add-ons. So get the game and lets play. Vundril

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