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Cossacks, one of a kind

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 3
Date: March 12, 2005
Author: Amazon User

The usefullness and ease of unsing formations in cossacks is what sets this game apart from starcraft or warcraft. Cossacks is much more complex. In cossacks hundreds of units march, in formation, into combat. The are an enormous number of upgrades and types of units. The main fault of cossacks is that the towns are to easy to destroy. If one fast calvery unit sneeks into an unguarded portion of town he could kill all the peasants and buildings there, often turning the tide of a game. To avoid this extreamly frusterating part of the game it is necessary to keep small squads of men (3-6 men) all throughout your town. Make sure several members of each squad are ordered to hold their ground lest they should wonder off in chase of one of several attackers. As in many (or all) games the AI is briliant at some things and abysmal at others.

THE VERY BAD GAME

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 2 / 10
Date: November 16, 2004
Author: Amazon User

Cassocks barly lives up to its expectations. It does not teach you to play.The built in teacher and manual don't teach.Im sure if I knew how to play I would like it,but let's face the facts, it stinks.I may be 10 years old, but I know a good game from a bad one.So it derserves a 1 star rating.

GREAT GAME

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 6 / 9
Date: August 18, 2003
Author: Amazon User

This game is a great strategy game for any age. It teaches young ones about geography and how gruesome war can be. Personally my son and I love it. Trust me its a great buy!

Cossacks: Cool Games!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 5 / 8
Date: June 09, 2003
Author: Amazon User

About a year back, I got tired of playin AoE II, and then I was looking on the internet and..wow! Cossacks! As I looked at it, it made me want to buy it so I rushed down to the Gamestop and bought it for $30. It was worth it. I rushed home to play it. The campaigns are marvelous, as are the single player missions. After that, in October 2002, I bought Cossacks: The Art of War. With a slew of new missions and two new nations, heck! It's the best buy yet! I made my own scenarios with the editor and had a bunch of fun. Then, came Cossacks: Back to War, and I fell in love. With Mod1 by Baddog already installed, it made the game much more enjoyable with more historical context, now I'm hooked on Cossacks: Back to War, and American Conquest, another cool game!

Sounds: 9
Gameplay: 10
Replay-abilty: 10
Variety: 10

Overall: 10
This game is one of the best out there if you're a historical nut, and plus, now, it's only [item price]! So go out there and get it! :-D

Age of Empires Rip-Off

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 1 / 3
Date: March 13, 2003
Author: Amazon User

I know this has probably been said but I decided to say it again. No matter how good this game was on its own I couldn't play it at all without first thinking Age of Empire. Don't get me wrong the missions are unique and challenging(sometimes enormously hard). But I somehow feel like I have played the game before. The game is wonderful and this one had the decked stacked against it from the outset, to bad.

My impression-A decent game that could have been a great game

HISTORY IN YOUR HANDS

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 2
Date: January 25, 2003
Author: Amazon User

I PLAYED THE DEMO, AN IT IS GREAT. I CAN'T WAIT TO PLAY THE FULL VERSION. I'M A WAR-HISTORY NUT. TO BE ABLE TO RECREAT, OR, OF, ALL THE WHAT-IF's? THIS IS ONE OF THE BETTER WAR-GAMES OUT THERE, IF YOU LOVE HISTORY, AND THE MIDDLE-AGE'S TIME PERIOD. YOU'LL LOVE THIS ONE. THANK YOU. RON.

Could be better!

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 0 / 2
Date: November 23, 2002
Author: Amazon User

I bought this game as soon as it was released. First, I couldn't know how to start an interesting compaign. Scenarios are really boring. On the otherhand, there are lots of units and different countries with cool graphics.

So much work equals so much defeat

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 5 / 8
Date: August 11, 2002
Author: Amazon User

When I first got this game I thought it would be just like a pre-colonial version of Age of Empires 2. One brutal defeat after another told me one thing: that this game was not nearly as good as AOE2. I consider myself a very good AOE player, (I can beat 4 hard enemys in less than 2 hours) but this is simply an hard. The main reason is that it's simply unrealistic. I build a whole army of soldiers and they get gunned down before they get half way to the enemy town. At the beginning this game can be fun building and gathering. Some of the missions are good also (including combat ones.) But like another reviewer said, "This isn't strategy it's a race." And I couldn't agree more.

Age of Empires warmed over

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 3 / 5
Date: August 05, 2002
Author: Amazon User

I had high hopes for Cossacks, given the claims the manufacturers made, but found it to be basically the Age of Empires engine with updated graphics and a different period in time. It has been entertaining to watch how the updated weapons are handled, but the AI is a bit [poor] at times. If you haven't gotten tired of the Age of Empires games then you'll probably like Cossacks. On the other hand, Cossacks does not represent any significant new challenge. You might enjoy the new graphics, the new units, and the new time period, for a while.

The coolest game i ever played

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 5
Date: May 18, 2002
Author: Amazon User

I belive that this game rules because is so real and i like this kind of games.I would like to thank the creators of this game because they have done a masterpiece.

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