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A Great Game

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 3 / 3
Date: November 25, 2001
Author: Amazon User

This is the only Sid Meier game that I have ever played and I really like it. I prefer Gettysburg to Antietam because it is so much easier to control effectively a smaller number of troops. Antietam has more detailed uniforms, but I don't think that was really neccesary. Antietam also changes and extends the type of cannon you can use in the battle. Another good improvement is the firing damage arrows. These can tell you if a certain posiion is unholdable. Both games work quite well on ME or 95, but you really need to have a fast computer. A good improvement would be the ability to improve your unit's weapons. I think that for 15 dollars, this game is a good buy. However, I think that if I did it all over again, I would just buy Gettysburg.

Must Have for History Freaks

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 3 / 3
Date: March 07, 2003
Author: Amazon User

This is a GREAT game if not history lesson. I have had it a year and a half and am still not burnt out on it. The moron above who claims it is not a "strategy" game must have forgotten that this battle actually happened and there was nothing to build and no weapons to choose from. And believe it or not, in real life the Generals did not need to tell their troops to retreat.

Great bargain...

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 3 / 3
Date: July 10, 2002
Author: Amazon User

I think this collection is a great bargain for someone who doesn't own any of the games. It makes a nice change from WW II war games. Installation is easy. I din't like the online manual though - would've prefferred a paper one. Be forwarned though, it takes a bit to learn to maneuver your forces.

best civil war game

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 4 / 6
Date: July 30, 2004
Author: Amazon User

Although I heven't played any other civil war game I can safetly say that this one is the best.Getteysburg provides over 20 scenareos and tons of scenareo combonations.It's also nice because you controll the whole army and don't control one guy that can take tons more hits than the enamy like you see in so many other games.One of my favorate parts is that in addition to playing scenareos you can play the whole battle of Gettysburg or Antedam at once.The only bad parts are that in Antedam you do not have the choice of playing certain scenareos like The Corn Field or Burnsides Bridge.Also that you can't move an entire division or corp without selecting indivisual brigades and moving them.Over all I really like it though .Of course I'm a civil war buff so I would like it alot but I still think that you should get it.

Buy Sid Meier's Gettysburg instead

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 3 / 4
Date: September 09, 2001
Author: Amazon User

For some reason, this collection of three games (Gettysburg, Antietam, South Mountain) has more technical glitches and bugs than the standalone release of Gettysburg. I experienced so many audio and video problems in Antietam and South Mountain that I have to pronounce them unplayable. Your results may vary, but Sid Meier's Gettysburg was a better buy for me.

The best Civil War Game

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 2
Date: August 15, 2001
Author: Amazon User

This game is awesome. The graphics are good. IT is a great strategy game. They have the exact same regiments who fought in the battles. In Gettysburg they have scenarios like,Little Round Top,Picketts Charge,The wheatfield and A LOT MORE! In Antietam you have a choice of firing canister from your artillerry. Both of them are a great value. They are so much better than the Talonsoft battleground series. GET THIS GAME!

Very good stragity game

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 6 / 18
Date: July 05, 2000
Author: Amazon User

One of the best Stragity games yet! It has very good graphics and sound. With a great story line. It is very interactive and fun to play. Recomended for anyone who likes the civil war, Stragity games, or anyone who likes great games!

Great game, hope to see future advanced release

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 3
Date: August 02, 2006
Author: Amazon User

* The game's control lets you focus on the strategy, not keyboad typing or mouse moving. So you can enjoy more in virtual commanding.

* Out of my experience in playing all kinds of civil war games, dos or win, this is the best (the whole collection).

* Of course it has room to improve to increase the enjoyments:
- General quick attention (1~9 are not enough)
- Variants of brigade format: surrounding format, for example
- F1 map overview scrollable
- Mini map for quick locating or pointing to move troops, and points of fighting or attention
- Brigade charge function
- Commanding by bugle
- Bridges grouping
- More division or corp level commands
- Location bookmarks for quick checking
- Commander replacing or switching or promotion or demotion
- General review info
- etc

It is a fun game and makes you feel like a general

Game play and historic accuracy poor

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 4 / 12
Date: March 11, 2005
Author: Amazon User

The game play is clumsy. For example, if your units are all bunched together, trying to select a specific brigade is difficult. You may click on a unit of that brigade, but for some reason, it doesn't select the brigade. Secondly, selecting a brigade commander is supposed to allow you to move all units in that brigade at once. That works - except your brigade commander doesn't have the option to move your units 'double quick', so you end up needing to move each brigade separately if you want them to get to their destination quickly.

The historic accuracy of the game might be there as far as the landscape and units available, but as far as how the units were deployed, it fails miserably. For example, in the pickett's charge scenario, the confederacy starts very close to the union and the union army is not dug in (what happened to the stone wall that protected the union forces which Longstreet used as one of his main reasons not to attack? He reminded Lee that the confederates had one a battle in the past because they were protected by a similar wall). Even in the intro, it says the confederacy needs to march 1 mile to reach the union (this is false - in reality they had to march 2 miles). In the real battle, the confederacy were slaughtered long before they reached the union - part way along the march, they had to get over a fence, which bunched up their forces and made them especially vulnerable to union cannon - none of this is reflected in the game.

By distorting such crucial strategic points, they can not hope to claim that this in anyway puts you in a true historic battle. One may dismiss these descrepencies, but these strategic points are exactly why one side or the other succeeds.

Speaking of cannon, there is very little variety - cannon at the time, if they did any research for this game, would show everything from grapeshot to cannister. The game doesn't offer any options for what to fire.

I don't understand these other reviews that give so many stars to the game. Its clumsy and historically inaccurate. Maybe the other reviewers are so desperate to finally have someone pay attention to their hobby by making a civil war game that they are incapable of reviewing it critically.

Are you kidding??

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 4 / 14
Date: April 10, 2001
Author: Amazon User

Sometimes I wonder if these reviewers have a personal interest.Ok I bought the civil war package. I'm a 50 year old guy who enjoys strategy games and thought it sounded fun. " Grant-ed" the historical parts are cool. But "Lee's" be frank, I had more fun watching paint dry. The optics reminded me of the early Command & Conquer series. Slow, boring, repetitive- almost got hemmeroids waiting for some action!If your a hard core Civil War buff you'll like it, if you like action try Command & Conquer Red Alert 2, and wait for Civil war to catch up to the 21st century!

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