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Great game but to expensive

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 6 / 6
Date: June 01, 2001
Author: Amazon User

I own Rising Sun...and Rising Sun Gold....The first one came with a detailed paper manual, the second not. All I gained was 22 scenarios. However, this is a great classic hex based wargame with a nice multimedia overhaul (sounds and 3D tanks and troops). I played this game on an old 333MHz computer and it worked fine. The complains voiced by Maurice are partly right, partly his fault. This is a turn based wargame were speed of action has no place. The computer moves one unit after the other and will not respond to any mouse movements until action is finished (you can double the speed of these events). If you move the mouse before, the computer will scroll to the side at the end of all actions. My units always reached the hex the computer told me they could reach, but to do this they used the easiest way (not the safest). That's why there is a line of sight. Even in Combat Mission line of sight is essential and you have to figure it out yourself. The AI is better than average (see nice explanations in reviews from East Front 2). Compared to these older games (compiled in Europe in Flames), you get here night scenarios (very interesting) and Japanese bunkers and Banzai attacks (fun).

Intermediate Wargamer type Game.

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 5 / 5
Date: November 04, 2003
Author: Amazon User

If you're looking for a little more than a beer and pretzels type wargame and a little less than a more advanced type wargame like "Squad Battles Pacific War", then this is the game for you.

I was very pleased with this updated version of the Battlegroup series of games. It's as good as West Front and East Front II, with more scenarios than I'll probably ever play that comes with it, not to mention a "random scenario generator", that generates some very challenging battles for the intermediate wargamer. I could compare this version to be simular to the Panzer General II series and just as much fun. Very good for PBEM games.

The interface is simple to use and while most everything about the game is simple/intermediate, there are enough complexities to qualify this game along with it's brothers as one of the best series of wargames of it's calibur.

Comes with 2d and 3d icons, five zooms of the map and will steal hours of playtime away from you if you allow it to.

I recommend this game to any wargaming grognard and to those that are ready to advance from the beer and pretzels type games, while it may seem a little more complicated at first, it's really not that hard to learn and get into.

The Other Side of Rising Sun Gold

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 7 / 9
Date: July 02, 2001
Author: Amazon User

Is this game a great game? Draw your own conclusions:

If you enjoy a game in which the slightest movement of your mouse will cause the game board to immediately scroll to the nearest side, and does this repeatedly each turn...then RSG is a great game!

If you enjoy a game in which you must repeatedly move hex by hex, lest the AI move your unit in a direction other than you wish, often bringing your unit into a hex where enemy op fire can hit it...and does this repeatedly if you click on a target hex, then RSG is a great game!

If you enjoy a game in which the available hex mode shows that your unit is able to move to a target hex, and you take the AI's word for it, resulting in often falling two to three hexes short, frequently exposing units to enemy fire, then RSG is a great game!

If you enjoy a game in which a fully detailed manual is NOT included (and 30% of RSG contains entirely new data!), then RSG is a great game!

Unfortunately all of TSG games share more, most or all of the above short-falls. I rate RSG as deserving only 2 stars.

A tactical wargamers game

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 3 / 3
Date: August 13, 2005
Author: Amazon User

If you're looking for an action packed, shoot'em up, blow'em up sort of game, then look elsewhere. But if you're looking for a war game that is challenging, very strategic, and engrossing and takes a little thought. Try RSG.

Rising Sun Gold really is a good game. It is a little old and the graphics aren't quite like today's graphics, but I still love sitting down for an hour or two on a day off or on a rainy day marching around in Burma or hiding in thick Jungle waiting for a Japanese Rifle Platoon to ambush.

Sig heil Amerikaner

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 7 / 24
Date: January 08, 2001
Author: Amazon User

Adolf comes stepping into the States, but quickly meets with great apocoliptic resistance. This game is a mix of fortress america, risk and Panzer General. You will not be able to put this game down....it's like a bag of Lay's brand potato chips. ENJOY!

Decent game for the price

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: February 19, 2006
Author: Amazon User

A tactical wargame at the platoon and company level covering the Pacific in World War 2. The graphics and sound are nothing to write home about but if you want that play Quake 4. If you are in to trying to solve tactical puzzles this is a decent effort. Should I move my platoon to the flank or should I try to infiltrate? These are the questions that make a wargame interesting not the interface. Talonsoft took the same interface and game engine that they used to make East Front, East Front 2 and West Front and made this game. But you know what, so what? For under ten dollars you are not being ripped off.

A classic tactical wargame that still keeps up

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: April 06, 2007
Author: Amazon User

Hopefully Matrix games will reissue this game soon for XP and Vista.

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