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A lot of fun for fans of Advance Wars but ONLINE!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 10 / 10
Date: May 26, 2006
Author: Amazon User

If you have ever played Advance Wars on the GBA or DS you will be VERY familiar with Field Commander. This game is almost EXACTLY the same. From joining damaged forces together as one unit, using a super, flying in troops, taking over buildings, etc. It is ALL in there. The few differences that I have noticed are the ability of a trooper to lay mines, shoot out trees to make a path, Satellite strikes, Napalm etc.. and being able to double stack aircraft on one playing spot.

The gameplay is as fun if not better than AW but with some great online modes. There is a two player swap back and forth, AD-HOC and direct online modes. The Transmit mode is great for those long games. The ability to transmit a game back and forth makes for a (chess like) multi-day game session. You can simply set up a game and transmit for an online player. Make all your moves then transmit and come back when the other player makes his move. Get this game if you are a fan of Strategy Games and love being able to control an Army on the go.

Remember to keep your aircraft fueled before they crash!

Great Game w/ Unlimited Replayability

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 10 / 10
Date: June 24, 2006
Author: Amazon User

Field Commander Full Length Review!

Field Commander was released May 23, 2006, and is a great Turn- Based Strategy game, very similar to Advanced Wars. Rated T for violence and Blood.

Story- You have been recruited by ATLAS, an advanced organization built to fight covert groups that terrorize, incite wars, trade in the black market. You have missions in which you take turns, and must either destroy all enemies, or capture the enemy's HQ. You can fight on Air, Sea, Or land. There are many different types of units, including tanks, half Tracks, infantry, snipers, Tank Busters, Utility Copters, Spec ops, Trucks, Anti Aircrafts, and so on. I give this a 9.1/10 since it's good, but not really origonal.

Graphics- When moving, you are at a eagle's eye view, then once you attack, or get attacked, you move to a spectators view. The grapics are pretty good, but can be improved. This might be the worst thing about the game, and considering it's not at all that bad, you already know that the game's going to be great! However, the graphics are still pretty good, and the animation is great. The environment is polished, and looks beautiful, so I give this a 8.1/10

Sound- The background music that plays while enjoying the game fits in perfectly, as it's typical war music. Sort of like the music that plays in Halo , or a game like that. And all the voice ins are great, since they're unique for the 30+ ppl that are in this game! There is about 40 minutes of talking in this game from breifing and overviews. This is a great addition to the game, so I give it a 9.5/10

Controls- The controls are easy to use, and doesn't take much getting used to. Maybe 20 minutes at the most. You don't much more than simply the X button, but if you do, it's [] to view your attack range, and when clicked once more, you can view your movement range (the spaces are shaded). Click once more to exit it. You use Triangle to read info on the unit. O is to go to the next unit, and then you can assign that unit a move. The Analog Stick rotates the camera, and the D pad moves from space to space. And Finally, R to see a Mini map. It's pretty simple, so I give this a 9.3/10

Gameplay- Field Commander is a PSP exclusive, and fits well on the PSP. You can pick it up and play, and when you need to go, you can simply save where you are to play whenever you want! In other words, you can save inbetween missions. It had smooth gameplay, although it froze up for 1 or 2 seconds after you assign a unit an order and it's goes from the eagle eye view to the "spectators" view. So, I gave it a 8.6/10

Difficulty- This game can get somewhat frustrating, as well as difficult, and at times, you get stuck. Like me. There's no way to change the difficulty, so you just have to keep on trying, until you finally win. It usually takes me 3-4 tries on every level to defeat the enemy. It's a little harder than the normal game, but still managable, earning itself an 8.4/10

Multiplayer Options- Okay, now this may as well be the BEST part of the game. It featurs Hot Swap (where 2 ppl take turns playing eachother on 1 PSP), AD HOC, Infrasacture, and Transmission Mode. You can upload and download courses that other users have made, thus making it ETERNAL REPLAYABILITY There are Leaderboards, as well. Unfortunetly, the games take as long as 2 hours (my first game took an hour and a half, and I never finished). This part of the game is great, earning a well deserved 9.6/10!

Replay Value- With the ability to make and share user made levels, this game has eternal Replayability! The campaign mode takes a while, and once you're done with that, you can enjoy all the courses that are online, as well as finally take the time to read about every vehicle (once you see a new vehicle, it gives you a LOT of information on it, that's useless, but interesting). So, this definetly gets a 10/10 on this part!

Loading Times- The loading times in this game are great everywhere, except for in the beginning of the game where it takes like 30 seconds to load up But, while starting a mission, the loading times are a mere 15 seconds... at the most! It's great to just pick up and play. I give the loading times a 9.2/10!

Overall- This game is a great asset to the PSP game collection, and one of the best games out, earning itself a 9.2/10! It has Great Multiplayer Options, Eternal Replayability, Easy and Simple Controls.. You name it, and it has it! Get this game, and I know you'll enjoy it!

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The best turned based strategy for the PSP

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 9 / 9
Date: June 01, 2006
Author: Amazon User

Its no secret that this game "heavily borrows" almost all of it's elements from the GameBoy's Advance Wars series. However, speaking as a big fan of Advance Wars, this is a good thing. This is because the basic elements of the original series have been expanded and improved upon, and that doesn't even take into account the superior graphics and on-line multiplayer capabilities of the PSP.

The PROS:
1) Many different unit types.
2) Many different CO's and divisions with various abilities.
3) Good graphics.
4) Shallow learning curve. Easy to pick up and play.
5) Multiplayer capability.

The CONS:
1) Computer AI has occasional lapses in judgment making it easy to beat at times.
2) Maps could be bigger.

There is a story mode in the single player campaign, but if you find this annoying its as easy to skip over as hitting the "X" button, and its nowhere near as annoying as the one in Advance Wars.

If you liked the Advance War series, you will love Field Commander (unless you're a hopeless Nintendo fanboy). This is a turned based strategy game that is well worth picking up.

Strategic Value

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: July 21, 2007
Author: Amazon User

Now this is what I call a strategy game! It got the 2006 best Strategic award for a reason. Highly involved, great graphics, good story.

enjoyable, interesting strategy game with editor

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 3 / 3
Date: August 03, 2007
Author: Amazon User

A strategy game that does not involve cards!
Most of the reviews I have seen for Field Commander leave out that the game comes with an editor allowing you to create your own scenarios and play them, as well as download them from the internet. Also, while the game can be easy at times, it still offers enough of a challenge to make it interesting to play. A couple of the missions in the initial campaign story are very difficult. Graphics are superb, sound and music is great, diversity of weaponry is excellent, without making any one weapon too strong, often an achilles heel for this type of game. This game is the only choice currently on the PSP if you are into axis and allies inspired turn based strategy, and a great deal especially, at the price I bought it at, around 15 dollars. Hoping Warhammer's planned strategy game is even 3/4 as good as this one. Please note, because it is a war based game this game depicts some graphic violence, and may not be suitable for very young players. I give this game 5 stars, even though some battles against the computer are easily won, it is worth playing.

SICK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 3
Date: July 04, 2006
Author: Amazon User

this is the best game i own for the psp- the campaign is awesome and the multiplayer is even better. BUY THIS GAME!!!!!!!!!!

Best PSP game I've played

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: June 19, 2006
Author: Amazon User

I don't have a DS, but otherwise I agree with what they said up there. Great game. One issue with online play is people are just disconnecting to avoid a loss, so this makes the online leaderboard mainly useless. But if you don't care about rating, nevermind.

All in all, I have played maybe 7 PSP games and this is the best.

Field Cammander PSP

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: July 09, 2006
Author: Amazon User

The game is a role play based, move for move. I enjoy it and I have played countless hours on it already. I will be looking for the sequel

Good Game

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 2
Date: July 16, 2006
Author: Amazon User

This game is like a mini C&C game that is almost as envolved. Put it in fast forward once you get tired of the attack/defend sequences and it moves along at a good pace.

Time for War!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 3 / 3
Date: November 23, 2007
Author: Amazon User

this is a really fun game that had little advertising and it turns out is a real blast to play both online and alone although as others have said enemy A.I. can be downright ignorant at times
this seems to not only add to its charm but seems to BE the learning curve because later on they seem to make Fewer blunders.
the graphics are very good and remind me of dune 2000 for the pc and ps1 although this has better graphics the command & conquer style/dune gameplay is here without the base building element Just Fighting which is what makes this title a blast. you can spend all day playing or just 30 minutes. truly a take anywhere game.
about the best turn based strategy game out there besides Warhammer 40, squad command for the PSP.

Graphics: not breathtaking but definately good 4 stars

Sound: explosions, gunfire and the like but done very well 4 stars.

Gameplay: 5 stars! this game is a real blast and with an absolute TON of vehicles to choose from play alone or with friends via ad-hoc or infrastructure mode.

overall: thankfully we are starting to see more turn based strategy games now and this is a good one for both beginners and veterans of rts games and tbs games.
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