The more territories you control, the more money you generate per turn. Money can be used to upgrade your existing army, buy new units, or to buy new technologies. While having as many game modes as possible is a nice thought, in this case, as the format seems so familiar, and as there is nothing really new or unique to it, the WWII mode isn't really that interesting; a nice mode to have, but nothing really new.
The single player campaign is a series of famous battles. When playing the Allied campaign, you will jump from nation to nation's battles'. One mission that stood out in its difficulty was Operation Overlord, or D-Day. In this famous battle, you will have to take the beach and set up your base of operations before moving inland to overtake the enemy positions. With little room to set up your operations, and the enemy presence overwhelming, the level of challenge in this level was truly enjoyable.
For the most part, though the introduction to each mission is a little bit sparse and the historical significance of each battle seems somewhat diluted. Unlike a game like Soldiers: Heroes of WWII, where each mission tells a story of how something happened, with a little artistic license, or some of the true simulators of WWII where historical accuracy is paramount, Axis and Allies falls a little bit flat in this regard by being somewhere in between with not quite enough of either to be interesting.
While a small blurb is given about the events leading up to the battle, for the most part, each battle feels just like any other battle. The actual management of units and the gameplay is virtually the same as Kohan 2 with things modernized to reflect the WWII era. Like in Kohan 2 there are three basic building types; building that generate units, buildings where you perform research and allow the creation of better units, and buildings that generate a resource.
The buildings you create generate your resources for you, and the units you recruit require a certain amount of resources as upkeep. The subsequent aim, as either Britain, the United States, Germany, Japan or Russia, is to conquer the capital cities of your sworn enemies, by building up resources from each of the territories under your control and buying infantry, mechanised or armoured armies and moving them around the map.
Where in the board game you'd move a tank into North Africa and hope to roll a one or a two on a die to dislodge the enemy infantry and claim the territory your own, now you must - assuming you don't want to select 'Quick Resolve' - fight each battle in 3D. As soon as battle becomes inevitable the engine then runs through its map generation routines, and depending on the latitude and whether the territory under dispute is predominantly coastal in nature, will quickly knock up a fitting environment.
Despite the fact that the version of the game we were privy to only seemed to know how to construct temperate land-locked levels, we're assured that no map will ever be quite the same in any one game. Once the computer has decided on the topography of the landscape, it's then up to you to decide how you're going to capture it.
This design decision actually makes for a lot of sense since whilst the side fielding the most armies will have an obvious numerical advantage, the process of base building gives the defending nation a chance to repel an attack. This is because while one army may be able to quickly get three divisions ready for battle compared to the other side's one, supplies will be stretched so thin that unless victory is quick and decisive, the outnumbered enemy might well deliver a fatal counter-attack.
The problem is that most buildings and units also have running costs in ammo and fuel, so weapons dumps and fuel supplies have to be built as well. As complicated as the resource management might appear, it is actually very simple to understand - the problem is in trying to keep resources at a healthy level while the enemy are constantly making demands of them.
Since all units are pre-assigned into divisions, the battles are no less manageable than any other RTS. Various buildings can be upgraded to instil certain units with various abilities, and depending on the General you choose to play as each nation has a choice of four , various special abilities will become available as the experience of your troops builds up. With paratroopers, Blitzkrieg tactics, V2 rockets and nukes, there'll be plenty of toys to look forward to when the final release rolls around.
Mind you, with two full-length campaigns in the works one each for Allied and Axis forces; the former a traditional romp through history, the latter a series of 'what if' scenarios that the developers have yet to fully reveal , you have to admit the game certainly won't be short of content. Sadly, while there will be a skirmishstyle game available online and off, the game will only be single-player. The good news is we've got complete access to their war room and will have a full review next issue.
With TimeGate and Atari undecided as to whether they'll be including the traditional board game rules, it looks likely that if you prefer the board game rules to all the 3D frivolity of this new version, you'll have to trawl a few online auction houses or car boot sales to get the original.
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