Axis and Allys Worth buying?

[Lord Winter]

How replayable is it? Does it have good MP? How does it compare to Total War?
Thanks in advance,
DoH

[Samurai Waki]

meh it's okay...typical RTS, nuthin' like TW.

Replability? I think the Campaign Game was kinda fun, but it really didn't have the Axis and Allies feel to it.

[Goofball]

Absolute crap. Don't bother.

[Beirut]

PC Gamer reviewed it and said it was terrible.

[Blodrast]

you guys talking about the electronic version of the game, right ? not the board version ?
'cause i'm rather curious about the latter, too...has anyone played it ? is it any good ?

[lars573]

A friend has played the board game version of Axis and Allies and told me that it's as far beyond risk (the nearest board game to it) as chess is beyond checkers.

[Blodrast]

cool, thank you. sounds great, in that case

[Alexanderofmacedon]

I don't think I'd buy it

[gunslinger]

I bought the new Axis & Allies because I really enjoyed playing an old electronic version of the board game. You could play it multiplayer, but not online, you had to take turns at the computer. It was just like the board game, but it went much faster because you didn't have to move all those little pieces around manually. And, yes, it is so much better than RISK that they can hardly be compared.

The newer verision that is out is only similar to TW games insomuch as it has a turn-based campaign map and real-time battles.

The campaign part of the game, in a word, sucks. The original Axis&Allies is a great turn-based board game played out on a map of the world. At best, you could say that the new game's campaign map is "loosely based" on the original. It has no naval units. Land units move across entire oceans via "land bridges" similar to the ones that annoy so many of us in TW games. If you do make an amphibious assault across one of these landbridges you get a battleship which can provide artillery fire near the coastline. You can only produce new units in your original capital (no new industries for all of you old school A&A veterans). Even if you capture an enemy capital, you can't produce units there.

As much as the campaign map sucks, I think the RTS part is very cool if you are into RTS games. The most common complaint about Command & Conquer type RTS is the fact that you just have to make a big horde and send it into a "gang fight." A&A corrects this problem in a couple of ways: You don't gather resources. Instead, you start off with a certain amount of money based on the type and number of units you moved into the country on the campaign map, and you gain more from your buildings and from towns that you can occupy with your armies on the battle map. The number of units you can create is very limited, and the units are fairly expensive. However, you have a "zone of supply" around your bases and any cities that you occupy on the battle map. When your units are in a zone of supply, they are replenished for free. It takes a little time to replenish them, though. Also, units gain "veteran points" which greatly increases their effectiveness. As long as the entire unit isn't destroyed, it retains its veteran points when it is replenished. The result of this is that you end up being very careful about letting a unit get beat up too badly. You have a lot of incentive to use every unit wisely and get it back to your zone of supply. You end up being very concerned about tactics, how far you are from a zone of supply, and making sure that you always have reserve units to cover your attacking army while it retreats back to the supply zone.

If you are interested in the game only because you are a fan of Axis & Allies, then I predict that you will be dissapointed if you buy it.

If you have any interest whatsoever in RTS, then I would suggest buying this game, especially if you can get it from a bargain bin. I think they have made some great innovations in the RTS genre with this game. Replayablility isn't that great though, because the campaign part of the AI sucks so badly that beating it really isn't a challenge at all. The RTS AI is about average, but gameplay benefits from limited units and that fact that AI can micromanage them so much more efficiently than a human.

I've never played this RTS online, so I can't comment on that aspect of the game.

I hope this helps with your decision.

[Just A Girl]

I would probably buy it fo£5-£10
Ive only ever played it on a play staytion. It wasnt Ground breaking, Infact it reminded me of the old risk type world domination games on the old pc's (you know pentium 75 and 90's )

Its basically WW2
on a hex based board.
Turn based.
Its a bit like risk,
And its not to demanding.
The learning curve is prety Flat really.
"learning straight line Not curve"

You just haft to replenish your men,
and keep your infantry re-inforced with atilary air and tanks,
Its basically a Points system

you attack a unit which is 10 strong,
And that unit looses x amount of men/tanks what ever...
Then its the opponents turn.
So it will retaliate.
Its basically Just a matter of geting the right people in the right place at the right time,
Easier said than done.

But if you like that sort of game (its not bad)
And your the type of person who gets to play 1 turn then must go els where.
This is a decent game....

But its not worth more than £5-£10, or if your in usa id imagine. $3-$8

[lancelot]

IMHO, Axis vs allies the board game was to complicated, Risk 2099 or 2100 (or whatever the damm year it is...ie-the future risk) is absolute magic...easily the best.

It never seemed like you could build much stuff in AvA.

Havent played the PC game but it looks like a poor man's Hearts of Iron 2, go for that instead, its a great game plus there are loads of cool mods for it and its very easy to mod yourself, plus there is a new expansion coming out that looks really cool.

[Sjakihata]

there is a really old 1996 or something version of A&A which imo is good, should be freeware now.

[gunslinger]

Just a Girl,

I don't believe you are talking about the same version of A&A that I was. The one I'm talking about came out in 2004 or 2005 and is really nothing like the board game.

[GoreBag]

you guys talking about the electronic version of the game, right ? not the board version ?
'cause i'm rather curious about the latter, too...has anyone played it ? is it any good ?

The board game A&A was a staple of my gaming group for a while. I bought the new edition after its release and also own one of the spinoff games, a detailed version of the fight in Nazi-held Europe. I would highly recommend the game.

[Just A Girl]

Just a Girl,

I don't believe you are talking about the same version of A&A that I was. The one I'm talking about came out in 2004 or 2005 and is really nothing like the board game.

Oh the one im on about Is not that young.
I played it on the playstaion.
It was really quite like the board game,
And was a prety decent game..

To quote an above poster

there is a really old 1996 or something version of A&A which imo is good, should be freeware now.

This is the version I am probably talking about.

I did not relize they had re-released it.

[David]

They have one at the underdogs
Its the computer version of the board game, but pretty cool IMO

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