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10
Perfect
Awesome and challenging
posted by Zazwinger (SAINT PAUL, MN) Dec 24, 2010
Member since Dec 2010
9 out of 9 gamers (100%) found this review helpful
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9
Excellent
Awesome game if your into WW2 era
posted by TXHONDA (KATY, TX) Dec 11, 2010
Member since Nov 2010
7 out of 7 gamers (100%) found this review helpful
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9
Excellent
Very Impressed
posted by GeezerDan (SAINT PAUL PARK, MN) Jan 20, 2011
Member since Jan 2011
3 out of 3 gamers (100%) found this review helpful
R.U.S.E. actually offered me something other games have not done in a long time.....a challenge. I'm still in the early stages of the SP and have yet to venture online to match wits with actual gamers.
The WWII themes is what drew me into this game and the fun factor is what will keep me with this one for some time.
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8
Very Good
TRUELY Underated
posted by thumbwars (HARTFORD, CT) Oct 1, 2010
Member since Oct 2010
11 out of 13 gamers (85%) found this review helpful
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9
Excellent
RUSE
posted by ElKato954 (ROCKAWAY, NJ) Oct 14, 2010
Member since Oct 2010
5 out of 6 gamers (83%) found this review helpful
Pros:
Long campaign and very fun to play
Nice modes like battle and ranked matches thar really test your strenght
Nice graphics
Cons:
Enemy AI can be overpowered at times
Online lags a lot and can sometimes only slow you down
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7
Good
for command and conquer fans
posted by rome78 (NEW CASTLE, DE) Oct 6, 2010
Member since Oct 2010
4 out of 5 gamers (80%) found this review helpful
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9
Excellent
Pretty awesome
posted by 1991Danny (ATLANTA, GA) Sep 27, 2010
Member since Sep 2010
3 out of 5 gamers (60%) found this review helpful
This is how war really is, you cant question a thing in this game. every action you do is actually practiced in real wars. The units and the details are amazing.
The whole point of the game is to make us use different strategies + our intelligence unlike other RTS games, this game really depend on using your brain.
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5
Fair
Good if you're into RTS games...
posted by MitLong (CHAMPLIN, MN) Sep 13, 2010
Member since Dec 2008
9 out of 17 gamers (53%) found this review helpful
- Units seemed very balanced. There was just enough of a "tic-tac-toe" feel to make for an interesting strategy without making every battle dependent on needing"paper" to defeat the incoming "rock".
- I had an easier time controlling the units than I thought I would. I do not own a Move controller and I feared that the game would be tough to play without one; that was not the case.
Cons:
- Hiding: It's tough to tell when you're hidden in a forest and when you're right next to a forest. You want to move your guys as close to the edge of the forest as they can be in order to maximize your range, but move them one step too far and the incoming units destroy them. If your troops automaticall made an effort to engage nearby enemies while remaining hidden (patrol or guad mode perhaps), it would have made the game much more enjoyable. As it is, I spent a lot of time putzing with individual units to make sure that they were in a good position.
- Line of Sight: I like the idea of having forests and towns that you can't shoot across as the idea of cover makes things more strategic. Too often though, I thought I had a good shot from one of my long range units only to have him instead drive real close to the enemy unit in order to get a shot off because he indeed does not have line of sight to the target. Now, if the unit had some sort of good AI, he'd just take a little step to the left and commence shooting. But because they take your orders literally the unit will make a direct path to the enemy and will only fire once a shot is available. This wouldn't be too bad except that this is an RTS and during the vital moments of the game you're trying to do 4 things at once, as quickly as possible.
Long story slightly less long, I'd recommend this game for people who may be looking for a little more strategy in their RTS. If you want a collect resource, build stuff, amass army, crush enemy type of game you may just want to stick to Starcraft II.
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6
Above Average
Good effort
posted by Zathurs (LINCOLN, NE) Nov 27, 2010
Member since Aug 2010
1 out of 3 gamers (33%) found this review helpful
Pros: The look and feel of it. I like the zoom in & out overview and I didn't have much problems as I figured I would once I got usto selecting and moveing units. (Of note just useing standard dualshock3 control) Combat seams pretty balanced. Does help to use X unit vs Y but there is usualy a plan B if your paying attention so you don't get owned because a tiger tank rolled down the road.
Cons: Unit AI would be at the top as mentioned they're really stupid and quite offen get shot crossing the road litteraly. Units will take damage retreat heal then sit and watch there buddys they just left get beat down. Says units move faster on roads but make little to no effort to use them. Lack of advanced unit commands. No patrol, guard, waypoints, move attack, move dumb, give chase. No time scale. Sometime you just need to slow the clock down so you can give all the orders you need to or speed it up when your just sitting there with 5 credits waiting for 40. Can't group units together for easy/quick selecting.
IMO: Ruse cards need timeing tweek. You get them pretty quick and you just end up redoing the same ones most of the time rather earn them slower and have them last longer just saves me micro managment time. This game come across really intuitive to me in what they have done right I just wish they could of gone that extra mile and made it top notch. I spend to much time giveing orders twice (or more) to really enjoy anything I'm doing.
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3
Bad
Complete Junk; Didn't Use Move, Cannot Comment
posted by KParrish (SAN JOSE, CA) Sep 19, 2010
Member since Apr 2010
6 out of 20 gamers (30%) found this review helpful
The controls are clunky and hard to use (no surprise). When the game first starts, you're told a way of selecting units that you want in either single, or group fashion. Later on the selections become better, such as taking one unit of four, splitting them up into two teams and flank opposing forces. Problem: trying to select units can be an annoyance in itself. After a checkpoint is hit and a cutscene ends, you're thrown back into battle yet your units are literally crammed together. Trying to pay attention to the enemy while trying to move, split, and position your units is the biggest problem. If you have enemy tanks coming at you from two different directions, and your medium tank unit of four is crammed in with soldiers and light tanks (useless against other tanks), it gets ridiculous. By the time you locate, split and position your tanks, it's all over. The controller simply isn't as good as a mouse; it's way too slow and clunky.
RUSE cards can be played during battle. One, for example, can be chosen to interpret enemies communications and find out what they're planning. When they're played, they generally last for only a minute in an area of your choosing.
The problem though is that it's hard to see what exactly you're doing. You can either zoom in or out on the battlefield yet when you do zoom out, the little icons that represent your forces become insanely big. When this happens it's hard to tell what anybody is doing because the icons hardly move at all. So, you zoom back in only to find out that you can clearly see your forces but now, you really have no idea what the enemy is doing.
So basically, the gameplay consists of zooming in and out constantly and/or rummaging about slowly trying to guide your teams, stressing trying to find the right unit in the clump of others, and playing RUSE cards; not all that fun, skip it.
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8
Very Good
Also on steam
posted by tacolover1 (CHURCHTON, MD) Sep 6, 2010
Member since Sep 2010
8 out of 27 gamers (30%) found this review helpful
Also you have special upgrades and troops and certain factions get things for cheaper. So get some people to go against you and use a specialty suck as cheap paratroopers and just eat them alive with infantry
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6
Above Average
Okay
posted by Viper115 (COLUMBUS, OH) Oct 11, 2010
Member since Oct 2010
1 out of 5 gamers (20%) found this review helpful
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3
Bad
R.U.S.E.
posted by chingchow1 (HONOLULU, HI) Nov 5, 2010
Member since Nov 2010
1 out of 6 gamers (17%) found this review helpful
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2
Really Bad
Lame.
posted by steppin (PORTLAND, OR) Oct 8, 2010
Member since Sep 2009
2 out of 13 gamers (15%) found this review helpful
Games like this should just be turn-based. RTS doesn't do well on consoles. They should just give it up and leave these kinds of games on the PC.
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4
Weak
Had high hopes
posted by Thecoolr (MESA, AZ) Apr 2, 2013
Member since Jul 2010
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6
Above Average
Fun But Arrgh ....
posted by Selectfew (MONTICELLO, FL) Sep 25, 2012
Member since Mar 2011
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2
Really Bad
ITs all a RUSE
posted by skidmark13 (LAS VEGAS, NV) Jul 11, 2012
Member since Jul 2012
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1
Horrible
just plain horrible
posted by krede23 (RICHMOND, CA) May 20, 2012
Member since Jan 2012
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1
Horrible
Terrible
posted by abb1971 (PHILADELPHIA, PA) Nov 4, 2011
Member since Sep 2011
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2
Really Bad
it takes forever to do anything
posted by irish (WILMINGTON, IL) Jul 13, 2011
Member since Apr 2011
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8
Very Good
Good RTS
posted by revenger68 (PHOENIX, AZ) May 8, 2011
Member since May 2010
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4
Weak
Fun game but a bug doesn't let you go any further
posted by cmunk (ALPHARETTA, GA) Mar 11, 2011
Member since Mar 2011
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3
Bad
Nice try
posted by Rome (TELLURIDE, CO) Mar 9, 2011
Member since Mar 2011
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1
Horrible
RUSE
posted by cmacmoto (ATHENS, TN) Mar 4, 2011
Member since Mar 2011
so if you are wanting to rent it and try it by all means do so but you can not say i did not worn you.
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7
Good
fun game to play
posted by badkarma6464 (KENOSHA, WI) Feb 22, 2011
Member since Feb 2011
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