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| PLATFORM: | Windows 98, Windows Me, Windows 95 |
| CATEGORY: | Software |
| MANUFACTURER: | TalonSoft |
| ESRB RATING: | Rating Pending |
| TYPE: | Twelve O'Clock High |
| MEDIA: | CD-ROM |
| # OF MEDIA: | 1 |
| ACCESSORIES: | |
| UPC: | 750560000223 |
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Customer Reviews of 12 O'Clock High
Understanding the Air War in WW II 12 O'Clock High by Talonsoft is quite simply the best strategic presentation of the war in the air, 1943-45, ever made for computer games. The richness of detail--for playing either the Allies or the Axis--is simply stunning. Nothing compares in the genre. It is, in fact, its biggest curse as well as triumph: to play the long campaign games the length and intricacy will put off the casual wargamer or "shoot-em-up" seeker. The multitude of factors faced by the high command of each side are in the game. To win you must come to understand the air war as it was, if simplified even here for the fussy historian. For the enthusiast it presents delicious detail and very difficult problems. (This game could be a required course for aspiring business executives in the results of planning.) Improvements could be made. It could be faster. More, rather than less detail would be better. But it's the best there is.
Good for the hardcore sim fan
Basically, this is a good game for the real hardcore war strategy fan. If you're into more of the "shoot-'em-up, ninja" garbage, then this is definitely not the game for you.
The pluses of the game are as follows: very detailed, follows closely to historical detail, and the interface is fairly easy to figure out. On the minus side, it is VERY VERY LONG!!! As mentioned in some of the other reviews, the full campaign takes forever. In fact, if you play it every night for an hour, it will still take you a full month or more to finish the game!! Also, I think the interface could have been a little more user friendly than it is.
Again, if you really like historical strategy sims, this isn't a bad choice. But you better either have lots of patience or lots of timeon your hands to play it.
Frustration by Talonsoft
This, as with most TalonSoft games using this particular game engine, is a tedious, difficult, and generally overly time consuming game. No matter how you set game options, the AI will make the game so difficult that playing becomes an exercise in futility. Example: the AI will ground your fighter escorts because of "heavy weather", yet the enemy's interceptors have no problem flying in the same weather and shooting down your bombers. Your bomber pilots will "not be able to find target" in perfectly clear weather at low altitude, but will be shot down by flak over same target. Overall, an exercise in frustation. I think the designers coded this game purposely to make conditions as unrealistic and historically inacurate as possible, in spite of their claims to the opposite. If you like the sound of fingernails against a blackboard, you'll like this game!