Cheap History Channel Civil War: A Nation Divided (Video Games) (Xbox 360) Price

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Needs some MAJOR Improvements...
I'm surprised History Channel could dish out something this good. Well, about the game: you have a total of 12 battles to fight as either the North or the South (that's 6 battles per side). Each of these battles has a nice little intro and exit video about how the battle went, the generals, etc. etc. Then, you have your stats screen. Get tons of points and get several cool bonuses from the main menu. That's a clean overview of the non-battle system. Time for the actual battles and fights: they are pretty darn pathetic. This health system they use is rigged (your health with regenerate as a Northerner and it will remain the same until you pick up a med-kit as a Southerner). Wait a minute, they had med-kits in the Civil War? I never knew... Continuing, we have this bogus detail on the battles. Oh sure, it dishes out big promises like fighting in line battles and massive environments, but that's just a plain and easy to see lie. You will not be fighting massive battles and you will not be in line battles, ever. You will be killing people in line battles, that's it. Moving on, there is no strategy. You have a set path to follow with a copy-cat Medal of Honor: Allied Assault compass. AI is a "meh". I've seen much better. Moving on, you will be fighting small-time battles that "happened" during the big major battles. You aren't going to get to march into Fredricksburg, for instance, and start fighting in the town. You will be fighting outside in a god-forsaken forest with tons of Robin Hood-style Rebels shooting and cutting at you all the while having about 100 cannon shells landing around you. Sounds cool, but it isn't. That's just an example. The weapons are OK, but most of them aren't exactly accurate. You must note that the Union will only be using the Springfield musket when in fact the Enfield musket was the main Union weapon. Most of the environments, too, are dark and gloomy. Gettysburg isn't exactly as sunny as it should have been. Bull Run is another story. It's so bright you're likely to have your eyes melt out of your head while the image is burned into the back of your brain. <
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>Final thought, this isn't worth the forty bucks it is currently being offered at. Rent it, but do not buy. It's the same for the PC and PS2 versions. You shall not be warned again.

Was average
This game had as much good as bad. On the upside, there were a healthy variety of weapons and the scenery was beautiful. The variety gives the user the opportunity to experience firing civil war era weapons only a rich (or well connected) man could fire in a lifetime. In addtition, if you like running around in classic 19th century American farmland and woodlots, this will certainly meet that need. The best scenery is Chancellorville. It places you in a heavily wooded forest with dense undergrowth at twilight. Quite mysterious indeed. On the downside, the weapon reloading is only accurate for the Henry rifle and the Spencer carbine. All the weapons which require manual primers - as most civil guns did - do not show the user placing primers on the weapons. If this game were real life the guns would go "click, click" instead of "bang, bang." Aside from that, the uniforms are not true to history. The characters in the game resemble a spaghetti western rendition of civil war uniforms instead of what was actually worn. I'm a Civil War reenactor and I can fairly say that historic inaccuracies are aplenty in this game. To the untrained eye this will go unnoticed, but to anyone who knows what to look for, it can become painful over time. On the bright side, there are a nice variety of battles from the eastern and western theaters, as well as the deep south. It may not be the best but for civil war buffs it's all we've got - it will have to do until someone comes up with something better.