Act of War Demo

It's an excellent job at making a game nobody will play.

I kind of feel bad for the guys.

The graphics are great. Nothing wrong with them.
The gameplay is 'good enough' and it has the possibility of giving you some nice strategic gameplay.
The voice acting and cutscenes are EXCELLENT. That lady doing the news report in front of the bridge. That's just great.
Seems like the story will be pretty good, but you really can't tell from the demo.

So far everything about the game was great, it showed a lot of talent, a lot of dedication, and I want to congratulate the team that made it.


However, it's not going to be a huge hit, and it might not even be considered successful. It's not really the developers fault...except they chose to put all their hard work into the wrong kind of game.

It's a great single-player RTS. The people who play it will really enjoy it. However, it's never going to have the draw and the appeal of say "Dawn of War" which was a great multiplayer RTS.

I feel bad for the developers, but I don't think there's anything to be done.

why is it i can never seem to find system requirements on offical websites. maybe i'm just a retarded monkey. (the first person who say's 'there's no maybe about it' gets a free punch in the face)

i'd kinda like to know that before downloading something this big.

interesting side note
(from the offical site under features) "Infinite replayablity - extensive multiplayer options and singleplayer skirmish mode for infinite replayablity"

that's INFINITE replayablity!

I like much. It's like Generals: Zero Hour++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++

So no one has stopped playing WoW long enough to try this out?

http://www.shacknews.com/screens.x/actofwar/Act+of+War:+Direction+Action/1/thumbs/img_10.jpg

A B2 stealth bomber would never fly that low.

What the hell? I finished the first mission and then it sent me back to the main menu. where are the other 4 missions?

Anyways, the game is pretty cool. nothing new so far, but still fun.
It's too bad that the GUI is way, WAYYYY too big. why did they want to block almost 30% of the screen? couldn't they include an option to toggle it?

I played it for about 15 minutes and was severly unimpressed. After reading about the game in the January PC Gamer, where they heralded it first in their "Top 10 of 2005" game list, I was expecting the game to be able to cure Cancer when, in fact, it's just a C&C Generals clone lacking in the polish of C&C Generals.

I felt the camera didn't zoom out far enough, the battles were really boring to watch take place (though the graphics, overall, were quite sexy), and the only thing I took from my time with the game was: mediocre gameplay.

The game's story and the cutscenes where they set-up the missions seem to be awesome as hell though. Too bad the gameplay isn't more revolutionary.

So does it matter that the version says AOW_DEMO_EURO.EXE ? Even if I'm not in Europe?

all fake :/

it's not 5 missions it's 5 mission goals

gg Atari :P


aside from that i find it rather fun :)

http://www.shacknews.com/screens.x/actofwar/Act+of+War:+Direct+Action/1/thumbs/img_2.jpg

Ah Detroit

So any good?

And the army would use a x war weapon for a suicide mission?

From the Bush administration that would be credible, but otherwise...

Hey, someone please give us some first impressions :)

Great looking screenshots! I'll have to d/l when I get home. A new modern RTS could be a good time.

hmm, after installing, it said some files were corrupt and to download it again, never seen that before. ahh well I'll try it anyway

Wierd, fileplanet says its half hte size
http://www.fileplanet.com/149381/140000/fileinfo/Act-of-War-Demo

mmm, very flashy graphics, not much in the way of gameplay. camera is too zoomed in, you don't get much feedback on what's going on, and it just isn't a very tight package, imo.

Whoa, nice looking screens! I'm going to have to try this one out when I get home tonight.

wow 684 mb demo

Looks strangely like generals. Even the bar at the bottom. dling now.

Screen shots are titled "Act of War: Direction Action"

this looks pretty cool. I'll have to try and check it out this weekend.

Cant wait to try it out at home :)

Hey an urban setting, neat.