Theatre of War 2: Africa 1943

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Theatre of War 2: Africa 1943

Plattform: PC Veröffentlicht: 11.12.2009

4,99€

Preis Update 05.05.24

Tunesien, 1943. In blutigen Gefechten treffen die Alliierten Truppen auf die Soldaten Rommels.

Zeigen sie Ihr taktisches Geschick und führen Sie entweder die alliierten Einheiten oder die deutschen und italienischen Truppen in die Kämpfe um den Norden Afrikas.

Sieg oder Niederlage, in Panzern oder im Häuserkampf, zu Land und in der Luft, Sie sorgen dafür, dass Afrika entweder ein für allemal von den deutschen Truppen befreit wird oder versetzen Sie den Alliierten empfindliche Schläge.

Zeigen Sie Ihr Geschick und Ihr Taktikverständnis, wenn Sie Ihre Truppen zum Sieg führen.

Features:

Taktische, herausfordernde Gefechte vor geschichtlicher Kulisse.
Spielen Sie auf der Seite der Alliierten oder der Achsenmächte in packenden Missionen.
3 Kampagnen, 15 Missionen. Dirigieren Sie entweder die deutschen, amerikanischen oder britischen Truppen.
Online Mutliplayer Modus.
Originalgetreue Panzer, Geschütze und Ausrüstungsgegenstände.
Inklusive Stategy Guide

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Verfasst: 13.11.20 05:14

Einfach nur Schrott

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Verfasst: 03.07.18 20:25

Die Steuerung ist cancer wie kann man soetwas verkaufen wirklich man wird verrückt, und dann hält das Spiel JEDES MAL an wenn einer deiner Männer stirbt was ziemlich oft passiert weil die Steuerung so scheiße ist.

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Verfasst: 19.11.16 18:02

Man sollte lieber die Finger davon lassen

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Verfasst: 11.05.15 19:44

die ki sorgt für unglaublich hohen frust!!!!

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Verfasst: 02.02.21 23:03

Not bad games and it captures the historical realities of World War II quite well.

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4395 Std. insgesamt

Verfasst: 19.05.20 09:47

It takes a little getting used to for those not used to the ToW series, the AI and pathfinding are bad and without heavy microing your units will wander aimlessly and die. It has balancing issues like MGs being laser accurate and infantry being generally useless. The gameplay revolves around your heavy units: artillery, AT guns and most of all tanks, those do work and the gameplay with them is fun. Overall its a bit awkward and unpolished game but if you're willing to make it work and play around its problems its alot of fun, and it depicts North Africa theatre which isn't very common in RTS games.

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Verfasst: 28.11.19 22:24

A great game especially given it's age. I like the large maps and the ability to fight at long range which is realistic. When you zoom in the detail is very good. The only thing I didn't like is every time one of your troops is killed the game paused and zoomed into that area which can be a little disorienting.

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Verfasst: 10.11.19 03:41

Why dose it Keep Pausing every time a Soldier, or Vehicle gets hit ??? it's Annoying, tried to Disable i but i see nothing to be able to Disable the Random Pausing. Joe got Blown up, and it Pauses. What the Hell.

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Verfasst: 14.09.19 09:00

If you are looking for a World War 2 game which takes place in the North African campaign then sure, this game is for you. The game offers 3 campaign modes: Germany which offers 6 missions, Great Britain which has only 4 missions and the United States with 5 missions, plus a DLC for 1,99€ which includes a Italian campaign. However, the AI handling is terrible. The game has multiplayer but it's very very hard to get it to work. You have to download some sort of software and have to set it up from there. I myself have not tried the multiplayer version of the game, but my friend said he has and that it's not worth it.

Infantry is pretty much useless and retarded. If you order a squad of infantry to move somewhere it will take them 6 seconds to start moving, furthermore if you order the infantry into cover while they are in the middle of a gunfight they will stop for about 5 seconds, aim their rifle very very slowly, and then fire a shot, and only then proceed to move to your intended objective. The only good use of infantry for me was to either have them in trenches and take potshots at enemies who are a kilometer away and occasionally getting a kill. Or having them set near stationary MGs or other support weapons and using the infantry as canon fodder in case the support weapon crews die and replace them with said infantry. Another good use of infantry is charging 1 or 2 guys who have Anti Tank grenades against tanks, they might actually kill them, that is if they actually throw them.

Tanks: Speaking of tank combat, this is where the game shows its's good side. The tank combat in this game does feel unique to some other RTS's. You can order a tank to fire at an enemy tank's specific part: tracks,turret,hull and so on. Tank crews use their vision slits to spot enemies for example, if the hull machine gunner of a tank is killed then the tank won't see any enemies from the front right side, this applies to each member depending on where their vision slits are located. The tank AI isn't much better than the infantry but it's slightly better. I myself mainly used tanks in all my battles, I only used the infantry to take control of trenches and hold down positions.

Support units: There are several types of support units, AT guns, AA guns/trucks, HMG's, Artillery, halftracks/transport trucks.

Special abilities: these are abilities you can use in the middle of battle, they can't be chosen or edited. You usually get a anti tank
bombing run, a regular bombing run, fighter planes who take out enemy plane call-in's. Then there are off map artillery strikes, you usually get about 40-130 shells that you can fire, depending if it's a mortar or a howitzer call in. Please note that these abilities are exclusive to the mission you are playing and can't be changed.

Reinforcement abilities: there are 2 types of reinforcement abilities, one is a tank reinforcement which spawns 3-5 tanks which you can use. And the second ability is a infantry reinforcement, which spawns some infantry squads either in halftracks or just on foot, sometimes field artillery is attached to the reinforcement ability. You usually get these abilities at mid/late game. These abilities are also exclusive to the mission you are playing.

Missions: Now, there is one thing to say about the missions. When you attack you get a very small amount of troops to attack, at most you get 4-5 tanks and 3-6 infantry squads, and then whatever support equipment you chose. And the enemies will always outnumber and outgun you. The same thing applies when you are defending, you will get smaller amounts of troops to defend with, and only a few support weapons. When I played defensive missions as the UK or US i noticed that the Germans will attack with say, 15-20 tanks and ~100 soldiers from several locations, and you barely will be able to cover all areas of the attack. In short the AI will be superior to you in numbers.

Bugs: One of the most game ''breaking'' bugs of this game is that, when a soldier dies the entire game is paused and you are teleported to the dead soldier and his name/rank is shown to you. This is a feature in the game and it can be turned off, but sometimes it bugs out and it still pauses your game, even if you have turned it off. I encountered the bug several but then it kind of just disappeared. One of my friends who used to play this game said that he enjoyed this feature but I found it to be annoying.

Closing thoughts: I have a love/hate relationship with this game. I will occasionally re-play missions, and sometimes use the mission editor to create some missions and try them out. The game may be hard at times but when you complete a mission you will feel like a strategic genius. I suggest you try the game out, buy it when it's on sale. If you like World War 2 games and don't mind that the game does look crappy and that the AI is pretty bad then try it. I wrote this review at like 3 in the morning so I'm sorry about any sentences that make no sense or are grammatically incorrect. It's just that my brain started working at like 200% and I thought writing a review for this game would be a good idea.

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Verfasst: 02.07.18 14:21

Very disappointing game, with a horrible camera and rather stupid AI and almost no environment to work with.
You also get thrown in different scenarios and can't work with the most of your units (you should at least be able to build some defences).

The idea behind the game is great tho, but the implemantatio is rather poor.

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Verfasst: 11.08.17 01:39

Pros:

>Realistic gameplay in terms of map size, unit damage, unit movement, etc.
>All units are very detailed & indepth in terms of weapons,
selecting ammunition type, unit size ratio, etc.

Cons:

>Unfriendly user interface.
>Game can suffer from some technical problems; random crashing.
>Sometimes non responsive user input; giving units orders, actions, etc.
>Combat can be long & drawn out.
>Missions objectives can be buggy at times.
>Lacking in the sound aspect, particularly music as the game lacks sound tracks of its own.

Not totally a bad game however from being released in 2009 it seem to be very behind for its time.
As many of the cons are normally associated to games of the past.
I cannot recommend this game.

Overall I give it a 4.5/10

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Verfasst: 29.05.15 21:16

This game is STILL incredibly good for it's time. I recently purchased the battlefront Combat missions black sea and red thunder, and to MY taste, I still like the theater of war games a little bit more. And yes, you can't beat the price on theater of war series, compared to the almost $100 I just paid for black sea and red thunder.

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Verfasst: 24.12.14 09:13

I recommend this game for tank lovers (like me), and military history Fanatics.

Pros

*Intensely detailed Units and Environment

*The most Realistic Tank Physics I've ever seen

*Has a lot of tactics and strategies to defend and attack

*Pretty Awesome graphics when maxxed out

*There is a map editor

Cons
*Lacks replayability, like skirmish maps

*Needs more players in Multiplayer

*Some infantry are wusses

Recommended price- If you can get it at 50% or below, buy it!

8.5/10

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Verfasst: 11.12.14 06:31

This is the game to buy if you are a WW2 maniac like me. Though there isn't that much hardware that you can get your hands on the stuff that you do get is very well modelled. M3 medium tanks are my favorite because it's so fun to see them roll down a hill mowing down infantry with their MG turret, shooting an armored car with their 37mm, and shooting a pzIII with their 75mm. It is a shame that there aren't more vehicles. The only British vehicle that appears is the valentine (Only one that appears in campaign idk if more) but if you are expected to see the iconic british vehicles that ruled the desert like the churchhill, matilda, or the crusader, you will be kept waiting. Most American vehicles make an appearance including two variants of the M4. The only iconic vehicle missing from the germans garage are the spgs based off of the pzIII chasis like the stug. The Germans have by far the most complete arsenal as they have multiple variants of the pzIII&IV, multiple armored cars and apcs, and the famous Tiger.

GAMEPLAY
All combat is fully modelled. This is not COH where the max range of a tank gun is a 50 meters. In fact, most cannons can shoot across the entire map (though they won't penetrate armor very good that way). Any thing your units can see they can shoot assuming that their target is not outside their maximum range which will be a problem with smgs but will rarely happen with anything else. A tricky part of commanding is putting your assets in places where they have fields of fire. In most rts if a bump in the terrain or part of the crest a hill is blocking the fire the game will let the bullet travel though the obstruction. This is not a game where you can micro manage things other than the major assets. The major flaw in this game is control. It is how you say, not very good. For starters the default move order is a fire and move drill which is useful for tanks which don't have to stop to fire but will get your infantry killed all the time as they stop to fire for a few seconds, move a couple of meters, then repeat instead of just running into their trench. There is also an incredibly irritating latency to orders given to infantry and sometimes they simply ignore what you are telling them to do. Try to tell them to get in cover while they are in a fire animation? They will spend 3 seconds getting fired at before listening. The controls of the vehicles are passable at best. There is not way to tell vehicles to orient their armor without telling them to advance and sometimes they will stop firing for no reason or repeatedly fire at a target they have no hope of penetrating meanwhile infantry are right next to them lobbing AT grenades. The biggest negative is that there were FAAAR too many defense missions. More than 75% of the were defensive missions and half of those were pure defensive which means that you don't need to move your troops around at all. Some of them however required skillful use of vehicles to reinforce sectors and skillful placement of AT guns to maximize their effectiveness.

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Verfasst: 02.11.14 15:56

The choice of deployable units is somewhat limited, the vehicle, terrain and building damage physics are pretty detailed (tanks can be disabled in a number of ways, buildings can be either partially or completely destroyed, aircraft bombs, artillery and tank rounds leave craters in the terrain), the only downside is the length of the campaign (there are quite a few campaign choices) but they're all less than 10 missions long. By far though this is a very decent game and i would recommend it to anyone who used to enjoy the close combat series of games.

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Verfasst: 07.06.13 01:54

This game is great. Good mix of Empire Total War (controlling AI), and CoH [Company of Heroes] (Independent AI). Good game for anyone who loves hardcore strategy, realism, or just having fun with history. Graphics are stunning and the realism is mindblowing, this game going all the way down to naming each and every bot, with non repeating names! Highly suggest for anyone, worth the money.

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