At least the extensive database provides a small measure of consolation.
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Unfortunately, it's the case of too little, too late - by the time this version was released, wargamers would already have a chance to try Impressions' superb Civil War Generals series and leave this underdog behind. To the designer's defense, the latest version of the game (2.0.3, released in 1997) included numerous bug fixes and new graphics that make the game look more polished. However, with the poor graphics, bad music, and bugs, it just wasn't a very good game." In the day hours, the units would move and real-time battles would occur. You would spend the "night hours" planning moves and ordering cities to raise and train regiments, build railroads, etc. I tend to think that in many cases they were bugs, because I don't think it should've taken a unit the whole course of the war before it would finally begin to act on the order. In the strategic mode, if units moved by water sometimes they would get "stuck" in the water! Argh! It was hard to tell if some units weren't moving because of the difficulty setting (you could make it so that units wouldn't always act on orders immediately because of delays in the order reaching them) or if it was just a bug. During battles, sometimes units would suddenly fly across the screen for no reason. With the computers back in 95, this took several seconds and made for bad gameplay. Also, the game would have to re-render the graphics everytime zooming in or out during battles. The sprites that represent the units during battles are horrendous. The Bad: The "icons" - from the main screen to the unit identification icons - are so badly done it's almost impossible to tell what they're representing in some cases. Since I didn't know anyone else with the game, I never tried it in multiplayer until several years after I got it (over LAN), and it crashed during the first battle. Another nice thing was the game featured multiplayer support via LAN or modem. This was one of the most interesting parts of the whole package. It also came with a little illustrated book that told how life was for soldiers during the Civil War.
It had an encyclopedia which was ok, but it didn't have very detailed information (the average entry was about 5 sentences long!).
He asked for suggestions and implemented many of them in a series of patches. I must say that the programmer, Steven Morle-Green, really tried to improve it. "This poor game tries to do too many things, and doesn't do a good job at many of them. The review at MobyGames explains it well: While the game offers multi-level command perspectives over the entire Civil War, real-time gameplay, in-depth production rules, and dozens of unit types, it doesn't pull off most of these ambitious features successfully. The Civil War is an ambitious US Civil War game from Greenius, published by Empire Interactive in 1996 and later in 1997 (with improvements and engine upgrade, marketed under the name of Master Player's Edition). Civil War, The (Empire) Collection: Open Source Games
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