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Capitaine -> RE: New Guns Of August Screenshots (6/21/2006 4:39:40 PM)
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The screens look pretty good to me, and the quality of the map art appears high. Judging from the information displayed it would appear that the game system accounts for a lot of details I would deem necessary and appropriate to WWI.
A couple of deficiencies strike me initially: (1) Counters: The basic, "typewriter" style font used for the text looks pretty weak. Something maybe a bit more substantial, and also adjust the text positioning as some of the numbers on the bottom of the units appear to be cut off. I also don't care for the "soldier art" on the shots here (and the ones in the earlier screens). The art quality of these images is too inconsistent across the board, and if this sort of depiction is desired I'd have another go at a different, more screen-friendly style. And I would prefer an option, at least, for military symbols only such as what is used for the HQ units already shown (which look good).
(2) I'm a little disappointed not to see actual depiction of rail lines on the map -- even though the scale is fairly strategic -- because in this war advances were tied to viable rail lines and they were not so prevalent as to be deemed present in every hex on the map, especially in the east. Railroads are also some of the chrome I look for in WWI strategy games, so I consider it highly important to my impression of a game on the subject. N.B. I can see the game accounts for RR's abstractly, so kudos for that; I just like to see the actual "major" rail lines at this scale.
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