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pasternakski -> Yeah, what Raverdave said (9/11/2002 8:29:18 AM)
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(even if he does quote Greeks in Latin translation).
Yep, this is the real deal. UV is a combination test of your ability to plan a large campaign in a crucial WWII theater, to adapt in the face of changing circumstances, and to manage the logistics and force positioning in support of your effort.
The game is very responsive to your operational-level directives, but sometimes has a "mind of its own" (that is, the minds of your subordinates) in the execution. Much of the discussion you see in these forums calling into question the design accuracy of the game or its technical execution (everything's a "bug," it seems, if things don't go according to the Admiral's expectations). It is rewarding and frustrating at the same time, which tells me that it does a good job of recreating the experience real commanders must have felt during the real events.
Above all, once you start ascending the learning curve (which is a fairly steep one, and need not have been quite so challenging if a lot of the information we players have found out by trial-and-error and through reading the erudite comments of our colleagues in these threads had been included in players' and designers' notes and more complete explication of game mechanics in the manual - not a big b****, but a b****, nonetheless) THIS IS A TREMENDOUSLY ENTERTAINING GAME TO PLAY! The rewards from having defeated a competent enemy (my most recent victim was an Aussie, by the way, who considered the Allies invincible in the campaign scenario and learned otherwise - BANZAI!) are nearly as great as having lost narrowly and -as far as you are concerned - merely because of the wiles of fate (this same Australian beat me on points three times in a row before I finally hunkered down and got my s*** together).
The AI? Better than in most games, but still candy once you get the hang of things. Good for practice, though.
And just think - in six or seven months, Matrix/2by3 will be publishing War in the Pacific, which I believe is going to be like UV on acid. Get ready, friend, 'cause it's coming...
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