As I said I was hoping to try some games I’ve bought throughout various sales on steam and other places. This game is one of the games I haven’t really had time to play.
- Wargame: European Escalation is a new real time strategy game built around depth and reflection, the key elements of classic wargames.
- Wargame: European Escalation creates a hypothetical scenario in which conventional fighting breaks out on the border of East and West Germany in 1975. The game uses conventional weapons instead of nuclear weapons, otherwise its whole concept would be pointless and battles would only last seconds.
- Update: Steam downloaded and installed 'VC 2012 Redist'. Upon completion it attemped to run the game. It had no effect, with the same issue as described below. Hello, I recently re-downloaded the game for nostalgia sake. When I attempt to launch the game it begins to run, with the 'Wargame: European Escalation' image being displayed. Steam's library claims that it is 'Running', only for it.
Wargame: European Escalation is set in the 1970s, based ina “what if” scenario where war breaks out in Europe. I’ve only played a few missions so far but I feels I know enough about the game to at least give a first impression.
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I’ve been looking at this game for quite some time, since I’m a fan of “authentic” RTS games. Swinsian 2 1 1 – music manager and player positions. I play “Men of war” from time to time, and love the total war series.
Game play
I’ve only played single player so far so I can’t talk about multi player at all, but I can imagine it can be quite a mess if you’re not used to it. The game is kind of slow paced, but it focuses a lot of on strategy with an emphasis on recon. Scouting an enemy is important in any RTS but in this game you’ll have to do it right from the start. Many of your units are pretty much helpless without a recon unit spotting for them. I realized this quickly on the second mission when my entire farce was wiped out by artillery. You’ll get hints as new concepts are introduced but I still think the game has a pretty steep learning curved compared to some other RTS games. At the start, you’ll just have a few unit types available to you but as you progress, more units are made available. The missions so far are pretty much capture and hold different sectors of the map, while keeping your units supplied and repaired. Some sectors are also reinforcement zones, giving you the ability to bring reinforcements to the map. Reinforcements costs money that you make by holding sectors. Well, you get the idea. For each mission you get “command stars” that you can use to unlock new units and equipment. Depending on how well you do on a mission (how many objectives you complete) you’ll get extra command stars. Losses also carry over from one mission to another, experience and losses also carry over from one mission to the next, so you want to keep your experienced units alive.
Even though the game, overall moves on at a fairly relaxed pace, it can be pretty intense at times, and you can quickly loose a lot of units if you don’t pay attention.
Graphics
Readkit 2 4 3. Except for some glitches I think the graphics are really nice for a game like this. Iyou can zone in to get a close up of one of your units, or view the entire map from a satelite perspective.
![Wargame: European Escalation 2012 Native Wargame: European Escalation 2012 Native](https://steamcdn-a.akamaihd.net/steam/apps/58645/ss_10370ab469e5f14f39a481166dee107e5638b727.1920x1080.jpg?t=1447355514)
Audio
The audio is the most disappointing part in this game. I think some of the weapons sounds are terrible while most are decent. The music is ok, but nothing amasing.
Interface
The interface seem to be pretty good, you get things explained early on, as you need them. There’s a lot of information available . There are some things I’m missing, for example, I haven’t found a hotkey to jump to the last warning when a unit is under attack.
Conclusion
If you like games like Men of war, you may like this, even though the games are quite different. I haven’t played R.U.S.E but this is from the same developer and the games seem pretty similar. Overall it’s a good modern combat RTS.