Men of War

 PC
  • Publisher: Aspyr
  • Release Date: Mar 16, 2009
User Score
8.0

Generally favorable reviews- based on 172 Ratings

User score distribution:
  1. Positive: 131 out of 172
  2. Mixed: 26 out of 172
  3. Negative: 15 out of 172
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  1. purple_laser
    Jan 1, 2018
    0
    i am giving this stupid game a "0" as it is virtually unplayable.

    enemy AI is suicidal and stupid. if you are in control of a particular unit, other units will just stand an wont even defend themselves..
  2. RumpleFugly
    Mar 5, 2012
    4
    Somehow, 1C Company has managed to make a strategy wargame more painful than the act of war itself.
    Seriously, as interesting as this game looks with it's multitude of different units, vehicles and weapons, it is an exersize in frustration and mediocrity.
    Single player sways between pitched battles where you're expected to position an entire army in the 15 seconds it takes for the enemy    Somehow, 1C Company has managed to make a strategy wargame more painful than the act of war itself.
    Seriously, as interesting as this game looks with it's multitude of different units, vehicles and weapons, it is an exersize in frustration and mediocrity.
    Single player sways between pitched battles where you're expected to position an entire army in the 15 seconds it takes for the enemy forces to reach you, to laughable stealth missions in which stealth is literally not an option (don't forget insta-failing missions for conditions that you're never actually made aware of).
    I honestly don't know what the developers were thinking when they made this game, other than "let's try to take a tried and tested formula and make it as unfun as we can". Maybe it was a team building exersize or something.
    Worst part is that I'm being generous, there's like 20% of a reasonable game hidden in here. It's just a shame that you have to wade through the 80% of effluent that is the rest of this embarrassment to get to it.    … Expand
  3. jimplunder
    Feb 5, 2012
    4
    I bought the game on sale from Steam and I've tried it out twice. My main experience is this: if you command infantry, you can never get all of the people in your squad to go where you want them to (at least 1 of my guys always stood in place unless I brought them into cover), tank tracks are destroyed like they're made of playdough (and it seems the computer always manages to disable myI bought the game on sale from Steam and I've tried it out twice. My main experience is this: if you command infantry, you can never get all of the people in your squad to go where you want them to (at least 1 of my guys always stood in place unless I brought them into cover), tank tracks are destroyed like they're made of playdough (and it seems the computer always manages to disable my tank tracks from 1000 yards off with a tiny flak gun with one lucky shot while my tank crew shoots wildly and misses half the time), and you're fighting with a squad of 8 against dozens of enemies. This is the first mission of the game on Easy difficulty. I know I'm probably going to get a lot of people telling me I'm terrible at this game, but that's just my experience and because of that, I couldn't get into the game. I also had one of the "heroes" of the game get "killed" but instead of dying he was crouched down and used up all of the medpacks I had salvaged off of dead bodies without healing himself.… Expand
  4. StigJ
    Aug 26, 2009
    2
    The singleplayer is ok, lots of units, lots of dept, just a shame its getting ruined by the PATHETHIC AI. Also noticed theres no skirmish option in this game, why? Cause theres no AI. Multiplayer is another joke, basicly you can set up custom matches and thats it, no ranking, no automatch, no nothing, just custom matches where you can play against preset teams of ppl on teamspeak, BORING. The singleplayer is ok, lots of units, lots of dept, just a shame its getting ruined by the PATHETHIC AI. Also noticed theres no skirmish option in this game, why? Cause theres no AI. Multiplayer is another joke, basicly you can set up custom matches and thats it, no ranking, no automatch, no nothing, just custom matches where you can play against preset teams of ppl on teamspeak, BORING. Theres a beta build out witch implements automatching, but its basiacally worthless, half the time the automatch server is down, and when its up it maches you totally randomly, so 90% of your games are gonna be against ppl WAY above your lvl, WAY below, or simply with 500 ping so it becomes one big lagfest. All in all, nice unit variety, nice dept, nice micro options. Just a shame both single and multiplayer is a joke wich leaves this game as total fail. Back to COH I go.… Expand
  5. anonymous
    Sep 4, 2009
    0
    Horrible voice acting annoying interface, bad graphics and a stupid AI this game is crap if you want a good World War 2 Strategy game play Company Of Heroes which has a better engine good voice acting, Intelligent AI, Challenging missions and better graphics
  6. Broyax
    Apr 15, 2020
    0
    Ah ça me fait penser à la blague des chasseurs : il y a le bon chasseur et il y a le mauvais chasseur... le bon chasseur, il voit un truc... et c'est pareil pour les jeux de stratégie en temps réel, un genre il faut le dire passable et passablement con par ses mécaniques répétitives, usées, fatigantes, navrantes, bêtes...

    Or, parmi cette faune de jeux "STR", certains sont vraiment mais    Ah ça me fait penser à la blague des chasseurs : il y a le bon chasseur et il y a le mauvais chasseur... le bon chasseur, il voit un truc... et c'est pareil pour les jeux de stratégie en temps réel, un genre il faut le dire passable et passablement con par ses mécaniques répétitives, usées, fatigantes, navrantes, bêtes...

    Or, parmi cette faune de jeux "STR", certains sont vraiment mais vraiment pires que d'autres... "Men of War" fait donc partie des pires et peine lancé, vous savez que ce machin va faire une seule chose, encore et encore : vous faire perdre du temps ! en plus de vous emmerder bien sûr ! car il peut faire plusieurs choses à la fois...

    L'interface a une éffet répulsif immédiat et donne juste envie de fuir à toute blinde... je me rends, je me rends, drapeau blanc, putain ! ergonomie ? présentation ? didacticiel ? non, non, inconnus au bataillon, camarade !

    Et on se rend vite compte qu'il va falloir micro-gérer tou ce bordel au poil de cul près... bonjour les dégâts, la fatigue et l'ennui ! Non, franchement, c'est pas sérieux de faire un jeu pareil... c'est carrément n'importe quoi ! en fait.    … Expand

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#39 Best PC Game of 2009
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#44 Most Discussed PC Game of 2009
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#65 Most Shared PC Game of 2009

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Metascore
80

Generally favorable reviews - based on 22 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 18 out of 22
  2. Mixed: 4 out of 22
  3. Negative: 0 out of 22
  1. Eurogamer
    90
    This might be the most gripping tactics title I've played in getting on for a decade.
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  2. PC Zone UK
    76
    As a strategy game, very few titles reach the epic scale and excitement of Men of War's biggest battles. [Apr 2009, p.68]
  3. PC Format
    84
    It's a hard game, but that challenge and scope will be what keeps you coming back after your arse is handed to you. Again.
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