The History Channel: Civil War - A Nation Divided

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  1. 3do
    Jan 22, 2007
    7
    This is realy good game, it's like Call of Duty but in time of American Civil war. Quite good.
  2. KeithK.
    Jan 24, 2007
    6
    Ok game for value software, however I could only play this game in windowed mode. Activision has yet to come up with a patch for some Nvidia cards...unacceptable. Graphics were OK but AI was not up to the standards of Call of Duty or MOH. Very linear game play, with too few missions. It could have been a winner, Cauldron dropped the ball on this one. Get it used or in the bargain bin.
  3. JonathanM.
    Apr 21, 2007
    5
    It's Call of Duty: The Civil War in terms of gameplay and style, but it's not quite as exciting. The game has its fair share of bugs and issues. The first of these that comes to mind is that the AI has psychic-level perception (and accuracy on par with that). It does not matter how well you think you have hidden yourself or how much you maneuver; they will "see" you, track you, It's Call of Duty: The Civil War in terms of gameplay and style, but it's not quite as exciting. The game has its fair share of bugs and issues. The first of these that comes to mind is that the AI has psychic-level perception (and accuracy on par with that). It does not matter how well you think you have hidden yourself or how much you maneuver; they will "see" you, track you, and hit you accordingly. It's a little easier to understand why that is if you happen to disable the undergrowth in the video options menu. You will notice that A LOT of clutter is removed: the very same clutter you were using to hide from your enemies. Yeah, while you foolishly used that "thicket" for cover, the AI had achieved a level of Matrix-like enlightenment bringing them to the conclusion that "there is no thicket." *BANG* *BANG* And you get peppered with bullets from enemies who remain unseen until you make that little trip to the options menu. Of course, stealth is much more possible in pre-determined *stealth missions,* where a man could crouch, in something FAR from the black of night, 15 feet from a pair of sentries, stab another sentry (who manages a conspicuous shot in self-defense), and continue on without further incident. Even when you do get "peppered," as mentioned above, every character the player controls possesses a comic-book-hero caliber constitution that positively dwarfs the one-shot-one-kill lifespan of his fellow combatants, allowing him to continue his role as a one-man army without much incident. And claims to historical accuracy are just ridiculous. Every other soldier has a repeating rifle! Of course, that's necessary if you want to maintain the CoD feel of the game: it wouldn't be very exciting if everyone came equipped with one-shot muskets. Then you'd have to throw away the specops/modern warfare style gameplay (sneak behind enemy lines, destroy artillery, sabotage supply depot, find commander, sneak behind enemy lines, destroy artillery... you know). Outside of that, the game lacks the "epic" feel you think a Civil War game should have. You never find yourself as part of some grand infantry column of hundreds or thousands of soldiers or on some open-ended battlefield with bloody mayhem around every farmhouse or copse of trees. Instead, you're stuck in fairly small, wholly linear *levels* (NOT history book battlefields, just ordinary FPS levels that happen to have a Civil War theme) with at most 20 or 30 guys fighting, dieing, and respawning around you until you get tired of watching it and decide to move on to the next disappointingly small and obviously scripted area where the same thing is going to happen again. There's some other stuff I could say about it on the negative side, but I think that's enough. Was it fun *at all*? Yeah, for a CoD clone it was, but only for several hours. If you just HAVE to see what a History Channel FPS looks like right this minute, buy it. I'll admit the Civil War twist was sort of cool, but I say don't buy it for more than about $14.99 (really more like $9.99).… Expand
  4. MikeS.
    Jan 31, 2007
    7
    Good game, it has it's flaws but overall I enjoy it. Granted it's not as in depth as other first person shooters, but much better than any other civil war game as of yet.
  5. ThomasH.
    Mar 17, 2007
    5
    The game is kind of like call of duty. Instead of WWII it in the civil war. The down side of this game is that its not hard, just sort of to easy. when u shoot at someone its basically one shot one kill. In the game your get shot too many times. It just gets annoying. Also when you try to crouch around boxes you still get shot. I'd also recommend not to get this game for the pc. It The game is kind of like call of duty. Instead of WWII it in the civil war. The down side of this game is that its not hard, just sort of to easy. when u shoot at someone its basically one shot one kill. In the game your get shot too many times. It just gets annoying. Also when you try to crouch around boxes you still get shot. I'd also recommend not to get this game for the pc. It crashes every once and a while. I know its not my cp that caused that, its just problems with that game. I'd recommend to get this game only for the PS2 or Xbox 360.… Expand

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  1. GameSpot
    53
    History Channel: Civil War is good for a few mindless hours of shooting action, but not much else. History buffs need not apply.
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