American Conquest: Divided Nation

by CDV Software Entertainment

Product Features

• Experience legendary battles of the 19th century in this strategy game
• Mexico and Texas, North and South fight hard for domination
• 9 campaigns with 50+ maps and missions; new richly equipped Battle mode
• Ammunition depots; defensive structures; timed explosive charges; submarines
• For 1 player

Product Details

• Shipping: This item is also available for shipping to select countries outside the U.S.
• ASIN: B000BCICQ6
• Item Weight: 8.8 ounces
• Media: CD-ROM
• Release Date: March 27, 2006
• Average Customer Review: 2.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (13 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #7,949 in Video Games (See Top 100 in Video Games)
• Discontinued by manufacturer: Yes

Product Description

From the Manufacturer

The dawn of modern times tore America apart... in the arduous wars and battles of the 19th century a great nation began to develop. Mexico and Texas, North and South fought hard and embittered for domination. Even far beyond the times of occurrences themselves, the generals and battles are still known.

After the successful add-on "Fight Back", American Conquest: Divided Nation sets forth into a new century.

Features:

• New richly equipped Battle mode
• The legendary battles of the 19th century
• Nations: Texas, Mexico, Southern and Northern States
• Nine campaigns with more than 50 maps and missions
• Huge selection of various uniforms and units
• Everything from dazzling cavalry battles to trench warfare
• Approximately 100 new units
• Approximately 20 new buildings
• Pioneer troops and heavy static artillery
• Submarines
• Ammunition depots
• Timed explosive charges
• Barricades and defensive structures
• US-Gettysburg Campaign (five missions) and many more

Product Description

Take on the role of a Civil War general Texasmilitia leader or pirate captainProduct InformationThe 19th century.  North America.  A time and place of turmoil thatonce the smoke cleared and the blood washed away would leave a nation foreverchanged: Bravely an outnumbered ragtag American militia supported by pirates and privateers fought off the British in a grueling series of contests during the Battle of New Orleans. "Remember the Alamo!" was but one Texan war cry as they clashed with a numerically superior Mexican army each determined to defend their respective territorial claims. Brother fought against brother forced to choose the Union blue or the Confederacy gray; meanwhile names like Robert E. Lee "Stonewall" Jackson Ulysses S. Grant Antietam and Gettysburg filled the pages of history their footnotes written in blood sweat and tears.American Conquest: Divided Nation is a real-time strategy game based uponevents in 19th century American history. Building upon the successful AmericanConquest series Divided Nation offers nine historically inspired campaigns thatspan the American Civil War the Texas War for Independence and the Battle ofNew Orleans.Product Features Research and employ improvements fortify your positions wisely manage resources and lead your troops to victory in furious real-time battles. Nine massive campaigns.  Walk in the footsteps of famous Generals including Sam Houston Robert E. Lee and Ulysses S. Grant and prove your military mettle in more than 40 of this nation's dramatic 19th century battles. Five playable sides:  The American militia forces at New Orleans the Union the Confederacy Texas and Mexico.  Prove your military prowess in single-player mode or demolish the ambitions of would-be armchair generals online. All in-game maps troop clothing weapons and insignia are based on their historicall

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

25 of 25 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Not Much, June 7, 2006

By 

Ron (Jersey) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: American Conquest: Divided Nation (CD-ROM)

I am a big fan of Cossacks and the original American Conquest, so I was really looking forward to this expansion. The problem with the game is that it is nothing but battles. There are no buildings to be built, other than a few battlefield tents. There are no techs, no leveling up units, and no linear campaigns. The game has many of the battles from the civil war with a handful of conflicts from the Texas Seccession and The Battle of New Orleans from the War of 1812. While it is pretty fun at first to have these huge battles, it gets boring and repetive quickly. The unit amounts are pre determined, so there is nothing you can do to better your army. It is also incredibly tedious to march thousands of soldiers across the field to line them up across from the enemy troops. You can have way more men in an area getting mowed down standing in marching order by an organized enemy column and unless you spot it and make the fix yourself, there is no AI to assist you. In real life men would not just stand there and get killed because they had not been given the order to return fire. I usually find it effective to just mash charge all of my men straight toward the enemy general. Kill him and you win the scenerio even if you lose 90% of your force just to kill one man. This one could have been better.

24 of 28 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Possibly the best American Conquest to date..., April 22, 2006

By 

D Hodge "Dan Hodgman" (Michigan) - See all my reviews

= Fun:5.0 out of 5 stars 

This review is from: American Conquest: Divided Nation (CD-ROM)

There came a day while playing American Conquest: Fight Back, when I wondered, "What if American Conquest was also a civil war campaign game with the same awesome American Conquest style?" My question was answered May 27, 2006, when CDV released DIVIDED NATION. It was evident that this game would go down in history as one of the greatest stradegy games ever.

The dawn of modern times tore America apart. In the arduous wars and bttles of the 19th Century a great nation began to develop. Mexico and Texas, North and South fought hard and embittered for domination. Even far beyond the times of the occurences themselves the generals and battles are still known.

After the succesful add-on "Fight Back", American Conquest - Divided Nation sets forth into a new century.

For 29.99, it's a good deal. It also comes with the first American Conquest, so that makes it even better. The one thing i noticed about this game was that the AI was smarter than that of American Conquest, and even Cossacks. You can play as Texas, Mexico, Southern States, and Northern States. You can fight battles like Antietam, Gettysburg, and the Alamo. There are sub's, ironclads, better artillary, advanced calvary, and like i said before, smarter AI.

There are over 100 new units in this game alone, and over 20 new buildings. Though this game may not have as much civilizations/teams as the first two, this offers better quality, and better gameplay.

The game is divided into two parts:

The previous game pattern which has had a small selection of units from the Nineteenth Century, and the Nation of Pirates added to it. A new richly equipped battle mode from the Nineteenth Century with the Nations Texas, Mexico and both the Northern and Southern States. Altogether nine campaigns, with more than fifty maps that have been produced from historical material and information lead the player through the battles and offer eventful, varied, interesting and surprising challenges. A large range of different uniforms and units convey the dazzling array of the battle fields of that time, and gives an insight into the happenings as it must have been. We tried, as precisely as possible to produce the most important battles of the war, and to follow the most important generals with their success, or to lead each nation through the most important stages of the war. From the dazzling cavalry battles to the first trench fighting.

THINK ABOUT THIS: Any team may have up to 20,000 units on the battle field at once. If you are facing another team, then that means that there can be 40,000 units all together on the field at once. This is a game of extreme measures, and this one statistic proves it.

If you are a big fan of the original Cossacks, or even a gamer playing American Conquest, this third installment will definatly get your gamer buds going.

THINK ABOUT THIS: The first American Conquest allowed 16,000 units. Divided Nation allows 20,000. If you combine Age of Empires 1,2,and 3, you won't even get half as much units as Divided Nation. Empire Earth 1 only offers 800 units, while Gettysburg allows only 2,500.

IF YOU ARE A FAN OF COSSACKS, AMERICAN CONQUEST, AMERICAN CONQUEST FIGHT BACK, OR ANY OTHER OF THOSE STRADEGY GAMES, THEN AMERICAN CONQUEST: DIVIDED NATION IS FOR YOU!!!!!!!!!!!

8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Falls a bit Short., May 28, 2006

By 

Ev Dogg "Evan" (OHIO) - See all my reviews

= Fun:3.0 out of 5 stars 

This review is from: American Conquest: Divided Nation (CD-ROM)

The concept for this game is a great one. Never before have I seen so many units on my screen in all my years. That fact alone makes this game at least a 3 star game.

Pro's:

-Amazing amounts of forces to play with

-Good Soundtrack

Con's:

-Map is way too big for my liking, and it causes the games to feel like ages before you actually fight.

-My computer is XP and is a 2.60GHZ with a Radeon 7500, 256MB and yet STILL this game runs very laggy.

-The Command system is not very clearly stated so It is kind of weird jumping right into a game.

Overall I would say this game is headed in the right direction, and I imagine that if you have the firepower (in terms of a computer) then you will enjoy this game, but I'm not having too much fun.

3 1/2 Stars...