Axis & Allies

by Encore

Product Features

• Lead any one of the five WWII super-powers, each with unique and authentic weapons and capabilities
• Experience the entire scope of the war as you command land, air, and sea units across all theaters of the world
• Change the course of history through Dynamic Campaigns that never play the same way twice
• Test your mettle against the greatest generals and leaders from the era, including Rommel, Eisenhower, Yamamoto, Zhukov and Montgomery
• Challenge others online in instant action scenarios

Product Details

• Shipping: This item is also available for shipping to select countries outside the U.S.
• ASIN: B000HHZIFS
• Media: CD-ROM
• Release Date: August 7, 2006
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (9 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #15,898 in Video Games (See Top 100 in Video Games)
• Discontinued by manufacturer: Yes

Product Description

Axis & Allies puts WWII in your hands! Direct land, sea, and air units and experience the most epic battles in real time!

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Pretty fun, but falls slightly short, December 29, 2008

A Kid's Review

= Fun:4.0 out of 5 stars 

This review is from: Axis & Allies (CD-ROM)

This game is pretty fun, but I don't really know how good it is because I'm a rookie. I've not been able to access multiplayer so I'm focusing on the campaign and editor.

CAMPAIGN:

It fell short of what I had hoped for, but it still is a great game. The tutorial is pretty straight-forward, teaching you basic commands, then tossing you straight into battle. All the controls are simple, but if you don't memorize them during the tutorial, you'll be spending an awful lot of time trying to figure out what the heck this button does or what happens when you toggle that switch. Which brings me to another point, the command screen gives you the feel of being a real commander in an actual hq or something.

EDITOR:

The editor is everything you could hope for except a strawberry milkshake. Don't ask, I'm southern. Anyway, straight-forward controls and an almost limitless amount of objects to customize with. I've had this game for a year and still haven't found all the objects. That's one of the drawbacks of the editor, you can never find all the objects.

AI:

Unless you're playing with multiple AI's on your side, You're pretty much screwed unless you have a cheat code. The enemy can manage all his assets at once while you have to click on each unit to control it.

I'm giving this game a solid four stars for it's overall playability and educational concepts.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Axis and Allies is a smash hit., January 2, 2011

By 

REDWING1994 - See all my reviews

Amazon Verified Purchase

This review is from: Axis & Allies (CD-ROM)

If you ever talked to my friends they know me for me a first person shooter type gamer. I can't deny it but i like to branch out sometimes. Before i got my xbox 360, this was the game i always played except for halo combat evolved. I was confused with the idea of a strategy game but i got the hang of it real quick. This was my first strategy game and i loved it. I would spend hours playing it because of all the ways to play it. Between infinite money option, full enemy and ally views to see everything, and randomized maps it was awesome. I did make a stupid decision in letting my friend borrow it and i never got it back. Staples ran out of copies so i looked to amazon for a new copy and amazon wans't selling it(they need to its a good priced game for only 10 bucks). So i finally found a copy by a different seller that was fulfilled by amazon which seemed good enough for me because it works the same as buying it from amazon. They give you free shipping with it. I love axis and allies and many gamers should get there hands on it.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Axis & Allies, February 24, 2008

By 

Nathaniel Skow (Topeka, KS United States) - See all my reviews
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= Fun:4.0 out of 5 stars 

Amazon Verified Purchase

This review is from: Axis & Allies (CD-ROM)

Having tried to learn the boardgame (and giving up - pretty complex) I came across the electronic version here... I was hoping it would be similair to the boardgame (with the computer handling remembering all the rules) and what I got was a real-time strategy. I was expecting it to be turn-based still, but what it does, it does pretty well.

The game is a few years old now, so it's not cutting edge graphics - but has held up pretty good over the years. There's sooo many different units to build and send off to war... The included maps have kept me busy for hours, and the enemy AI is pretty good. The most fun has been playing with a friend and taking on the computer players. Definetly worth the ~$8 I paid for it... would definetly encourage friends to pick it up to have some LAN fun.