Brigade E5

by Strategy First

Product Features

• Innovative combat system called Smart Pause Mode that blends together the elements of both RTS and TBS games
• Storyline and scripts of the game are written by Shaun Lyng, designer of the famous Jagged Alliance' series.
• More than 100 accurately modeled firearms
• Varied ammunition types - grenades, body armor and specialized equipment.
• Option to upgrade and modify weapons by adding various gadgets, sniper scopes, bayonets, mini grenade launchers, etc.

Product Details

• Shipping: This item is also available for shipping to select countries outside the U.S.
• ASIN: B000G19752
• Media: CD-ROM
• Release Date: November 21, 2006
• Average Customer Review: 2.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #42,650 in Video Games (See Top 100 in Video Games)

Product Description

Brigade E5: New Jagged Union is a tactical strategy title. The story offers players the opportunity to experience three different viewpoints of the conflict, or work outside the political structure to achieve their own goals towards global domination. Game play for the title is based on an innovative combat system called SPM (Smart Pause Mode) that successfully blends together the elements of both real-time and turn-based games.

The story is set in the fictional, small tropical country of Palinero. Players are required to assemble a band of mercenaries and take control of a rapidly deteriorating situation in order to survive the imminent civil war and avoid having their country left in complete ruins. Selection of specially balanced maps for Deathmatch (up to 4 players, up to 6 players per party). Provides extensive LAN and Internet Multiplayer modes, with CTF, Deathmatch and Fortress dynamic gameplay Minimum PC System Requirements - Windows 98/2000/XP; DirectX 8.0; 1 GHz processor; Video card with 32 Mb RAM; 256 MB System RAM; DirectX compatible audio card; CD-ROM 4x; 1.5 Gb of free disk space

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

5 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Be great when they finish it..., January 31, 2007

By 

T.Velasquez (Beaverton, OR, USA) - See all my reviews

= Fun:3.0 out of 5 stars 

This review is from: Brigade E5 (CD-ROM)

Yes, it is "finished" and no more work will be done on it, but as it stands, Brigade e5 is an unfinished product. There is very little voice acting (and only a word or two when there is) and the voice acting as it exists is terrible. The English translations are unacceptable and many maps still have their Russian names. Building interiors are non existant and NPCs are undeveloped. There is no dialog for conversations and conversations themselves are very simple. Had this game been developed in 1993, it would still be needing work. The 3D figures themselves are of Sims 1 quality.

Items in the game are impossibly expensive, rifles costing around $7000 game dollars and medkits around $500. Medical aid costs about $1000. The thing is that game "rewards" for finishing quests will only net you a couple of hundred game dollars. A great reward might get you 3000, but you can see that will go very fast.

Game balance is skewed in favor of the AI as many of these game types are. Even on easy level, a single handgun shot can instantly kill one of your soldiers. I play $40 for a game so I can enjoy playing it, not so some game designer in Leningrad can be happy knowing I'm stumped in the first battle and have to put the game away and make it a very expensive paperweight.

Building off the fame of such games like Jagged Alliance, this game is only good enough to remind you how good it was to play JA2 and Silent Storm. Whether this game company just did not have time to make a good product or just did not care, you should wait until this game is on the $10 bargain rack to buy it.

The game is work an afternoon or two of play when you're bored, but dont pay more than $10 for it.