Men of War: Assault Squad - Game of the Year Edition [Download]

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• ASIN: B0076A3LBM
• Release Date: February 8, 2012
• Average Customer Review: 3.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (14 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #7,532 in Video Games (See Top 100 in Video Games)

Product Description

Platform: PC Download | Edition: Game of the Year

From the Manufacturer

This Game of the Year Edition is a set of MEN OF WAR: ASSAULT SQUAD and 5 DLCs

MEN OF WAR: ASSAULT SQUAD is a new game in the Men of War series. It takes place across the globe during World War II and features a completely new cooperative skirmish game mode. It includes access to five different nations (Russia, Germany, USA, Commonwealth and – for the first time ever in the Men of War series – Japan) as well as increased realism and accessibility. Assault Squad delivers an intense new WW2 spectacle with almost limitless replayability.

• Various historical settings and battlegrounds.
• Unique special units for every nation.
• Fantastic bonus abilities.
• Improved and dynamic AI.
• Huge variety of scenario locations including Western and Eastern Europe, North Africa and the Pacific.
• New multiplayer maps and game settings, improved multiplayer balancing, multiplayer player limit for LAN and Internet is 16 players, 4 is for skirmish.
• Overhauled infantry squads, more realistic weapon behavior and penetration values, a reworked artillery system, new types of ammunition.

5 DLCs

• MP Supply Pack Alpha is the first official DLC for Men of War: Assault Squad and features 5 new competitive multiplayer maps for various numbers of players. Each map has its own unique setting and battle landscape. The 5 new multiplayer maps are for the gamemodes Assault Zones and Combat.
• MP Supply Pack Bravo is the second official multiplayer DLC for Men of War: Assault Squad and features 5 new competitive multiplayer maps for various numbers of players. Each map has its own unique setting and battle landscape. The 5 new multiplayer maps are for the gamemodes Assault Zones and Combat, as well as for the DLC exclusive Day of Victory gamemode.
• MP Supply Pack Charlie is the third official multiplayer DLC for Men of War: Assault Squad and features 5 new competitive multiplayer maps for various numbers of players. Each map has its own unique setting and battle landscape. The 5 new multiplayer maps are for the gamemodes Assault Zones and Combat, as well as for the DLC exclusive Day of Victory gamemode.
• Skirmish Pack Receive a full set of 5 new skirmish missions, 1 for each faction, USA, Germany, Soviet Union, Commonwealth, Japan. Objectives of the missions provide a completely new challenge as your task is to defend strategic positions against waves of enemy troops to hold out long enough to launch a counter attack and finally defeat the enemy. High replayability is guaranteed thanks to smart AI and up to 8-player coop.
• Skirmish Pack 2 Receive a full set of 5 new skirmish missions, 1 for each faction, USA, Germany, Soviet Union, Commonwealth, Japan. Mission objectives provide a completely new challenge as your task is to infiltrate enemy lines, assassinate enemy officers, stop convoys and capture strategic positions to support on-going allied offensives. Randomly generated strategic positions, defenses and enemy patrols ensure great replayability.

System Requirements   Minimum Specifications: Recommended Specifications: OS: Win 7, Vista and XP Processor: Intel Pentium 4 3GHz or AMD Athlon 64 3000+ Intel Core 2 Duo 2.33GHz or AMD Athlon 4400+ RAM: Memory: XP - 1 GB RAM, Vista/Windows 7 - 2GB 2 GB Hard Drive: 6.5 GB Video Card: Shader Model 3.0 compatible graphics card with 128MB Video Memory Shader Model 3.0 compatible graphics card with 256MB Additional Info: This product does not support Windows 95/98/ME/2000/NT.

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

11 of 12 people found the following review helpful

5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent - Though Overview Map is Not Supremely Effective & Micromanaging A Pain At Times... April 15, 2012

By John Yoga

Platform for Display:PC Download| Edition:Game of the Year|Amazon Verified Purchase

Hello Folks,

There are twenty-five Skirmish (can Cooperative play these) and 50 Multiplayer maps! These maps can be huge & take 1/2 hour+ to complete each one. You'll need practice on the game mechanics & user interface before enjoying the game.

Wonderful graphics and sound effects. Very nice map scenery. Developers try to model close to "reality", but also cut-in some game play-ability realities. Begin with Company of Heroes and graduate to playing this game; it is much more "realistic". And, the attention to detail is a nice touch. For instance, your flamethrower burns out the enemy in a house, the nearby trees catch on fire,and, as the house burns down,you get neat window glass breaking sounds throughout the house...Form and separate units at will: You can have any type of units in same squad, then disband them and reform another infantry group.

No, you don't get a paratrooper squad where you can hit a fire-up button which makes them Supermen. Machine gun fire doesn't suppress, it will kill your men quickly. It doesn't take eight squads of engineers to kill one infantry man in a squad; snipers can't stand in front of a MG Bunker and not get killed; there is no population cap, no base building, and therefore, no base rushing. Blob attacks will get you decimated. There is no cute button you can hit and all of your units magically retreat in a hurry. No "millimeter health left" on a tank, that is also magically healing itself, as it retreats. And so on...

Annoying: Overview map - INF are dots, Vehicles are arrows: "Where the heck are my Engineers? Oh crap, where is the guy with the toolbox?" Micromanaging units can be over-the-top when your numbers grow large in battles. Also, not too many in the MP arena; I would guess around 1/3-1/10 as many as you would see on COH. Perhaps a naive impression: MP'ers seem MUCH more talented than what you see on COHville.

But, aside from the underwhelming overview map, the user interface is, IMHO, much better than COH.

Charming: US Accents at times sound like a German Gestapo agent barking orders/pleasant comments.

May 6, 2012 Update: I have found that folks join games I form within minutes of me posting them. I find that the MP community is more mature and helpful both in and out of game. I am comparing the maturity to other games, such as COH, which I have played since 2005. No longer...

Regards,

Marc

6 of 7 people found the following review helpful

5.0 out of 5 stars Best game I've played in a while April 26, 2012

By Sham

Platform for Display:PC Download| Edition:Game of the Year|Amazon Verified Purchase

I bought this game on a whim and I love it. The download was smooth, and it runs on Steam. In terms of the game, it reminds me a lot of Command And Conquer without a limitation as to how many units I can have. Oh, and you don't have to build barracks and all that crap. No building at all actually. Also, the units are representative of WWII military units. As another reviewer mentioned, managing all the units can become difficult when you have people all over the place. Overall, I'm impressed with the graphics and the gameplay.

Correction: THIS GAME IS NOT ACTIVATED ON STEAM. IT IS DOWNLOADED THROUGH AMAZON.COM, AND CAN BE ADDED MANUALLY TO YOUR STEAM LIBRARY. CREDIT TO UNDEAD RUFUS FOR CORRECTING ME.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful

3.0 out of 5 stars Unable to patch game July 4, 2012

By J

Platform for Display:PC Download| Edition:Game of the Year|Amazon Verified Purchase

EDIT: CD-key given by Amazon wouldn't work after updating the game but the issue has since been fixed and I got a free CD-key Thanks Amazon!