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R.U.S.E.

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It seems like most of the RTSes which are created around multyplayer have a mission: to increase you mouse dexterity as seen in the crazy Star Craft 300+ APM player's videos. Well news flash, I am lazy. So if you are like me, and interested in a little slower game, a game where you have time to think: RUSE is finally here!

The game is obviously created around multyplayer so don't expect much from the single player's campaign, but multyplayer is done beautifully. The game is all about strategic placements, secret reserves and knowing what your opponent is doing. Sometimes 10 minutes will pass before the 1st engagement, both players hiding their actions, carefully using terrain making sure that the advancement is not noticed.

Imagine: your tanks snuck up to the enemy lines with out being noticed, but all of a sudden an anty-tank cannons fire - 5 of your tanks lay in a pile a burning wreckage... But then you open your hand - the tanks were a decoy - the real assault are the large collection of planes quietly circling above your base... The opponent thinking he took care of your main forces and is on the move attacking the unprotected flank - your planes make a run for it - shooting across the map toward the base... AA Fires hidden in the forest, but you got enough bombers to take a few casualties. Opponents base is no more, but he pushes further on the unprotected flank only to be picked off by the planes one by one - this for you is RUSE.

The RTS genre had become pretty much saturated for some time now. The addition of more on-screen units and richer environments (with the consequent increase in hardware requirements) did little to invigorate it. In RUSE, although you will recognize several classic RTS components, they are skillfully combined together and blended with a number of new ideas so that the end result seems fresh and innovative.

To say that RUSE was over-hyped would be an understatement. Nevertheless, it is one of the rare games that manages to live up to its hype and deliver hours of solid fun and enthusiastic immersion.

Strategic placement of your units will determine their line of sight and their range - but also their vulnerability to enemy units. Concealment and ambush are essential parts of the gameplay. For a game that presents units as oversized board-game tokens when zoomed out, battlefield realism is kept high with vehicles permitted to move only on roads (and thus cannot claim the advantage of higher ground) and nested units having to either be pummeled with artillery or circumvented in order to advance. Unlike tactical decisions, resource gathering has been simplified and kept to a minimum.

However, the real strength of RUSE lies elsewhere. What you will enjoy the most are, well, the...ruses. Whether you create a spectral decoy army that will divert the enemy or ask Bletchley Park to break his communication codes for you to be waiting for his units at the right location, those battlefield ruses are what make this game so great and immensely replayable.

Now, the good news is that UBISOFT has finally abandoned the idiotic DRM used in their latest games which required an always-on connection to their servers to play your game. The bad news is this game comes with mandatory OnLine STEAM activation, which makes it a piece of rentware it never becomes yours. This is what prevented me from giving this game a 5th star. Whether this bothers you or not, you can now make an informed decision.

RECOMMENDED.

One of the best strategy games I have played. I have not played much online yet, but I have loved playing against AI. The campaign is nothing great, but you dont buy this game for the campaign. You buy this game for online play or with friends via lan. Easy download with no hiccups. Very pleased with game and purchase.

I have over 600 hours of playing r.u.s.e only 3 months after my purchase.

There's cheaters but they are easily spotted by experienced rusers. You can save every game and watch replay. Frustrating moments is when players lost connexion right in the middle of a great battle. It will happen on a regular basis if you play everyday. The only thing I hate about this game is when one of your teamates quit the game, you have his money but you don't have more ruse to defend his territory, which is unfair. Hopefully they will fix that.

Here's the nations available: Italia, Russia, France, British, Germany and USA. At some point you may think one nation is better than another but at the end of the day they are all strong if you know how to play with them. Must be many videos on youtube where you can see what's the game is all about and that's my suggestion before you buy it.

R.U.S.E is the great game. Winning will boost your ego. Loosing will teach you how to get better.

One of the best Strategy game in live time i have played ! The A.I thinking is good with quick ajustment... A great game for thinker :-D

I have ruse for my 360 and loved it, but i wanted to expand the experience so i got it for my pc. After i installed the disk and steam i tried starting it up but i keep getting the same messege over and over - the game did not terminate properly, do you want to load the last good configuration? But you can't load the last configuration and then a screen pops up saying crash! a whole bunch of letters and numbers and then it says core dumped in c - drive ect... Does anyone know how to fix this? I have tried uninstalling it and reinstalling it and the messege still comes up, i can't even get to the main screen on the game. Any ideas on how to fix this?

My son has this game on Xbox and plays it all the time. A strategy game where one views the action from over head/above the landscape. He wanted the Computer version too as there are slight variations between the two.

This game is pathetic. I recommend it if you want to see just how stupid your friendly AI can be. Think AoE had dumb units - you ain't seen nuthin yet. Just try this game out and you'll see the absolute dumbest units ever... You have to micro manage everything, which is annoying when you have a mix of units. The user interface is bad, the unit movement is even worse. Don't even try moving a full column, they can't go in formation. Which leads us back to why so much micro management is required. Overall, even on games I won I wouldn't call the experience fun, more like a chore. 1 thumb down overall.

When I try to open the game I get an error message "Game did not terminate properly. Do you want to load last known good configuration?" No matter what I select, it freezes then crashes my computer. I have tried this on three computers(Vista) same results on all of them.

After some research on the web, seems to be a common problem on this "download now" version.

Besides Steam which I do hate, the game it self is awsome and very well done. There are some things that could use improving but the game play is very well made.