Cossacks: European Wars

List Price: $44.99 Discount Price: $11.89

Features:

• Cossacks allows becoming aware of historical events' large scale.
• Grandiose battles of up to 8000 units may be conducted on single or network game maps.
• Includes a spacious encyclopedia about wars, battles, nations, technologies, armies, and units having been used in Europe in XVI-XVIII centuries.
• More than 85 large-scale wars and battles of XVI-XVIII centuries are available for single-player and multiplayer.
• Noteworthy wars are: Thirty Years War (1618-1648), the English revolution, the English and Dutch wars, the War for Spanish Succession, the Northern war, the War for Austrian Succession, the Seven Years War, the Ukrainian independence war (1648-1657), sea wars against pirates, etc.

Accessories:
PC Gamer (1-year)	Games for Windows: The Official Magazine

Customer Reviews:

Age of Empires Rip-Off [Posted on 2003-03-13]
I know this has probably been said but I decided to say it again. No matter how good this game was on its own I couldn't play it at all without first thinking Age of Empire. Don't get me wrong the missions are unique and challenging(sometimes enormously hard). But I somehow feel like I have played the game before. The game is wonderful and this one had the decked stacked against it from the outset, to bad.

My impression-A decent game that could have been a great game

Cossacks: Cool Games! [Posted on 2003-06-09]
About a year back, I got tired of playin AoE II, and then I was looking on the internet and..wow! Cossacks! As I looked at it, it made me want to buy it so I rushed down to the Gamestop and bought it for $30. It was worth it. I rushed home to play it. The campaigns are marvelous, as are the single player missions. After that, in October 2002, I bought Cossacks: The Art of War. With a slew of new missions and two new nations, heck! It's the best buy yet! I made my own scenarios with the editor and had a bunch of fun. Then, came Cossacks: Back to War, and I fell in love. With Mod1 by Baddog already installed, it made the game much more enjoyable with more historical context, now I'm hooked on Cossacks: Back to War, and American Conquest, another cool game!

Sounds: 9
Gameplay: 10
Replay-abilty: 10
Variety: 10

Overall: 10
This game is one of the best out there if you're a historical nut, and plus, now, it's only [item price]! So go out there and get it! :-D

GREAT GAME [Posted on 2003-08-18]
This game is a great strategy game for any age. It teaches young ones about geography and how gruesome war can be. Personally my son and I love it. Trust me its a great buy!

THE VERY BAD GAME [Posted on 2004-11-16]
Cassocks barly lives up to its expectations. It does not teach you to play.The built in teacher and manual don't teach.Im sure if I knew how to play I would like it,but let's face the facts, it stinks.I may be 10 years old, but I know a good game from a bad one.So it derserves a 1 star rating.

Cossacks, one of a kind [Posted on 2005-03-12]
The usefullness and ease of unsing formations in cossacks is what sets this game apart from starcraft or warcraft. Cossacks is much more complex. In cossacks hundreds of units march, in formation, into combat. The are an enormous number of upgrades and types of units. The main fault of cossacks is that the towns are to easy to destroy. If one fast calvery unit sneeks into an unguarded portion of town he could kill all the peasants and buildings there, often turning the tide of a game. To avoid this extreamly frusterating part of the game it is necessary to keep small squads of men (3-6 men) all throughout your town. Make sure several members of each squad are ordered to hold their ground lest they should wonder off in chase of one of several attackers. As in many (or all) games the AI is briliant at some things and abysmal at others.

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