Ultimate Civil War Battles: Robert E. Lee vs. Ulysses S. Grant

List Price: $19.99 Discount Price: $6.98

Features:

• Explore massive, realistic game maps as you control Civil War-era military operations
• Plan out raids, assign troops movements, and prepare for bloody battle in multiple campaigns
• Use authentic weaponry like sabers, muskets, pistols and cannons
• All the in-game action is based on actual events and battle plans

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

Customer Reviews:

Agree that is awful [Posted on 2004-11-01]
This game is incomprehensible. It has no help section so I can't run it. I have gotten far enough to see the uniforms are backwards, but I don't how to run it or what to do next. Total ripoff. Not worth a penny. I am going to throw it away and delete it from computer.It gets one star because there are no zero stars.

Leaves much to be desired [Posted on 2005-06-01]
This game was obviously programmed by people who had little to no historical knowledge of the Civil War. The only battle out of the four with even a semblance of the historical military balance is Gettysburg. The other three, the "Seven Days Battle," Chattanooga, and Chancellorsville, bear no resemblance to the actual battles in either landscape or units involved. And as other reviewers have pointed out, the "Confederation" wears blue uniforms and the Union grey. In addition, artillery units are so deadly in this game that no other unit can get near them. They can virtually win a battle by themselves, which was certainly not the case in the Civil War.

The game also crashes quite a bit.

Lame [Posted on 2005-11-29]
There's nothing historically accurate about any of the "battle" scenarios.

Union Infantry always gets mauled by Confederate cavalry - no matter what the odds are against the Reb horsemen. I've thrown several infantry brigades at one under-strength cavalry brigade, and the infantry gets anihilated(!).

It's very difficult to extricate a brigade that is receiving a particularly harsh mauling when you've got several brigades fighting in close proximity to it. Determining exactly which brigade you are throwing into or out of action is hard because it's all one big jumbled mass of soldiers - no organized battle lines or anything like that.

Artillery is useless. I never quite understood how to utilize it.... and, should you attack an artillery position, it will wipe you out before you can over-run it. It's all really hap-hazard and there is no real control over your troops' effectiveness.

I had a little fun watching the two armies slug it out.... and throwing everything but the kitchen sink into the pitched battles.

But, all in all, it's a lame game. Fortunately, I didn's spend a dime on it - it was given to me as a gift.

What a joke this is! [Posted on 2005-12-18]
What a waste of money! Who ever desgned this game knows very little about the civil war. The battle fields are hopelessly exagerated, it looks like the the civil war was fought in the swiss alps according to this game. I've been to the real battlefields and they bare no resemblance to anything in this game! The union side is in gray uniforms (HuH?, The confederates are in blue (Say what?) Artillery is useless and doesn't move! The computer pretty much decides when a unit will attack so you have no control past a certain point, makes it a little hard to spring an ambush. Grant wasn't even in charge of the Union forces in 3 of these battles so why the name Lee vs. Grant? Overall a very poor game in design and historical accuracy, don't waste you money!

It is awful! [Posted on 2006-11-14]
I wish I had read the reviews before I purchased the item. Naughty on me! The game is awful. It crashes often, has no historical accuracy and is inoperable. Do not purchase this Rusky developed joke.

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