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Making History II: The War of the World Review
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Posted by Donster on: 2010-07-06 18:43:16 436
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This turn-based strategy game brings baffling geopolitics, disappointing combat, and a multitude of bugs and crashes to the World War II setting.
By Daniel Shannon, GameSpot
There is a time and a place for fanciful alternative histories, but not in a detailed game that limits its scope to one decade of human history, and not when they emerge seemingly at random. Making History II: The War of the World, a turn-based strategy game, tries to simulate the political, economic, and military challenges of the Second World War but instead dumps you into a wacky grand-strategy sandbox where everything seems to go horribly wrong. While its detailed world and involved economics are tempting, they cannot redeem its ludicrous international politics, its dull and unsatisfying combat, or the crashes that permeate the MHII experience.
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