Recent discussions on Axis and Allies (1998) Forum. All Games News; Game Tech; PC; PS4; PS5; Xbox One; Xbox Series X; Switch; Stadia; 3DS; Latest in Games. Here's What The PS5. Well, you can in Axis & Allies: Iron Blitz Edition. Being one of many versions of the 1998 game Axis & Allies, I don't really know exactly what makes this game more special than the original. Apart from that, the game managed to be entertaining, or at least for the most part.
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Axis & Allies started life as a Risk-style board game that enabled you to re-enact VVWII on a global scale. It involved plastic tanks, ships and soldiers, and a huge amount of dice. It was repetitious, though fun. So is this computerised version, minus much of the 'fun' part.Part of the problem is that instead of playing to the original game's strengths, what the developer has devised is a lily-livered RTS that's a pale shade of the Kohan engine on which it's based. You can play a campaign, which is basically a string of tenuously linked missions, or fight over the world map, a la the board game.
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The RTS battles are fought over dull, isometric maps. You can zoom in a little, though apart from the odd detail like trees crushed under tank tracks, there's not much to look at. The base building and resource gathering system is fairly interesting, revolving around constructing HQs that produce and manage your armies, and depots that expand your terrain and generate cash, oil, supplies and ammo. An ever-expanding border shows the limit of your power, and within this area, troops can be re-supplied and new constructions built.
Units are grouped into regiments, each with six or so troops, trucks or tanks. The only naval units available are battleships - which are little more than floating HQs. and aircraft are called in one at a time to either bomb or scout. Trouble is, when the fighting starts, tedious drag-and-drop mass assault tactics and creeping defence building ensues, and once again an RTS betrays its genre, featuring very little in the way of the eponymous strategy. Engineers can build bunkers, airborne units can make paradrops, and you can use special powers at the crucial point in the battle. But these are khaki-clad drops in an ocean of military mediocrity. For the most part, you're sat watching a massive clump of your chaps duking it out with a massive clump of the enemy's chaps.
So can you at least play the original board game in the turnbased global strategic mode? No. It's been completely paired down to be little more than an excuse to jump from one real-time battle to another. You can only attack one occupied territory per turn, and there's no air or naval combat. Horribly dull.
If you didn't have any interest in the Axis & Allies brand in the first place, then never mind and turn the page. And if you're an old fan looking for some nostalgia value, you're better off calling some mates, buying some dice and dusting off that dog-eared old board game.
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Axis & Allies, the boardgame, is an abstract take on the Second World War. As with the original, this PC version starts up in 1942, shortly after the U.S. has entered the war. There are five players divided into two sides: the U.S., England, and Soviet Union as the Allies, and Germany and Japan as the Axis. In the single player game you can control all the countries on one side or just take one and rely on the computer to back you up (good luck). As Panzer General is to tactical combat with its fun and fast play, Axis & Allies is its counterpart with grand strategic operations.
The game’s presentation is bold, colorful and in keeping with the boardgame. The unit pieces have been given the look of miniatures. Black and white period footage as well as animated scenes highlight world and combat events. The sound effects of exploding shells, diving planes and rushing tanks are delivered on cue. A nice touch is a newspaper style recap at the end of each round that tracks each nation’s progress through the game.
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There are critical oversights, however. Carriers that engage in naval combat, for example, may not be able to land planes later in the turn. AI controlled planes inexplicably park in an ocean zone and sit there for the rest of the game. The U.S. and Japan will frequently purchase large numbers of submarines that are never placed into play. Rockets developed through weapons research may not be placed in territories with AA guns. Crashes are also very frequent in multiplayer, as if the entire code is bug-ridden.
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Overall, the game is an admiral representation of the tabletop version, but is all the same too buggy and rushed to be fully enjoyed by veterans, and at the same time too complex for most casual strategy fans.
System Requirements: Pentium 166 MHz, 16 MB RAM, Win95
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