Difficulty:

Easy

Time Spent:

10 Hours or Less

The Bottom Line:

"Waste of time"

Remember all the time you spent daydreaming on the idea of going back in time to give the Confederates better technology to fight the Union during the American Civil War? Me neither, but that is the off-kilter premise of developer Radioactive Software's off-kilter RTS-TPS hybrid, Gettysburg: Armored Warfare.

Mixing the ability to take direct control of a single soldier or vehicle in a real-time strategy game is nothing new to the world of gaming, and Gettysburg: Armored Warfare has not set any genre defining bars. As a matter of fact, both Toy Soldiers: Cold War and Iron Brigade (Trenched) on the Xbox Live Arcade's marketplace have had real-time strategy elements mixed with third-person shooting mechanics and they're both far superior games than Gettysburg: Armored Warfare.

There are numerous reasons why other games are superior, but ultimately Gettysburg: Armored Warfare is a game stripped down to its barebones in nearly every aspect. The main menu only consists of an offline skirmish, online multiplayer, and game options. There is no story mode to speak of and not much of anything else to give an incentive to continue playing. The only reason I know that the premise is supposedly about technology coming back from the future to aid one side or the other in the American Civil War is simply because I watched a developer video on the game and that developer talked about those storied aspects, you would never gather any of this from just playing the game itself. Every game feature in Gettysburg: Armored Warfare seems like the bare minimum to be considered a game. Read the entire review here:

http://playeraffinity.com/pc/pc-reviews/gettysburg-armored-warfare-review.html