Wargame 1942

World War II is running smoothly and you have become a leader of one city. Nothing else than building the most effective base and army lie ahead.

And so it begins… wait, you don’t choose any side? It’s a bit sad but it’s truth, it doesn’t matter if you were fan of Russia, Great Britain or even Germany. In Wargame 1942, you are thrown into the action without any possibility to choose. But on the other hand everyone has the same starting position and possibilities
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The whole building adventure stars with basic tutorial and quests that must be followed. However, everything works nice and smooth and the missions are available throughout the whole game and cover all info and stuff you won’t even know or try to search. For example you will be rewarded for the right answers for given questions, achievements or units in the game, making you to explore various sites and look for the information.

Your city is your base and the whole economy is about making money, gathering petrol and gold. If you aren’t new in the world of browser based MMO games, you surely know that money is needed for building more stuff as building to produce soldiers, tanks and planes, plus university for research. The number of building is fine and you won’t be overcome by unnecessary variety, all works as should. The more building you have to more expensive is increasing their number. Later, you will turn oil into fuel so you can plan and manage even more deep. Later, all becomes a bit more difficult.

The main point of the game is units and their research. When you have working base, you start looking at other cities and wars. Therefore you surely need some army and modern if possible. The beginning is only about creating swarm of cheap units but they are totally useless into attacking other bases as they run away after first clash. So you need really well-made research. Every type of units, tanks or airplane requires special and later expensive research. You have to literally research parts and decide what type of new units you want to concentrate at. You may even spend weeks waiting for the best things. Therefore you have to collaborate and cooperate with other players who have air power so you can create the land units.

It all sounds great but we are getting to not so shiny things now. The first is huge rusk you will go bankrupt. Working and effective army needs some running cost and even with the mulit-billionare feeling you can become poor homeless guy. The worst part is impossibility to get rid of crated units. You just cannot throw them away, the must be lost in war or sold and when you cannot do this, then there can be problem and game over.

When we were talking about fights you were surely interested how they look like. Well, they don’t. If you have some hopes to join them giving orders to the units then forget about it. After each battle you get only message showing you the result. My first battles were huge disappointment because I really didn’t know why my one thousand man army wasn’t able to get over three fences. Players have no big chance to understand how the battles and stat work. Forget about taking resources from won battles. The victory attacker will only destroy some production buildings. This is what I call lost potential.

Wargame 1942 is quite interesting game with great research and deep planning to disappoint you in the end, especially the battle system. Various units assure many possibilities in army variety and interesting wars. You won’t spend too much time per day playing, mostly, you need only few minutes of clicking and the control is simple. So if you are looking for an ok strategy game when there are no good pieces try this one. Wargame 1942 could become good choice.