Soldiers of Anarchy

avenger69ie · Post by **avenger69ie** » Sun Dec 07, 2003 1:28 am

Anyone played this yet?

i bought it for 7 euro here about a week ago, its quite addictive, the dialogue isnt great but the game itself is quite nice and post apocie 8)

Mad Max RW · Post by **Mad Max RW** » Sun Dec 07, 2003 2:32 am

Yeah, I got it and played through a few times. Combat would have been so much better if it were fully turnbased. My only major gripe is how it froze a lot when talking to somebody.

avenger69ie · Post by **avenger69ie** » Sun Dec 07, 2003 3:29 am

yeah, that and the loading times, it takes 10 minutes for it to load a single level on my machine, although i tried the patches, the freezing is gone but the load time still sucks

otherwise its quite nifty

Spazmo · Post by **Spazmo** » Sun Dec 07, 2003 3:30 am

I hated this game. It's all combat, and that's not necessarily bad, but the combat really sucks, too. Boring, RT w/ pause trash.

avenger69ie · Post by **avenger69ie** » Sun Dec 07, 2003 3:36 am

i liked being able to salvage and scavenge after battles, a t-55 here and there go a long way with me, also the repair shop and equipment stores were a good touch, upgrading armour, different ammo for different tasks, lots of guns and assorted weapons, the helicopters are great too, best i've seen and used in any game.

I can see why you hated it though, but i've been comparing this to FO:Tactics, and this (yeah i know FO:T was crap, but i liked it) beats the shit out of Tactics with or without turn based mode

Stainless · Post by **Stainless** » Sun Dec 07, 2003 10:56 am

I loved this game to death when it came out. Played it none stop on a computer with bugger all RAM, so had to reboot half way through every mission to avoid slow down.

As for shitting on Fo:T, I agree. It's alot cooler vechile combat, but the soldier vs soldier combat is lacking, unless you're sniping or at the beginning of the game.

avenger69ie · Post by **avenger69ie** » Sun Dec 07, 2003 1:30 pm

i've just been looking through the readme for SOA, apparently theres a patch out for Turn based mode if anyone that has this game is interested.

the vehicle combat is great, but the guerrila tactics that can be used with soldiers versus vehicles is also great imo, soldier versus soldier... you could be onto something there, if it was turn based and more of an rpg like fallout, it'd be up there with the classics, although i still do think its a classic game especially for a post apoc genre game.

Stainless · Post by **Stainless** » Tue Dec 09, 2003 5:06 am

From what I understand the TB mode in the patch was simply an auto-pause function. Never did get it.

As for gureilla tactics on vechiles, I totally agree. I killed more vechiles through indirect confontations and ambushes then by sending tanks to get nailed by bloody RPG/SA-7 soldiers.

avenger69ie · Post by **avenger69ie** » Tue Dec 09, 2003 11:08 am

heheh, when you put it that way it sounds bad, but i think its great fun, and such is life in mechanized infantry.