Speaking of German, if you don’t speak German and/or Russian, you will have no clue what your units are saying. So when you give them orders they could be telling you that they couldn’t possibly do that for whatever reason, and you simply won’t know. It’s great for historical acuracy, but sucks as a game mechanic. If there were some subtitles that went along with it then you might know what your soldiers were saying. But there aren’t and there seems no way to change it to another language.
Also the game showed instability at times and I have been unable to update it (there is a new update for the autoupdater now that will fix that I imagine).
On a few occasions, like when choosing troops for a deployment, it locked up. Checking on the task manager showed that it had consumed over a Gigabyte of RAM even though it was apparently not doing anything from the CPU side of things. Not what I like to see from a game of any caliber.
Theatre of War 2: Kursk 1943 has a lot going for it but some deep flaws in the game that prevent it from being totally immersive and interesting. A shame really as I had been looking forward to this. But it’s far better than Kharkov which I received at the same time. There was going to be a comparison article on the two but they’re so far removed from each other it would have been difficult. In a nutshell, if you’re a serious WWII history and RTS buff you’ll probably find enough in this game to keep you entertained for hours. If you’re not, you’ll be hard pressed to even finish a handful of battles let alone an entire campaign. The game itself seems to be the major barrier to it being a great RTS.
The game has a lot to offer but prevents you from readily accessing it. I think I need to find the full manual so I can get pulled back into it. The manual is available on the website
