Category: Cossacks 2

#Cossacks2BattleforEuropeReview Date of publish: 02/11/2020 19:31 CET Cossacks II: Battle for Europe is a stand-alone expansion with no need of the original to play. Yes, you’ll be able to play Battle for Europe without ever having to buy Cossacks II: Napoleonic Wars. GSC Game World has worked on Cossacks ever since the beginning and with […]

#Cossacks2BattleforEuropePreview Date of publish: 02/11/2020 19:02 CET Compared to the chaos of modern wars, warfare in the early 19th century was a highly formalized affair. Thousands of men marched in formation around the battlefield, lined up against an enemy formation, and then the two exchanged fire until one side broke. This stylized form of warfare […]

#Cossacks2BattleforEuropePreview Date of publish: 02/11/2020 18:59 CET This year’s Game Developers Conference in spacious San Jose, California, is under way, and we took the opportunity to visit publisher CDV for an up-close look at Cossacks II: Battle for Europe, a stand-alone expansion from developer GSC Game World and publisher CDV. Like the previous game, Cossacks […]

#Cossacks2Preview Date of publish: 31/10/2020 17:11 CET If you liked Cossacks: European Wars then hang on to your marshals’ batons because CDV Software has turned its innovative eye to the Napoleonic Era. Yes, the company is going to be unleashing Cossacks II: Napoleonic Wars in the not-too-distant future and by the look of early screenshots […]

#Cossacks2Review Date of publish: 28/10/2020 18:18 CET the lowdown I’ll be the first to admit that I had the wrong idea about GSC Game World’s Cossacks II: Napoleonic Wars before I got my hands on it. Being new to the Cossacks series, I naively imagined a hexagonal, turn-based strategy akin to a modern-day Civilization. I […]

#Cossacks2Review Date of publish: 25/10/2020 18:11 CET  With this year marking the 200th anniversary of the Battle of Trafalgar, it seems a bit fitting that the Napoleonic Wars seem to be getting a little more attention than normal. Case in point is Cossacks II: Napoleonic Wars, the follow-up to 2000’s Cossacks and the latest game […]

#Cossacks2Preview Date of publish: 24/10/2020 15:39 CET “To play Cossacks II you must be a real man,” claims GSC Gameworld’s Oleg Yavorsky as he fires up the latest version of Cossacks II: Napoleonic Wars, a build which he claims is 95 per cent complete and so challenging that only a man with iron balls and […]

#Cossacks2Preview Date of publish: 24/10/2020 15:19 CET Strategy games are big business these days. Ever since a small team known as Westwood devised the real time strategy genre, it has become one of the most popular gaming genres around. Cossacks was one of these games and despite the fact it sold two and a half […]

#Cossacks2Preview Date of publish: 24/10/2020 14:46 CET As a fan of real time strategy games I, like thousands of others, played the original Cossacks: European Wars. And so I jumped at the opportunity to preview the highly anticipated Cossacks II: Napoleonic Wars. Being inundated with a series of reviews and previews for turn based strategy […]

#Cossacks2Preview Date of publish: 24/10/2020 14:33 CET We’re quite a way into 2005 now, and it seems that the RTS genre is still as active as ever. Last year it was in danger of becoming suffocated as innumerable WWII RTS titles were continually rolled out. This year, a far wider range of historical conflicts have […]