Category: Cossacks 1

#Cossacks2Review Date of publish: 26/10/2020 18:22 CET The emperor Napoleon’s downfall was his overreaching ambitions, so it is ironic that Cossacks II: The Napoleonic Wars suffers from the complex named after France’s infamous leader. Where the original Cossacks was a straightforward and balanced RTS, this sequel attempts to take the series in a completely new […]

#CossacksBackToWarReview Date of publish: 20/10/2020 19:52 CET The award-winning historical real-time strategy has returned! For the loyal and die hard fans, Back To War offers over 100 new missions, new countries and new units, and even more improved AI. For the newcomers, Cossacks – Back To War has been developed as a product in itself, […]

#CossacksArtofWarReview Date of publish: 20/10/2020 19:47 CET Some say immitation is the best form of flattery, that rule certainly doesn’t apply in the gaming industry. Even an inexperienced, non enthusiastic strategy gamer can see the obvious and ‘old hat’ comparisons from other titles. I’ll admit it, when it comes to strategy games I’m not the […]

#CossacksBackToWarReview Date of publish: 20/10/2020 19:34 CET Just a few weeks before the release of its American Conquest, CDV has published yet another expansion of Ukrainian developer GSC’s hit real-time strategy game, Cossacks. Cossacks: Back to War is a stand-alone expansion, so you don’t need a copy of the original to play it. If you […]

#CossacksBackToWarReview Date of publish: 20/10/2020 18:55 CET Normally, expansion packs are handled in one of two ways: (1) aim them at players of the original game looking for fun new units and scenarios to play with, or (2) target new players by making the product standalone and pricing it accordingly. The two different types of […]

#CossacksBackToWarReview Date of publish: 20/10/2020 18:36 CET Exploding onto the scene of warfare, gunpowder revolutionized the way men kill each other and made the sword obsolete. Brought to you by the GSC Game World and the German CDV Software, Cossacks: Back to War (BTW) is the real-time simulation game that explores these changes in war […]

#CossacksBackToWarReview Date of publish: 20/10/2020 18:22 CET December 20, 2002 – When it was released well over a year ago Cossacks didn’t cause much of a stir, but the quality of the original game has impressed many with a growing legion of fans getting into one of the most absorbing post renaissance strategy games to […]

#CossacksBackToWarReview Date of publish: 19/10/2020 20:18 CET Cossacks: Back to War is the second expansion pack in the Cossacks series, but it’s different from the previous expansion, Art of War, in a few ways. For instance, Back to War is a stand-alone product, and it doesn’t actually have a single-player campaign. That’s right, it offers […]

#CossacksBackToWarReview Date of publish: 19/10/2020 18:53 CET This is a big game. Let me qualify that. Cossacks is huge – “so much to do and so little time” will be a recurring thought while playing, and for two good reasons. Within the game, you have to build up your towns, armies, and economy before the […]

#CossacksBackToWarReview Date of publish: 19/10/2020 18:26 CET Since its initial release in March 2001, Cossacks has sold somewhere just over a million copies, pulling itself up among the big players of the RTS genre, not quite at the levels of C&C; or the recent WarCraft III sold one million copies within its first week of […]