Middling but okay for the price

Worth the money

Worth the money

Worth the money. The lack of good equipment forces you to equip yourself with what you can take from the enemy and that's one of the coolest things you can do in this game.

Call to Arms: Gates of Hell is easily my favorite RTT/RTS game and might be my favorite World War II game of all time. It has the best dynamic damage system with it's vehicles, as well as a crazy attention to detail, and those things are really what sold me on this game.

Knocking out an enemy tiger, securing the area, fixing the tiger, crewing it with a bunch of Russian penal riflemen who ran out of ammo and using it to brutalize the German front lines has got to be one of the coolest things you can do in a game. However, this game is riddled with bugs that have not been fixed since the game was released.

These bugs range from slightly annoying, to game breaking. This being said, I have not experienced any crashes yet. These bugs include but are not limited to: Your unit completely ignoring move orders, Your unit getting stuck on the environment (This is especially bad with artillery pieces), Your unit getting stuck in an infinite loop equipping their firearm (This makes them useless), And in 3rd person direct control mode your units like to randomly forget how to pull a trigger (The firearm/cannon won't shoot no matter how many times you left click, this happens with infantry and vehicles). There are many, many more examples I'm either forgetting or omitting for the sake of brevity.

This game is great, so great, I just wish the devs would spend a little more time fixing the old bugs that have haunted longtime players like me, instead of releasing more DLC bug fixes that don't fix long standing underlying problems.

If you like RTS games or WW2, buy this game and play this game. But buy it on sale, because I don't see these bugs being fixed within my lifetime. Play conquest mode after you get done with the campaigns, use direct control mode often.

(Additional notes) Please make the liberated nations mod vanilla, This mod makes it to where you can fight against anyone as anyone in conquest. It adds so much more to do in conquest and makes for some super interesting ahistorical gameplay. Not sure why this wasn't implemented when the game first released but it needs to be added to the game along with the long awaited bug fixes I've already mentioned, there are also some issues with artillery and tanks being too indecisive with their targets, swapping between AP and HE shells instead of firing on targets because they see infantry and tanks and get confused.

Also, sometimes artillery and tanks will continue to fire on vehicles that have already been knocked out and that I may want to repair. Also also, please make a prototype tank DLC for each nation, for use in conquest and multiplayer optionally.

Time is very important in this game and when every third order you give is ignored and your unit's AI pales in comparison to the superior Ubermensch AI, it makes things a lot less fun and a lot more frustrating.