Ironclads: High Seas

Painfully dull, slow and boring game. The worst thing here is that the game is very limited. You buy some ships, you make them join the battle (which takes place on some sort of empty arena) and... that's pretty much it. There's no proper campaign, no proper goals and the only things you can control during the battle are moving direction, moving speed and guns. In other words, you can give your ships an order to shoot, or ignore the enemies completely. And that'll be it. There's nothing else about the battles in this game. That alone is enough to make the game feel bad, but, like I've already said, it's also painfully slow and even at maximum speed every action takes forever for your ships to finish. As the result, this game is literally as fun as watching the paint dry. With only three kinds of commands, very slow speed and almost nothing to achieve, it's a royal waste of both your time and money. Even with [b]90%[/b] it's not worth it. Dixi.

not worth it

Really boring ship real time strategy

Bad, just bad. It's a very boring and dull game with few game mechanics and I suggest steering to port at 125 degrees before you hit this iceberg of a game.

For the people who claim the game is slow, it is. That is becaulse of realism. The two hour time limit seems unreasonable, untell you relise that the battle of hampton roads, which was a duel between only 2 ironclads lasted twice that. This game is not for the easly board, but you wont find a better game about ironclads out there.

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The entire series is mediocre games made of copy-pasted assets from each other to sell it multiple times.

having played now a littl eof this i think it is an okay game to get if on sale perhaps but its appeal is going to be restricted to only the few diehard fans of the period who like their battles to move at a snails pace and also to how a limited role in activity of the battle itself you can direct the ship column and you can alter its speed and tell it not to fire if you want, though i cant see any reason ever to do so - there is no way to change formations in battle or even to detach a ship from you column - these omissions i find strange perhaps the biggest gripe i would have are the non-existent collision physics - for a historical game like this where the close quarters ship firefights happen alot as the AI will come right in to fight, there are frequent collisions, but the ships just bounce of each stutteringly until one a bounce enough to move away - this is ridiculous when the pointy end of an ironclad civil war gun ship rams into the side of a wooden sailing vessel - there is no destruction occurring at all, except for the slight percentage damage added to the ships damage stat - but this sometimes doesnt occur at all - ram a ship like this would certainly sink at least one of them outright i will recommend the game because it is easy to play with and i think the graphics are nice enough, but with the above caveats about its shoddy collision physics and limited player controls

Fast paced, high intensity, action packed combat is what this game doesn't have. However, it does have spelling errors. I was sunk by the Emerlad.

waste of space looks good in the screen shots but the reality is a boring pointless game no tutorial, no options, can't even turn the dire music off so many way better naval games than the ironclads even total wars do a better naval fight than this pile of crud