The Feud: Wild West Tactics

I bought this game as it looked like fun and when you first begin playing, it is! I chose the beginner really easy level because I wanted to learn the game, things were going great, my characters were progressing and I was researching fine. But the game / PC does not like to lose and soon enough you either get several high level 'regulators' come after you, or the opposing Clan turn up with two level ten and three level 5 or 7. Which you just cannot win against because you have not had enough development time. So you save and begin again and it just keep happening. Really sad.

Normally we start with what we liked about the games we play. Normally. But beyond the excited rush it gave us to have a turn-based western RPG come out, we were left wet and miserable, This litter box needs to be changed, and now. Character development is limited to a this or that selection tier, and weapons and gear are locked in. If your a knife person, you stay a knife person. no guns for you. Want to have 2 guns, no no, just one for you. Not even a selection of weapons in your area to choose from. Pretty much you just upgrade the one you have. Maps are repetitive and combat simple and not enjoyable after the first few fights. We felt like we were just doing the same thing over and over. Story was ok but nothing special and graphics were not up to modern levels. Its like someone offering you string to chase when you know they could have brought a little pole with sparkly catnip filled toys on the end of it. And the wait. We waited a long, long time for this to be released, and remained supportive. It feels like they just put out a sub par product to shut everyone up about when it would finally be release. Over all a 3 out of 10 for us. Playable, yes. Worth the money, hardly. Sorry but two tails up and a walk away view of our behinds from us for The Feud.

This game is so broken. In the Saga gameplay there is a wolf encounter you can randomly get that will guarantee your entire posse dies. It may get better at higher levels, but so far I've never had a new game that I didn't run into this encounter early on. Other than never running into the random encounter squares, I see no way around complete death. But if you don't try the random encounters you don't get as many rewards. This one encounter is a game breaking mechanic that makes everything you do in the game worthless. Oh, yeah. Wolves can open doors. Line of sight works in favor of the enemies. You can be in range of an enemy, but can't fire on it, yet it can fire on you with no problem. There is a symbol that indicates you can fire from a square you've selected that works most of the time, but 10% of the time it just doesn't. 80% chance to hit really means 80% chance to miss.

A reluctant thumbs up (now altered). I have only done 6 hours and I am nearly at the end of the first story but it is enough to warn people. Get this on sale and a good sale at that. I think the game is great but it isnt finished it is not polished and there are too many bugs to enjoy 100%. The main issues already are slowness of the game with all the pointless diaglogue, poor camera operation and slow panning to the next fighter. Moreso, however is the very poor positioning of your squad. If I click on a square which puts me in cover I expect the game to put the person where I clicked. It doesnt, 1 in 10 which is rising as I go on, my character stops one short so he is not in cover and gets blasted by the enemy. This happens every scenario and is getting very tiresome and ruins the game as I am too angry to get the enjoyment. I have even clicked on the space next to me to put me in cover and it has moved the character forward and back tothe same spot so still not in cover. Also in the last scenario I had three characters all occupying the same space (bizarre) and finally after the last scenario I am trying to equip items and when I try to move them they disappeared. Really, a finished game???? Such a shame because overall this looks like it should be really good. Update from yesterday the game has become unplayable because of the lack of accuracy with movement played one of the end scenarios for the Hatfields where surrounded and every turn it comes up short for the cover. what a useless waste of a game.

If you enjoyed the first couple of missions of X-Com before it got a bit laser quest, then you'll probably love this. Simple guns and weapons, no crazy frag grenades or rocket launchers, or flying dreadnaughts. Basic stuff keeping it realistic to an extent, nice gun sounds, music suits the game. Currently done the two stories only tried the main game for an hour, it looks good, could od with more character customisation in the main game, more portraits for Posse members. There are a couple of crashes, quite annoying if near the end of mission in story mode. But all told, yup, I'm very very glad i bought it. And I prefer this to Hard West, no strange demonic stuff, just simple Wild West, love it.

This is a fun game. It scratches two itches for me: western theme and turned-based tactics. Pros: based on historic characters, not a walk in the park, theme, strategy, character skills, takes up limited hard-drive space. Cons: graphics could be better, no voiceovers, screen angles are limited, doesn't have scroll-over stats for characters, hard to tell which bad guy's health is which without clicking on them. Overall, this game is solid and worth the purchase if you pick it up on sale.

Very nice game which takes a bit getting used to. The cover system is pretty good and if you like the western setting you're in for a treat. Play the storylines first because the saga is pretty hard, especially in the beginning.

X-COM meets the "Old West if you like Hard West you like this game Overall, enjoyable and pleasing to have another Western turn base game

Repetitive game play and characters are unappealing. Graphics are boring. Nothing new here.

A simple turn-based combat game with basic shoot/cover mechanics. Theres little in the way of character customization and items. Theres not much point in playing it when theres plenty of games that the same thing but much better.