First of all, I should note that I'm reviewing this game purely for its single-player experience. I bought this game for its single-player, and I don't have many friends I can play this game with (I also bought it a long time after it came out), so I have no experience of its multiplayer.
Although not the "most realistic" in terms of details and simulation compared to Combat Mission or in terms of minute details like Man Of War, Wargame gets something really cool about RTS, and that's a pretty realistic advantages of disadvantages of real units with very believable stats that makes real tactics work and "videogame" stuff like zergrush dont.
Another really cool thing about it is the fact that you win by killing enough units, not by capturing terrain or destroying some object like an HQ in the map, that means that you can 100% mount an impassable defensive line and win just by holding instead of engaging.
A shame that compared to WARNO, this one is pretty much dead, also the campaign is a glorified skirmish game with almost no story at all (no wargame title has a good story even if they try) and because of that i dont recommend it because it relies on multiplayer. I mean, this is mostly a multiplayer game with singleplayer features and an AI to just have something else to do and a place to learn the basics.
Single-player campaign is just a joke. There are 4 campaigns you can play, but it is very, very clear that they were meant to be played with their co-op feature. Now, they might be super fun if you play it with a friend, but that wasn't why I bought this game. I bought it to play it by myself in single-player.
What's the problem with campaigns? Well, first of all, there is absolutely no story at all, apart from some snippets that pop-up during the campaign map phase, and they are completely random. Secondly, every match is limited to 20 minutes, which I found extremely annoying. This is a strategy game famous for its hours-taking structure. How am I supposed to win a match in a huge map in just 20 minutes? Your only options are either set up a defensive position and hope to God that the enemy decides to attack (if they don't have a clear advantage, they don't attack you and just sit ducks in their starting zone), or rush towards the enemy with everything you've got. Thirdly, the AI cheats like crazy during the campaign map phase. You can barely bring in any reinforcements (maybe one division per 2 turns), but the AI keeps sending forces and uses strikes as if they cost nothing. This leads us to the last problem; the campaigns are too difficult. Be prepared to fail even the first campaign, advertised as "easy", in your first few tries. The later campaigns get even ridiculously more difficult, even if you set the AI to "Easy."
The game itself is good. I'm sure the multiplayer can be quite fun, but as I've said, I have no friends to play this game with (and the multiplayer is dead anyway) so I don't care about the online experience. I bought this game for the single-player, and unfortunately, it sucks.
