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Category: Video Games
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Avg. Customer Rating:  15 reviews
Sales Rank: 5340
Platform: Playstation
ESRB: Everyone
Media: Video Game
Operating System: Playstation
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.3
Dimensions (in): 5.6 x 4.9 x 0.4
UPC: 016685082293
EAN: 0016685082293
ASIN: B00002STPY
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Condition: game disk only
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Basic strategy September 14, 2007
This game and its twin, Panzer General, are probably the best strat games for the Playstation. I've loved them, and their PC successors, for years. These have crappy graphics and clunky movement and firing rules compared to PZ2 & PZ3, but I still love them.
The only reason Im reviewing this after 10 years is because I'm interested in what another review wrote about the Pskov scenario in the Russian campaign. It has to be bugged.
I remember trying for months to beat it, to the point where I reloaded extensively until one time I beat it with a major victory. Anything other than a major appears to end the campaign with a loss.
I saved that win on a memory card and any any time I wanted to play the Russian campaign I just started with that save. So my old memory card got trashed in a flood and now I have to try to replicate what took about 1 month of on and off again playing to beat Pskov the first time. Can anyone (if anyone reads this in the next three years) tell me if there is any quick and easy way to pull a major on Pskov?
great strategy game September 26, 2004
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
it is a fun game to play. I only would like it to have better graphics. a great complement to my panzer general. shoild be 5 stars but because of the graphics is not
 The problem with Allied General May 27, 2004
Allied General is a good concept, allowing individuals to be the 'good guys' after experiencing Panzer General. In practice, it is absurdly difficult. For one thing, assigning the allies a set number of turns for victory is ridiculous. Would Stalin, FDR, or Churchill have given up after Stalingrad because of any kind of time factor whatsoever?! The wildly inncurate historical errors spring forth from the very beginning of play. The Russians took an embarrassingly long time to crush Finland, but ultimate Soviet victory was never in doubt.
Prestige points are stingily awarded, considering the kind of economic superiority enjoyed by the allies. And the later scenarios actually have post D-Day battles where both sides have numerical equality. In short, to qualify for any kind of historical re-creation, Allied General needs to be easier than Panzer General, not the reverse.
 one of my all time favorites September 11, 2003
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
this game is awesome it takes hours and hours to play but you'll love every second thinking about your next move and conteracting your opponet to save europe and the world will keep you coming back time after time I have played this game for about 5 years and I still love it
5 years of playing it and still going! June 25, 2002
5 out of 7 found this review helpful
AG and it's brother PG are 2 games that from reading the reviews you either love (mostly it seems) or hate(if your graphics minded, probably). As an original "Pong" owner, and liking the game play of a lot of 8 and 16 bit games over the newer games, I'm not hung up on graphics which are simple here. The secret to this game is the control you have in what seems to me to be as historically acurate WWII video game as I've ever played. Yes I also dabbled in Avalon Hill games which were way to much trouble to play, this game does all the boreing work for you and leaves you the spoils, watching Rommel or Montgomery, or Patton win the War! Yes I've actually played both these games for at least 5 years (God thats a lot of hours wasted!) but hey at least I was entertained! I have won the game as Rommel in Panzer General several times (Washington was a super challenge), and to me that was a lotta fun, I never finished Allied General after the Battle of the Bulge ( or if I did it was once) cause hey to me thats not changing anything. As another reviewer wrote the Eastern Front in AG is flawed, I stopped bangin my head against the wall after the 20th time, was glad to hear the way to win that battle but it'll take a whole lotta skill and luck, even I draw a line at that abuse, the Eastern Front in PG as the Germans was awesome!
The key's to winning this game are to delete units with no expierence before you win a battle or the computer will carry
them over and delete your battle hardened veterans.
Load up on cheap units like the Germans anti tank gun PZKW1 for 24 units and attack in waves of suicide attacks to wear down the enemies ammo and entrenchment (make sure the supply option is on or you won't be able to do this). Upgrade your Infantry to Pioneers and Rangers and you'll treasure them as they become 5 star battle veterans. Artillery is allways going to get hammered by the CPU so don't sweat losing units it's going to happen. You can also upgrade your Allies planes to another nationality (ie Italian fighter with 3 stars into a FW 190, or British Hurricane into a Mustang) by flying to the German or American airfield and hitting upgrade. You might think Tanks will do it all until you hit a city, you need Infantry! Also you can do a lot with Strategic bombers where you bomb a city a couple times and attack once and the defenders will flee or surrender, this game has different units with different strengths for a reason. Get both AG and PG and I'm sure you'll get your $10-$20 dollars worth! I played PG III and its way superior in graphics but seemed too much like a tactical recreation than strategic.
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