Comments on: Theatre of War 2: Africa 1943 – PC Game Review

By: Alex

Alex — Fri, 07 Aug 2009 06:55:43 +0000

Africa 1943 is the full name of Theatre of War 2 – I am assuming their theory was it makes it sound more impressive and indicates to the potential buyer that it will focus on Africa.

However, there is an expansion coming soon titled Theatre of War 2: Kursk 1943
Which will focus on the Battle of Kursk.
This will be a stand alone expansion and therefore will not require the original game.

There is also an add-on planned for ToW 2 which will be adding in an Italian campaign (and more units) and that will require the original game (ToW 2, not the original ToW).

By: Larry Levandowski

Larry Levandowski — Thu, 06 Aug 2009 23:14:38 +0000

Hi Dry,

TOW2 is not an expansion. It is a stand-alone game. You just need to purchase TOW2. TOW1 is not required.

Larry

By: dry nyt

dry nyt — Thu, 06 Aug 2009 13:24:34 +0000

Is Theatre of War 2 – Africa 1943 an expansion?

Does it require a main game?

Please, I need some advice ASAP!

By: Ian

Ian — Thu, 06 Aug 2009 11:05:29 +0000

Is it illegal to mention ’88s’ without prefixing it with ‘dreaded’? :)

By: winco

winco — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 03:45:52 +0000

Good review. Me as a player of many real-time and turn based realtime games I can say that 1C did really nice work. And I see big potencial of their game core-engine. What is absolutely perfect and you will never find it anywhere is the tank battles. Same in TOW 1 I think they are very realistic, very good engine physics, armour and shell calulations, manouverability of vehicles and many nice details. I may say this about all vehicles in game. Same I may say about AT guns. But the opposite feeling is about infantry. Still very bad control of infatry. No steep hills climbing. Some players mentioned kind of baby-siting, managing of infantry. For all that you can control infantry like a team but sometimes you need to control also individual soldiers(MG’s, snipers,bazookas). That’s too much for a player to control, lets say 50 soldiers individualy on battlefield. Also there is BIG absence of cover in nature. No bush hiding. No rocks, obstacles. That’s what infatry use and why they can survive on battlefield. 1C needs to do more in this related issues. Building hiding in TOW 2 is a good start though. Absence of strategic maps. Generating own campaings. And many many more improvements can be done. However TOW2 is good piece of deal.

By: Max v.B.

Max v.B. — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 19:22:47 +0000

You can buy it as a direct download from Battlefront from anywhere.

By: Larry Levandowski

Larry Levandowski — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 18:03:18 +0000

Hi Jason, I believe you will have to buy direct from Battlefront. You may want to use the download option to get the game immediately. Also you can purchase both media and download. It looks like they ship to Australia.

But if you are looking for a retail copy, I suggest you leave a message on the Battlefront TOW2 forums. Moon the admin is usually very good in answering questions quickly.

By: Jason. L

Jason. L — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 11:36:25 +0000

Where can i buy this in Australia, i’ve looked on the Battlefield website but i can see a release date for australia, nor can i find it on any other games site. Can you hepl me?