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Warhammer: Battle March (Xbox 360) | 
| From: Deep Silver
Category: Video Games
List Price: £39.99
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Avg. Customer Rating:  9 reviews
Sales Rank: 1725
Platform: Xbox 360
Media: Video Game
Operating System: Xbox 360
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.3
Dimensions (in): 7.4 x 5.4 x 0.6
EAN: 4020628502003
ASIN: B000ZNM4B0
Release Date: September 12, 2008
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 A very basic game with overly complicated controls October 31, 2008
Warhammer have done these sorts of games before. I remember happly playing 'Shadow of the Horned Rat' amongst others on my old Playstation and being entertained for weeks. Despite this game having better graphics it is a hugely inferior game. As youd expect, the graphics have evolved and gotten better but the gameplay has gone poor. This is proberbly the most basic game I have ever bought on the Xbox 360. Its therefor ironic that the control system is so over-the-top and far too complicated. This is a poor game and only kept me occupied for 4 hours before I was ready to trade it in. This sort of game usually appeals to me, but on the Xbox 360, this genea of game has never been good.
A ham fisted port from PC. October 3, 2008
The movie sequences vary in quality, some are excellent but between mission sections are very poor. The graphics are weak, but they are adequate for a game like this. It doesn't need good graphics to be enjoyable, what it does need is a better control interface. The controls are terrible, overly complicated and somewhat unresponsive. The gameplay itself isn't too bad, it is very indepth and the levels are interestingly designed, but it doesn't do anything new or exceptionally brilliant. In fact it has barely changed since shadow of the horned rat/god released way back on the ps one. I really wanted this to be good, sadly it is merely ok.
All the money spent on the FMV's October 1, 2008
This game has THE best FMV sequences i have ever seen....
Thats about it.
The rest of the game is a total shambles!
If you want to play a warhammer game i do not suggest this one.
Waste of money
 Better than the reviews suggest September 26, 2008
2 out of 3 found this review helpful
In my view this game has been unfairly criticised in some gaming sites. If you like a pure strategic battle game without the tedious resource management and/or you like Warhammer, and you want to play it on a console, then you may like this game despite the reviews. In fact in some cases, some of the criticisms about the control system are just completely false. It made me wonder if the reviewer had actually played the game.
Despite what some reviews say, the control system works well. It is simply a matter of getting used it. you will make mistakes at the beginning, but you will learn from them. And this is the same for any similar tactical battle games like Total War. It is certainly not a pick up and play type of game, but on the other hand, if you do the tutorial and read the manual, you will soon be manouvering your troops quite effectively on the battlefield in the first campaign. The initial missions are quite small in scale, allowing you to get used to the controls. Also, I find on easy level in the early missions, their are sometimes lulls in the combat which allow you reform your army before pressing forward into combat again.
The battles are fun to fight and very tactical. Admitedly, it is hard to see the detail of individual soldiers when you look at the battlefield in the heat of battle, but frankly that is the same for any similar type game (again like Total War).
The campaign is very linear. It is a story and there is no strategy involved, except for the RPG element in the game where you have to heal, upgrade and recruit troops and heros. This doesn't bother me, but seems to bother many other people. The cut scenes are admittedly not up to the cinematic standards of many next-gen games, but frankly, they do the job fine. The story is OK and the voice acting is very good.
The individual missions I have played so far are interesting and varied. If you use standard tactics like keeping your troops together and using heros and missile troops effectively, there is no problem winning the scenarios on easy. Although it is still challenging.
There are other areas of the game. There are custom battles where you can choose a battlefield, the type of battle, the enemy,etc and battle single player against the AI. You can also choose to exclude or include certain types of troops such as heros, siege units and mercenaries. Or you can let the xbox choose.
There is also an army customization tool. I always liked Warhammer, but could not be bothered spending the significant amount of time and money required to collect and paint models, So this game does the job just fine for me.
I have also been online a few times. The community is quite small, but I have never had a problem getting a game. The battles are very varied and fun as the battles are different each time. You can create your own army using the custom tool use it on line if you want. The level of the players is varied. I have won a few battles and lost few more, but it has always been entertaining.
All this adds to its longevity. I expect to be playing my own battles and camplaigns with custom armies long after I finish the campaign. This is after all what the game is really about.
The game is not without its faults but the main ones do not relate to the game play in the battles.
The amount of supporting information for the game is very poor. This is the sort of game that desperately needs a detailed supporting manual. But the manual is very slim and only gives some basic commands. The developer really should have put more effort into providing more information to help gamers, especially because of the poor reviews. The game is actually quite good, but it feels like its been abandoned sometimes. However, I have found that there is an active community in the WWW.xbox. website and you can also find quite a lot of useful information on the game from other gamers there.
The three short tutorials are useful and perhaps even essential to start off with. But you have to follow it carefully. If you miss an instruction, it won't go back to let you see it again. You have to start that tutorial again. However, they are short. Also, there is an error in one of the tutorials (on how to combine a hero with a unit), which does not help. In this case, refer to the manual.
In conclusion if you like Warhammer, or the idea of fighting RTS fantasy battles (withiout resource management) on the 360, then I would recommend this game. It isn't perfect, but it is a lot better that the 50's score some reviewers are giving it.
 Fun but... September 26, 2008
0 out of 2 found this review helpful
They need to leave the RTS genre alone- mouse and keyboard is always the way to go with this kind of game.
Don't get me wrong though it's pretty,and they have the voice acting nailed down pretty well too!
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