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I'd advise you to take those 60sec tldr and put them on as YT shorts

Excellent video still relevant a year later

the only good Ubisoft game in years

One thing I personally don't like is that they went with the 2nd world war once again. Sure, it's an interesting setting but I wish they tried something different. After all in the past we had Men of War: Vietnam that I remember fondly. Why not do a Men of War: Vietnam or Korea? Or a proper Cold War gone hot scenario, not that shitty DLC. They could even try their chances in modern setting. I really mean it, I have Men of War, Men of War: Assault Squad 1 and 2, Gates of Hell, Men of War 2 and they're all set in WW2. Despite its flaws, I really like the fresh and modern setting in Call to Arms and really appreciate the devs for experimenting with the franchise. Aside from the setting, another thing that in my opinion makes successors of Men of War underwhelming is how similar they look and (more or less) play. Some would say it's a good that they're all similar, but after 15 years it's reasonable to expect bigger improvements. Graphics in both GOH and MOW2 are just barely better than in MOWAS 2. Dynamic campaign was a nice experiment but it's too simplistic. Devs of both games should base it on Army General from Steel Division 2, where you have tactical (real time) and strategic (turn-based) mode where in the latter you can freely move units around the map, instead of picking one of two of three points to attack, then waiting for defense and repeat.

Garbage game & a slap too the face , waste of money

Lets go comrade

Yo this game reminds me of Steel Division, btw Steel Division is fire, Just that Warno is WW3 instead of WW2

After watching this and your Assault Squad 2 review, I went with Assault Squad 2. The best edition of AS2 is just $9.50USD on Steam, and as someone who always wanted to try out an RTS in this style but doesn't wanna drop $45 on a kinda iffy entry in the series I think I'll be content with my choice.

Are you able to play against ai bots in multiplayer? Similar to cod?

9:48 you don’t need cta anymore.

just bought it guys wish me luck

im waiting to see comments of how bad MoW2 is. came out just 5 days ago and is apparently Bad

No commonwealth forces? That's me out. Sick of these games forgetting about us

Honestly to me it doesn't feel like MOW/AS2 at all. If it was at least comparable to AS2 I would at least feel somewhat happy with my purchase. Instead everything feels ten steps backwards and 'off' in a way it can be hard to describe. Infantry feel like pointless cannon fodder compared to older games. Vehicles are overly fast and the armour/penetration system leads a lot to be desired (even on the realism mode people harp on about). The regiment system leads to so many problems and feels like you barely have enough units. Even the 'classic' mode has problems. Repairing your own tank or AT gun? (which somehow hasn't blown up - so many unnecessary ammo explosions too but that's another point) well you better be sure you haven't called in another unit in that time otherwise you are hit with the 'Not enough CP to use allied unit' message....because that's fun. Shooting an enemy with a machine gun on your tank via direct control? Well better be sure they are in range and not on the edge of being out of range otherwise you will immediately stop shooting and receive a message simply saying 'too far'.... like literally what the fck? Who thought this was a good idea? Why not have a damage drop off like every other game in the series? Gates of Hell is simply better in almost every aspect. I wasn't expecting a GoH 2 but I was hoping for a somewhat coherent game that could at least bring some competition between the products but it's just so shallow. Don't get me wrong, there are some things I like. Though the list is very minor. Custom trenches and fortifications are nice but these take a long time to construct to the point where it feels like they don't gel with the fast pace nature of the game. Like I'd just want this expanded trench system in Gates of Hell. It's just awful decision after awful decision to the point where it doesn't feel like Men of War and this is before we even talk about always online and the steep price of the game. I've been playing this series since 2006 and this is just baffling....

Can you still keep playing after 1949 or whenever what year it ends?

Hmm, wasn’t all of this in the tutorial? A couple things I’ve learned in my recent play time: * I’m pretty sure that at the start of each mission, your entire fleet is set to passive stance. Your stance is not remembered. * When you have an opportunity to trade, you must left click on the trade partner to do so. * Formations have no hidden modifiers to ship stats. However, they are valuable for getting your ships to move in groups. That said, interceptors may not want to fly in formation when dogfighting.

On the version of RONs that I'm playing, citizens automatically go toward whatever mine, farm, logging camp etc that may have a manpower shortage. Pretty handy. Wish there was a way to find idle citizens tho. So i could get them working on projects...

Honestly the only positive is the optimization but overall there isn't anything that other games don't do better. Why pay for a shitty Arena rerelease when mowas2 is so cheap and Goh is on the market. Both of those games stick to the core audience, it's what people wanted not this arcady mess. Don't even mention realism mode as I've seen it and it doesn't mean anything as it's sidelined and should have been the main focus. Mowas2 and Goh still do realism better.

For some reason, the graphics in MoW2 look worse than the graphics in MoWAS2 to me. MoWAS2 looks grittier, and more realistic, whereas MoW2 is far too cartoony, and their faces look awful.

Ive always liked the men of war series, played it since it was called faces of war. i really like the direct controll ability, just command a scquad here and there while you direct controll a soldier you outfitted with a big machine gun. Speaking of outfitting soldiers, is there still a inventory system in the game? like you can go to a dead soldier, pick up their weapon and grenades, and also pick up med kits and repair kits to heal soldiers and repair tanks. Its always been the case in previous games, i wonder if its also still in this game since you did not showed it in this review.

its not, youre welcome

You should review a wrestling game and use military terms in it! Wonder how that would sound! 😂

Why is this no better than MOWAS 2 from 13 years ago? My least favourite devs because they've take my favourite game and wasted it's potential.

yeah is a good game sad that i cant invest the time to learn and master it

Looks good tbh. I bought it despite also having gates of hell. I don't mind something more arcade not everything needs to be realistic.

Rubbish game

my opinion is that the playtest was fun but I would prefer realism mode and the game is currently overpriced.

Was on the fence about this game due to hearing things you mentioned as rumours online. But after watching your excellent review I'm buying it! Thanks for the review and I've subbed too :)

Does this game have custom game play like u can create ur own game match ?

At 1.35 you made a remark stating that the: tank armor is your hp bar. I have to call you on that. If the type gun has a better penetration then your armor, it will get destroyed. Butttttt If your armor is greater then the penetration of the tank it will never make serious damage to your tank (especially in the older games) resulting in that your crap tanks get blasted away by 75 mm like they are made of paper. But a 37 mm can't touch a king tiger and it only makes funny sounds when the shell hits the tank.

Wtf is wrong with vehicles ? From 0 to max instantly, turn instantly, stop instantly. Turrets in guns spin like they are attached to a hyper drive. All tanks are just exploding, almost no possibility to recapture it. Honestly idgaf about various campaign modes if all of them have same crappy physics and unusable UI

I tried watching a number of CZcams videos about MoW2 but none of them gave me a great sense of what to expect, until I watched this video. So thanks very much @twiglets2, this was the best video I've seen yet on MoW2 and it convinced me to give the game I shot. As someone who owns but barely played the previous games in the MoW series but played many many hours of modded CoH, CoH2 and someone who also rates more or less all WW2 RTS games against the venerable Close Combat series I grew up playing in the late 90s, I have to admit I was struggling to decide whether to try out MoW2 or not. I passed on CoH3 because I felt it looked/felt a lot more "arcadey" than CoH2 or CoH1 but I also really struggled to get into the MoWAS games because it just felt extremely clunky and required so much micromanagement of individual squads which is not really to my taste. Hopefully MoW2 will fill the void that's been missing in my WW2 RTS heart since I stopped playing CoH2 Spearhead Mod years ago. Thanks again @twiglets2!

I've got the game (as of yesterday). I felt your round-up seemed fair, from all I've already seen and heard. Unfortunately, I made the mistake of buying Company Of Heroes 3 some time ago. This is in a different league.

It’s Russian dev trash.

My thoughts on this is that the devs are releasing the game to see if the people like their new concept of gameplay or not, because they announced in their discord that the game will be patched regularly.

Goh rules period

nope its arcade garbage stuck in 2005 graphics..

The main thing that puts me off MoW2 is the lack of a UK/Commonwealth faction - and especially when they did an Operation Overlord campaign, in which the majority of the troops were UK and Commonwealth. I think that's a real shame.

Conclusion Men Of War 2 is not a bad game, just not my style compare of CTA East Front. Thank you Twiglets2 :)

I appreciate your neutrality in this review. However it is a shame that when you talked about classic and combined arms, the video just showed tank only battles instead of the respective gamemodes.

"If you enjoy GoH or MoWAS2 you will enjoy MoW2" is just false, every person I know that likes MoW2 are people who haven't played or didn't like the previous titles, it is a pure downgrade on so many levels to the older titles, and no, the realism mode does not at all fix the reasons for it's terribleness, you still have the ni-immortal healthbar tanks that the KV-2 always wins with infantry made of tissue paper.

Great review as always sir! Thank you very much!

not as good as gates of hell. i wont be buying

Do soldiers have an option to automatically pick up ammo for their main gun in a short radius around them? The lack of this was the most infuriating thing in the original. The original was fun for small infiltration-type missions with only a few men, but for any larger scale there was too much micromanagement.

I bought it. Dont think the game warrents all the bad reviews seems like people just hating always online function and lots of gates of hell fanboys. Game seems good so far i do admit they were lazy on the voice acting its bad but passable and the always online was a D move but other than that its good game so far. Will admit i am new to the series i will state because i k kw people are upset coming from the previous games

The game felt arcadish to me… I also hate the audio, sound design of weapons and tanks is awful, the voice lines are absolutely shit, immersion breaking, units feel and move very arcadish.. I like the concept and content but it just feels like the raninbow siege compared to ready or not.

Thanks for that two minute TLDR! Ive never came across your channel before but I like how you do things! Keep it up!

If they had maybe gave us British forces something different for a change

Awesome detailed review

1:33 Still think they changed the tank damage models. Tanks take alot less damage and almost all of the tanks explode when HP hits 0. Also the claim "Hull HP was always a thing" is strange. In older MoW and GoH, tanks can sometimes take an absurd amount of penetrating shots, without beeing disabled/destroyed. Something about the tanks is off.