IT'S FINALLY HERE - Ultimate General: American Revolution Review
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It's finally here! Ultimate General: American Revolution is now available in early access, and I've played it for an extensive amount of time to give you my review of the early access version of this brand new strategy game.
It is so much fun to see that indie developers are cooking up experiences like these, a game that even at this early stage shows true potential, especially in its format and core mechanics. UGAR features not just a real-time campaign map, but actual field battles on the battlefield where you get to control your armies, AND fully tactical naval battles, meaning this is something as rare as a hybrid between Total War and Paradox grand strategy games.
In this video, I not only give you my opinions on this early access version, but I show you some awesome gameplay, talk about the features, and tell you what I think needs some work at this stage, and what could be done better in the future.
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I really hope we start seeing a lot of total war competitors, competition brings innovation after all
Yeahh, Pharaohs the definition of complacency leading to tragedy
CA deserves to go down the toilet. They'd be rolling in fans and money if they made historical sequels but instead the bean counters are forcing them to churn out lazy content for a consistent YoY revenue stream. I look forward to their shocked pikachu expression when an indie developer buries them for good.
Best combat system
About time for it, tbh. It's clear CA has dropped the ball and gave up on the franchise. All they've been doing since WH2 is milking the corpse until its dry
Eh I'm done with TW to be honest. I own all the games, from the 1st to the latest (bar pharaoh) and literally every DLC. I bought Rome Remastered, and I bought both the Android remakes... But I've played so little of them. I was just hoping the entire time that I'd fall back in love with the series, but never happened.
I still am a huge fan of the series, but now I'm done with it. I feel completely ignored by the people making those games now. They just don't care. There's no love. Now it's just one big operation to churn out profitable products, that's it.
Im just gonna move on to something new. I've been left waiting by this company for fuckin years, I have absolutely no trust or faith in their abilities.... This new game in the video looks great tho, I'm super keen for it 🙂
I like how historical games like this teach you parts of history as you play. It has reignited my love and desire for history.
Some people only take what they see in a game or movie at face value - but I suspect a lot more history nerds were created by games like Total War, the Assassins Creed series, and games along those lines.
It's almost comical how much history, both directly through the game and indirectly through the curiosity it spurred in me, I learned from Europa Universalis 4 as a middle schooler.
Total war and the original age of empires sparked my love of history. In the manuals they had actual history written about yeah civilization and I used to find them so fascinating
Same experience I use to read the chapters on Hittites, Assyrians and be absolutely fascinated.@@user-vz9vk3lk5v
I'd check out historical board wargames like f.ex. from GMT Games. They tend to be deeper and more realistic than video games.
The extra campaign layers here from previous iterations looks fantastic, love what these guys are doing.
As someone whose first total war game was Empire Total War this game makes the gunpowder lover in me excited in a way that I haven't felt since FoTS. I love how the game rather than being a straight clone of Total War does something different with the fog of war around your army, the dispatches from your other scattered units, and choosing whether to jump in on a battle really makes you feel like well an actual general rather than a seeing and almighty god-king commanding your country and armies from above. Considering the state of grand strategy games sphere being dominated by Civ, Paradox, or Creative Assembly this game looks like it might shape up into the underdog that will bring new life and innovation into this stagnating genre. I wish the dev team good luck and I can't wait to see what they can do!
I hope CA will get more and more competitors like this over the next few months and years. Looks great.
I hope this series lasts for the next 50 years! Thanks to Darth for challenging CA
The campaign map mechanics are super similar to several things I have been thinking about for implementing in a game! The fog of war, messengers, and being able to maneuver different elements of an army! I'm so excited to see them implemented in a game and I can't wait to take a look at this game in more detail! This is really going to add a lot of freshness to the genre!
I am prototyping a game with this kind of mechanics. My jaw dropped when I realized that they thought of the same thing as me!
@@ComanderSazabi2000 that was my experience!! It was so exciting to see similar ideas in action. What engine are you using to prototype your game?
@@hereandnow3156 I'm planning on doing it in godot, I'm still just scribbling mechanics and logic down for now. The game is a turn based strategy with a hexgrid map. My two ideas are: "it takes turns for a new order to be received by far away units" and "units ping their current position and state back to the commander (pinging takes turns, so the game map is always a few turns out of date to simulate the fog of war)". Hopefully, these two mechanics will make commanding a big army feel like controlling a slow lumbering giant.
Looks like a really fun game! I hope the series continues and covers other periods, the Napoleonic period or Seven Years War would be fun campaigns. It'd be really fun to see this gameplay in earlier periods such as antiquity or medieval. Imagine conquering Gaul as Caeser with gameplay like this
Omg im right there with you. I hope they get the sales they deserve so we can see other time periods. I feel like the game's mechanics can translate to any time period. And the new campaign stuff in revolution would be soo fun in a Cesarian setting.
Its really cool to see some immersive innovation like the real-time campaign mini-tussles and fog of war perspective! I like how the battles look like a cute kid between Total war and Assault Squad, and so happy to see ship battles being included with time and effort since they were some of my favorite aspects of the TW games.
Excited to play this in the future and see where this company goes with it!
Battles look bad tbh. Hurts my eyes to look at. Definitely cant play a game like that.
@@Tinylittledansonman it depends on what do you need from battles, tactical/gameplay options or stunning visuals, personally I am more of a fan of the former and this game (as well as it's predecessors like UG: ACW and Age of Sail) offer plenty of it, as well as superb immersion and sense of scale (especially the American Civil War - tens of thousands of men under your command are really cool to lead), while TW excels at visuals mostly, but fails to deliver mechanics and tactical possibilities and is rather lackluster in scale (being stuck in 4k vs 4k battles for decades)
Now I kinda understand why C.A long ago, when they made the "first Total War mod summit" and everything, not only didn't invite Darth Vader but also bashed him on the forums and all..saying that his mods were "fake" and didn't make the things that he claimed it did..
The real truth is they were AFRAID of him, C.A knew that he was the real deal and now it has been proven once more
Ultimate General American Revolution is the TRUE SUCESSOR of the Total War series
At least they allowed modding their game, unlike him.
I can sorta see where people are coming from about him and his skillsets but it also comes off in a peculiar, propaganda-esque way. Like people putting in factors like if he wrote the programs that do things like EditSF (not that one, just the tools to make mods etc) and it comes off in a very blatant sort of "smear campaign" kind of appearance the longer it's stared at. Regardless if he earned himself the critique through personality alone, I think it's massively unwarranted.
American Revolution looks awesome the time period is pretty important and also it brings a new generation of gamers into history i remember as a child playing Civilization and Age of Empires deving more deep into the tactics and historical facts and curiosities i can see this game doing the same for many of the youth, i think is refreshing to see a project committed with the community the idea of fog of war and multiple events at the same time really brings the IRL pressure of those times in to the tactical genre can't wait for the full release, i hope this brings future projects or DLC that introduces other campaigns like a mexico one or south american liberation one
Wonderful game with enormous potential. I hope we see more games like these that combine the RTS feature of Total Wars and complexity of Paradox games and expand on it.
Love the look of the campaign, and the fact that it's not turnbased. Gives me that paradox vibe. This would be so cool with the huge theatre of Empire..
I can’t wait
Every game they've released from Gettysburg to this is just the testing and prototyping for a full Napoleonic wars game.
I really like the fog of war mechanic, makes it feel like you are the general, and not some omniscient third person. I see a lot of potential for this in a fairly tightly focused campaign.
This kind of mechanic has huge potential in medieval/ancient settings where civil wars and treachery were a major factor. Misleading messages coming from some of your provinces before suddenly your being attracted by that general you'd trusted to watch the frontier who's now decided he want's the crown for himself
I love all of Darthmods mods in the TW games. They really enhanced what CA put out. The Ultimate General/Ultimate Admiral games are great.
Wait... Is he the dev? Holy damn!
Yes he and his team are the devs of this and the Ultimate General/Admiral series. Enjoy.@@danielherold7738
Such an exciting combination of all that ultimate general has created in their games to this point. Thanks for putting this on our radar!
Very nice to see them expanding the game into campaign map instead of just battles 👌
It's good to see more competition showing up from indie titles, hope it does well!
i wouldnt consider ultimate general an *indie titel* since the developers have had several successes with games like. Ultimate admiral Age of sail and dreadnoughts. also they have Ultimage general gettysburg and Civil war. but the ultimate general games are less known.
Love your username though. it fits your pfp
I think this will definitely scratch my Empire Total War itch. I love the idea of a constantly running clock and being able to move troops around. I can see it now having an auto resolve battle unfolding and having reinforcements show up at just the right time to turn the tide!
Really looking forward to trying this! As much as I have enjoyed the total war titles, I have always desired a little competition for the real time strategy genre. I can’t wait to see their take on this kind of game!
I love that it feels ENTIRELY real time. The idea of all armies moving and fighting at the same time is a great twist that I don’t think I have seen done with such polish!
Really nice to see Game Labs continuing to develop high quality games. It’s also good to see them learn from previous releases and address problems: the seamless transition between the grand campaign and battles is a huge step up from what we saw in Ultimate General: Civil War. Excited to play this one when the campaigns are a bit more fleshed out!
Always liked the real time campaign in Knights of Honour, I've wanted to see that in Total War is definitely reduces the cheesy moves you can pull off but that'd be a huge change. These games go to show you don't need triple-A blockbuster visuals to nail a great strategy game. Build a core audience and statisfy them.
I love the way that this game has a bunch of systems that all work together to create a larger experience, I think that's where a lot of strategy games fall flat but it seems to be on full display here. Also a big fan of the nice looking but simple art style, it's easy on the eyes
This looks like the Total War I always wanted, in terms of features, mechanics etc. I particularly like that you have this FoW around your general, while also controlling the rest of the state! I assume it works by choosing one character at the start, then that is the one you're "stuck" with throughout the game? It wouldn't make sense if you could recruit more generals down the line, I think... It seems like a more fleshed out and thought through version of the "Lord-system" in TW Warhammer.
As for future development of this game, I'm a bit surprised they went for American revolution as the setting, this game-formula seems so perfect for the Napoleonic wars! This "General in the field who also was the Head of state-thing" seems to be exactly how Napoleon ran things? I can only assume it gets more difficult to deal with FoW as your empire grows. Would be cool if they added in some mechanics to represent how time and distance can distort information as well. Imagine if you play as Napoleon, and are stuck in the middle of Russia in winter, the reports from Paris about the day-to-day affairs would probably arrive too late for your orders to be relevant by the time they arrive back in Paris. Maybe there can also be a chance for the reports to be inaccurate due to your ministers being afraid to tell you about negative developments etc.? Maybe they can also add like tech-options or something, where you can choose to have a very "hands on" government-approach, or you can choose to delegate more responsibility to ministers etc. This can also introduce a gameplay-element in which you have to balance your own authority with delegating responsibility: Keep too much power for your self, and you will simply be unable to keep up with everything that is going on in your empire. Delegate too much power, and your ministers might try to usurp your position or something.
Ofc. there are other examples of "Hero-kings" who led armies in the field while also running their state. Frederick the Great, Alexander the Great, basically every monarch in feudal Europe. But I think Napoleonic era is where they developed a lot of the administrative infrastructure of the modern state, so it would be cool to sort of develop your nation from "Running your empire from the saddle" to a modern state. Maybe there could also be different bonuses to different playstyles: You can have more direct battlefield-bonuses by having your general/faction leader in the field, fighting battles. But then you can also choose to have him "garrisoned" in your capital city, granting administrative and economic/trade-bonuses etc.
I can only hope Game-Labs watch your videos and read the comments, but I'm sure they also have a good plan for developing this game series:D
I love the sheer amount of synergy involved. Roleplay with how you begin your campaign, allowing different approaches. The tactical map being a real-time thing, so no turn-based cheesing. And the battles look both massive and gorgous, like something I've been missing from Empire for many, many years.
This game seems to tick all the boxes for what I want from a game like this with its supply system and fog of war/ delayed news from other areas and units. Really excited to see the full game sometime next year in all its glory and hopefully further down the road this style of bigger strategic campaign with tactical battles will be applied to other wars as well in the UG series. Imagine UG: Civil war but with this type of a campaign... Hopefully some day!
This game has tons of potential for expansion and other campaigns such as the french and indian war, really hope they continue work on this amazing game
Been subscribed and enjoying content for a while love your reviews and commentary
Love the fluidity of moving between the campaign map to the individual battles. Seems like a cool mix between the grand feel of paradox and the two dimensional battle options of total war.
The idea of having your own original character to build over the campaign with some dialogue is very interesting to me. There's plenty of tough decisions that you'd be forced to make during the American revolution.
Loving the channel so far man keep up the good work on these informational videos. And so far I think the game has a lot to offer at least more than just total war does. It seems to have a lot more strategy than recruit soldiers with better stats than the old ones you just had so you can pretty much stomp any enemy army you come across. That and the campaign map is beutiful and relays a lot of useful information to the player and has actually interesting quests that you can pursue.
Absolutely love the art style they've gone with, the campaign map looks fantastic
Just recently got into Unltimate General and Admiral. This looks like a massive improvement by building on the previous games. Really Excited!!!
Really glad to see this franchise expand and evolve to the point they have a proper campaign map and interesting mechanics, can’t wait to get my hands on it and get a game that scratches the gunpowder grand strategy itch that I’ve had since trying Empire TW and Napoleon!
I'm happy there is a company that fills in the historical game play we all crave!
Yeah the genre needs a boost mate. Keep making this big. I'd always like to see more fortifying options and ambush mechanics. Also the choices and good quality diplomacy
Great Review! Been waiting for this game for so long, And i love the direction they are taking the game!
This is really exciting, love to see games in a similar vein to TW being developed! I personally missed the total war empire train, but the time period and type of warfare has always been hugely interesting to me.
Love the ultimate general series! They do great work and this game looks super fun! American Revolution has always been one of my favorite events in history so I’ll definitely be purchasing this 😁
Huge fan ultimate general civil war. The changes with troop placement, alter historical, and logistics looks awesome. Can’t wait to get started
I think what I'm most excited about is the potential for this kind of gameplay. I really would like to replay ultimate general in the victoriana era but with further expansion into the games campaign management especially with the emerging social movements of the era. I think if they do it well here, we will have a game providing what creative assembly gave up on.
Love these highly exquisite mechanics! This is what happens when competitors take heed to what the public has been asking for. Looking forward to future developments in the vain of campaign mechanics and even modding.
i think the total war turn based campaign map is a outdated way to do it and should really be left behind
@@MrRafagigapr I actually still like the turn-based style, it allows me to take my time. That being said, I think, countless other things in the total war franchise are outdated.
Watching this gameplay made me load up Empire again. Been looking into ultimate general games for a bit. This might be the one that gets me to try them out.
Nice to see you broaden your palate with game choices
This looks like a breath of fresh air. Having to keep your armies supplied and a fog of war around your general is awesome. The strategic shenanigans that could ensue will always keep it fresh as not knowing what the enemy will do or where they will attack is part of the experience that will bring variation to each playthrough. Im also looking forward to recapturing the 13 colonies :)
I love the inclusion of flagbearers, the one thing I wished the units in Ultimate General Civil War had.
I love the campaign map in this game, too. I would have love to move armies around the map like this game
I rly like the idea of combine the nice features of the Ultimate General/Admiral-series (some of the best strategy-games!) with this new campaign-map!
love the channel, subbed and look forward to more Ultimate General content, I think this game could be a real adversary for the Total War series of games if they play their cards right.
I’m super excited to find an in-depth game focused on the American Revolution. I feel like this is such an underrated era for games. Naval battles will be such an interesting addition
I love the look and feel of the game and I'm glad the battles and army sizes are scaled down from UGCW to more accurately reflect the relatively small scale of the American Revolution. I hope that Darth and his team add a wounded soldier mechanic, field hospitals, doctors, etc. as a way to recuperate some of your losses after battle. I'll certainly be buying this with my next VA disability check haha!!!
I was a big fan of UGCW, so I'm definitely excited for this. Great video!
I played the Civil War iteration of this game and it was awesome. I like that they added a wider campaign map expanding the scope of the game. Excited to get my hands on this soon!!
Looks good. TBH, it looks like there are endless possibilities for this gameplay style in the future. So much history, so many wars, so many battles, the implementations of the naval ships and real time campaign map is kinda cool.
I’m so excited for this game. Ultimate General: Civil War is one of my favorite games. I love how powerful infantry is, how useful cannons are, and how the weapons used change greatly over the course of the war, from smooth bore muskets with high melee damage to very accurate rifles, even some repeating rifles as the Union.
Really hoping that for the continued success to this series and to Darth! Think about its potential of having a better gameplay and atmosphere in various eras with its updated graphics and such and wishing that this would open CA's eyes and drive in their recent historical entries.
I love the chance to fight at sea! Also, not very many recent American Revolution strategy/tactical games out there, so this looks to be a great change of pace! Can't wait!
Looking forward to the full version coming out. Looks great!
I've been watching a couple of game reviews from different CZcamsrs, and I'm excited. What's really funny is that I currently serve on a Naval ship named after the leader of the Revolution (George Washington) and what is even funnier is that the English are on the same pier with us (HMS Prince of Wales). It is quite awkward when they ask what our ship's name is.
A few years ago I finished The British are coming by Richard Atkinson, and absolutely loved it! I remember wanting a game like this from total war, only to be disappointed. This looks great however and a free copy sounds even better! Thanks for the opportunity to win one!
Really stoked to try this out at some point in the future, but I’m gonna wait till it’s at least more feature complete. Hoping that Civil War goes on sale next week to give that a try in the meanwhile, love the Black Powder period and I’m glad it’s getting more love finally.
This brings me back to the old Axis & Allies game where you had the main map but then had the detailed battle once units met in the overview map
This is great i live how its constantly in resl time when you press play but you can fight the important battle on the field
I really love games that let me be in control like this. Love it . Great review!
The game looks great, the changes to the "campaign" map is amazing and love how you can reenforce a battle and let it either play out automatically or manually.
I am a fan of their games since Ultimate general Gettysburg, but the ultimate general civil war really got my into their games, loved to customize my armies and play mission upon mission growing my army.
Age of sails i rarely played due to time, but i am enticed now to reinstall it awaiting this game.
I hope in the future they can expand the time periods, i think unit variety is limited in this time but still combat and campaign mechanics look great so the moment its on steam its practically an instant buy for me.
Absolutely love the Ultimate General games! Looking forward to playing this one.
I like the way the AI retreats when faced overwhelming enemy numbers, feels a lot more realistic, honest.
Ultimate General: Civil War was such a gem!! Found out about this one a week ago and pretty excited to try it!
This looks excellent. I really hope, as someone below mentioned, more TW competitors shows up.
Already subbed.
I hope this game goes well! This and manor lords keep me hopeful that this RTS genre style won't die out
Thx a lot for this early review. Looks like a really fun rts gem.
This game is amazing, everything and more than I have been anticipating since I heard about it first 2 years ago.
It is already more in-depth, innovative, and well executed than many previous years' fully released AAA strategy/rts games.
Looks very interesting! Hopefully we start seeing more American Revolution games in general too, not too many options out there.
I'm incredibly excited for this. Total War has needed competitors for a long time, and this game has a lot of things I want. Delayed information and orders are both things that make for very interesting gameplay challenges that are true to history.
I trust in Darth after he did great work to prepare for this title with Ultimate Generals: Gettysburg/Civil War and Ultimate Admiral: Age of Sail.
Seeing them finally combined in an underexplored topic for gaming (the American Revolution) completes the package of hype for me.
I look forward to playing this game some day! Looks amazingly well done even with early access issues.
Awesome review! Very excited to see CA competitors experiencing success. We need more!
I love the ascending activity of this serie, I played a lot UC civil war and a bit of age of sails and now im excited for a new round (still waiting for gargantuan napoleonic battles though)
This looks fantastic. I've been playing Shogun 2 and Civ VI for so long. This looks like it can be a great addition to the rotation.
I loved the Ultimate General series so much, I bought the Ipad version of the Gettysburg game and played the hell out of it.
Very promising game and premise. Rising against the superior Brit’s as the Americans or crushing the rebels as the British. Maybe even a French or Spanish campaign. Or an alternative timeline with Quebec join the 13 colonies or rising up for their own independence. So many possibilities! Keep doing your thing Andy I’ve been watching from the start.
Quite interested to give this a go, the added naval element over its predecessor seems like a natural and quality addition
Ultimate general Civil war is so good. So I'm very excited for this.
Love the tactical manouvering you can do
As someone who has played both Total War and Ultimate General, each have a uniqueness to them that I enjoy. This is something that I can get behind, looks fun.
Wow! the gameplay looks much more refined, very excited to see the management system for the armies and towns!
The combat looks really good and interesting especially with how it works in conjunction with the campaign map. One thing I would like to see if there's a custom battle mode as I always enjoy it
The hope I have is that competition that is verifiable and pulls from the player base of games like total war in a good way makes better games a focus going forward for everyone.
Deal. And so far it seems promising. I like that the battles seem to allow up to actually use terrain
A great compliment to Avalon Hill’s board game 1776 of which is one of my all-time top 5 favorites.
Yes! Go Darth, you deserve credit for expanding and making even better games all the time.
Looking forward to getting this when it releases. The American revolution is my favorite time period.
This looks like more amazing than i expected. I have high hopes for the future of this developer
This game looks like it will be a ton of fun! Can't wait for the balancing and additional content to be flushed out. I've missed the naval battles in the Total War games.
I like the look of this. I'm happy to see more competition towards total war. Great video BTW.
It looks really pretty, but there is one thing I miss. there was a 2006 game called Pro Libertate, which featured the American Revolution, as well as an anti-Habsburg revolution in Europe. Both the campaign map and the battles were turn-based, and graphically it's very dated. However, what was amazing is their attention to logistics! This is what I miss from modern titles. In modern games you have to pay your troops from a global resource pool, but not in Pro Libertate. There you actually had to take care of how much a region can supply the troops therein, how much supply the troops can store, and how supply flows in from and through neighboring regions. An enemy army blocking some regions could constrict your supply flow. It was difficult to actually take control over settlements (you can't afford to garrison every village, and they don't switch allegiance merely for moving your army there for a few turns), but you could raid undefended settlements with cavalry, and then they would temporarily stop providing supplies to the enemy. Also, your militia needed to go home for harvest season every year.
The American Revolution certainly had its amount of surprise attacks. Trenton was one of them. I like how the game adapts to this reality and creates a fog of war that enables such tricks and makes the experience more exciting.
Great showcase of how things could be merged from Cp.-Map and RTS.
Looks great! Really hope that it becomes something wonderful. Im also really looking forward for Manor lords!
Played Civil War and liked it a lot even if was quite a basic game. This one seems to have developed the strategic and tactical gameplay so looking forward to playing it.
This looks like a great game. Nice work Andy on explaining the difference between this and the Total War series.
I can’t wait to get my hands on this! Been so long since there was a good American Revolution RTS
Looks great hope they give you the ability to outfit troops with mixed weaponry alot of units had a hodgepodge of different weapons even in the same unit including artillery batteries and you should be able to change what type of paper cartridges your loading round ball for distance then buck n' ball for medium and close range even at 100 a volley of buck and ball was devastatingly effective tested it myself on a 5ft by 5ft piece cardboard only one of the buck didn't hit