I felt surrounded on all sides by features and options and toggle switches and hotkeys. There have been many other games that have bored me but none so relentlessly as West Front. In all fairness, I have to give Talonsoft the proper credit for creating the most thorough, complete war game and virtual World War II encyclopedia with which I've ever collapsed from boredom. To be honest, after the tutorial, I didn't even want to play anymore. Which is to say this game has one Hamburger Hill of a learning curve. The tutorial alone took me hours and hours to complete, even though the tutorial scenario was limited to only twelve turns in length. For some, such as World War II fanatics and strategic-war game buffs, this might be all well and good, but for me - not so. And before you know it, your total attention has become a prisoner of war and your free time's been annihilated.
I guess that's the point: West Front launches a full frontal and never lets up. Whether you're interested in controlling Axis or Allied powers for battles taking place throughout Europe and North Africa, whether you'd like to play out individual scenarios or play through dynamic or linked campaigns, if you'd rather create your own scenarios or just read through the massive manual and online help system to find out everything you ever wanted to know about almost every bit of weaponry and vehicle used during World War II, or if.no, wait, where was I? Is it possible for a game to be too encompassing, have too many features and be too massive? Talonsoft, Inc.'s West Front, a war game covering much of World War II, raises these questions.
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