American units are painted a bright and colourful grey/green, whereas ILA units are a green/grey. The buildings not only look dull but it's also hard to differentiate between some of them, which can make selection a little annoying as you randomly flick between them trying to get hold of the right one. Your infantry units look like tiny little stick men that are almost impossible to make out even if you zoom right in it's possible that their dot on the mini-map is bigger than they are, because it's certainly more distinctive. The graphics look like they've been plucked from the days when Red Alert was a hip and trendy young funkster (that's five years ago, now) except they're even less practical. A bit distasteful, to say the least.Īs far as the actual gameplay goes, Real War is pure, unadulterated old-school RTS. campaign seems to mirror the current situation in Afghanistan, and the ILA campaign involves targeting civilians and causing deliberate loss of life. or the ILA in 2 separate campaigns, each with 12 missions.

cannot allow this and it's up to you to stop them and bring order to their chaos. The storyline goes that a generic terrorist organisation, the ILA, has gained backing from an unknown major power and is posing a threat to world stability. What is real, however, is the background story, but given the current events in Afghanistan, it's ironically just about the only element that probably shouldn't be realistic. military' and given the utter lack of realism in Real War, that's really rather worrying. There's a huge stamp on the box that claims it's, 'Based on the official JOINT CHIEFS OF STAFF training game developed for the U.S. It might be sold as a realistic, modern-day strategy game, but the truth of the matter is somewhat different.

With Real War, my deductive nasal senses went on full alert. While this has left me a bitter and twisted wreck unable to partake in even the most ordinary kind of pleasures, it also means I have a nose that can sniff out crap before I so much as step inside my local game store. Whereas most people have their childish enthusiasm and energy slowly eroded by the demands and pressures of adult life, I was actually born a sad, miserable old git with all the passion and joy of a bag of gravel.

Instaling War Games