Axis allies pc game download 1998

Register Don't have an account? View source. History Talk 0. He states: I've got a much smaller version available for download now, 30 MB instead of MB--hacked it so it can run without the movies and music. With paratroopers, Blitzkrieg tactics, V2 rockets and nukes, there'll be plenty of toys to look forward to when the final release rolls around. Mind you, with two full-length campaigns in the works one each for Allied and Axis forces; the former a traditional romp through history, the latter a series of 'what if' scenarios that the developers have yet to fully reveal , you have to admit the game certainly won't be short of content.

Sadly, while there will be a skirmishstyle game available online and off, the game will only be single-player. The good news is we've got complete access to their war room and will have a full review next issue. With TimeGate and Atari undecided as to whether they'll be including the traditional board game rules, it looks likely that if you prefer the board game rules to all the 3D frivolity of this new version, you'll have to trawl a few online auction houses or car boot sales to get the original.

A board game that has gone through a couple of revisions over the years and is still popular to this day. In , TimeGate Studios was the studio who brought the game from the living room floor or table to PC screens. The unit that your team will result in you having special military units that are exclusive to them. For example, the Russians have awesome snipers and the UK can make use of these tremendous tanks that can shoot fire.

This may not sound like a great deal, but for a game that is over a decade old, it is not bad at all. You have a campaign, WWII mode, and a custom mode. The campaign is a pretty solid story although it could have been a bit more cinematic and the presentation is actually pretty great. The WWII mode is pretty neat, especially if you are a fan of the board game.

I have never actually played the board game, but from what I understand it follows it pretty well. You can either take part in the battles in the standard RTS format as you do the rest of the game. Or you can do a quick resolve if you want the game to be more like the board game and less like a video game. Depending on what side of the way you play as you will have different ways to win the war. If you are playing as the Allies then you can win by capturing the two capitals of the Axis. The Axis though can win by taking two of the three capitals or by establishing an economic victory.

The way that you win is by employing a solid strategy. You will need to use your resources to get new troops, make buildings and bases, weapons and so on. Money ammo and oil are the resources that you need and if you play things smart you can have a steady flow of cash that allows you to fight the war the way you want to fight.

If you make a few wrong decisions though things can get really tricky. It won't ask for a disk since the. Maybe this is helpful? AtomicA 0 point. Jeet 0 point. Nooms 0 point. I got this running on Windows 10 by doing the following. Go to the compatibility sub tab. Underneath it in the settings section, I ticked "Run in x screen resolution" I also ticked "Diable full-screen optiminsations" That seemed to work for me.

Onion 3 points. Game works great for a few weeks, then it opens the myabandonware webpage and says it can't run the game because it can't find the disk. TallMo 2 points. I was able to patch it, but when the game loads the menu buttons are not visible so I can't play it RexJayden -6 points.

Two views are available: a zoomed in view where you see a small part of the screen and make the most of your moves, and a zoomed out view that lets you see the whole world at once, though the latter's main use seems to be to let you admire the pace of your expansion. Hasbro has also thankfully left out the multimedia clutter that has plagued some of its other boardgame conversions, like Life or Monopoly--cutesy computer graphic animations that become tiresome on or two viewings. But it did not make any use whatsoever of the CD-ROM's ability to do redbook audio, and I can't believe a better soundtrack wasn't provided--the five default national songs drone on and on repetitively.

CD-ROM's have plenty of room for music. The worst complaint about the presentation of the game has to be the unit colors, however. Unlike the boardgame, where each player's pieces are molded in a particular color representing one of the sides, here, only the infantry icon is colored properly, while tanks, battleships, fighters, etc.

This sounds like a minor quibble, but it does in fact impact gameplay. For example, if you are the English player, and you have Russian and American transports mixed in with your North Sea fleet when the German aircraft attack, you must choose which transports to remove as casualties, but can't tell exactly whose transports you're pulling out, yours or your Allies'.

This matters, since each country has to move in a separate turn. The artificial intelligence performs adequately in most instances, but the moves it made--most specifically its failure to exploit weaknesses or properly garrison threatened territories--severely diminished my enjoyment of the game. The AI in almost every case does nothing even close to these classic openings. The programmers should have scripted the opening moves for each of the powers and assigned a high probability that one or the other of these would be made, rather than letting the AI make its own dubious determinations of what to do.

This would be an improvement because quite simply the AI is not challenging enough, and I never lost a game to it--and I always played on the hardest setting, without favorable game settings, and usually in the more difficult positions.