It has been some time since the original Cossacks game. Released by CDV Cossacks became a surprise hit which a lot of gamers by surprise. It offered gamers a chance to play their part in historical battles. Cossacks 2 has been on the cards for quite a while and its no wonder. Cossacks 2 boasts a host of new features and a new 3D engine. The sheer number of features should keep any Cossacks fan happy for hours playing out the historically details campaigns.

Official Description

"Cossacks II: Napoleonic Wars" is a sequel of "Cossacks: European Wars," the hit of 2000-2001. Developed on a new 3D engine, the game combines 2D graphics and the latest achievements in 3D technologies. Significant rework on the engine as well as a number of gameplay innovations allow for presenting the game on a new level. "Cossacks II: Napoleonic Wars" answers to the latest technology advances and provides a chance to even hardcore RTS gamers to experience a brand new gameplay of historical battles played on the true-to-life scale, with tactics and strategy particularities of warring sides taken into account.

Key Features

• Historical RTS on new 3D engine
• 3D landscape (True Color) providing immense tactical possibilities
• Support for new-generation video cards, pixel and vertex shaders, etc.
• Coverage of European military conflicts of 19th century, Napoleonic war
• Battles on real historical scale with tens of thausands of units on one map
• 6 nations: France, Britain, Austria, Russia, Prussia, Egypt
• Over 150 unique units and 180 building types
• Over 1000 elements of flora and fauna
• Historically accurate campaigns, heroes as historical figures
• New level of economic and military management
• Simulation of commander
• Simulation of historical battles in single- and multiplayer game against AI
• Enhanced combat formations and tactical orders
• Realistic morale and fatigue
• Enhanced diplomacy
• Physical 3D engine providing realistic ballistics of bullet and cannonball
• Gaming over LAN and Internet in Deathmatch, Battles and Battle For Europe modes

Verdict

Cossacks 2 is pencilled in for a release in April 2005. With all the improvements and enhanced features Cossacks 2 will prove popular.