Unheard-of Ultimates: Take Two's "American Civil War: Gettysburg"

When the games are "gone forever"...
When their heyday was years ago...
When no one knows or cares about them...

Someone picks them up.
And that man is Plaustrum20!

Salvete. I decided to start out this series with one of my top five favorite games of all time:  Take Two Interactive Software's American Civil War: Gettysburg. Run in part by Cat Daddy Games, Talonsoft, Global Star Software, and Scholastic, this game focuses on the specific major events and battlefields of the historic battle of Gettysburg. Although Gettysburg does have a campaign, it mostly focuses on the skirmishes, and the campaign is really a series of challenges (defeat the enemy in so many turns, hold out for so many turns, get your troops to a specific location, prevent your enemy from getting to a location, et cetera). Also included in the game is historical information about the people involved in and pictures of both the battle of Gettysburg and the Civil War in general.

The skirmishes are turn-based but allow for the use of terrain, elevation, fortification, and unit formation. A human player can choose to play either as the North or South (no specific advantages or disadvantages for either faction). There are five specific types of units (militia, infantry, cavalry, artillery, and generals), each with special statistics (cavalry can move faster, militia are cheaper, et cetera). The game was made in 2005, so the graphics are quite subpar for today's standards. However, the zoom-in, replay, and save features are helpful tools.

Probably the greatest weakness to the game is its artificial intelligence. There is only one difficulty level for the artificial intelligence, and that level is extremely easy. To compensate, the game designers made the challenges in the campaign extremely difficult. The easiness of the computer, however, can be remedied by greatly handicapping oneself, and even the hardest challenges are fun.

This game cannot be done justice in a blog of this size, so expect me to write another blog on this game soon.

Introduction to Plaustrum20 Gaming

Salvete. My name is Trygve Plaustrum (pseudonym, a.k.a. Plaustrum20), and I am a fan of video games. I am particularly a fan of a few video games that no one has heard about (Gettysburg) or games that have been abandoned by most of the public (Empire: Total War). My blog will specialize in these types of games (that I have in my arsenal) and also specific games from Sega's Total War series, and I hope that the public enjoys this blog.

This is the one week anniversary of my political blog (Plaustrum20 Politics). Enjoy both as you would please. I may eventually start up a YouTube account, so look out for that!