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Not Recommended
0.0 hrs last two weeks / 0.8 hrs on record
Posted: 4 Feb @ 2:20pm
Updated: 5 Feb @ 1:43am

I learned a lot in 45 minutes of this “historical” game. For example, that the Czechoslovak legion was mainly engaged in looting and killing local residents, simultaneously fighting with space marines from Warhammer (each squad has a commissar with epaulettes and St. George's crosses!) in a vain attempt to maintain neutrality to some Russians, with whom their captain, whose story is supposed to be told in the game, is negotiating in Moscow. All the story, quests and tsks are given by characters the player has not had even a chance to get acquainted with and will never meet in the gameplay. Some sort of Schizophrenia

It also turned out that “Sukhinichi” in Russian would be “Nikolaevka”. I guess, all train stations in Russia at that time were called Nikolevka (Николаевка). And Kaluga (in real 1917/18 - the center of the province, one of the largest Oka cities and even a capital of its own "Socialist Republic") were a small village near Moscow. If this game was set in Czesko, Brno would be a small village near Vienna, I guess.

Also I found that almost 100% of the inhabitants of Russia at that time spoke Czech, and only the Bolsheviks used Russian, and even then only in battle. Everyone knows Russian itself was invented by V.I. Lenin himself while playing with Google Translate voice processor.

The Bolsheviks in game instantly kill all the locals they meet, but never take anything form them (!), leaving everything for Czech to steal. Why? With now seemingly reason (and nobody even ask them why), but as I learned from wikipedia, these guys somehow managed to win the Civil War (spoiler). I guess, some space marines ♥♥♥♥ idk or may be they just killed all non-aligned citizen (which is not so far from the truth, to be honest, but still).

But I'm honestly ok with that, I saw much more "historical" and dull games of the genre (f.e. this master-piece of ♥♥♥♥: https://store.steampowered.com/app/1227530/_1941/) and like to kill an virtual bolshevik or two myself from time to time (don't like pillaging villages though).

What I really downvote this game for is the fact that the Czechs there riding on a British or, idk, may be it is Czech steam locomotive, but it is obviously from the 1930s. In 1910's Russia. Time machine?

In terms of gameplay, it’s almost a complete clone of that "partisans" game where you have train instead of a campfire. All the other stuff including killing a lot of "bad" Russians included. Yep, in "partisans" they also pillage villages and kill locals, even that was stolen.

To sum up all of the above with a classic Russian folk proverb: "Nichuja není jasné, ale ne velmi to i zajímavé"
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2 Comments
komurka 6 Feb @ 10:31pm 
just enough time to make a refund
o.bunganic 5 Feb @ 1:10pm 
Yeah, judging a game after 50 minutes is a real bummer.