Theatre of War

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Originally Posted by CCIP

Anyone got the game shipped? Is it worth getting the box version, even for the manual?

I have a digital version right now, though I purchased both with the preorder. I believe the hard copies should start shipping from Battlefront within a week or so. Insofar as the game is concerned, I'm thoroughly enjoying it. There are three levels of difficulty; novice, regular and veteran. The first two provide the player with an unfair and non-realistic advantage, whereas the latter is where shell balistics, armor levels and other realism settings are detailed (highly recommend veteran to enjoy the game as it was designed to be played). Even one of the developers writes "play at "Veteran" level to complete the correct game image and to have proper impressions."

I'm a huge fan of Battlefront's CM series, though ToW is definitely a different animal (and a very good one at that). As long as you don't go into it expecting it to be CM with updated graphics, you likely won't be dissapointed. Sure ToW has a few niggling issues which are to be addressed in an upcoming patch, but overall it's a very solid release from where I sit. Two thumbs up from me!