Rather, you have a positive or negative flow of these resources. You don't harvest resources in Axis & Allies instead, you have a constant income of money, ammo, and oil. Incompetent artificial intelligence and some weak gameplay mechanics hamper what could have been an interesting take on the popular board game.Ī huge Japanese army can't seem to take China.Īxis & Allies uses the Kohan II engine, so it plays very similarly to the fantasy strategy game released a little more than a month ago. Unfortunately, this different spin doesn't equate to a refreshing change. Developer TimeGate Studios, which recently produced the great Kohan II: Kings of War, has put a different spin on the concept so that battles are resolved in real-time skirmishes rather than with rolls of dice. The new computer game is not the game of old, however.
In addition to being a new real-time strategy game, Axis & Allies is a cult classic board game that pits the Axis powers against the Allied powers at the height of World War II.
