Sleeper strategy hit!!! Combine a real-time strategy game with chess and Sun Tsu and you have RUSE!!!

User Rating: 9.5 | R.U.S.E. X360
By thinkfootball | Review Date:
This game is amazing. Graphics are good, it's well-polished, and has very strong multiplayer. It's a thinking man's RTS, not a "Micro" player, as you have more control over the strategic actions of your army then micro-control of every individual unit (you do control them, but they have an AI of their own--think End War, but way better, more polished, and on more of a 'grand' scale).

The premise of the game is like chess, except with the old adage from Sun Tsu of "All Warfare is Based Upon Deception". This game is almost a tactics simulator--do you go for cutting off the enemy supply lines, inhibiting his ability to make new units? Do you use feints or "Ruse's" to trick the enemy you're attacking somewhere you're not? Is that enemy armor attack real that's about to hit your base, or fake, even though your scouts do not report any enemy armor bases? Do you go for the heart, destroying the enemy HQ directly inhibiting his command/control and logistics?

I love this game, Well done Ubisoft! Thank you for this sleeper hit!

Pro's:
-Strong Multiplayer
-Amazing graphics/detail during combat
-Thousands of different strategy combinations with RUSE system

Con's:
-"Micro" type players may be disappointed. This game is less about individually microing every unit (ala Starcraft) and more about thinking before you act (chess), and creating a winning strategy.

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