An FPS with a musket. Not the greatest, but it's good fun.
You play for both the North and the South, and you’re a different soldier in each battle. Because standing in a line, and firing when ordered would be extremely boring, most of the action takes place in skirmishes, instead of on the open battlefield. This also serves as an excuse to not make as many AI soldiers in the game at one time. It would have been nice to see more. I’m not the first person to point out that the number of zombies in Dead Rising shows that the 360 would be more than capable of more friendly and enemy soldiers in the battle.
There are a few complaints about the historical accuracy of the game; the main being about the grenades, which existed at the time, but were seldom used. Then there’s the fact that the gatling gun was in the game, but it was not put to regular use in real life either. The radar is another complaint, but it’s only used to find objectives—it might has well have been called a compass; most shooters have one regardless of when they took place. I could go on and on, and while I still enjoyed the came, these inaccuracies are still worth mentioning. It’s defiantly different playing a game with a musket, and the reload times are probably as slow as they were in real life (not a bad thing if it was for the sake of accuracy), but there are also rifles with cartridge ammo, revolvers, a knife and a sword, along with a melee attack, so the game actually works out. I still thought it was more fun to use the musket though.
Unfortunately, there is no multiplayer. It would have been a lot of fun. There are leaderboards, and I was number 14 the first weekend the game came out. All I had to do to rand was beat the game on easy. I’m over 2,000 now though. You will also get plenty of achievements. The game also supports downloadable content, so maybe we’ll see a few more battles.
Despite its flaws, Civil War is a very underappreciated game. I enjoyed the gmae a lot just for the sake of it being different.