Company / Developers –Simon and Schuster Interactive / Silver Style Homepage Version Reviewed – 1.1.2.178 English Genre – RTS Price: $16.99 [Compare prices]
Introduction
A lot of the time a game just appears out of nowhere, and as quickly as it appears it disappears again into some kind of lost and forgotten gaming void. These titles have no hype, little publicity, and are made by small time developers who crave for reaching the big time. Most are overlooked by the gaming community, but every once in a while a real gem is found from the rough.
Silver Styles new game Soldiers of Anarchy unfortunately is not one of those titles. It makes a good stab at becoming a shock classic for an almost forgotten game genre, but falls somewhat short on a few essential points. Read on to find out more.
Compatibility
Resolutions tested
Despite being an older game (in terms of gaming, half a year can be a long time) prepare to have to wait outrageously long times during loads. It’s probably something in my system it doesn’t like, but even getting from the desktop to the games main menu takes two minutes to load up. After speaking with technical support the best advice they could give me was to defrag my hard drive, which I already had done that day funnily enough. Not a lot of help...
I also noticed that load times between supposed 'quick loads' are also, ironically, extremely slow. This is perhaps the most annoying issue I have experienced with the game, as if you make stupid mistake in-game and want to reload you have to wait ages for it to all load up again. In the end I just about put up with it, but I know many others don’t have that kind of patience.
Otherwise the game works relatively fine. The game slows down a little when moving the camera about, depending on the surrounding terrain coming into view, but apart from that there really are not any other troubles I came across.
