Release Date: April 4, 2005
The sequel of the award-winning real-time strategy game, Cossacks: European Wars by GSC Game World. Cossacks II: Napoleonic Wars takes the action a hundred years forward, to the 19th century, when led by Napoleon assumed dominating position in Europe. The players can lead one of six countries: , Great Britain, Austria, Russia, Prussia, and Egypt, each having their unique buildings and historical units.
Cossacks II: Napoleonic Wars for PC is a sequel to the award-winning real-time strategy game from 2001, Cossacks: European Wars.
The title lets the player lead one of six superpowers (, Great Britain, Austria, Russia, Prussia, and Egypt) in the turbulent times of the Napoleonic Wars (the 19th century). In total, the game features six grand campaigns that consists of around 60 missions. Moreover, the player can also play twelve standalone missions and fight ten historical battles. Over 150 types of authentic units and 180 contemporary buildings were faithfully recreated.
Cossacks II: Napoleonic Wars for PC features advanced diplomatic and economic systems, thanks to which the player can influence relations with neighbors, form pacts and alliances, issue embargos, and so on. It is worth mentioning that the players has only global control over the state — individual cities, provinces, and villages have their own automatic system that controls their economy, trade, and development.
The developers made sure that battles are even more realistic and spectacular and that units can be commanded easier on the battlefield. This is why Cossacks II has a new interface and controls system that allows us to apply different battle formations and use terrain type and shape to our advantage (shooters have lower effectiveness in forests, cavalry gets stuck in wetlands, etc.). Units of every country were carefully recreated as well as parameters that influence their effectiveness, including morale, training, experience, fatigue, and the like. In total, up to 64 thousand units can take part in one battle at the same time.
Cossacks II: Napoleonic Wars for PC features three-dimensional graphics, enhanced computer AI that is responsible for units’ behavior in battle, a new pathfinding system, and several multiplayer modes: Deathmatch, Historical Battle, and European Conquest.
Platforms:
PC Windows
Developer: GSC Game World
Publisher: cdv Software Entertainment AG
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System Requirements for Cossacks II: Napoleonic Wars Video Game:
PC / Windows
Recommended System Requirements:
Pentium 4 2.4 GHz, 768 MB RAM, graphic card 128MB (GeForce 3 or better), 2 GB HDD.
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June 19, 2006
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A standalone expansion for Cossacks II: Napoleonic Wars, a real-time strategy game set in the 19th-century Europe developed by GSC Game World. Apart from six playable nations that were present in the vanilla game, the expansion offers three new ones: Spain, Duchy of Warsaw, and Confederation of the Rhine. The title also features new buildings and units, four campaigns, ten battlefields, three historical battles (including 1812’s Battle of Borodino and 1815’s Battle of Waterloo that annihilated Napoleon’s army) as well as six missions in the skirmish mode. The main highlight of the production is the extensive strategic mode called Battle for Europe in which participants fight for complete domination on the Old Continent. Apart from the single player content, Cossacks II: Battle for Europe offers an expanded multiplayer mode where we can lead new playable nations on several new maps.
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