For the longest time, I’ve wanted to go back to writing about games I play, but since my long and drawn-out reviews usually require weeks of work before finally coming out, there’s no way it’s humanely possible to do that for every single game I dip my toes into, and there are quite a lot of those. For every Second Front review, countless other impressions go unwritten: Waronoi, Space Haven, Cantata, Ground Branch, Ready or Not, Dome Keeper, Marvel’s Midnight Suns, and Victoria 3.

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Great War: The Western Front

The Great War: Western Front has become my go-to game during these two-week-long vacations away from my gaming rig. It’s a nifty little thing you can pick it up, play a couple of battles and go back to having a swim on the beach or whatever you were doing. And believe me when I say that you’ll probably need to take a couple of breaks in between each session. Unlike similar games, like Total War, where battles every couple of turns, in Great War there are several engagements each turn, so if you’re intent on playing them all, it’s going to take you a couple of weeks of serious gaming. Of course, you can auto-resolve, but where’s the fun in that?

The Great War is also the only World War 1 video game on the market that gives you the possibility of playing out your strategy on a grand map while taking tactical control of your units on the ground. Tactical maps are persistent, meaning that all the trench networks, machine gun positions, mortars, and destruction will be there every time you fight on that specific map. While the premise of the game sounds amazing (and it is), before buying it have in mind that this is a World War 1 game set on the Western Front, meaning that most battles will inevitably turn into a meat-grinding slog.

It’s a very interesting mix that works surprisingly well if you can stomach somewhat repetitive battles, but the persistency of terrain damage and trench layouts across a campaign is sure to shake up things well enough that fighting over the same piece of terrain time and time again doesn’t become too boring. But then again, isn’t that what WWI was all about after 1914? If you’re looking for a World War 1 video game, this is probably the best there is right now.

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