American Conquest + Fight Back

American Conquest. Thumbs Down. Interface is pretty lame. No way to command troops to halt. No way to creat armies and give them commands AS an army. No way to select all your men, because the huge mod spreads way past the edges of the screen. No diplomacy. You often feel "lost", like "what's happening now?" or "When is something going to happen?" or "Why is nothing happening?" Pretty boring campaign, which is a shame. Care was lavished on the intro pages, beautiful paintings. Nicely voice acted historical background on the stages of the campaign, but it's all so stiff, stilted and boring....the overall feeling is like an ancient Atari game...go pick up the gun! And the gun is a blob of pixels that looks nothing like a gun....just feels "stick figure" all the way through. Scale feels weird, but that's typical of all RTS games I have played. Music is so crushingly dull and horrifically plodding. This is about like playing that old Age of Empires. If you are desperately jonesing because you've totally burnt out Age of Empires and Civ, this is NOT a way to get your fix. Avoid like the plague. Worth maybe one dollar, if that.