戰爭藝術

• Real Time Combat Simulation – Realistic shell ballistics, armor penetration calculations and damage effects coupled with destructible environments, trenches, fortifications and individually tracked weapons, equipment, ammo and vehicles.

• 5個史實陣營, each with unique units and equipment – 美/英國， 蘇聯， 德國， 法國 以及 波蘭.

• 超過40個二戰史實戰役

• Over 30 different maps designed using historical military documents and covering a variety of seasons, weather conditions and environments.

• 9 Single (non-campaign) Battles plus 4 Training scenarios.

• 8個多人連線任務（網際/區域連線），並且最多支���8人。

• Unique Role Playing Elements: soldiers gain experience and new skills as they progress though the campaigns.

• Soldiers can be Promoted and awarded Medals and Decorations.

• Real World Military Tactics: Units fight using authentic tactical formations and realistic battle drills.

• Amazing Freedom of Action: Replace and reinforce gun crews, pick up dropped weapons, capture enemy equipment and even select specific weapons and ammo to use.

• Advanced Individual Unit AI: Units intelligently react to changing battle situations and conditions. They will take cover, avoid obstacles and seek to gain the upper hand against their enemies.

• Huge assortment of units, uniforms, equipment and vehicles: hundreds of different unit types including Tanks, AT Guns, Support Vehicles, Armoured Cars, MG Teams, Anti-Tank Rifles, Aircraft, Artillery, Infantry and more from the major nations of World War II; all based on historical military sources.

• Dynamic Battlefields; Wage war in all four seasons over beautifully rendered landscapes. Watch as trees get knocked over by tanks, vehicles crush men and equipment under their treads, tracers stitch across no mans land and high explosive shells leave huge smoking craters.

• Devastating Air Strikes and 火炮 Barrages.

• State of the art 3D character animation and graphics.

• Easy to use order system. Command your soldiers quickly and efficiently and monitor their individual status with the innovative soldier monitor system.

• Multiplayer support (Internet/LAN). ^[1]

Thus far, three different patches have been released by Battlefront for the Western (i.e. non-Russian) version of the game: firstly, a patch to solve the problem of crashes caused by the eLicense registration system; secondly, a patch to update the DVD version of the game to the same level as the download version; and thirdly, a patch that included a whole new campaign based around the battle for Moscow, as well as a map editor, line of sight improvements, and various performance tweaks improving frame rate for all machines but especially those with dual-core or hyperthreading technology. There are other patches available, but these are all for owners of the Russian version of the game, which was released before the Western version at a lower state of readiness, and these patches are primarily to bring the Russian game up to the Western version. All of the Western patches can be found here on the developers' website.

Recently on the game forums it has been revealed that further addons and patches are in the pipeline of the developers, causing great relief to members of the game forums, who had speculated that, due to the diminshed traffic on the forums and lack of patches, the game had been abandoned by the developers. The first addon is scheduled for around August/September 2007, including a multiplayer patch, and a new campaign centering around the activities of the German Panzer Lehr division in Normandy in 1944. A more extensive addon is scheduled for later on in 2007 or 2008, including more fundamental changes to the game dynamics, such as changes to the handling of armour penetration and its effects, redefining the infantry/tank balnce, and potentially enterable builings, use of smoke, and other developments. It is unclear whether this will be a pay addon or free.

There has been a report that, due to C1 Entertainment deciding to name the game "Theatre of War" which is also the name of an RTS game that was developed and published by Three-Sixty Pacific, Three-Sixty has requested that 1C immediately change the name of their product. However, this has been disputed by the developers of Theatre of War on the game forums, stating that that was the "first they had heard of it", and the provenance of the statement stating Three-Sixty's disapproval is unknown.

Here are some typical reviews made about ToW. In general, the reaction of reviewers to the game has been mixed. Some, such as those seen below, have been positive, realising the game's potential, but acknowledging its limitations, such as the lack of enterable buildings and some pathfinding problems. Others have been more negative, saying that the limitations detract too greatly from the gaming experience for them. Typically, it is the larger reviewers that have given the game a lower score, and the smaller, more wargame-based reviewers that have given it a higher score, due to, in the opinion of many players on the game forums, larger reviewers classing Theatre of War in the same wargame bracket as other games such as Company of Heroes, and giving the game's superior focus on realism less emphasis in favour of concentrating on its relatively less developed graphics and sound.

TTgamer 8.5/10

Gaming Target 8.5/10

Out of Eight 7/8

Associated Content 80%

Gamespot 7.8/10

Entertainmentopia B good

IGN 7/10

1. ^ Game features

• 戰爭藝術官方網 (英)

• 巴哈姆特戰爭藝術討論區 (繁中)