Uploaded May 2024 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
This game is really just a combination of baffling decisions. There's so many of them, chief among them obviously being always online with a supposed future patch instead of just waiting for the patch before releasing. This feels a game ruined more by poor design rather than poor programming, with intentional features like the Control Point lockout being a problem.
It's also competing with multiple other games given that MOWAS 2 is still active and played, Gates of Hell is a thriving modern version of MOW and if all you care about is singleplayer than there's LOADS of Men of War titles you could buy for dirt cheap (like I saw, Red Tide was $1!) and get roughly the same experience as MOW2 offers. There's so little actual advancement in terms of mechanics, instead regression in some areas, and it's not like the game looks or sounds significantly better than old titles, and certainly not against a modern title like Gates of Hell. It feels like an attempt to capture a more arcadey audience instead of appealing to the realistic roots of Men of War, similar to COH3 & DOW3.
Timestamps:
00:00 Intro
02:25 Steam Review Reply
05:07 Men of War History Lesson
09:02 Playing Gamemodes
21:05 Realism Mode
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This game is really just a combination of baffling decisions. There's so many of them, chief among them obviously being always online with a supposed future patch instead of just waiting for the patch before releasing. This feels a game ruined more by poor design rather than poor programming, with intentional features like the Control Point lockout being a problem.
It's also competing with multiple other games given that MOWAS 2 is still active and played, Gates of Hell is a thriving modern version of MOW and if all you care about is singleplayer than there's LOADS of Men of War titles you could buy for dirt cheap (like I saw, Red Tide was $1!) and get roughly the same experience as MOW2 offers. There's so little actual advancement in terms of mechanics, instead regression in some areas, and it's not like the game looks or sounds significantly better than old titles, and certainly not against a modern title like Gates of Hell. It feels like an attempt to capture a more arcadey audience instead of appealing to the realistic roots of Men of War, similar to COH3 & DOW3.
Timestamps:
00:00 Intro
02:25 Steam Review Reply
05:07 Men of War History Lesson
09:02 Playing Gamemodes
21:05 Realism Mode
------------------
All Links: https://linktr.ee/RimmyDownunder
Livestreams:
twitch.tv/rimmy
Second Channel:
youtube.com/channel/UCknO__IO56Sp73bB_SBto2g
Discord:
discord.gg/rimmy
Twitter:
twitter.com/Rimmy_Downunder
#menofwar #menofwar2
