American Conquest: Divided Nation - PC

This game will make you feel like a general. It will also teach you some history and about war. Historical detail and fantastic graphics create the feel of combat. I enjoy playing it!

Love this game, but it won't work. I've installed an old version of Windows XP just to test out compatibility, but nothing seems to do the trick. The game, if it works, is a fun one that you could spend a couple of hours on without realizing it.

I've had this game for a couple years now. I've always been interested in historical events, particularly wars and I have always wanted there to be a great game made about one of these events. In this case, the Civil War. But I'm afraid I'm still searching, as AC: Divided Nation clearly does not fit the bill for me. I bought it online thinking it would be sort of like Command and Conquer or Age of Empires, which if it was like either it would totally kick butt! But it's nothing like it. Even after playing it many times, I still find it frustrating. One major problem is it freaks out frequently and I have to close it and reopen it to fix it. Another problem is it just seems rough around the edges, like it was slapped together in a basement the night before it was due, it doesn't seem fine tuned or anything. It is frequently confusing and reading the manual won't help because it doesn't address any of the problems, so most of the time I would just tinker around until I finally figured it out or just give up. Another thing that really made me mad was the little telegraph offices that are stationed around the map in random map mode, every time I would march guys by them, 10 or 20 guys would freeze if they touched it. I couldn't get most of them unstuck and ended up killing them to get them out of the way. It was like there was glue next to it or something.There are three modes: campaign, single skirmish, and random map. The campaign follows a specific general, like Grant, Lee or Jackson on several battles. Single skirmish is just like it says, there is only one battle instead of several like in campign. And random map is a poor attempt to copy C&C. Instead of just being given the troops and resources like in the first two modes, in random map you have to collect supplies and make men, just like C&C or Age of Empires. But everything is so much more confusing, tedious, and annoying that it just makes me quit and actually play C&C, even though I would rather play in a Civil War era.Bottom line: don't get this game if you're looking for a fun Civil War game (it also does the Mexican War, where you can be Texas or Mexico and the War of 1812). Unfortunately, to my knowledge, there isn't a good Civil War game out right now. History Channel: Civil War gets like a 5 out of 10 on several gamer websites, which isn't horrible but even the reviewer himself said it was only worth a few mindless hours of fighting and that's it. Hopefully we will get lucky and some company will make a good game, for PC, PS3, Xbox 360 or all of the above. This game isn't expensive at all, but no sense to waste even 5 or 10 dollars on this as you will probably dislike it. You almost have to graduate from West Point to be able to understand everything in this game! I think they went way over the top in trying to make it super realistic, it's like they were so intent on doing that that they forgot about the fun part. Come on! The whole reason I play games is to have fun and relax, not get frustrated and mad.

It's certainly a novelty game. It doesn't provide enough easy instruction however, and the user interface of the game is very complex. It takes a while to figure out how to even create new units. When you figure out how to create units, it's a trial and error process to figure out how to link units together. It could have been much better if they deployed as units instead of as individual soldiers. Very fun and provides a dark view of the last war of northern aggression.

Loaded slow, but works. The detail is better than the others I have using a similar player move game. Thank You.

I am very interested in history, the history of warfare in particular. I found this game to be historically accurate and entertaining.

Best game ever made

It installs fine but then says it is an Unsigned Driver and then it asks to restart, and when it does, it puts my computer in Repair mode and it deletes it. If there is a solution to this, please tell me... I really wanted to play this game...