History Channel Civil War: Secret Missions

The first one - Civil War A Nation Divided was better. On the first one the graphics were better, the button layout was better and the story was a little better. That said. This is not a bad game. Both games have your fellow soldiers saying the same phases over and over, which is annoying. You get to use better rifles in this game from the beginning (a Henry and a Spenser and a single shot sniper rifle. The muskets in the first one were hard to deal with, but that was the weapons used in the civil war and I'm sure that this is why these two games usually rate low. Everybody playing shooting games are use to guns with mega clips of endless ammo where you can miss numerous times and still kill the enemy. They can't deal with loading powder, then a lead bullet, then ramming the bullet down the barrel with a rod, then installing the percussion cap, then pulling the hammer. After all of that you aim and pull the trigger and even if your aim is close your enemy may not go down. Why? Because muskets being smooth bore rifles were not all that accurate. Frustratingly if you miss you must hide, do all of the steps again (taking about 15 seconds which would be rather quick in reality as a really fast rifleman in the civil war was probably lucky to get off a shot every thirty seconds with a musket) In both games you learn some history (after all these games have the history Channel name on them) and get to have some fun for a good number of hours. Remember if you purchase either of these two games they are not run and gun. You must plan a careful strategy with limited ammo and guns that take a long time to reload. If you want a challenge then they will be good for you. I know my rating is 3 stars but I would rate this game at 70% and the first one at 80%.

These 'games' should be played more with the idea you are educating yourself on Civil War topics -not on the adventure/action/gameplay involved....
Yes, the first one had its good and bad points. As does 'secret missions'. SM the fighting flows better I noticed a lot less hand to hand and more sniper type missions. This game reminded me also of one called 'Marine:sharpshooter' which was an average easy jungle path trail where you constantly happen upon enemies and, as the game progresses, they get harder,etc. Though, what was nice about SM there was more 360 travel and the environments are nice, but there could have been more treasure hunting. Being that its based upon Civil War reenactments, maybe that sort of thing wasn't going on!lol. The game gets pretty easy if send your grenades with accuracy and sharpshooting. There is a lot less dialog. Both games seemed to have a sort of slow, stiff feeling when traveling or turning fast
In Nation Divided, the fighting was frustratingly slow with the muskets and reloading and hand to hand(especially if you're used to the future shooter stuff)But once you get used to it, you get through the game with no real climax other than feeling you saw what was hopefully a good recreate of what really took place in the civil war :( In my opinion, the 'civil war' idea is a great one for gaming and it still untapped for something really long and brutal and epic in the NEW gaming industry!MOH 'rising sun' was always one of my favorites! There's so much new/other stuff out there BLOWING this away in the war game genre. Hope this helped anyone :]

I was expecting line battles this time but once again proven wrong. How ever the ai soldiers did die more reallisticly than in the first game. Plus you do get to use better weapons like the double barrel muzzle loading shot gun. But as in the first game you couldn't play all the missions as conferate or yankee.