Desert Law

A nice single-player only strategy game. Desert Law will differently appeal to Mad Max fans and fans of post-apocalyptic fiction. There is no base building, resource gathering or micro-management. It is a budget game and it shows, but it is a great little distraction for just $5. The graphics, although out-of-date are still very nicely detailed. They are 2D isometric with 3D vehicles and they also have very nice weather effects. Even without any multiplayer you are still getting a lot of content for just $5 as Desert law has a long campaign of around 30 missions of different varieties. Gameplay is good but the only big major problem I had was that if a story character dies, it is an automatic mission failure. This can be sometimes frustrating because enemies can take out your vehicles and characters pretty quickly if they all target one in your group. So sending out your non-character units to the front of your convey is a must for success, which can be annoying because there is no o...

If you're into the Blitzkrieg or Sudden Strike series you might take a look at this one. [b]Desert Law[/b] is pretty much Blitzkrieg set in a post-apocalyptic world with all those crazy vehicles minus the strategic factor of the previous Blitzkrieg games. In every one of these 29 missions you basically control a bunch of armored dune buggies, Hot Rods or armed trucks and let them charge into hordes of wasteland punks. A handful of the stages are stealth missions, where you guide a story character through deserted ruins. All in all quite a good mission and level design if you ask me, especially the desert maps with all the details look pretty nice. Gameplay on the other hand is always relatively straight-forward and not too demanding. Instead of Blitzkrieg-typical briefings, the missions are interrupted by cheesy comic cutscenes that illustrate the quite shallow story. But still the story lacks sympathetic characters or interesting twists, so don't expect too much. What also differs D...

The story, the gameplay and the RTS aspects are terrible. I enjoyed the comic book art that pushes the story forward, but that's about it. As a kid I loved 1C's games, but for me this is definitely their worst title, even when this game is set in my most favorite setting - the post apocalyptic world. http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=792119811 http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=793254106

For whatever weird reason out there, a few years ago, before Russian government didn't destroy Russian gaming industry completely (like pretty much everything else in that poor, poor country), we've got ourselves a lot of Sci-Fi games with cars being a main motif. There was a series called [b]Hard Truck Apocalypse[/b] (AKA [b]Ex-Machina[/b]), there was a game called [b]Sledgehammer[/b] (AKA [b]Gear Grinder[/b]), there was [b]Death Track: Resurrection[/b] and so on. [b]Desert Law[/b] is one of those games and this time I really, [i]really[/i] wanted to like it. Just because this time it's an [b]RTS[/b] game and I always had a very special place in my heart for that genre. Unfortunately... yeah, yeah, you know the drill. A lot of Mother Russia happens here. But as usual, I'm getting ahead of myself. First of all, what is [b]Desert Law[/b]? Like I've said, it's an [b]RTS[/b] game. Surprisingly old-school in a way, since it doesn't look / feel nearly like something from [b]2005[/b]. More ...

as many reviews on many games state, it would be a lot bnetter to have some sort of numerical (1-10) sysem or something. I like the setyup of the game, it is older but acceptable graphics. Has a lot of content actually. Devs really should come back and add a card set and achievements to make the purchase a bit more "worth it". But if you can catch it on sale it's a nice litle game. I don't like giving a Neg to a "medium" game. So I always opt for the UP vote. Again, it's alright, nothing to eb overly dissapointed with.

It looks nice, and runs well enough, kinda like Starcraft 1. However gameplay-wise it's a pain due to horrible path-finding (cars will happily run into trees) and the unpredictability of how a car will move and where the map will allow it to move. That is compounded by the cars tending to want to approach enemies on their own, resulting in one of them deciding to ram a fence when you tell it to drive down a road. Lastly, moving groups is a pain because they always try and keep the same distances as when they started moving, and there doesn't seem to be a way to tell them to move closer together. The nail in the coffin however is that the writing is utterly atrocious.

I realize this game is a decade old, unfortunately the movement AI behaves worse than games twice that old. No unit clustering, no width detection for paths that are blocked by debris, no 'unjamming' for 'traffic jams'. Controls are awkward and gameplay is simplistic at best. Might be worth it if it's under a dollar, but I'd still recommend going and playing some random flash games made by 15 year olds over this.

I bought this a long time ago, but finally tried it out recently. I love post-apocalyptic stuff, and I can do with rough edges. But the pathfinding and formations are utter garbage. That's a deal-breaker for an RTS in my opinion.

Played this in 2006. Time flies! It was fun and the funny comics between missions were a great way of telling a story

The Gameplay is allright, just rather lacking. Its not an rts, its not an rpg is just very bland. Feels only half made. The story is utter shite however, makes no sense at all.