Gods and Generals

Gods and Generals is a 2003 historical first-person shooter game developed by AniVision and published by Activision Value for Microsoft Windows. It is based on the movie of the same name, itself based on a novel of the same name by Jeff Sahara, the son of Michael Shaara, the author of The Killer Angels, which was the source material for the 1993 film Gettysburg, also by Gods and Generals’ director, Ronald Maxwell.

Gameplay
The game is divided into three missions, each based on famous American Civil War battles: Bull Run, Fredericksburg and Chancellorsville.

Why It Sucks

 * 1) Broken enemy AI. Soldiers will not fire at you unless you attack them first, and will usually just stand there and shoot at you.
 * 2) Bad hit detection: sometimes one bullet will kill an enemy soldier, other times it will take several attempts.
 * 3) Enemy soldiers make no noises when they die.
 * 4) The game only has five weapons: a pistol, a combat sword, a musket, a scoped musket, a Bowie knife and hand grenades.
 * 5) The musket only allows for one bullet at a time, and the scoped musket has bad hit detection. Half of the time the scoped musket will miss the target. What makes it even worse is that there is no ammo pickup system, so you will have to look for other guns if you're out of ammo, which is extremely uncomfortable.
 * 6) The grenades have the worst hit detection. Most of the time they will explode and not kill enemies!
 * 7) Extremely linear and bad level design.
 * 8) Most of the objectives in the levels are fetch quests, and you can complete each level without finishing them.
 * 9) The game has an RPG-like skill upgrade system, but it is useless.
 * 10) Horrendous graphics, which is surprising considering the game runs on the LithTech Jupiter engine, which was also used for No One Lives Forever 2 and TRON 2.0. Actually, there is even a "model" of horse, which is literally just a wooden statue.
 * 11) The game can be completed in less than two hours!
 * 12) The soundtrack consists of the same music repeated over and over, and it overlays at certain points.
 * 13) Glitchy as hell.
 * 14) Bad difficulty balance. Sometimes you have to fight alone against hordes of enemies.
 * 15) Due to various problems like bad hit detection, glitches and horrible design of levels and objectives, it is extremely difficult to complete certain levels, even when you think that you're doing the objective right.
 * 16) Poor grasp of source material. In fact, you would not even know that it's based on the movie of the same, unless you look up the information.

Reception
The game has a Metacritic score of 19. The game was ranked 92 of Tats top 100 worst games.

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