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Shattered Union PC
  • Publisher: 2K Games
  • Release Date: Oct 17, 2005
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Metascore
67 out of 100

Mixed or average reviews - based on 23 Critics What's this?

User Score
5.5 out of 10

Mixed or average reviews- based on 10 Ratings

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  • Summary: Set atop the smoldering ruins of a fictional United States torn apart by civil war, Shattered Union is an action-packed turn-based strategy game for the Xbox and PC. Gamers play through a single player campaign to reunite the country by force or online in one-on-one matches. [2K Games]

Critic Reviews

Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 8 out of 23
  2. Mixed: 13 out of 23
  3. Negative: 2 out of 23
  1. Gamezilla!
    90
    So overall it's a buy, except possibly for those who might find the apparent wishful-thinking anti-Americanism of the setting disturbing (It depicts Washington DC as a post-nuke grease spot with a ruin of the Washington Monument in the middle.)
  2. FiringSquad
    73
    If gamers will take the time to move beyond the initial frustrations (and politics) as well as any conditioning suffered from years of frenetic shooters, they will find a game that is both challenging and refreshing.
  3. games(TM)
    40
    Ultimately, Shattered Union is just too frustrating to be enjoyable. Its accessibility problems are crippling and even after you've got to grips with how the game works, it still feels unbalanced and confusing. [Dec 2005, p.127]
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Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 3 out of 4
  2. Mixed: 0 out of 4
  3. Negative: 1 out of 4
  1. GoldeneyeRG
    10
    This is very good strategy. Why critics has given so low points?
    • 0 of 0 users said yes
  2. PeterT.
    10
    Most fun I've had at the computer in a long time.....really like the mix of strategic and tactical (deciding how many forces to commit and how many to reserve).......battles are great.… Expand
    • 0 of 0 users said yes
  3. CHALD0N
    0
    Game does not work for windows 7. A forum stated that regedit could make your computer think it has less than 2GB of ram and it would then play but that effects the rest of the system. I wish it played- I love these games. Dev needs to update. boooo! 0/10… Expand
    • 2 of 3 users said yes

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