Villagers harvest materials like wood, stone, and gold. Cossacks features a very similar isometric view, visual style, unit scale, iconic interface, resource display, and map. Initially, Cossacks also looks like an Age of Empires II clone, just set a few centuries later.
The details of the conflicts featured in the game, like the Thirty Years' War and the War for Austrian Succession, aren't exactly common knowledge, and units like the spakh (Turkish cavalry) and serdiuk (Ukrainian musketeer) will seem obscure to players without an encyclopedic knowledge of military history. The gameplay in Cossacks is reminiscent of Age of Empires II.Īt first glance, Cossacks looks like a real-time strategy game aimed at history majors. These dramatic events of the 16th through 18th centuries in Europe have provided Ukrainian developer GSC Game World with ample material for a fairly ambitious, if flawed, real-time strategy game. It was a time of war after bloody war, wars lasting decades, wars involving nearly every European nation. Mighty nation-states were forged in the fires of the battlefield, and massive fleets set sail with dreams of conquest. Cossacks: European Wars is a game about epic battles in one of the most turbulent eras in European history.
