ZuluWar! Reviews (Windows)

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There hasn’t been another PC game devoted to the Zulu campaign since Impressions published a Rourke’s Drift game back in the mid-1980s, so once again, Incredible Simulations has found a niche that needed filling. The interface is clean, and the graphics are as good as they need to be. Excellent manual, too. Wargamers looking for something refreshingly different will find ZuluWar! a real treat.

In the end, ZULUWAR! is a good example of where wargames are headed these days: well-balanced, tense, and enjoyable, it's more than passingly historical game that achieves its goals without becoming mired in complexity for its own sake. And for obscure subjects like these, you're going to get a lot more gamers hooked on wargames with ZULUWAR! than you are with a dozen TACOPS, for all the latter's claims of superior “realism.”