


Right mouse click to zoom in, left to shoot, shift to run. Most controls are pretty rudimentary if you’ve played a shooter. Having settled my first issue the game fell into place easily enough. The song pictured above is one of the most well-known Civil War tunes, The Battle Cry of Freedom. Luckily the settings function was easy enough to find and turn the background music off. It was blaring as others around me were using their mics to talk, I couldn’t understand a single thing going on. Root (18251895) during the American Civil War. But before I could do anything my speakers were set on fire with the sounds of what I assume is classical folk music. Battle Cry of Freedom is a song written in 1862 by American composer George F. Never having played a game like this it would have been nice to have some direction early on about what to actually do.įinding my first battle was easy enough, and after a decent loading screen I was immediately put into battle. You customize the appearance of your character and then just look for a match. The game doesn’t have a single tutorial to speak of. Union forces had suffered about 50,000 casualties the. James McPherson's fast-paced narrative fully integrates the political, social, and military events that crowded the two decades. I decided to jump right in, which is the only choice you really have. In May and June of that year, Grant had chased Lee across Virginia in the murderous Overland Campaign. Filled with fresh interpretations and information, puncturing old myths and challenging new ones, Battle Cry of Freedom will unquestionably become the standard one-volume history of the Civil War.
