Cossacks: The Art of War is the add-on (non-standalone) to GSC GameWorld's real-time strategy game - Cossacks - European Wars. The new expansion is set in the late 18th century, and it continues the timeline of the first game. What you can expect from this add-on to already good game? This add-on adds dynamic single player mode with adjustable difficulty, new Global Rating List for Multiplayer mode, new various map and start menus with variable options. Simply, it's still the same game with pretty improved gameplay. To be exact, Cossacks: The Art of War features: 5 new campaigns (with more than 30 missions in total): Prussia, Austria, Saxony, Algeria, Poland, 2 new nations (Bavaria & Denmark), 6 new ships, 6 new single missions, 6 new historical battles, 4 different difficulty levels, ability to give orders in pause mode (woohoo!), new orders (guard, patrol, attack ground command for cannons), improved AI (workers automatically enter mines), Alliances with AI nations, improved controls (new hotkeys), a virtual camera records the game, new multiplayer game mode: Territory Capture, Global Rating System (World ranking list) and Map editor!

How I mentioned above, this add-on is not standalone, so you must have Cossacks - European Wars installed on your computer. It's quite disadvantage for those who didn't buy the original game. The add-on costs 35 bucks so I don't think they will pay two times. But for hard-core Cossacks players this add-on does a good job of expanding on the original, despite of the gameplay feels pretty much the same :) If you're a real fan of Cossacks and can't stop playing the game then you should to buy it :P Download playable demo (70MB).