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Blitzkrud

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: February 06, 2008
Author: Amazon User

DO NOT BUY.

DO NOT INSTALL.

Will not run properly! No patches or updates or customer support, my machine more than meets minimum running requirements too.

Blitzkrieg 2

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: August 08, 2008
Author: Amazon User

Overall this is a fun game to play. For people who enjoy Blitzkrieg, this is a nice upgrade. My only complaint was that the final battles in all campaigns require a very good computer to run, or the game crashes. Other than that, very fun.

Greatest war strategy game ever

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: August 31, 2008
Author: Amazon User

I highly recommend this great game for trying to be as precise as possible with historical events as well as weapon models etc.

Great Game

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 0 / 2
Date: April 22, 2007
Author: Amazon User

I had a lot of fun with Blitzkrieg 2. It was very replayble, and decently historicly acurate. I would recomend this game to any RTS fan who loves tanks or wwii.

Why I'll never order from Amazon again

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 1 / 11
Date: January 18, 2007
Author: Amazon User

I never actually recieved the game. I did get an email from Amazon saying that they had cancelled my order. No details in the email. When I followed a link to "Why was your order cancelled", I found a page of generic reasons Amazon cancels orders. Not details about my problem though.

I was able to find the game on another web site and ordered from there (though I had to pay for overnight shipping to get if for Xmas).

I will says the the person who received the gift stayed up 'til 3AM the first time he played it.

Blitz II - Fun but needs help!

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 1 / 2
Date: January 15, 2008
Author: Amazon User

Ok I bought Blitz 2 as soon as it hit the market, I was practically drooling to get ahold of this game. And to be fair I have to say I REALLY like the game, played it more than I should - but it does need help!

CDV has done a very good job giving us old wargamers something good to chew on ever since EA bought out SSI and promptly killed them off. SSI was the "name" for wargames IMHO. Any one remember Steel Panthers? The original Blitzkrieg was like water to a man with cotton mouth, it was such a vast improvment over Sudden Strike. But it was not long before it was behind in the graphics and sound departments. But with all the MOD's out there it is still enjoying an extended life. I still have all of my Blitz 1 games on my HD and go back to it now and then.

And that is where the lack of things become appearant in Blitz 2. First of all being a long time vet of Steel Panthers, I even have scenarios out on the web for it, I was "Greatly" dissapointed to find that my "Core Units" had been taken away from me! Big - Big mistake CDV, old time wargamers prefer to have a cadre of core units that progress from scenario to scenario. Then there is the commander promoton thing, ok as far as I go that is fine promoting officers under your command, but like others have stated here - bring back the promotion system for the Player, I thought the system in Blitz 1 was very fair and I enjoyed it through every expansion.

Now for some final area's that I find lacking, the reinforcement idea going on in Blitz 2 is ok, but players really need to have more control over what is coming down the pike when you order it. And yes there are time frames when only certain types of units may be the only ones available and that is just fine. But not all the time, the game needs to be more flexiable in this area. And did I mention - "Bring Back The Core Units!" Next is the abilitly to build bridges - or actually the lack of it in Blitz 2. I love games with engineers, being able to build bridges and the such is such a fantastic area of play I just "Hate" to see it gone from the new games. And lets get the Medics back into play ok, I can not tell you how many times in the Blitz 1 games having an ambulance or moving my squads into a Hospital has saved my bacon in the over all picture of the scenario in play.

And I miss supply dumps! I like the few times that you can get new vehicles out of a factory, but it would be nice to be able to repair and rearm your units if you find such a supply dump or factory/storage building in a town. Now I know CDV is not the developer of the games - but they do have "strong" input into the games they produce. So CDV if you are reading any of these reviews at all - please take heed of what your customers are saying! Because like I stated at the top - I Really like Blitz 2, but it did slide backwards as others have said.

Great for WWII buffs

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 5
Date: September 07, 2006
Author: Amazon User

Not buggy at all, others must have inadequate systems. Starforce shouldn't be an issue if you are really interested in game. Game is great fun, ideal for wwii buffs. Play is similar to old Micosoft CloseCombat but graphics and features are far superior.

blitzkreig 2

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 3 / 6
Date: May 04, 2006
Author: Amazon User

Terrible graphics in my opinion. Blitzkreig had better graphics and really looked cool. Bought this game and am not happy with it at all.

Buggy and choppy

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 10 / 15
Date: December 09, 2005
Author: Amazon User

NOTE: I've only played the demo of this game.

It sucked so much that it simply shocked me and I honestly doubt that a full version (The difference being a dozen or so more missions) can fix the problems it has.

Your units, specially vehicles, move in a tremendously sluggish and choppy way. They will get completely stuck in the middle of a wide road, and it will take half an hour of your time to click on every unit and send it in a different direction. Very frustrating specially in missions where you have to reach an objective before it gets reinforced.

Also, when you have a group of 4+ tanks/vehicles, if you assign them to go to a random point x, they will travel in a line. That's right. A line. So if there's only 1 anti-tank gun in the middle of the road, it will destroy all your tanks one by one as they move in line, instead of moving in a row, where they can fire all at the same time. Instead, the infantry charges in rows, like 18th century infantry, with obvious results.

The above is worsened by the units's AI. Apparently, your vehicles will not react, never, to any threat that comes nearby. You can have a large scale battle and in the middle of it a tank doing nothing, UNLESS you command it to do something, which will make it move and abandon it's dug-in bonus. The same with big formations. You can have a formation of 15 super heavy tanks but you need to drag them by the nose into doing anything. Result: All the 15 tanks will attack the same enemy tank while the rest of the enemy formation will attack different targets, destroying yours.

Apparently I can use different kinds of tanks. Heavy, Medium, light, you name it. I have different kinds of units as well, Early '40, Late '45, etc. I'm surprised I only noted this by pure chance, as it does not change anything AT ALL.

Your units move at a crawl like speed for some reason beyond me.

If you set your graphic settings too high (That's right) you will get a fosforecent green screen.

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I only downloaded the demo for some free fun, as I usually do, but I sucked so much that I felt it was an obligation to come here and warn you in case you're thinking about buying it. There are better RTS strategy, WWII-themed, games out there.

Nice Try

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 14 / 14
Date: October 25, 2005
Author: Amazon User

While the AI has improved significantly, and the 3-d effects are nice, overall this isn't much of an improvement over the original. Instead of upgrading your core units, your sub-commanders gain experience which is far less satisfying. The heavy reliance on reinforcements throughout missions left me cold. Playing as the Americans is unbearable due to the pathetic voice acting. And the StarForce ultra-intrusive copy protection was the final blow, I want that thing off my computer but it can't be uninstalled.

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