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Finally a tank game worth investing my free time.

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 14 / 14
Date: January 14, 2000
Author: Amazon User

Panzer Elite is the game I have been searching for years. I have been playing tank games on paper and on computers for years. I admit to having had some flight simulator envy with their great first person perspective. Now I need not envy anymore. I can hop into my trusty Sherman (or Tiger) and let the lead fly. This game is very immersive. It gets all the essentials of tank combat right. The terrain is modeled in great detail with trees, hills, nooks and crannies great for hiding behind. Tanks are modeled in appearance (insides too), but also in how they respond to damage. Damage to can range from a catastrophic 'brewing up' to a damaged radio. The player can command an American or German platoon in combat from Tunisia to France, by way of Sicily and Italy. The learning curve is steep, but is mostly developing situational awareness and learning to deal in real time with hairy situations. The game ran great for me out of the box. There is great support on the web for any that encounter problems. There is an active user's community growing for Internet play and user enhancement. Panzer Elite has become the new standard that all tank sims will be judged by.

The best armor sim ever. Panzer Elite sets the mark !

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 7 / 7
Date: November 15, 1999
Author: Amazon User

Panzer Elite is one of the best sims I have ever played. I have been computing for the last 15 years with a background in studying military history, specifically armor combat of WW2 for the past 20 years. Panzer Elite models all the details of armor combat and it truly gives you the flavor of WW2 tanking.

I had zero problems installing and running the SIM, most users who experience problems do so because they do not have updated drivers necessary for running Panzer Elite proper. I have followed Wings Simulations tech support board for sometime now and to see how they support their clients. Wings has developed patches for those experiencing problems that need addressing a common practice for software publishers patches are part of life for software users. The developer of Panzer Elite has done so with blinding speed and support second to none. In short they are the best company I have ever dealt with. The graphics are gorgeous and immerse you in combat. Enemy AI is top notch and a challenge. Multiplayer support, 80 missions. Varied campaigns make this a must have for anyone who enjoys sims and armor. They are also expanding the product and will enhance Panzer Elite further with addons. Varied realism options help beginners as well as hardcore sim options for those wanting utmost realism.

To sum it up if you want a quake or doom experience of shoot the bad guys, Panzer Elite is not for you. If you want a quality product, the most realistic tank sim on the market, a company who cares about putting out excellent product then Panzer Elite is for you! Buy it, learn it, live it!

Ja mein General. das ist eine Panzer Elite!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 7 / 8
Date: October 17, 2002
Author: Amazon User

The best WWII tank battle simulation ever produced. It includes very accurately reproduced Battlefields with a stunning texture, Panzers and Tanks that actually look and feel like the real thing, devious infantry who actually pops up whenever you less expect it to destroy your tank.

Finally, tanks can destroy trees and buildings and make their way through valleys, hills and rivers. You may even get stuck in mud if you're not too careful, especially in Russia. When it rains, it really pours and your tank will have a harder time to travel across prairies drenched with water.

Gun muzzle blasts are as real as you can get them. You have original crew voices (all in the Nations' respective languages) telling you what they are doing and orders from the High Command you better follow , unless you want to end a loser. Strategies and tactics are up to you and it is also your task to command and protect you platoon from enemy fire.

It is not "as if" you were in WWII, but rather as if you "are" in WWII.
Every mission is based on accurately researched historical events, with historical settings, vehicles and soldiers. Even the camouflage patterns on your tanks change during the course of war and according to the terrain in which you do battle.

You can drive almost any tank imaginable in that period: from a Valentine to a Firefly, from PzKpfw II to a King's Tiger and from StuG III to a Hunting Tiger! Each tank comes with its own realistic set of fuel, armament and equipment and you better make sure you fuel it up before a mission, otherwise you're stuck like a lame duck.

The only downside to this game is that you won't have any aerial cover nor having Allied aircraft attacking you. This is though, compensated by an ever-present heavy Artillery attack which can happen at any moment and wherever you may be...

The interiors of the tanks are as accurate and minutely researched as their exteriors (most of the documentation comes from Tank Museums). You are able to sit in the tank as well as seeing it from an exterior view which you can swing like a camera filming it (at every angle, except from below, but who would like to see his own tank from underneath it?).

The weight of the vehicles you drive is also there. The feeling of driving an M-8 might be exhilarating, especially due to its speed, but when you face a Tiger you better duck, or it will blast you off in thousand pieces. If you command a Tiger instead, you will be much slower, but you wouldn't have to worry too much about a Lee or a Sherman. You just stop the heavy beast, aim, fire and move forward. One shot with an 88mm caliber gun will send a Sherman's turret fly as if it were made of Aluminum.

The main attractivity of this game though, is that it keeps expanding. More and more scenarios can be added almost monthly.
From Africa to Italy and from the vast steppes of Russia to the shores of Normandy and beyond, you will have to survive through the entire conflict.

Moreover, its system of MODs, or additional functionality modules, allow it to have it a different feel with every single one enabled. You want to fight in Normandy in Winter, instead of in the Summer? Fine, you just enable the Night and Winter MOD and you have it. You want to drive more vehicles in the African Desert than those that came with the game? Enable the Full-Monty MOD and you will have that too.

The description could go on forever. Suffice it to say that this is a unique simulation that cannot compare to any other similar one ever produced. The people who have worked and still work at it are passionate artists, programmers and above all, historians. They know perfectly what they are doing and do it extremely well.

A warning though! Since this game is meant to be played directly from your Hard Drive, because you have to completely install it there, including all the additions and scenarios (just to make the game smoother) it is only recommended to those of you who have large HDs and a very performing Graphic Card with lots of memory included.

To conclude, until someone will come up with a photo-realistic game, based on WWII, that actually shows the true villages, towns and cities as well as the actually filmed vehicles, this will remain the jewel in the crown of any other similar simulation.

I would nominate it the best WWII simulation of all times and also of times to come...
Up to you now, to make up your minds, but if you don't buy it, you will never know what you have missed.

The Quintessential WWII Tank Simulation

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 5 / 5
Date: November 15, 1999
Author: Amazon User

This is the quintissential WWII tank simulation; the vehicles are painstakingly crafted in exquisite detail, terrain is detailed and complex both closeup and at a distance, the artificial intelligence is well-developed, crafty and tactically skilled, and the player is confronted with much the same challenges that faced a WWII tank platoon leader. Perhaps best of all, the scenarios and campaign game are logical, believable, and challenging. The simulation also includes artillery, infantry, weather, logistics. With such attention to detail in the design, one can easily becomes totally immersed in the simulation experience. With up-to-date sound and video drivers Panzer Elite has run flawlessly with no crashes from day one. Finally, support is superb -- twice I have emailed questions to customer support... both questions were answered within two hours -- by the leader of the game design team himself! Anyone interested in learning about and experiencing what armor combat was like in the Second World War would do well to acquire Panzer Elite.

This will definitely keep you up late!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 5 / 6
Date: December 21, 1999
Author: Amazon User

You need power to run this game, but once you have it this isthe best WW2 Tank Sim ever! Make sure you go to panzerelite website todownload the 107.1 patch for game freezes. The campaign system is the most detailed I have seen in years. Each scenario is difficult and very real so take your time or you will get blown away, or you could lose your team of tanks. Supplies are limited so use them well. The combination of infantry, Anti-Tank and Armor is so well done they should win an award just for that! No air power though. Artillery and smoke make life hard! You can crush buildings and chase down enemy infantry, there is nothing better. The AI in this game is true to form. If you knock off enough of the enemy they turn tail and run. It is truly a great feeling to blast a Sherman on the run. This one is worth your hard earned cash, big time! Email if you need more!

panzer elite review 400 mhz celeron voodoo2 24 mb 256 ram

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 4 / 4
Date: December 12, 1999
Author: Amazon User

this is a great challenging game. it does have selectable levels for toughness so anyone who is really interested and over 12 years old can have a great time. there is currently no reliable way to hook up easily for online play although Kali has devoted one server to it #64. as soon as WON or Kali etc. get their acts together with this sim we will all finally have a tank sim that is the ground equivalent of Warbirds. happy hunting!

Panzer Elite suceeds on many levels

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 4 / 5
Date: March 06, 2000
Author: Amazon User

Panzer Elite has dominated my gameplay habits for quite a while because it has so much to offer. One aspect neglected in most reviews is the availability of an Object Editor, downloaded from the Home page. As a military modeler hobbiest, I can appreciate a bran new world of vehicle contruction made available to the novice, or the software experts amongst us. The user can access all the items in the game, and detail or re-camoflage each tank or vehicle using the supplied textures. When through tinkering, the new creation can instantly be added to the game. The real fun is to watch your new customized Tiger prowl through an absorbing 3d environment, or check out your buildings made of brick instead of stone. In essence, a bran new hobby is created through the new world of computer software. And like most great pastimes, the pool of fellow enthusiasts that correspond over the net enliven the experience further. This great tank sim is for the computer gamer who is tired of the 'checkers' type simplicity of first person shooters, and would rather become involved in something with more substance and longetivity ,like chess.

Great simulation (not buggy , you must have current drivers)

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 3 / 3
Date: November 15, 1999
Author: Amazon User

I've been playing this Sim for nearly four hours a day for nearly two weeks now w/o any lockups. This is a great game, no question. It does take some time to learn but what good meaty sim doesn't these days. Very immersive, very tactical, very fun. This game is what Panzer Commander wanted to be but couldn't pull off. If your a WWII buff this is THE tank sim for you. Enough talk, now its time for me to get back to brewing up some krauts. Panthers and Tigers and Hetzers OH MY!

OUTSTANDING Armor sim

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 3 / 3
Date: November 12, 1999
Author: Amazon User

Highly recommended for all Panzer-geeks and Treadheads. Speaking as a DesertStorm "Hell On Wheels" M1A1 tanker, PanzerElite is a realistic yet playable armor sim. The tanks and terrain graphics live up to the hype. The Artificial Intelligence is fantastic, making the game very challenging and thus very fun. I've experienced one crash in 30+ games. Tech support by the lead designer couldn't be better. AWESOME!

Panzer Elite BLOWS away the competition

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 3 / 4
Date: May 03, 2000
Author: Amazon User

Thats right! Panzer Elite has no competition out there as far as Tank Sims go! This is THE most realistic Tank sim I have ever seen since I was in the Army. This has to be the most stable product right out of the box. I had no problems installing this product...it did take a little while to install. After the install finished, I started the game and it prompted me to configure my 3d card which is a 3dfx Vooodoo3...no problems were detected. I must say that certain cards will not work with this program very well, but they are few and far between. Once the 3d card was configured it was time to "brew up some tanks", The game enviroment is very realistic, lots of hull down positions ambush spots galore! The AI is in my opinion very smart for a game..but just keep a eye out for your wingmen they tend to fire and then forget in battle. Speaking of battles...they are a challange. I won't go on about that you just have to see it for yourself, and dont worry about the manual being thin, Panzer Elite has a great web site if you run into any problems, besides it saves trees! Just a word of advice: Get a PII 450mhz 128mb memory and a decent video card and sound card and you wont run into any problems like you have been hearing. Besides games on anything less than a PII are boring!

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