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Tjaka, South Africa

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 4 / 5
Date: August 21, 2004
Author: Amazon User

This is a short review for the developers of this game: the historical accuracy & accurate detail up to the lowest level put this game in the category of "hobby" as opposed to "toy for children". Personally I prefer to take decicions on national level myself (see: Medieval: Total War) instead of receiving "orders" (the "campaign" & "mission" system) but then obviously you loose some histrical accuracy. Good work, congrats.

Redundant

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 3 / 3
Date: June 14, 2003
Author: Amazon User

After the initial glow wore off, it was apparent that there is very limited replayability here. The canned 'random' missions are essentially the same over and over again, and the historical missions are identical every time. A branching campaign as in Panzer General 2 would have been infinitely more interesting.

Awesome game - once you get it to work

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 3 / 3
Date: August 08, 2003
Author: Amazon User

The title says it all. Now that I've been able to get the game to work, I can't stop playing it. The single player is interesting up to a point, but the multi-player (on Gamespy) is absolutely AWESOME. I give it 4-5 stars for play, and 1 star for support and compatibility.

First, the installation problem, which I understand is common. I install the game on my computer and the graphics are not right. So I check the website given on the game documentation, and send an email to the email address describing in painstaking detail the problem. The message gets bumped back with a message to the effect -- don't bother us, use the complaint system from the website. DUH the website game me the option of the using the complaint system or sending an email. So I try using the online complaint system. I get the same message emailed to me to use the online systems. In other words, there's NO SUPPORT.

I check the game forum for clues. It appears that there are no employees of the developer or the publisher helping people, just well intentioned computer geeks who have no affiliation with the companies. Also, it appears that there are tons of people with various problems with the game. After many tries, I finally find a fix that corrects about 80% of the problem.

Now I'm finally playing the game. The detail is terrific, and the units realistic. For example, the German 88's are great anti-air guns, but, like Rommel in Africa, they will also murder tanks! The tanks appear to be realistic in terms of mobility, armour, and strength of weapons as far as I can tell from my extensive reading on WWII tanks. The panzershrek launchers that German infantry is a little too powerful, but given that USSR has some unbelievable tanks . . . what can you say.

Decent game but hard to master or learn.

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 3 / 3
Date: June 18, 2004
Author: Amazon User

This game is pretty decent. When I first played it, I unistalled the game after playing it for about 10 minutes because it was impossible for me to beat the first few missions. It is very different from other RTS games such as Starcraft, Warcraft, and Age of Empires. Unlike those RTS games this games this game is not simple and it might take a while to get better or get used to the gameplay. I have only played it about a month now so I am still a noob at this game but single player is still pretty fun. The first thing that reminded of me was the Combat Mission games which made me think that Blitzkrieg was more of a TBS game than RTS. It is RTS, however, it is very similar to Combat Mission if you played it before. The units move slowly in groups and the setting is in WWII. Also, the sound is very realistic.

The requirements is one thing that you don't have to worry about. If you have read all my reviews, you know that I own whole mess of PCs. But instead of using my newer PCs, I used the oldest PC that I had for about 4 years which the system specifications are Celeron 900mhz, 256mb ram, GeForce 2 and ran it on 1024x768x32, a medium resolution, without any slowdowns. So, any people can play this game with a dated PC which shouldn't go below Pentium 2 400mhz, 128mb ram, and 16mb video card. It is not the official requirements but my requirements are little higher which will make the game run a little better.

If you are a quick learner or if you have played all types of RTS and TBS games, this game is definitly for you. Also if you are a WWII buff, this game might be also for you. But if you aren't satisfied with my review, then it is safer bet that you try the demo from fileplanet.com, gamershell.com, or filefront.com.

Blitzkrieg is the best!

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 3 / 4
Date: June 23, 2005
Author: Amazon User

First, if you don't want to edit maps, change my rating to five stars. It is almost impossible to find the editors, but it is do-able.

The game itself is so much fun. you can have tanks, artillary, airplanes, and infantry. you can build trenches, barbed wire, tank obstacles, and bridges. Case in point: On a german level, you have to take two depots. one in a town, one on an island. there is a bridge in the town, but the town has heavily garrisoned buildings and entrenched AT guns and tanks. there is a possible bridge to build that doesn't have defence other than some AA guns, which can be easily destroyed with Artillary/tanks. if you go from the town side, you will probably lose a lot of tanks and men. You have to use your brain in this game.

One person said they had an advanced computer but it crashed. To that person: I have a laptop that is a piece of crap and an Indeo (who has heard of that?) video card, and I have not had a single glitch yet!

This is fun: sneak a scout up to an enemy position, and use artillary to obliterate them. I love this game. I would recommend this game for anyone who has had previous game experience and loves ww2, or rts games

so and so...

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 5 / 10
Date: April 30, 2004
Author: Amazon User

1) Unit control and movement>
Sometimes is very hard to select a certain unit and if you have infantry droped on the ground, you can forget about driving a tank trhough that area...it takes ages.
The unit never "think" ahead...they wait until an entire platoon drive into some trees, they bunch togethere there and get stuck...than it takes 10-20 seconds to get unstuck...even if you help them by commands. Imagine you have a bunch of Il-2 on your tail...BY BYE TANKS
I understand that a novice when given a "back" command will turn a tank on the spot even while under fire instead of backing-up to a safe position, but you cannot tell me that a 3-4 years front veteran tanker will do the same.
And more of this.

2) Game design. Real eye candy indeed as regarding the looks.
As for "strategy", missions and maps...after a while all of them are looking the same. NO MISSION EDITOR

3) Fire/attack rules. A german tank had WAAAYYYY better optics and IT HAD A RADIO! So, a PIII, PIV, even more PV or VI, would have 1.5 better seeing range than a T-34 for example. Not to mention the fire accuracy, german tank crews when in a PIV (from Ausfuehrung G up), PV or PVI were a feared enemy on any front.
A Tiger had slow transverse movement for its turret but the crew compensated with moving the entire tank when needed. Not in the game.

4) Someone called "WWWII buff" praised the "historical corectness" of this name. WAY OFF AND NOT TRUE>
a) KV2 was more like a howitzer on a tank chasis (like the british Bishop, etc) Thus, it should have the "ranged fire" or "saturation fire" as the other guns have. Very heavily armored, to destroy it, the germans were using AT guns to disable the tracks and then, depending on the front situation, were calling heavy artillery to destroy it or were seaking up to it to drop grenades inside.
b) The T-34 models are messed up. Please search www.battlefield.ru for more info.
c) The "naratives" before mission are heavily biased, especially regarding the eastern front...
d) MOST IMPORTANT: messed up historical accuracy, even when playing on normal (historical accurate)
The germans had very good tanks/infantery and AT gunnery, achieving more with less
The russians depended heavily on artilery preparations before atacking...huge number of guns, all kinds. Huge numbers of infantery, tanks and war materials also...not to mention the Sturmoviks.
The allieds owned the skies, especially after Normandy, nothing could be moved without a JABO cleaning the place. So so tanks, good ranges artillery and infantery

NO WAY: T-28 tanks, Maus or IS-3...Maus 128mm gun incredibly weak!!!

4) Unit selection: I played the german campaign twice until the end, on normal and hard and could not get a Tiger...the last mission I have Panthers, and a Jagdpanther (or tiger, not sure), but not PVI or more important, no Koenigstiger under my command (the ones which are the core units)

I could continue, but no space left...overal, nice game to own if you like RTS, a little heavy on "mouse control"...takes a lot of mouse movements to coodinate in assault, weak in strategy, but eyecandy.
No D-day map! Suden Strike had one!

ONE OF THE BEST WAR GAMES OUT THERE!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 2
Date: May 19, 2003
Author: Amazon User

I have only been able to play the demo, but the second I played it I knew I was going to buy this game, and I did. This game is most-likely, the best WWII, and for that matter, maybe the best war games ever made. The graphics are superb; a cool add on is when the mouse goes over a tree, it tells you what kind of a tree it is! The only drawback is that this game is frustratingly hard. I will spend one to two hours playing one leval. This game can also get repetative. I have only completed about five missions, and so far, all of them have had almost the exact same objectives: Capture the Large Village, Capture the Small Village, Destroy the Local Armory, and Capture the Enemy Wharehouse. Although it is repetative and hard, this game is very enjoyable. It is also very realistic. The sound is very realistic, a gun actually sounds like a gun, and so does a bomb. The gameplay is very easy to learn, and it is rather easy to control large armies. Some details about the game that the demo listed:
-Unlimited Random missions
-Three historically accurate Campigns
-Over 40 different vehicles and units
-Modify or add new Campaigns, missions or units (this does not work for me; I submitted to a forum and the people there are really helpful, but this other guy told me that it was just to hard to understand-you have to be a total computer nerd to understand how to do it-don't buy this game if you can't wait to make your own missions!etc.BR>This game has got to be one of the funnest games I have ever played, and that's just the demo!
This is how I rate this game:
Graphics: 9.3
Gameplay: 9.8
Sound: 9.5
Realism: 10!
This game is highly fun and highly recommended.

Darn the bugs....

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 3 / 11
Date: May 22, 2003
Author: Amazon User

Well, first off, if you can tolerate the bugs of which I speak, make my rating 5 stars.

Okay, on to the bugs of which I speak. When I played the demo for Blitzkrieg, none of the hotkeys worked. I assumed that this was probably just a demo thing, and would be corrected by the time the game came out--and besides, it was an otherwise fantastic game, so I was excited for its release.

When I finally got the full-length version, I discovered that, basically, Blitzkrieg would not work with my keyboard. For example, when the player name box popped up, I started to backspace away the word "Player"; I got the letter "m" instead. Every time I used backspace, it would happily delete the letter--and replace it with the letter "m". Using "Shift" in the menues brought me--without fail--to the Multiplayer screen; when I used shift to try to group units together in-game, up popped the options screen. The pause button (spacebar) was inoperable; thus, when the saved mission loaded (paused, of course), I had no way of unpausing to continue, and had to restart the mission.

Without these bugs, Blitzkrieg would've been a fantastic game. As it was on my PC, it was a monumental pain in the arse. I'm thankful that the guy at EB let me exchange it for something else.

If you can stand the bugs I've described, and like a good RTS, then Blitzkrieg is the game for you. I really had high hopes for this one, but I suppose I'll have to wait till another quality WW2 RTS comes along.

Great

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 2
Date: June 01, 2003
Author: Amazon User

This game is fantastic, simply put. Historically accurate, graphically the game is exceptionally well done, and it's just plain fun to play! Go buy the game, you wont regret it.

Blitzkreig

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 1 / 2
Date: July 09, 2003
Author: Amazon User

The game is oodles of fun, but the fact that Air Support is brainless (kind of hangs around and waits to get killed by the enemy) and that the infrantry is an almost pointless assett are two drawbacks.

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