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5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: November 10, 2007
Author: Amazon User

This is a game from the mighty Russian developers Nival Interactive the game has been out a week or so here. I bring you the review having played through the Allies campaign and several multiplayer games.
This is game is fantastic. And I mean it. If you have ever played and enjoyed Sudden Strike then you will get on with this game like a house on fire. It is very similar to it but with several small but cardinal differences.
A game of pure strategic Real-Time-Strategy you are pitted as one of the forces involved in WW2 both in Eastern, Western and African theatres of war. The campaigns are one per side (three in total) and consist of about 8-9 chapters, each concentrating on a separate stage of the war. During each chapter you are presented with an infinite number of random missions you can play through with your limited units to gain new weapons of war as prizes or to increase your troops' skills. Also there is one historic mission after completing which you can continue to the next chapter. Fight for Stalingrad 20 times? Your choice. Capture key bridges and cities 12 times? Your choice. The game has immense replayability.
During each mission you are granted a limited number of units, squads of troops, vehicles and artillery. Each have their own strengths and weaknesses and must work together to achieve victory. You can make your units dig in, prepare an ambush, deploy smoke grenades or change unit formations. All this is beautifully presented in the battlefield but won't push your processor.

All must get this game. It's a sure winner since the multipllayer presents you with infinite tactical possibilities and much fun!

This game will be the CFS of the strategy games.

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 1
Date: May 13, 2003
Author: Amazon User

As many people know, microsoft's CFS and Flightsim series are famed for their ease of modification and flexibility. Blitzkrieg promises to be even more flexible with its editing programs. This game has the accuracy and complexity of Close combat and the playability and pure style of Red Alert 2. The only con I can see to this game is the system used for reinforcements and aircraft.
And to all you other pilots, it IS fun to get your boots dirty once in a while.

Wow, This is GREAT!!!!!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 2
Date: July 17, 2003
Author: Amazon User

This game is 100% amzing! Graphics, Gameplay and Stratagy! 3 different armies (Soviets, ahhhhhhhhh), many battles and even more units. hours of gameplay. This game is for pure stratagists, you need to plan out every move, even how you get your supplies!
GREAT!

More then good

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 8
Date: March 26, 2003
Author: Amazon User

So far it is the best RTS I ever played.

Can't wait!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 4
Date: April 23, 2003
Author: Amazon User

This strategy RTs looks great, huge unit pool, over 80 missions, multiplayer!I recomend this to any wargamers, RTS players and any Military History buff. If you are interested you should check out the blitzkrieg website. Awesome screenshots!

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.

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.

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.

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!

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