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The new Starcraft

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 4 / 5
Date: February 21, 2003
Author: Amazon User

This game combines Starcraft and Empire Earth strategy games with a good WW2 background. Fun to play and easy to play. It has a really good demo. CHECK THE DEMO OUT!!

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.

Much better than Sudden Strike!

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 6 / 6
Date: March 27, 2003
Author: Amazon User

Just finished playing the demo, and was very pleasantly surprised. Was expecting another Sudden Strike, but this game is far superior. Finally they have got the armor values right. Riflemen and jeeps can no longer take out tanks. Even other tanks have to try for flank or rear shots if their main gun is too small. Gameplay is very easy, and graphics are outstanding. I think CDV has finally gotten their ducks in a row with this one. Anxiously waiting for my retail copy to arrive.. :-)

Great Demo

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 6 / 6
Date: April 11, 2003
Author: Amazon User

I can only compare it to Red Alert, my previous favorite RTS game. Blitzkrieg is much more realistic and detail-oriented. There are 200 vehicle types available, and they seem to accurately reflect actual historical weapons. The terrain is interactive: houses and trees can be blown-up, bridges can be built, trenches dug, etc... You can call in air support in the form of one of the following options: observation plane, fighters, heavy bombers, ground attack planes or paratroop transport.

Playability is good, though some of the support units need to be micromanaged to be effective. Laying a minefield takes forever because engineers have to be directed to lay each mine. Also, repair and re-supplying vehicles have to be directed to specific vehicles. Ironically, the fighting units are more autonomous, you give them a fighting posture and they'll respond to the enemy accordingly (engage, ambush, ignore, etc...) Air units are more abstract. You pick one type of air support at a time and select a target. Bombers decimate ground units, but are quickly dispatched by fighters or heavy AAA.

While playing the third battle, I ended up in an artillery dual with the computer. It reminded me of recent battles fought in Gulf I & II. You engage the enemy, then clear the area before their artillary starts landing. With a scout and the Russian's heavy artillary, you can easily destroy everything on the map.

Eagerly Awaiting The Release!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 4 / 4
Date: April 13, 2003
Author: Amazon User

Finally a WWII RTS that looks good! Finished playing the demo and it is (1) very fun, (2) historically accurate, (3) easy to play. The balance is right between these three. The battles look like they could have some epic scale. Definitely reccommend it for anyone that likes war games or RTS.

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!

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.

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.

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