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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!

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

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.

fun but simplified and inaccurate

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 9 / 10
Date: July 30, 2004
Author: Amazon User

First of all, I loved the game. I probably spent way too much time playing with the tanks. The game looks great, the music is tolerable, voice samples are awesome and it's great that the keyboard controls are set up space-wise, not by abreviation (the grid of icons you can mouse over is arranged the same way as their representations on the keyboard). plenty of reviews on the graphics already but not too many people mentioned the voice samples. I'm russian so it's good to hear actual russian voice samples, not someone just reading stuff off a script typed out in english. the slang from the soviet forces is great, reminds me of the older russian war movies. the allied forces' voice samples were a bit plain on the other hand. can't speak for the germans, at least it's not english with an overdone german accent. the game is NOT historically accurate. not to spoil anything but the Maus tank didn't appear at the battle of the bulge as far as i know. the IS-3's weren't used in combat against the germans, no british jet fighters, etc. the game's biased, pretty much all of the allie's tanks will have their butts handed to them by the panzers. actually by just about everything in the game. if you're securing a town in an allied campaign, you have to work for it. hop infantry from house to house supporting them with tanks and artillery. on the other hand, you can pretty much send a few T-34's into a town and they'll wipe out most everything they come across. the thing that bothers me in the game the most is the lousy AI. the units will always trip over themselves. even infantry will get lost walking around a building. trying to get any more than 4 or 5 tanks into formation is hopeless. vehicles will often get stuck against each other and it takes some effort to get them on their way. given a choice of targets the units will as a rule of thumb fire at the wrong one unless directed explicitly. faced with a supply truck, an heavy AA gun and some infantry hole up in a house a tank will usually blast the crap out of the truck and then move on to the house (if it's still around at that point). it's pretty easy to "cheat" and be cheap. sneaking a sniper over to a target and spotting for artillery is just fine but you can also do this with infantry. move up a few feet, whip out the binoculars, blast away with the howitzers, repeat. nothing wrong with this per se but you can beat the whole game this way or at least the parts where you have artillery that can blast away unharased. the game isn't very detailed. sudden strike seems to give you a lot more flexibility. blitzkrieg doesn't let you take over enemy vehicles, choose placement inside a building, etc. To the point, the looks, sound, control and details are great. the play could be a good deal better. the simplicity isn't a bad thing but it's there. Nival isn't big on historical accuracy (see Silent Storm) so don't rely on this game for academic info. But chances are, the game will be fun. Try the demo.

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.

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!

Turn based strategy gamer gets hooked by this RTS!!!

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 11 / 11
Date: September 19, 2003
Author: Amazon User

Well i have to admit, when i played the demo of blitzkrieg i was already hooked.
I'm new to real time strategy games, i'm a turn baser of old!
For your info i'm running a P4 2.4 gig, 256 ram, with a 64 meg graphics card, and i had absolutley no trouble running this game, no hiccups.
Untill i played the demo i was hooked on panzer general 3d and scorched earth, those WERE my bread and butter games.
This game is great!
If i gave this game a 5 star rating then it would have to be perfect and its not.
But its damn near close.
As other reviewers mentioned, it gets kind of tedious when you have to supply your vehicles, and you are kind of vulnerable when you do this unless you have your area very well secured, i guess i had to get used to the idea of enemy units attacking me at a moments notice, DEFEND DEFEND DEFEND!
What i really like about this game is when you are deploying "artillery for example" and you actually see the guys picking and packing up the guns, seeing the arms on the guns swing open and deploy, never had anything like that in panzer general, that alone is really neat!
I'm a bit of a WWII amature armour history buff so i really get a great deal of joy to see that the damage is realistic, for example i have this other game a WWll tank simulator, and in that game, "if your playing as the germans" is very disheartening to have your panther or tiger1 shot to peices by a ordinary sherman tank at 2000 yards!
That just did'nt happen, so i'm happy that this game uses realistic damage in it.
I just wish i could figure out how to delete my old saved games, but other than that i would highly reccomend this game to anyone.
The learning curve is a little steep only because you need to learn what tanks and guns can do what and what they can't do, but there is a section where you can look at all the units in this game to help you with that.
I am very happy i bought this game!

Great WW2 Tactical Strategy

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 4 / 5
Date: September 18, 2003
Author: Amazon User

I was a little nervous about buying Blitzkrieg. In general, I've disliked real-time strategy games like this and I was worried about buying a product supported from Germany. But I couldn't be more pleased. Blitzkrieg in an excellent game.

This is basically a tactical level strategy game. You are given a certain amount of assets and mission objectives and you attempt to carry them out. Usually, this means your "core group" of 3-6 tanks and a battery of artillary. As the war goes on, this core groups becomes more experienced and you can upgrade their hardware, sometimes getting cutting edge weapons as a reward for completing a mission. You also have snipers, foot soldiers and support trucks. And in historical missions, you can have a massive array of tanks, rocket launchers, artillary and troops. And all these assets are rendered with splendid and incredible detail. Facing a Tiger tanks with Shermans? Better sneak around and attack from the back where his armor is weak. You go face to face and he'll kill you without getting a scratch from your popgun cannons. Attacking a trench? Watch out for mines and grenades. Even the artillary pieces have operators who can be killed without damaging the weapon -- which can then be taken over by your own troops.

The thing that makes this game fun is the flexibility. There's not one set way to win a mission. This applies to the computer as well. It frequently adapts to circumstances. If you don't watch carefully, he'll sneak a platoon of soldiers behind your line to savage your artillary and trucks. Your snipers can spy enemy tanks and call in an artillary strike. But if he sniffs your presence, his tanks will roll out and attack. You have to be careful even tooling down a road because he might set a a few soldiers and AT guns on a cliff to deliver a devastating blow to your armor. Or you can set an ambush of your own and lure his armor out into it. If you're getting artillary fire, you can order your artillary to lay a supressing barrage -- only to see him pick up, move to a new location and open fire.

The game is not easy. I've frequently had to restart because I stupidly charged in with armor and no troops and got slaughtered. Or I used my air support to bomb a few tanks instead of holding back and fending off his bombers when they went after my artillary. The Soviet campaign is especially difficult as the German weapons totally outclass you in the beginning of the war that it's almost impossible to win.

There are a few problems. The software is a little twitchy and somtimes likes to drop the frame rate for no reason. And I would really have liked to seen a branching campaign where you could invade England as the Germans or attack the Russians as the Americans.

But overall this is fantastic. The realism is amazing and the gameplay is engrossing.

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.

FRUSTRATING: Very BUGGY

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 5 / 7
Date: July 20, 2003
Author: Amazon User

I'm a wargamer from way back -- enjoyed playing this one to a degree, agree with the other reviewer about lack of solid AI and replayability..boring. Most importantly, IT ALWAYS LOCKED UP ON ME IN THE CAMPAIGN GAME! Not just locked up, froze my Pentium 4 XP latest patch/drivers computer SOLID. In fact, I'm writing the review just after putting the darn thing on E-bay for re-sale. I'm done with it and won't buy anything from Russian programmers again!

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