Blitzkrieg
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Video Game Reviews of Blitzkrieg
Customer Review: Sneak Review.
Summary: 5 Stars
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!
Customer Review: Blitzkrieg is the best!
Summary: 4 Stars
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
Customer Review: Tjaka, South Africa
Summary: 4 Stars
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.Customer Review: fun but simplified and inaccurate
Summary: 3 Stars
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.Customer Review: Decent game but hard to master or learn.
Summary: 4 Stars
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.