CLOSE COMBAT 3: THE RUSSIAN FRONT (U) IN SOUTH AFRICA

Close Combat 3: The Russian Front (U) Platform: Windows 98, Windows 95 Condition: Pre-Owned/Used in Very Good Condition This Title Also Available As: New: Brand New and Sealed games available Please get in touch for information on these options. Pre-owned games supplied with applicable serial keys. However - please note: Any single use keys or activation codes may have already been used/redeemed. Product Information Artificial Intelligence Accurate Warfare, Wide Variety of Units Grand-Scale Story Line, Bigger and More Diverse Maps Team Management, Commander Units Enhanced Scenario Editor Product Description Barbarossa unleashed! Close Combat III: The Russian Front, the latest in the award-winning Close Combat series, puts you in command of either the Red Army or the German Blitzkrieg in the epic Eastern Front struggle of World War II. Spanning four years, from the 1941 invasion of the Soviet Union through to the 1945 fall of Berlin, Close Combat III combines all your favourite features from past Close Combat games, along with a variety of new twists. Gamers are challenged to out-think and out-fight their opponent while keeping their troops alive. They start as low-ranking commanders and manage unit upgrade and maintenance as they attempt to advance in rank and acquire more troops and equipment. Lead wisely, and your troops might survive through the long cold winter months. Review The third instalment in an award-winning series, Close Combat III: The Russian Front, sees the action move from the West to the East, as it covers the doomed German assault on Russia during the Second World War. Although the scale of individual battles remains the same, covering tactical squads of infantry and individual vehicles, the overall campaign takes in the whole encounter from the opening days of Operation Barbarossa to the retreat to Berlin, following the historical path, so that regardless of your achievements should you play as the Germans, you will end up fighting your way back to Berlin (if you live that long). Much remains in place from the previous Close Combat games, with the overhead maps and simple control methods, but where this real-time strategy game disappoints in comparison to Close Combat 2, is it's obsession with tanks. Yes, tanks are lovely, but the Close Combat engine doesn't deal with vehicles as effectively as it does infantry, with poor path finding and poor AI, both friendly and computer controlled. However, tanks are so powerful in this game, that even when working your way through the tractor factories at Stalingrad, you are better off with a largely armoured force, which is a shame as the opportunities for street-to-street infantry encounters through heavily shelled Russian cities would have ideally suited the game, but never quite come to fruition. This said, some neat additions to the series, such as leaders with set command radius and the ability to apply waypoints provide enough to keep fans of the series coming back for more. -- Jason Weston