A super-sized episode that talks combat systems, fantasy artwork models, deciding what’s “fun”, celebrity appearances from years before they were famous, and TANKS!
Don’t worry, there’s plenty more where this one came from – there’s 196 issues still to go!
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What better #TBT ad for #TANKSgiving than a game with Patton’s Panzers chasing across France during WWII?
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Developed by Zuxxez and Published by EIDOS Interactive
Panzer 101
Using World War II as its canvas, Panzer Claws paints an RTS strategy game in vivid appearance, clustered with frantic game-play that fits perfectly in the chaotic battles it portrays. Although not realistic – Panzer Claws has a resource-gathering and unit-building system similar to other RTS’s, such as StarCraft – the game is still fun to play.
Cyrano
This one’s not even close: Combat Mission in its various iterations.
I remember getting hooked on the WEGO gameplay and the ability the 3D environment gave you to peek over the shoulders of your digi-troopers and guess at what war must have been like for them. Multi-player randomized battles to the wee hours of the morning were pretty great too. What made both x1 and x2 really special, though, was the incredible variety of, yep, AFVs. I’m not an WWII rivet-counter — I save my O.C.D. for Napoleonic games — but the fellows who designed Combat Mission are and it shows every time you pan around their products; not to mention the remarkable array of modifications available on-line. There are no CRTs or bog charts here. These are games played with a merciless physics engine that feel every bit as gritty and grand now as they did nearly two decades ago. They’ve let me play with some of the most famous tanks of the war and some I never even knew existed.
Others have come for her throne, but CMx1 and x2 are still queen of the battlefield for me when it comes to tank warfare.