![]() Capture enemy zeppelins to receive precious reinforcements. If you don’t have a zeppelin you loose in 5 minutes. Scattered around the map are zeppelins capture them all and eliminate the opponents to win. You pick a map, team and nationality and the game launches. Multiplayer is handle much differently than others. Assign groups to hotkeys, same as all the other real time strategy titles. Dragging a box around a group selects them all, and double clicking a unit selects all of that type currently on the screen. By the end of a mission black craters cover the landscape from your artillery and tank shells.Ĭontrolling units is straight forward: click on a unit and a square with 9 boxes appears at the bottom. Depending on the unit some or all of the boxes will be used providing options like assault, cover, stop, attack, repair. The entire map can be destroyed, from houses and bridges to trees and shrubs. Sound is a so-so affair, with some language problems and muddled dialogue. The graphics are simply gorgeous, with rich details and smooth operation. To ease this a bit you can pause the game, issue orders and then resume. Since you’ve got to really plan each advance and attack a mission might take 3 or 4 hours. Rushing the enemy just doesn’t work, because you’ll be crushed by artillery before you know what happened. ![]() The key to the game is managing what you have effectively, repairing your units, retreating if necessary. We’ve become so used to just building a fleet of whatever the best unit is and swarming the enemy. While the variety is plentiful it gets hard to distinguish units at the highest resolution of 1024×768 I separate my units into groups and use them like that to keep things organized. Infantry and tanks must advance together or you’ll loose. Officers have the best sighting, and should be used with artillery that have the best range but poor sighting. Each category has a variety of units available, and all four categories must be used together to finish the missions. There’s no building, harvesting resources or training involved: you’ve got what your given and that’s it.Ī variety of units are at your disposal, but fall into four categories troops, armour, artillery and support. If you’re lucky reinforcements, supplies or air support are provided to assist in meetings your goals. You’re assigned a set number of troops and must complete the mission with what you’ve got. Playing allies, Germans or Russians ( should be Soviets ) you start each mission with an excellent briefing outlining objectives and opportunities. This is a real time strategy game set in World War II. Sudden Strike wowed me from the get go for it’s straight forward gameplay and excellent graphics. I say this in the face of quite a few negative reviews I’ve read, all of which seem to miss the point of this title. This real time strategy cleaned up the awards from the European gaming community last year and has finally hit our shores. ![]() Quite a few games from Europe have caused a stir in North America, but none as much as Sudden Strike.
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