You can call for reinforcements, but you're limited to the number of units that you start the campaign off with. I know that not everything is cut and dried in a war but some of these campaigns hinge on having one or two specific elements in place from the outset, and the only way you'll win most of the battles the first time around is to get lucky. Sure, I lost quite a few battles, but even when I did finally complete them, I was still unable to see how I could have made the perfect decision based on the available information. If you're up for the challenge, Blitzkrieg 2: Fall of the Reich, will give you a good workout, but there is more trial and error to these campaigns than I feel comfortable with. It's as though we've been taken out of the mailroom which was filled with our zany friends and thrust into tiny cubicles on the main floor where we are introduced to such foreign corporate concepts such as "responsibility" and "discipline." The campaigns include historic battles such as the Siege of Budapest and the Russians' Operation Bagration. The maps are large but the lack of diversity in terrain and gameplay strategy has the opposite intended effect, making them long and tedious. In this expansion pack, the fighting is confined to the Eastern front, over 10 different maps. Locations differed wildly in terrain and weather conditions from scorching deserts to frozen Russian wastelands. There was a freshness to the original that I attribute to the variety of missions. The focus of the gameplay is tighter and more refined than it was in the original, but unfortunately it's also one of the game's biggest disappointments. Even on the easiest setting you'll have quite a struggle on your hands, but not what I would necessarily call a challenge. While I applaud the resistance to pad the gameplay with complicated and annoying micromanagement, the ramped-up difficulty is certain to alienate novices. In an effort to compete with the glut of WWII games out there, the developers felt it necessary to provide fans with more of a challenge. Whereas Blitzkrieg 2 was relatively easy, it was engaging and entertaining. What you can expect is a more difficult game. The graphics haven't been upgraded, and the missions are less varied. It treads familiar ground, and as a result doesn't take us anywhere new both figuratively and literally. Thanks to computer games, WWII has lasted longer than Gilligan's Island has been in syndication.īlitzkrieg 2: Fall of the Reich is the stand-along expansion pack to Blitzkrieg 2, which was released in 2005. Blitzkreig 2 was a great game that was at the top of everyone's list, but it's doubtful if this expansion pack would even make Schindler's list.
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