WWII Online: Blitzkrieg

World War II Online - Blitzkrieg is an entirely new category of massively multiplayer online game. It combines air, ground, and sea combat in an online, persistent, action-packed environment. Now you can command and crew a variety of accurately modeled vehicles, aircraft, and ships or you can explore the world and fight as a foot soldier against thousands of other players. Set in the spring of 1940, World War II Online - Blitzkrieg includes all the equipment and major battle points: strongholds, fortresses, forests and rivers- just as it was on the battlefields of Europe.

The outcome is unknown; this time YOU make history.

WWII Online brings you game features never seen before:

• Thousands of players sharing the online world- all combat takes place with/against live players
• Persistent game environment- game world is 24/7
• Combined land, sea and air operations- first massively multiplayer virtual battlefield
• First person character perspective throughout
• Accurate terrain, world modeled at 1/2 scale
• Combines elements of first person, strategy, and role-playing games
• Rank-based command structure and character advancement
• Unparalleled 3D sounds with Doppler and directional effects
• Offline vehicle testing and practice
• Next-generation web and game hosting services through Playnet.com

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World War II comes to life in this massive online battlefield with historically accurate and detailed weapons including aircraft, tanks, anti-aircraft guns, trucks, rifles, grenades and much more! As a soldier you can move through the ranks to one day command and plan your own missions or stick it out as a grunt, fighting for your country.

With groundbreaking physics, effects and unparalleled 3D sounds, prepare to be fully immersed into the battlefields of Europe. Fight as a foot soldier, alone, or in a squad. Fly a fighter plane or a bomber. Command a tank or man the guns. All in first person and in the biggest, persistent online world ever.

Can the RAF and British armies help the French forces re-write history? Could the Blitzkrieg have been stopped in France? With the dynamic flow of resources within the strategic system, players will start the battles where they choose, and those choices will make history all over again.

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World War II Online represents an entirely new category in the world of massively multiplayer online games. The focus is to bring air, ground, and sea combat of WW II to life in an Internet based, real time, persistent, and historically set massively multiplayer environment. World War II Online is the first massively multiplayer virtual battlefield. Players can command, (or crew) a wide variety of accurately modelled vehicles, aircraft, and ships. Players can even explore the world and fight as a foot soldier in first person. Immersion into the virtual world beings with the creation of an online character for the Allied or Axis forces - with a different persona available for each country. As a player participates in combat, they gain experience and rank, allowing then to control and command of increasingly advanced game features. A careers path can be chosen which will give a player the ability to plan strategy and missions for a squad, country or entire forces of the Allies and Axis powers in the theatre of conflict. WW II Onlines gives the players a huge historical terrain, vehicles, and environment modelled after the most influential conflict of the 20th Century…but the outcome is not pre-determined...players will have complete control over the war and the persistent outcomes of battles fought.

GAME FEATURES: - Combined land, sea and air operations in the first online virtual battlefield - ½ scale map of Europe with accurate terrain modelling- the biggest online world ever! - First person perspective in all gameplay- the first massively multiplayer first person shooter! - Character advancement and career paths for rich RPG layer - Strategic systems driven by player missions and command structure - Historically accurate and detailed weapons including aircraft, tanks, anti-aircraft guns, trucks, rifles, grenades and more! - Groundbreaking physics and damage modelling - Web-based player services package integrated with gameplay - Next generation web and game hosting services through Planet.com - Combines elements of first person, strategy, and role-playing games

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Atari Australia website - Windows

”[The game] isnt’ coming out soon enough .” PC Gamer

“ The specs for this game are enough to make action fans, sim fans, and war gamers all drool.” CGW

”Picture this: The thunder of tanks fills the air as you crawl on your belly up on the beach toward an enemy gun emplacement A rogue shell detonates nearly, sending a cascade of sand, body parts and blood showering through the air. The retina burn of the blast temporarily blinds you and the echo of the explosion will forever ring in your ears. Sound good? You should be looking into World War II Online then!.” Daily Radar

”Winner of Gamespot;s Question of the week: ‘What online game are you most looking forward to?’." Gamespot

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Atari Australia Press Quotes - Windows