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Description

Blitzkrieg is a real-time strategy game with three campaigns during World War 2. During the campaigns the player keeps its core army of tanks and guns. In the missions there are additionally units provided by the game, including infantry and air units. There is a description of all units in the game, even if the units cannot be commanded by the player. The three campaigns are:
  • Allies (US, UK, French) fighting in Europe and Africa
  • German fighting in Europe, Africa and Russia
  • Soviet Union fighting in Russia and afterwards in Europe
The campaigns include historical battles like the battle of Kursk and optional bonus missions, which can be played to:
  • Get experience for the profile of the player to increase the rank of the profile. A higher rank leads to a larger core army.
  • Get experience for the units in the core army, so that the units become deadlier.
  • Exchange weapons to newer types.
During a mission the losses are never replaced, losses in the core army are replaced after missions. For the repairing and rearming of units depots have to be conquered, where the service trucks load their resources. All depots have unlimited resources.

The game itself has a 2D graphic, but uses a 3D terrain with a full destructible environment. Buildings can be occupied by infantry to use them as cover. The game includes maps for multiplayer matches over LAN or the internet.

Alternate Titles

  • "闪电战" -- Chinese Title (Simplified)
  • "Блицкриг" -- Russian Title
  • "Blitzkrieg: Jedyną obroną jest atak " -- Polish Title
  • "Blitzkrieg: Attack Is The Only Defense" -- UK Release Title
  • "Blitzkrieg: Angriff ist die einzige Verteidigung" -- German Release Title

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The Press Says

Gameplanet Jun 05, 2003 4.5 Stars4.5 Stars4.5 Stars4.5 Stars4.5 Stars 90
PC Gameplay (Benelux) Apr, 2003 86 out of 100 86
Jeuxvideo.com Apr 17, 2003 17 out of 20 85
PC Games (Germany) Mar 19, 2003 83 out of 100 83
IGN Apr 22, 2003 8.2 out of 10 82
Gamesdog Dec 15, 2003 8 out of 10 80
Fragland.net Jul 07, 2003 80 out of 100 80
GameSpot (Belgium/Netherlands) Jun 12, 2003 77 out of 100 77
Joystick May, 2003 7 out of 10 70
GameSpy Apr 27, 2003 69 out of 100 69

Forums

Topic # Posts Last Post
Perspective 2 Ace of Sevens (4298)
Oct 20, 2007

Trivia

There're five titles made on licensed Blitzkrieg engine: Great Battles of World War II: Stalingrad, Desert Law, Cuban Missile Crisis: The Aftermath plus add-on, World War I and more than 10 add-ons/expansion packs for game itself. Not many games can boasts of such popularity.


This entry was contributed by [CC] Lizardking (74) and Xoleras (66998)
 

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