Good World War 2 RTS game but it's underrated.

User Rating: 8.2 | Blitzkrieg: Burning Horizon PC
By RedneckGamer87 | Review Date:
Gameplay: Blitzkrieg: Burning Horizon is the first stand-alone (meaning you don't need the oringal installed to play this game) expantion pack to the original Blitzkrieg game. This game features 18 missions built around legendary 7th Panzer Division and notoriously branded “the Desert Fox” Erwin Rommel, starting with single missions containing Japanese troops as well as 50 new units. Also, the add-on contains 8 single missions, with an entire new nation at war: Japan which is pretty cool. Enemy AI is improved from the previous version, but the soldiers still stay together in large groups than in smaller sections to hide. Enemies do position themselves in buildings to keep out of site, but their overall reaction time is fairly slow. It is also quite easy to find yourself in an inescapable situation without any notice. This gets very annoying and sometimes you just want to stop playing. The only bad thing is the absance of a multiplayer part of the game.

Graphics: The graphics are quite good, it mixed both 2-D and 3-D effects though it is mostly done in 2-D. The units aren’t particularly impressive in detail, however, but such faults come from the limited capabilities of 2D graphics. Likewise, the audio hasn’t improved much from its predecessor. Also the destruction is quite good and are quite realistic when things are destoryed or explodes.

Sound: The sound is good. Every thing sounds like the way they should, from the gun fire to the planes that fly over the map.

Value: All in all this is a good game but this game does have it's flaws. Firstly there is alot of micro-managment, so if you don't pay attiontion to one group of things they can be quickly destroyed. Also maps can be like a puzzle just to find your way though it. But this game does have good replay value for the single payer campaine. But it's lacking a multiplayer portion of the game. To bad this game is underrated, it is one of the few good World War 2 RTS games out there.
So I have this game 8.2 out of 10.

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