My long delayed review of Combat Mission: Shock Force is up at Gameshark. Apologies for the crappy screenshots.
The 1.01 version I played was a significant improvement from the 1.00 version that I derided a couple of months ago, derision that led to an influx of visitors from the Battlefront forums. (”Few stayed to bowl.”) It’s […]

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The reviews for Combat Mission: Shock Force haven’t started arriving in bulk yet, with only two on the ‘net at the moment.
Strategy game vet James Allen gives it top marks at Out of Eight (probably one of the best review sites for small titles and indie games, by the way).
Combat Mission newbie Tom […]

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My review copy of Combat Mission: Shock Force arrived yesterday, and, of course, I had to install it immediately. Naturally, it arrived without a paper manual, but I have a nice big PDF to print out once the rage subsides. Thanks Paradox!
It’s really a pretty game, even though there’s a lot of desert terrain. Vehicles […]

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You can read my review of Theatre of War over at Gameshark. This is my first review for the site and hopefully not my last. Gamerankings converts the B- to a 75 which sounds a little high. The sense I’m trying to get here is “problematic, but worth a look.” I’m shooting for a low […]

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1. Dual core computers are not exactly new, so why do I have to turn the second core off in order for the game to run properly? I want to use all my processing power.
2. These loading screens take forever.
3. The first campaign on the list lets you play as Poland in September 1939. “Stop […]

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You can find them here.
Looks like Syria has a lot of tires and pallets lying around. And crates. And oil drums.
It’s like open air Doom.

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Battlefront’s Steve Grammont sat down to answer some questions from Gamespot about Combat Mission: Shock Force. Lots of great little nuggets there, including some theorizing that a land war with Iran is unforseeable at the moment.

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Histwar: Les Grognards is an upcoming Napoleonic wargame from Battlefront and Jean-Michel Mathé. You can probably think of it as a serious wargamer’s Imperial Glory. No release date has been set.
The screenshots look good, but what does it have that keeps it from being Blucher: Total War? M. Mathé agreed to answer a few questions […]

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