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| Screenshot - Call to Arms: Panzer Elite |
Yup, back in the saddle again, this time with Call to Arms: Panzer Elite from Digitalmindsoft Publishing. I originally got into this publisher's games via their Call to Arms - Gates of Hell: Ostfront. When Panzer Elite came out, I jumped on it. I mean, y'all know my love of tanks. (And juvat, I'll try and find some screenshots of aircraft blowing up tanks in one of the games I have. I know it's there, just haven't played that particular setup yet.)
This one is in early release, in other words you buy the game and provide feedback to the developers and as the game gets updated, you get the updates. Basically you're paying for a finished product and get to help test that product. I don't mind, that particular business model seems to be working for a lot of game publishers.
Anyhoo, that opening photo is the standard player's view. You're hovering behind your tank so it's perhaps a bit more "arcade-ish" than IL-2 Sturmovik - Stalingrad. But it's great fun. Once you see something you might want to shoot at, you can zoom in to this view ...
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| Screenshot - Call to Arms: Panzer Elite |
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| Screenshot - Call to Arms: Panzer Elite |
For now, if the vehicle dies, so does the crew.
As for Call to Arms - Gates of Hell: Ostfront, it looks like this ...
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| Screenshot - Call to Arms - Gates of Hell: Ostfront |
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| Screenshot - Call to Arms - Gates of Hell: Ostfront |
It's immersive, very immersive.
I highly recommend both, if you've got at least this much oomph in your machine:
Minimum System Requirements
OS *: 64bit - Windows 7, 8, 10, 11
MEMORY: 16 GB RAMGRAPHICS: GTX 1070 / RX 5600DIRECTX: Version 11STORAGE: 80 GB available spaceSOUND CARD: DirectX 11 compatibleADDITIONAL NOTES: SSD drive and fast internet connection needed for optimal gameplay
If you've got that, or better, you should be able to run these games. (juvat - Not sure if they'll run on a Mac, but the discussion page on Steam says "Yes" it runs on Windows and Mac.)
Sorry gotta run, Krauts are breaking through near St. Vith!
Sounds like a good way to lose lots of sleep!
ReplyDeleteAll the dopamine thrill and none of the pants filling fears of folks really trying to kill you. What a deal.
DeleteForgive me if I am repeating myself. My father fought in Churchill tanks (Not Shermans, thank God - as he said more than once.) They were well suited to the bocage country in Normandy: better, he reckoned than their German opponents. Once out in the open ground though they were inferior; simply underarmed for fighting at range. Happily, out in the open the German tanks were exposed to attack by rocket-firing Typhoon fighter-bombers of the RAF.
ReplyDeleteAnyway, as far as I can see once the bocage country had been crossed and the killing at the Falaise Gap was finished, much of the rest of 1944 was largely a case of pursuing a fleeing German army. Things got lively again when they reached the neighbourhood of the Belgian/Dutch/German borders.
That last paragraph is based on my reading: Dad was exceedingly reluctant to describe action. Too unpleasant to think about, I suppose.