While the plan failed - it never really stood a chance - it did make for a miserable Christmas of 1944 for thousands of GIs stuck in the Ardennes Forest in Belgium and Luxembourg.Ĭlose Combat is a series of squad-level World War II tactical combat games that simulate the behavior of individual men and vehicles. The fourth Close Combat centers on the battle in which Hitler threw his last reserves at the Allies in a desperate gamble to shatter the Western Alliance and bring about a separate peace.
Close Combat: Battle of the Bulge will appeal both to Close Combat veterans and to those simply looking for a good real-time strategy game with historical overtones. Now publishing through SSI, Atomic has tried to make the magic last through yet another sequel and has succeeded once more. It's little wonder that publisher Microsoft and developer Atomic Games reprised the title twice. And while Close Combat's focus on the Normandy hedgerows wasn't unprecedented, the game's style, which emphasized infantry morale, was quite out of the ordinary. In addition to being one of the first wargames to pick up on the burgeoning real-time strategy craze, Close Combat was so bold as to claim to be a historically accurate simulation of war.
Close Combat took the wargame world by storm when it was released in 1996.
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