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Close Combat: Wacht am Rhein PC

Reissue of the fourth part of the Close Combat IV series: Battle of the Bulge, in which we could stand on the side of the Allies and III Things, during the counter-attack in the Ardennes.

Strategy | World War II | RTS

Close Combat: Wacht am Rhein Release Date PC

28October2008

developer: Strategy 3 Tactics publisher: Matrix Games/Slitherine Official website

English language game language: English

Close Combat: Wacht am Rhein brings together the classic top-down tactical gameplay from the original series and plenty of new features, expansions, and improvements! The Wacht am Rhein remake comes with a brand new Grand Campaign including a new strategic map with 64 gorgeous hand-drawn tactical maps, over 70 scenarios, tons of new interface and unit graphics, countless engine improvements, and much more!

Features

Vastly improved and expanded rebuild of the critically acclaimed Close Combat: Battle of Bulge title, originally developed by Atomic Games.

New enhanced Grand Campaign with a new strategy level map as well as 64 gorgeous hand-drawn tactical level maps.

70+ scenarios based on real-world battles, operations and campaigns.

New graphics for the user interface, aircraft, vehicles and other graphics.

An easy-to-use but powerful Scenario Editor - Create your own what if Scenarios.

Largely expanded moddability: all strategic layer features, all campaign details including weather, turns per day, scoring, support mission (artillery, airstrike) capabilities for both Germans and Americans, battlegroup recycling, battlegroup retreat/disband, supply and much more!

Further improvements have been made to the AI to enhance most, if not all, performance issues: vehicle pathing, infantry tactics, team and unit morale, overall AI aggressiveness and decision-making in general.

Accurately depicts World War II tactical warfare and its challenges

Realistic soldier psychological profiles during combat.

Last updated on 05 November 2008

Game mode: single / multiplayer   Multiplayer mode: Internet   Player counter: 1-2  

User score: 6.7 / 10 based on 42 votes.

Age restrictions Close Combat: Wacht am Rhein: Good for all ages.

Close Combat: Wacht am Rhein System requirements

PC / Windows

PC / Windows

  • Recommended:
  • Pentium 133 MHz
  • 256 MB RAM
  • 1.5 GB HDD
  • graphic card 8MB
  • Windows 98/ME/2000/XP/Vista
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