13:25 (BST), 09/04/2008
Strategic Command 2 Blitzkrieg
Press Release PROVIDED BY GAMES PRESS
Wednesday, 09 April 2008
Hubert Cater's new masterpiece is nearing completion! Today we're thrilled to release 18 brand new screenshots from the pre-release version of SC:PDE showing all new interface art and a number of the exciting new features that this expansion is going to offer! Check out the enlarged world-map, the new unit graphics and much more...
We are also happy to announce that an additional new what-if campaign will be included in the shipping version:
*New bonus alternate WWII campaign:
1939 Storm of Steel - Having recently annexed Austria, Germany turned its sights on the Sudetenland and Czechoslovakia. Will Poland be next? Will Great Britain and France sit idly by? What will Stalin do? Can Hitler be appeased or is WWII inevitable? Control the start of WWII by building up the German army and invading the country of your choice.
Brand new Patton Drives East interface screenshots
Today we're offering a set of 18 brand-new screenshots from the pre-release version of Strategic Command: Patton Drives East, showing the all new interface art created by Fernando and a number of the exciting new features that this expansion is going to offer! Check out the enlarged world-map, the new unit graphics and much more...
Strategic Command 2 Patton Drives East!
Battlefront.com and Fury Software are thrilled to announce the second Expansion Pack for "Strategic Command 2: Blitzkrieg" titled "Patton Drives East".
"Patton Drives East" allows players to explore the historically possible what ifs of WWII such as:
• What if the Western Allies and the Soviet Union went to war after defeating the Axis?
• Could America liberate a Europe subjugated by the Axis?
• What if the Western Allies had accepted a surrender from Germany and together they would fight against the USSR?
This expansion incorporates a list of new features including:
• a new and bigger map, now 172x46 tiles,
• a much larger North America stretching from Florida and the Gulf of Mexico all the way to the Rocky Mountains,
• enhanced and unpredictable AI via new decision events and global variables,
• new unit graphics to reflect equipment that would become available post WWII,
• and much, much more...
"Patton Drives East" is scheduled to be completed this summer, 2008, and will be released, as usual, for download and/or mail-order only at www.battlefront.com. The exact release date as well as pricing are stil l to be announced.
Strategic Command 2 Patton Drives East will require the original Battlefront.com version of Strategic Command 2 Blitzkrieg to be installed and licensed on your computer in order to run!
Patton Drives East Campaigns
On the Eastern front the Soviets break their armistice with Germany and attack from the Urals in hopes of reversing their earlier humiliation on the battlefield.
* 1939 Storm of Steel - Having recently annexed Austria, Germany turned its sights on the Sudetenland and Czechoslovakia. Will Poland be next? Will Great Britain and France sit idly by? What will Stalin do? Can Hitler be appeased or is WWII inevitable? Control the start of WWII by building up the German army and invading the country of your choice.
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