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Sudden Strike (PC)

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Platform:   Windows 95 / 98
4.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (21 customer reviews)

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  • Platform:   Windows 95 / 98
  • Media: Video Game
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  • A game that sets new standards!
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  • A game that will keep you glued to the screen for weeks on end!
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  • ASIN: B0000507NV
  • Release Date: 27 Oct 2000
  • Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (21 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 7,400 in PC & Video Games (See Bestsellers in PC & Video Games)

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Amazon.co.uk Review
Offering carefully planned Russian, German, French, British and American operations, Sudden Strike offers an unprecedented level of gaming detail--everything has been thought about in this game: paratroopers, mortars and snipers to name a few or the best. Virtually everything is interactive, and to that extent, everything seems usable in some form or another; you can steal vehicles and drive your troops around or you could occupy buildings and fend off an advancing enemy attack.

Sudden Strike stands apart from other RTS games in one giant area in particular. The maps are enormous. Gone are the days of directing one or two men--in Sudden Strike you can well find yourself attacking a small farm with hundreds of men using the classic "pincer" movement.

The control is simple to figure and offers all the usual options, such as dividing your soldiers into platoons and directing them into your enemy. Sudden Strike is obviously, from your first troop movement, a tactical sim. Like many of its competitors, you cannot simply send your troops into the enemy lines all guns blazing--a simple Haig-style advance will lead to a rapid messy defeat. You must tactically plan and execute your attacks using all your resourcefulness and cunning.

With a game that offers such large maps, often containing a number of different settlements and a huge number of troops, things do get a little small and it is easy to lose people around the map. Consideration for such will not escape the mind of an experienced commander though. Supporting up to 12 multiplayers on four different teams, Sudden Strike has something to offer every RTS fan, if you have the time and the aptitude to approach this tactical colossus. --Chris Hall

Product Description
The blockbuster Sudden Strike is set in World War II and offers carefully planned Russian, German, French, American and British missions. The fantastic depth of the game, the infinite tactical possibilities and the excellent game-play outshine anything ever seen to date. Conquer the enemy's positions, land your troops on his shores, win the clean-up operations and call in paratroops or fighter bombers for support. Whatever you can think of, you will find--in Sudden Strike!

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12 of 12 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars Sudden Strike Review, 28 Oct 2000
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I thought this was a great game. It contains five single player campaigns each with 12 missions based on the American, German,Russian,French and British war efforts of WWII. If you like Real Time Strategy Games but hate doing all the base construction and resource management then this game is for you. You have an army at your disposal and an objective to complete. The game is VERY realistic and every unit and tank is historically accurate. A good example of this realism is that troops who have been badly wounded don't just get better in a few minutes- they will die very quickly from their wounds if immediate medical attention is not given. The same applies to tanks, they become immobile and eventually explode if they are not repaired quickly enough. The graphics in this game are very good, but the troops sometimes look a bit blocky. there are great explosion effects as anything within the blast radius takes damage. This and the way shot down planes cicle and randomly crash add to the already great sense of realism in this game. Sudden Strike also has great multiplayer function, with up to twelve players playing at once over the internet (split up into four teams if you wish). Sudden Strike's downers are that troop movement AI is sometimes messy and the cumbersome control system is often frustrating, making it sometimes hard to see where fire is coming from. But don't let this get you down though. If you like RTS games but want a change from Red Alert, then buy this game.
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9 of 9 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars I drank a lot of cold coffee this weekend, 31 Oct 2000
By S. W. Hawkes (United Kingdom) - See all my reviews
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It's been a long wait for Sudden Stike. A demo mission was supposed to be released over a year ago, and it kept being delayed. Some people (myself included) started to think that SS would never see the light of day. Well, it's finally here, so what's it like?

SS is a game of strategy and tactics, based around the second world war. The aim of the game is to control a set number of units, and direct them against an enemy, and to fulfil a number of objectives, for example capture some artillery, secure a town, etc.

The interface for the game will be instantly recognisable for anyone who has played games from the Command and Conquer series, but the way the game is played will not. Gone are the resource collection/harvesting, creation of units, and the strategy of building 50 tanks and storming your enemies' base. Instead, you have to scout out locations, find the enemy, use terain to hide your units, create ambushes, and use your troops effectively to give him a good pasting.

There are a wide range of units avaiable from each side, such as machine gunners, rifle infantry, snipers, officers, anti-tank and flamethrower troops - and that's just the infantry - you also have access to anti-tank guns, artillery, rockets, tanks, etc. Each unit has it's own combination of speed, firepower, visibility and vision. The latter two are important - there is no system of "radar" in SS, and you can only see enemy units that are close to your own, rather than being able to see across the entire map. How easy a unit is to spot, and how far it can see are important for finding the enemy at the same time as not been seen by them - for example, sending a tank (slow, easy to spot, and equipped with poor vision) into a town will quickly result in you having one less tank to play with, sending in infantry (hard to spot and they have good vision) to discover where the enemy is located will mean that you can avoid ambushes and direct artillery onto the enemy.

The game is very easy to pick up, it has a good user interface, and an informative manual, but it will take most gamers a little while to get used to it. The good news is that the time spent learning the game will speed by, this game is addictive and you'll be playing it for hours on end, before you've noticed that it's gone dark outside, and all the normal people have gone to sleep. Four or five times over the weekend, I made myself a cup of coffee and sat down to play SS, and became so totally engaged in playing and winning the misssions that I forgot all about the coffee, until it was stone cold.

Games don't get much better than that.

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9 of 12 people found the following review helpful:
2.0 out of 5 stars Infuriating, 24 Aug 2001
By Matthew Willis "jed_the_humanoid" (San Jose, CA) - See all my reviews
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While it is clear that SS is a fabulous game to look at and it's game engine is superb there are so many utterly frustrating parts to it that I can't really recommend it to anyone. I can sum it all up by simply taking aim at the way the levels have been designed. Instead of being a game in which dash and ingenious tactics are key, like in the more mundane Panzer General series, SS keeps you pinned down in the most boring way possible by degrading almost each and every level to a series of artillery duels and sniper confrontations. I rarely ever use my tanks or infantry, because regardless of how well handled they are or how all-encompassing my tactical set-pieces seem you will almost always be either utterly destroyed or so severely mauled that any victory over one particular enemy defensive box become Pyrrhic in nature. Air power is almost non-existant, except in levels like Stalingrad, and I don't even know why they bothered including the air recon option, I've only seen it in about 3 levels. This is stupid as recon is all important in a game clouded utterly by the fog of war. I could go into detail about the rage-inducing ground sight recon but I won't, I'll get too mad. What is required of the sequel is a less impressive enemy defence and the ability to use combined arms attacks with at least a small chance of success. Until then I'll just have to stick with my howitzers and katyushas to blast a path through the enemy, and bore myself silly in the process.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Time is no challenge for this game
I have played this game with an online community for roughly a year now who have been playing this game since the beta stage. Read more
Published on 11 Mar 2006 by Online player of ss

5.0 out of 5 stars Best ww2 game ever?
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Published on 8 April 2003 by laurensforsey

1.0 out of 5 stars WORST GAME EVER!!!
It`s a must not.I got the game after reading the comments on it and it looked great but when I got it I was very dissapointed in it because of evry thing you only have a few units... Read more
Published on 21 Jan 2003

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I bought this game less than 2 weeks ago and all I've done is play it and play it. The detail is brilliant. Read more
Published on 28 Oct 2002 by Sparky

3.0 out of 5 stars the closest thing to real generalship yet, but not perfect
this is a game that will both excite and infuriate you at the same time. the idea behind SS is a good one, ultra realism backed by fantastic graphics and a wide range of units and... Read more
Published on 30 Jul 2002 by ras_35

4.0 out of 5 stars Good game but has a few weaknesses
I really like this game. It seems realistic as hell and as such it is hard. Even the mighty Tiger tank is vulnerable to lowly infranty if it is used incorrectly. Read more
Published on 18 April 2002

3.0 out of 5 stars Doesn't come close to the Close Combat Series
Ok this is ok, but it doesn't quite work. The graphics are good and it's quite enjoyable for a while however be warned if you actually like strategy games you will hate this as... Read more
Published on 16 Mar 2002 by The Venerable Dirk

5.0 out of 5 stars suddenstrike
A with the upgrade s/s forever it has added a very unique edge to the game, i like the playablity of the units under your command, but due to the vast amount of them i find it... Read more
Published on 22 Jan 2002 by mr c e s willis

3.0 out of 5 stars A great game spoiled by an old problem
Ok, the graphic is stunning, and about historical accuracy I cannot say much because own lack of knowledge.

However, this is supposed to be a realistic game? Read more

Published on 14 Jan 2002 by Red Wolf

2.0 out of 5 stars Ridiculously hard and simply not worth the effort
Like most other people, after playing the demo of this game I thought it was a superb premise: a realistic WW2 game with authentic units in real-time. Read more
Published on 10 Jun 2001 by j_mendix

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