

It would often get me confused when trying to select my units to have them defend. Some of these units I could control, and some I couldn’t. I was playing a mission where I had to defend two anti aircraft guns from waves of enemies with only a few units. There’s also very little feedback given to you.

This could easily be averted with a briefing screen you can read before the mission, or some simple voice acting to read out the instructions for you. I know this sounds petty, but when you’re thrown directly into the action and have to read all of your objectives and instructions while enemies are already starting to onslaught your position, it gets stressful fast. And this is largely in part to one thing: The lack of briefing screens. Sadly, the singleplayer scenarios aren’t very fun. This is enough to give you a basic idea of how the game will work on full release, but unfortunately didn’t hold my attention very long. Currently the game has very little to it: You get a tutorial teaching you the basics when you first start up, and then you have some random scenario missions to play against AI, and a very strange Clash of Clans-esque gamemode where you build a base up and attack other players for resources. Does it hold up to former glory? Ehh, maybe.īlitzkrieg 3 is – as I said – a World War 2 themed RTS that allows you to command armies under the U.S., Russian, and Nazi Germany banners. Now, ten years after the not-as-great Blitzkrieg 2, we have Blitzkrieg 3 on Steam Early Access. The game’s focus on unit management and strategy instead of base and resource management made the game very unique, and a lot less complicated. I had only played the first game in this series about two years ago, but it quickly became my favorite WW2 themed RTSs, over the likes of CoH and MoW. There was also another little WW2 themed strategy game developed by Nival that came out in 2003, known as Blitzkrieg. We still have games like Company of Heroes and Men of War, but that’s about it.

In recent years, it seems as though there haven’t been many World War 2 themed Real-Time Strategy games.
