Close Combat: A Bridge Too Far for Windows

Pros: Great strategy on an epic scale with some realistic touches.
Cons: A few minor niggles with the controls.

Close Combat 2 is a top down view, realtime wargame which simulates "Operation Market Garden", where British and American forces attempted to capture the bridges between the front line all the way to Arnhem, 60 miles behind those lines. You've probab ...

Pros: the best wargame ever!
Cons: AI could be better

Having bought this about two years ago, I can still honestly say that it is the best game in my possession. I know there have been the two sequels in this series, but both of them deviated somewhat from CC2's game engine. CC3, for instance, is...

Pros: Engrossing, educational
Cons: Hard to follow the campaigns

I had the pleasure of coming into this series by way of CC3-the Russian Front (I've written an epinion on this as well). So, it was like taking a step down to this product, but that doesn't mean it is any less good a game.

This game is a...

Pros: graphics, replay value, historical accuracy, sound effects, excitement factor.
Cons: scale is compromised for playability(too few men for the real estate), armor is clumsy, mortars target too quickly.

I purchased Close Combat II, a Bridge Too Far, because I have always wanted to simulate small unit tactic in a way that didn't bog down in number crunching detail. CCII does that for you, and it is quite an enjoyable game, with lots of long term replay...

Pros: A must for all WW2 buffs. Online replay value is endless
Cons: The computer is rather simple to beat. Play online, the community on the MSN gaming zone is huge, and playing them is sure suicide.

The skies fill with parachutes, as you desperately try to fight off the Allied invaders, or on Allied terms, the Panzers and Flak of Hitler's elite troops.

The battle for Arnhem is know to have been one of the greatest parachute assaults in...

Pros: Detailed modeling of soldiers, terrific multiplayer
Cons: Brain dead AI, Somewhat unrealistic anti-tank effects

Close Combat: A Bridge too Far (hereafter CC2) represents the high point of this series. The original Close Combat had fairly primitive graphics and only two movement speeds for the soldiers (walk and run). Since neither of these speeds involved crawling...

Pros: Very realistic, One of the Better Wargames, Good sound
Cons: May take a while to really understand things

This is what you've been looking for. Realistic strategy and realistic people that you command. I think it definitely beats out starcraft in terms of strategy. Now there is finally a game that recreates the battlefield with realism, and it's...

Pros: the best strategy game
Cons: needs: airstrikes, artillery barrages

I originally downloaded the demo version from the internet. Can't remember where I got it from. Anyhow, I spent untold hours playing just the demo version. Then I went and bought the CD. It all went downhill from there, the wife filed for divorce and...

Pros: Fun to play, historical, but in a war way.
Cons: Hard to first learn.

This game may not look good but is one in which graphics are not a high point but fun is. The kind of fun I mean is fun in killing people with all sorts of world war 1/2 weapons. It takes a mind that can be strategic and a person who knows how to...

Pros: Very entertaining with crystal-clear graphics!
Cons: Speed is moderate on my pentium III and some other glitches make it difficult.

I am very interested in WWII. I've read books and watched many documentaries, so when the opportunity arose to get a game on WWII I bought it. While the game was historically correct and fun to play, a few small things took away from the level of...

Pros: Really realistic and the buildings are a great improvement
Cons: Tank's armor is unrealistic

When I first downloaded the demo of CC2, I was thrilled and amused by just one level of the game for hours and hours on end. I was stunned by the realistic battle units and the sheer amount of infantry and tank types and how close in real life they were....

The game enhanses looking down on your men so you can see others attacking from a distance. Over all it's a good game even though it was meant for "DOS" and all windows.