Codename: Panzers, Phase Two

Dec 29th, 2008 by cm1

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Last year’s Codename: Panzers, Phase One was an excellent and innovative real-time strategy game set amid everyone’s favorite global struggle (and not to mention game setting), World War II. Unfortunately, it had the ill luck of shipping in the middle of one of the greatest months for strategy games in recent years, which resulted in it being lost in all the heavyweight competition. So much so that we nominated it as one of the best games that no one played last year. Still, Phase One was a hit in its native Europe, and with a name like that, you knew that a Phase Two had to be in the offing.

Codename: Panzers is a tactical-style real-time strategy series, which means that you don’t have to mess around with resource gathering, base building, or unit production. Instead, the focus is wholly on guiding a core group of military units and blowing large chunks of Europe and North Africa off the map. Like Phase One, Phase Two is divided into three distinctly different campaigns. In this case, you get to play as the Italians in North Africa (an oft overlooked subject in games), the Americans in Sicily and Italy, and the Yugoslav partisans. Once again, you’ll follow a core group of hero characters as they wind their way through their respective campaigns, and you’ll get to read their journals, as well as watch them in various cutscenes. Hungarian developer Stormregion employed a couple of Hollywood writers to improve the narrative in Phase Two, and while the story is stronger than in the original game (with a few interesting twists along the way), it’s also a bit corny in places, too. And if you didn’t play Phase One, don’t worry; the narratives are stand-alone, which means that it isn’t necessary to have played the original to understand what’s going on. Though if you have played it before, then you’ll see familiar faces drop in for cameos during the game.

One of the nice things about the mission design in Codename: Panzers is that there are usually multiple solutions for every situation. If you’re tasked with taking a town, you can try a costly frontal assault. However, a bit of patience and scouting means that you can discover a side trail that offers less resistance into the town. You start with a core group of units that gain experience over time, thus becoming more capable. This results in you actually caring about whether your men survive or not, because it’s far more valuable to have a handful of elite units than a bunch of green ones. You can then use the prestige you gain during a mission to requisition new units or to upgrade existing ones, which means you can take an elite tank crew and plop them in a powerful new tank, making them even more lethal and giving you a stronger connection to them. After all, it really sucks to see one of your elite tank crews vaporize before your eyes.

NOTE: This Game Is In German!!!

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