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Sudden Strike 3: Arms For Victory | 
| From: CDV Software Entertainment
Category: Video Games
List Price: $39.99
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Seller: lakeplacegames
Rating:  5 reviews
Sales Rank: 13180
Format: DVD-ROM
Platforms: Windows Vista, Windows XP
Genre: shooter_action_games
ESRB: Teen
Media: DVD-ROM
Age: 12 - 20 years
Operating System: Windows Vista
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.4
Dimensions (in): 7.4 x 5.4 x 1.4
MPN: PF0071/US2
Model: PF0071/US2
UPC: 852898000071
EAN: 0852898000071
ASIN: B0016PTE6E
Release Date: March 31, 2008
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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| • | Tanks roll. Soldiers march. Battleships bristle. Planes thunder high above a battlefield where untold legions lie wounded or dying. World War II has arrived, and only you can turn the tide in Sudden Strike 3, the latest in the multimillion-selling line of award-winning Real-Time strategy games, which brings history s most storied conflicts to life right on your desktop. By air, land and sea, st |
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Product Description
Tanks roll. Soldiers march. Battleships bristle. Planes thunder high above a battlefield where untold legions lie wounded or dying. World War II has arrived and only you can turn the tide in Sudden Strike 3 the latest in the multimillion-selling line of award-winning Real-Time strategy games which brings history s most storied conflicts to life right on your desktop.By air land and sea storm the beaches of Normandy or rewrite the Battle of Iwo Jima with thousands of individual units - yours to command. An all-new 3D graphics engine captures every desperate charge and Blitzkrieg barrage as carriers submarines Panzers and Shermans deploy by the hundreds painting coastlines and villages with photorealistic rubble and devastation. User-friendly controls and intuitive tactical planning make playing armchair general easier than ever.With history itself on the line dare you to rise to the occasion? Lace up your boots steel your nerves and prepare to take the fight to the enemy the invasion of Europe has begun!Massive Scale Watch thousands of historical and prototype units clash on gigantic mapsExplosive Action Cutting-edge 3D engine delivers unprecedented combat detail and destructionTotal Control Intuitive user interface lets you jump right in and relive World War II s greatest battlesReal-World Tactics Outfox hyper-intelligent enemies by air sea or landMultiple Campaigns Fight as the Allies or Germans in Europe turn the tide at Iwo Jima or spearhead assaults on the USSRSystem Requirements:CPU: MINIMUM P4 2.8 GHz/AMD ATHLON 64 3200+ 1 GB RAM RECOMENDED P4 3.2 GHz/AMD ATHLON 64 3500+ 2 GB RAM VIDEO CARD NVIDIA GeFORCE 6600/ATI RADEON X800 128 MB RECOMENDED NVIDIA GeFORCE 6800/ATI RADEON X800 258 MB SOUND CARD Directx/OpenAL compatible DVD ROM 4x or better HARD DISC SPACE 1 GB DIRECTX 9.0c Format: WIN XPVISTA/DVD SOFTWARE Genre: ENTERTAINMENT Rating: T Age: 852898000071 UPC: 852898000071 Manufacturer No: PF
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 You're in charge March 2, 2009
Quasimodo (Connecticut)
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
This is the type of game that requires a lot of attention on your part. You command literaly thousands of troops and equipment to accomplish your objectives. These could be any one of seceral battles in the Eurpoean theater to the invasion of Iwo Jima to its defense as the entrenched Japanese Army.
Be forewarned that this is not a 'get in and win the battle in thiry minutes' type game. For instance, in landing on Iwo Jima there are two objectives. Take two seperate Japanese command posts on opposite ends of the island. Your troops land on the beaches and your job is to move them up the beach to engage and take cover. Tanks and halftarcks, etc to follow by the way.
I made plans to take the first objective and fond that you have to keep an eye on your troops because if you fail to do so they take the least path of resistance land/obstacle wise and end up getting slaughtered by entrenched Japanses machine gunners in trenchs along the beach. You have the ability as a bonus mode to call in naval artillery and airstrikes but these come up occasionally and aren't always readily available so use them wisely. As with 'real life' shell or bomb and area where resistance is tough and then advance your troops in the 'cautious' or 'attack' mode. Once you have your troops in cover or trenches you can switch to 'defensive' and have them hold their ground.
If you're looking for long (maybe up to a couple of hours or more) of real strategy battle tactics using riflemen, flamethrowers, machine gunners, officers, medics and engineers supplemented with tanks, halftarcks, jeeps, planes, bombers, artillery both land and naval then this game will give you a true "Armchair General" experience. Not recommended for kids or those with short attention spans or those who play first persons shooters constantly.
Another very similar game is Theater of war. If you've tried that you'll enjoy this one but with even better graphics.
Very hard game January 10, 2009
N. SILVA
3 out of 4 found this review helpful
Good Graphics, AI try to attack you with different manners, realistic tactics i.e: First objective in Normandie is the train stations, located north of the aerodrome and radar site if you take them the germans receive less reinforcements (think it happened on real life). This game is not easy, you need to build some defense lines and wait more troops come to the beach to try some advance ! This is great because one board took a lot of time to finish! The only con I saw is the famous Tiger tank (if you dont have artillery, bazookas and a lot of soldiers in trenches you cant stop them, kind hard but funny!). Sometimes you have more than 4000 troops to command and you will need a good pc to suport this game, lags can occur if your video board dont have memory enough I'm using one nvidia 9800 gts. Some users complain about the time to receive the msg about objective accomplished but if you dont clear all the area, you never will receive the msg . War is not easy, no pain no game !
 Great graphics, easy interface, but a bit disappointing... November 15, 2008
R. Ballister (Annapolis, MD)
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
This was an impulse buy went wrong. I admit that I was taken in by the flashy box cover and screen shots, but in the end, it just didn't deliver that much. The graphics are great, and the interface is easy to learn, but even on "easy" the missions seem very difficult and unreal. The AI always has an unrealistic advantage, and even with all the patches installed, it seems there is a glitch getting the game to recognize when you have actually achieved an objective. This is very much like the great BLITZKRIEG! family of games, and if you have them, you don't need this.
Could have been much better February 14, 2010
Skeptic
I have mixed emotions about this game. It should have been excellent, but falls short. I'm big fan of WW2 tactical games, example Blitzkrieg, so was very excited to try out Sudden Strike 3. This is tactical game, since there is no strategy involved: you make choices within fixed map and no base building/resource gathering. Graphics is very nice. You will have hundreds of units on screen at a time. Scale and attention to detail are amazing. My problem is that with so many units it is very difficult to control them since they are not organized in platoons. Sure enough you can assign groups yourself, Ctrl-1 and etc, but it takes forever. Normandy invasion mission of allied campaign is a good example. Equipment arrives on shore and it is a total mess. Units by default move to attack and not hold positions and tanks will get knocked out before you manage to switch "hold position". You will spend a lot of time forming fire teams and platoons to have at least one MG, one AT, one Sniper per team and it takes forever. Path finding is another problem. Your units will never figure out that you want them to take short route.
My recommendation is to skip it and try Men of War instead.
Kind regards,
- Skeptic.
Not as good as old sudden strikes July 15, 2008
Wat
1 out of 4 found this review helpful
I waited a long time for this game and it just doesnt live up to the older sudden strikes. Every board is the same, the enemy keeps attacking until the end of the board with no real chance to build your forces even when playing on easy. Big disappointment.
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