Panzer General 3: Scorched Earth

by UBI Soft

Product Features

• Transports you to the bitter, brutal fighting thatis the Eastern Front. Product Information SSI's Panzer General Series is one of the most successfuloperational wargame franchises of all time. From its initial launch in 1994 tothe present, the Panzer General name has promised consumers a fun, accessible,and addictive strategy wargaming experience. The look and feel of the seriesevolved over

Product Details

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• ASIN: B00004Z0FJ
• Product Dimensions: 10 x 2 x 8 inches ; 11.2 ounces
• Media: CD-ROM
• Release Date: October 3, 2000
• Average Customer Review: 3.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (24 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #26,031 in Video Games (See Top 100 in Video Games)
• Discontinued by manufacturer: Yes

Product Description

Amazon.com Product Description

Panzer General III: Scorched Earth combines war strategy with a 3-D combat simulator to put the gamer in an engrossing World War II environment. There are eight western-front campaigns--five Allied and three German. Twenty single-player and multiplayer scenarios are included. Battle up to three other players over the Internet. Fine-tune your armies before heading off into battle. Plot with the Soviets as they try to take Berlin, or march with the Germans toward Moscow, all in 16-bit color with 3-D animations of more than 300 units.

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Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

40 of 40 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Good old PG....but beautiful!, October 13, 2000

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Casper Paludan (New York, NY USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Panzer General 3: Scorched Earth (CD-ROM)

PG III: Scorched Earth is the latest addition in a long series of turnbased strategy games. I have found the other games in this series very addictive and I find they strike a fine balance between depth and almost instant playability. That is to say, these games are not for hardcore wargamers but for people who love tanks and boardgames but don't want to micromanage too much. Compared to Peoples General and Panzer general II, this game has outstanding graphics. It is really nice to see your Tiger tank race down a road, beautifully rendered, to meet its adversary. The sound effects match very well, adding to the immersive effect without standing very much out. This also means at least I haven't found them to be annoying.

On the army management side PG III has expanded the leader side, actually putting faces on them and giving you a leader roster to choose from to command your new units. The units themselves don't gain experience but the leader does and as he becomes promoted his unit can perform more actions per turn. This is really powerful and lends more flexibility to your units. Your fighter plane can move twice, for instance looking for an enemy bomber, shoot and move again.

The missions are more varied than the ones previously encountered in this series. You will be required to fight breakout battles, search and destroy missions, as well as the good old take certain objectives. Having only just bought the game I won't comment on the campaign design but it is in general a pretty simple game to learn and I feel that it adds plenty of new sides to satisfy veteran players of the series.

55 of 57 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Great Game!, October 14, 2000

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Macy Lapham "American Patriot" (Oxnard, CA USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Panzer General 3: Scorched Earth (CD-ROM)

Being a fan of the Panzer General series of games, I really enjoyed this latest enstallment. It builds on the existing game system greatly with new features with a new way of aquiring your army and promotions. The Video and unit artwork is a lot better. The new leader specials, awards and promotion system is great. It really gave you a better feeling of what it was like to use the many unique weapons systems of the day, all the way from a Panzer II to the King Tiger, and all other systems as well. It handles, finally, the dreaded German 88 in such a way that you really realize it's terror. The game also has a battle generator so you can make your own battles as well as online gaming. The game did occationally drop me to system, but these errors only occured seldom. Save games were good and I had no problems there. Video and animations of the units was very good with no problems. To me this is by far the best war game I have played, and I have played them all since the early 1980's. It has great replayablity as well. So far I have played about 10 campaigns. Just to do one took about 30 hours. I could have done it quicker but it was too great to rush through. And unlike the old Panzer Generals, there seem to be much larger campaigns and more scenarios.

23 of 23 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Scorched Earth PG III Rocks, October 12, 2000

By 

Todd Ochsner (Groton, CT United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Panzer General 3: Scorched Earth (CD-ROM)

I've played the other PGs before but this one is really outstanding. The 3D really has made the genre visually beautiful and more tactically relevant. Also, with the new format of taking different missions throughout the campaigns, no two campaigns are alike. Its fun to actually have a war game (I've played many) that tries to follow the historical battles/engagements of the Eastern front. One of the best touches is seeing how the experience of the Russians initially starts off poor and increases likewise with equipment. The only thing I miss from the original PG is having German or Russian audios of orders being given for various operations. This game engages one both on the levels of being fun and intellectually challenging. This is an outstanding game.