Panzer General

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Product Details

• ASIN: B00002STQ7
• Item Weight: 8 ounces
• Media: Video Game
• Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (24 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #6,642 in Video Games (See Top 100 in Video Games)

Product Description

Manufacturer Description

The year is 1939 and you are a German General with a fresh command in Poland. Anything can happen. Lead well and your inexperienced units could turn into an overwhelming force plowing through Norway Belgium France and the Eastern Front.

Product Description

In this port of the hit PC tank simulator you can play as a Wehrmacht Officer in the German Army, lead your comrades in the Soviet Army, or even hit the beaches at Salerno and Normandy as an American or British General. You'll have to use strategy, distribute resources, and control every aspect of your attack. This game is based on the pen-and-paper war game, and seasoned players of those types of games will feel very comfortable with the interface in PANZER GENERAL. Four of the campaigns are lengthy, full-blown affairs, while the other four are much shorter mini-campaigns. You can opt to command American, German, British, or French forces, and as in any PANZER GENERAL game, you can adjust all the various difficulty and game settings, such as the quality of reinforcements for both you and the AI.

Customer Reviews

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13 of 13 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Best Strategy for Playstation, October 5, 2000

By 

Roland G. Martinez "Roland Martinez" (Nashua, Nh) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Panzer General (Video Game)

This game doesn't rank tops for graphics, and the music can be pretty annoying after a couple hours but it's easy to turn it off. The gameplay is completly unique, it's very complex and dynamic with some of the subtlty of a good chess game with the advantage of it being faster paced and more variable with terrain effects and pieces being able to offer support on attack and defense. All in all a good game and well worth the money.

14 of 16 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The Greatest Strategy Game, December 23, 1999

By A Customer

= Durability:5.0 out of 5 stars  = Fun:5.0 out of 5 stars  = Educational:5.0 out of 5 stars 

This review is from: Panzer General (Video Game)

This is an incredible strategy game. It combines all the good qualities of a role playing game with a wargame. You start out in Poland and can eventually conquer all of Europe,and even Washington. Your core units gain experience the more battles you fight, and this makes them more effective in battle. Panzer General is also realistic historically. I do warn you that you could become highly addicted to this game. I highly recommend Panzer General to anyone who enjoys role playing or strategy games.

10 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars 5 Years of Playing, what a bargain for $20!, June 24, 2002

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Rude Boy 1979 "Ralph" (Today I'm in Ybor City) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Panzer General (Video Game)

AG and it's brother PG are 2 games that from reading the reviews you either love (mostly it seems) or hate(if your graphics minded, probably). As an original "Pong" owner, and liking the game play of a lot of 8 and 16 bit games over the newer games, I'm not hung up on graphics which are simple here. The secret to this game is the control you have in what seems to me to be as historically acurate WWII video game as I've ever played. Yes I also dabbled in Avalon Hill games which were way to much trouble to play, this game does all the boreing work for you and leaves you the spoils, watching Rommel or Montgomery, or Patton win the War! Yes I've actually played both these games for at least 5 years (God thats a lot of hours wasted!) but hey at least I was entertained! I have won the game as Rommel in Panzer General several times (Washington was a super challenge), and to me that was a lotta fun, I never finished Allied General after the Battle of the Bulge ( or if I did it was once) cause hey to me thats not changing anything. As another reviewer wrote the Eastern Front in AG is flawed, I stopped bangin my head against the wall after the 20th time, was glad to hear the way to win that battle but it'll take a whole lotta skill and luck, even I draw a line at that abuse, the Eastern Front in PG as the Germans was awesome!
The key's to winning this game are to delete units with no expierence before you win a battle or the computer will carry
them over and delete your battle hardened veterans.
Load up on cheap units like the Germans anti tank gun PZKW1 for 24 units and attack in waves of suicide attacks to wear down the enemies ammo and entrenchment (make sure the supply option is on or you won't be able to do this). Upgrade your Infantry to Pioneers and Rangers and you'll treasure them as they become 5 star battle veterans. Artillery is allways going to get hammered by the CPU so don't sweat losing units it's going to happen. You can also upgrade your Allies planes to another nationality (ie Italian fighter with 3 stars into a FW 190, or British Hurricane into a Mustang) by flying to the German or American airfield and hitting upgrade. You might think Tanks will do it all until you hit a city, you need Infantry! Also you can do a lot with Strategic bombers where you bomb a city a couple times and attack once and the defenders will flee or surrender, this game has different units with different strengths for a reason. Get both AG and PG and I'm sure you'll get your $10-$20 dollars worth! I played PG III and its way superior in graphics but seemed too much like a tactical recreation than strategic.