Sudden Strike 3: Arms For Victory

by Electronic Arts

Product Features

• 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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• ASIN: B0016PTE6E
• Item Weight: 6.4 ounces
• Media: DVD-ROM
• Release Date: March 31, 2008
• Average Customer Review: 3.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (7 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #24,412 in Video Games (See Top 100 in Video Games)

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 is to life tight on your desktop. By air, land and sea storm the beaches of Normandy or rewrite the Battle of Imo 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 village with photorealistic rubblie and devastation. User-friendly controls and intuitive tactical planning make playing armchair general easier than ever. With history itself on the tine. dare you to rise to the occasion? Lace up your boots, steel your nerves and prepare to take the light to the enemy - the Invasion of Europe has begun!

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars You're in charge, March 2, 2009

By 

Quasimodo (Connecticut) - See all my reviews

= Fun:4.0 out of 5 stars 

This review is from: Sudden Strike 3: Arms For Victory (DVD-ROM)

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.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Great graphics, easy interface, but a bit disappointing..., November 15, 2008

By 

R. Ballister "author and naval officer" (Annapolis, MD) - See all my reviews
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= Fun:2.0 out of 5 stars 

This review is from: Sudden Strike 3: Arms For Victory (DVD-ROM)

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.

4 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Very hard game, January 10, 2009

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N. SILVA - See all my reviews
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= Fun:4.0 out of 5 stars 

This review is from: Sudden Strike 3: Arms For Victory (DVD-ROM)

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 !