While the Relic title does a fantastic job of making every unit feel special and useful, Blitzkrieg is more focused on your ability to manage a large group of units. Yet gameplay is still the familiar ‘drag selection box over all of your units, move them as one cohesive unit.’ Of course, it’s possible to start micro-managing units once you get used to the game, but compared to the unit-specific detail of Company of Heroes, it does feel rather clumsy. Things are certainly a lot prettier, with some nicely detailed WW2 tanks and lush landscapes (not really on par with the heights of COH2, but expecting that would have been unfair). It gives each attack a slightly new feel that’s based largely on how the defender chooses to place their equipment.Īside from the mobile-influenced multiplayer mode, the game itself has actually changed very little since Blitzkrieg 2.
There’s a good variety of emplacements, guns and units that can be placed around the maps with a nice amount of freedom. Players can relocate bases to different maps, which gives battles a bit of variety, but the differences between each attack stem largely from how each player sets up his or her defences. It’s still a very strange prospect though. In short: the negative aspects of those base-building mobile games are gone. Instead, the attacks you make on enemy bases can win you the resources that you then use to instantly develop your base and improve the defenses. So there’s no waiting for units and buildings to be constructed, or a slow-trickle of resources, nor allotted time between attacks. The actions that you typically need to wait for in Clash of Clans and the like can be done constantly without payment. Before you close this page though, it’s very important to note that through all the similarities, Blitzkrieg 3 is not a free-to-play/pay-to-advance game.
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It’s an incredibly successful system for many a mobile game, but this is certainly one of the first implementations of the system on a full-price PC title. Yet there’s no point denying that what we have here is the tried and tested Clash of Clans system in which you build up a base made of production buildings, place defences around that base so other players can’t take your resources, then launch attacks of your own against other bases. So you certainly won’t hear Nival say it. Which of course, is a horrible leading sentence that most RTS fans will shirk at. Blitzkrieg 3, for the most part at least, is a base defence and attack game, and shares a fair chunk of DNA with none other than Clash of Clans.
In fact, one might argue that the game implements one of the most popular systems of modern gaming. It’s an unusual path, if not wholly unfamiliar. Rather than take on Relic’s monolith head-on, Nival is looking to make a path of its own. So enters Blitzkrieg 3, created once again by original devs Nival but with a very different attitude towards development. Blitzkrieg is no longer the measuring stick, in its place is Company of Heroes 2 (or arguably the first game), a sleek, detailed and incredibly strategic game that has yet to face a truly worthy opponent. So this is a very different market compared to the RTS scene of 2005. That of course being Company of Heroes, which may have been a modern reinvention of the Blitzkrieg formula when it released in 2006, it’s grown far beyond that moniker since. Yet the genre has moved on since 2005, and some especially fantastic titles have taken the WW2 RTS to once unforeseen heights - both in terms of product quality and commercial success. Not only in the setting mind you, but in the overarching gameplay, tone and even individual mechanics. Look at titles like Men of War and Order of War and the links to Nival’s legendary franchise are clear to see.
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The series was once a standard bearer for strategy games, and a landmark title for the continued development and popularity of historic RTSs. It’s been almost 10 years since the last Blitzkrieg game, a rather lengthy absence that’s not gone unnoticed by fans of the RTS genre. Previews // 21st May 2015 - 7 years ago // By Ryan Davies Blitzkrieg 3 Preview
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