By Quintin Smith on April 6th, 2011 at 4:41 pm.
So long as I’m listening to Vera Lynn and posting about World War 2 strategy games, here’s something we missed- Slitherine are also publishing Panzer Corps, their homage to the classic Panzer General strategy series, which I know is a classic because I think I saw it on my cousin’s PC during one of those rare occassions my 8 year old self lifted his head from a bag of Monster Munch. The new game isn’t a looker, but the trailer below sees the devs getting around that with admirable creativity. I’ve put some details together after the jump, too.
I’m not actually listening to Vera Lynn. I’m listening to this! That’s Cactus‘s music blog, by the way. It’s pretty great! And not dead, either. He’s just behind a bit.
So, yeah. Panzer Corps will offer Nazi-centric turn based strategy with a branching campaign, units which carry over from one mission to another, famous real-life Aces to fill your tanks with and, most excellently of all, the Panzer VIII Maus. Only two of these absurd super-heavy tanks were ever built in real life (by Porsche, of all people), they had a top speed of 8.1 mph and had to be transported by specially designed train carraiges. Excellent stuff.
Trailer!
06/04/2011 at 16:44 Ignorant Texan says:
Old men love their war songs….
06/04/2011 at 17:49 coldvvvave says:
Old men. Running the world.
06/04/2011 at 18:50 jon_hill987 says:
Are the future.
06/04/2011 at 16:46 Teddy Leach says:
Tanks: Like angry houses.
06/04/2011 at 16:47 Koozer says:
That’s one hell of a headline.
06/04/2011 at 16:48 Quintin Smith says:
I know right
06/04/2011 at 16:54 12kill4 says:
that one won the master race.
06/04/2011 at 16:59 Giant, fussy whingebag says:
It is glorious!
I nominate it the bestest. Quinns should get a medal or something.
06/04/2011 at 16:59 Kieron Gillen says:
I salute you. In that way.
KG
06/04/2011 at 17:00 12kill4 says:
@ Giant, fussy whingebag
an Iron Cross perhaps?
@ KG
always check for ceiling fans first…
06/04/2011 at 17:12 Stense says:
The pun was indeed reich good. Unlike that one.
06/04/2011 at 17:49 12kill4 says:
@Stense
Reich in quality?
Nah… doesn’t really work…
06/04/2011 at 18:15 tomeoftom says:
@12kill4
Get out. I’ll heil a taxi for you.
Edit: Yuck! Just wrote “cab” instead of taxi. Stop it, US cultural export!
06/04/2011 at 19:02 Mr_Hands says:
I think some of these puns are really reiching.
07/04/2011 at 02:31 12kill4 says:
@tomeoftom
Its alright, I’ll just catch a train instead.
….I’m a terrible person…
p.s. as a side note, does anyone else internally pronounce Minecraft as Meinkraft? Because I definately do not >.>
edit:
@Gassalasca
Kräfte = force or strength from my amazingly limited knowledge of German…
I find it kind of odd that it kind of fits as title, given Minecraft’s extensive player empowerment…
07/04/2011 at 07:09 Gassalasca says:
Mein Kraft would mean something like ‘my power’ in German, or something… I think.
07/04/2011 at 08:55 GHudston says:
I only come to RPS for the headlines anyway. ;)
07/04/2011 at 12:12 sfury says:
I know, you don’t really need to read the article after a headline like that.
Give me some time to stop rolling on the floor… :D
06/04/2011 at 16:53 Kakrafoon says:
Persistent units, you say? Heroes? Branching campaign? Rumbling Nazi metal monsters? I’m soooo in!
06/04/2011 at 16:54 Fumarole says:
One of these days I’ll pick up Panzer General on GOG and return to the trenches. And then I’ll have to grab this one too, I suppose.
06/04/2011 at 17:51 Kakrafoon says:
Trenches, you say? Hah, how wrong you are. Panzer General is all about sweeping mobile warfare, all blitzkrieg. Sitting around in trenches waiting to get barraged and shot is definitely not an option here… :-)
07/04/2011 at 01:51 banski83 says:
Just wanted to ask, as I’ve seen the Panzer General titles bandied about in a few threads on here: which is deemed the better game of the two available on GOG.com? Panzer General 2, or Panzer General 3D: Assault?
06/04/2011 at 17:25 fallingmagpie says:
There’d better only be two Panzer VIII Maus tanks in the game too, or the Panzer fanboys are going to go apeshit.
06/04/2011 at 17:50 Springy says:
Well, isn’t that trailer just the loveliest.
06/04/2011 at 18:12 Calneon says:
What an awful trailer. Way to tell me absolutely nothing about the game (maybe they don’t want you too see it?).
07/04/2011 at 00:50 cmi says:
Saw several screenshots, it looks just like a remake of panzer general. that’s it. and depending on the price tag i’ll probably like it ;)
06/04/2011 at 18:36 oatish says:
Daaamn,
I am loving Slitherine right now – The last game article you posted and now this one?
Both of these are must gets as Panzer General II is still installed and the old-school Close Combat games were dope.
06/04/2011 at 19:24 Andy_Panthro says:
Looks good to me, I like a bit of tank-on-tank action.
It’s name will also go on the list…
[edit] on a similar note, there’s a mini HOI game for £8 on GamersGate, does anyone know if it’s worth getting?
Darkest Hour:
http://www.gamersgate.co.uk/DD-DHHOIG/darkest-hour-a-hearts-of-iron-game
06/04/2011 at 20:22 Keith Nemitz says:
I’m looking forward to this! I enjoyed Panzer Tactics on the DS. This looks better and for a bigger screen, too!
@oatish, +1 for Close Combat!
07/04/2011 at 02:27 Oak says:
Panzer Tactics is such a great little game.
06/04/2011 at 22:08 Cronstintein says:
Just wanted to say, this was my favoritest title of the month.
07/04/2011 at 04:22 utharda says:
Panzer General kept me busy for evar!
Also, as a washington Dc resident, I truley enjoyed conquering washington dc.
it really was one of those childhood defining moments.
Oddly enough, I grew up to be incrredibly left wing…
07/04/2011 at 11:32 Zwack says:
Probably worth mentioning that there are various free versions of Steel Panthers sloshing around the internets if turn-based WWII strategy is your thing.
07/04/2011 at 15:09 pr1001 says:
Oh man, Steel Panthers and Panzer General were some of the first ‘real’ games I played. Love ‘em!