I appear to be coming over Tim Stone. And before a horrible image is conjured in the communal RPS-reader mind by that sentence, I better progress to the point quickly. A demo for Operation Barbarossa – The Struggle For Russia is now available. There’s over 150 upgradeable units in the full game and prominently features hexes – which will be a theme for my blogging today. If the demo takes your fancy, you can buy it from Matrixgames’ site. As per-usual for wargames, there’s no video available. Instead, let’s show some colour footage of the actual Barbarossa invasion, which is disturbing for at least two reasons. Firstly, it’s footage of the invasion, complete with lingering shots on corpses. Secondly, the Nouveau nazis in the video comment threads.
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Go West! Operation Barbarossa Demo
By Kieron Gillen on November 26th, 2009.
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