Software:Airborne Assault: Highway to the Reich

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Airborne Assault: Highway to the Reich
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Developer(s)Panther Games
Publisher(s)Matrix Games
Platform(s)Windows
ReleaseJuly 2003[1]
Genre(s)FPS

Airborne Assault: Highway to the Reich is a video game released in 2003.

Release

Airborne Assault: Highway to the Reich was released by Panther Games and Matrix Games on 1 December 2003.[2][3]

Reception

Reception
Review scores
PublicationScore
GameSpy4/5[4]
Computer Gaming World4.5/5 stars[5]
GameSpot8.1/10[6]
PC Gamer89%[7]

Its unit-level artificial intelligence was praised as allowing "competent execution by groups of forces in pursuit of terrain-based objectives".[8]

The editors of Computer Gaming World nominated Highway to the Reich's computer version for their 2003 "Wargame of the Year" award, which ultimately went to Decisive Battles of WWII. They wrote, "Highway to the Reich shows that war gaming is moving in exciting new directions".[9]

Reviews

  • Computer Gaming World - Feb, 2004

References

  1. "Upcoming Video Game Releases". July 24, 2003. p. 51. https://www.newspapers.com/clip/89532373/statesman-journal/. Retrieved November 25, 2021. 
  2. "Official site". http://www.highwaytothereich.com/. 
  3. Highway to the Reich Matrix Games
  4. Dy, Bernard (April 5, 2004). "Airborne Assault: Highway to the Reich". http://pc.gamespy.com/pc/airborne-assault-highway-to-the-reich/502959p1.html. Retrieved November 25, 2021. 
  5. Udell, Scott (October 2002). "Reviews; Airborne Assault". Computer Games Magazine (143): 78. 
  6. Ocampo, Jason (December 18, 2003). "Airborne Assault: Highway to the Reich Review". https://www.gamespot.com/reviews/airborne-assault-highway-to-the-reich-review/1900-6085927/. Retrieved November 25, 2021. 
  7. Trotter, William (March 2004). "Airborne Assault: Highway to the Reich". p. 77. https://archive.org/details/pcgamer200403/page/n79/mode/2up. Retrieved November 25, 2021. 
  8. Joystick soldiers: the politics of play in military video games, Nina Huntemann, Taylor & Francis, 2009, ISBN:0-415-99659-7, p.158, note 5
  9. ((Editors of CGW )) (March 2004). "Computer Gaming World's 2003 Games of the Year". Computer Gaming World (236): 57–60, 62–69.