XCOM meets World War 2 as you wage war on Nazi morale in turn-based strategy game Classified: France '44.
, one of the developers stops what he's saying, stands up, and starts drawing tactical diagrams on a whiteboard using official NATO symbology. I walked into that room barely knowing what a Lee Enfield is; I walked out knowing the difference between"enfilade" and"defilade".
Classified: France '44 is set in… well, France in 1944, during the Nazi occupation. In the run up to D-Day, the Allies deployed a small, elite team of soldiers into the country to aid the French Resistance in undermining German operations. Your job is to take control of that team, building relationships with the fractured factions of the Resistance while using sabotage and guerilla tactics against the enemy.
The combat system is similarly interested in the fine details. That means things like grenade damage falling off the further out from the initial blast you are and weapons being modelled carefully on their real-life historical counterparts, elements that play into the atmosphere of authenticity. But it also leads to some really interesting tactical play.
In one mission I play, I'm sneaking up to a Nazi-fortified building hoping to free a prisoner. The game's stealth system is robust and lavishes the player with useful info about guards' vision and patrol routes—but I manage to get spotted regardless, and the alarm is raised just as I reach their encampment.
Even after all that, my panicked theft of victory from the jaws of defeat feels like it's barely scraping the surface of what options were available.
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